Nuts & Magazines: Information for Troops

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Fall Nut and Magazine Sale: Information for Troops

Looking for dates, varieties, and general information about the Nut & Candy Sale? Click here! To buy from a troop near you, email info@girlscoutsnorcal.org.

Pre-orders – October 1-16, 2011
Pre-order Deliveries – October 28-November 3, 2011
Direct to Public Sales – November 4-20, 2011

Girl Scouts will be taking pre-orders from family, friends, and neighbors from October 1-16, with service unit deliveries starting on October 28. Look for Girl Scout booths starting November 4!

New! Fall Sale Customizable Media Kit

Help promote the Fall Sale to local media in your area with these materials that you can easily customize and send. Click here for media materials.

Investing in Today/Success for Tomorrow

The program activities offered during the fall sale focus on ways to help girls to set goals and create a plan to fulfill them. Working together as a team will show the girls that each team member contributes to the final solution to a project. This year’s theme, Investing in Today/Success for Tomorrow,:

Focuses on leadership, collaboration and exploring personal values through discovering, connecting and taking action to help girls discover their future potential.
Looks at business with a emphasis on planning for the future.
Offers activities about money, business plans, investing, and designing on a budget

QSP Magazines

Troops earn $2 for each of the following:

1 completed address booklet (minimum of 7 postcards - 1 booklet per girl maximum)
Submission of 12 valid email addresses through the QSP Online Program) maximum of 48 emails)
Every new/renewed subscription (paper subscriptions or online).
Note: Troops with 13+ magazine subscriptions earn $4 per subscription.

QSP Online Program

This QSP program is an online learning activity for girls and a way for your family and friends to purchase magazines online.

Then follow these simple steps:

After October 1, click the online magazine program button and r egister.
Complete the interactive learning activity
Personalize part of the message
Order your family’s subscriptions and invite other family members and friends to shop online.

In addition to a special patch for the girls, troops earn the same proceeds for online magazi nes that they do for paper orders. You can also check throughout the sale to track your progress and enter additional emails to meet your goals quicker! QSP does not rent or sell e-mail addresses or use them for any other purposes. We respect everyone’s right to privacy. Click here to get started!

At the end of the sale, a Detailed Order Report will be emailed to the registered email address. Print the report or email it to your troop leader no later than November 22, 2011.

Benefits of the QSP Online Program

All major credit cards are accepted
Subscriptions start faster – saves 3-4 weeks on average
No paper order forms to complete
No need to collect money
Digital subcriptions available through the online site only.

Be A Reader Online Activities

You can now access Be A Reader Activities online. These activities are fun for all ages and offer printable pages from the Be A Reader booklet.

Care to Give Program

Care to Give is a council sponsored service project. Some customers may not want to purchase nuts and candies for dietary or other reasons, but still want to support Girl Scouts and their local community. Care to Give is the perfect solution! Through this service project girls sell "virtual" nut and candy products to be donated to local non-profit organizations. Fall Sale customers may choose to buy products and then have them donated to the military or a local food bank. Council will make all of the arrangements for the product donations.

New this year, customers may also choose to purchase magazine vouchers for $5 to be donated to Northern California non-profit organizations.

New! Troop Bonus Incentive

Product Sales is offering a special table and chair set incentive for troops that fulfill 2011 Fall Sale Troop Bonus table and chair set certain criteria including having a 75% troop participation rate, a 40 item per girl average, and a minimum of one Care to Give item sold per girl participating.

For more information download our Troop Bonus Application.

Troop Resources

Survey Monkey Evaluations

Timeline for Troops

Initial Orders 2011
Oct 1-16	Pre-Orders Girl Scouts take initial orders for nuts, candies, and QSP magazine subscriptions.
Oct 17	Girl initial orders are due to troop leader.
Oct 18	Orders must be entered into Nut-E by 11:59 p.m. Troop leader turns in first batch of magazine subscriptions.
Oct 18 - Nov 20	Girls continue to take and fill orders for all fall sale products.
Public Sale/Booth/Site Sales 2011
Oct 28 – Nov 3	Pre-order Pick-up and Delivery Troops pick up initial order and start delivering products.
Nov 4 – Nov 20	Booth sales and other orders continue.
Nov 20	Online magazine subscription orders must be completed.
Nov 22	Girl money and Detailed Order Report for online magazine subscriptions are due to troop leader. Last Day for Cupboard returns.
Nov 22 – Nov 29	Troop leaders complete paperwork and banking.
Nov 29	Final troop paperwork due to Service Units. Troops will not be able to access Nut-E after 11:59 p.m.