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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well you’ve convinced me to never buy Girl Scout cookies again.  [/quote]

Yep. I stopped when my kids were Scouts and I was involved in leadership roles.

We had a troop of girls whose families were all middle and upper middle class. They did not need to have their activities paid for because their parents could all afford most of the activities we were considering. Some of the girls suggested that we could donate to a group that helped the unhoused or even donate to a Girl Scout troop with less well off girls, but we were told that donating the money was not allowed and that it needed to be spent on this troop.  The girls were all excited about the idea of donating to those less well off,  but we had to tell them that was not allowed. That was the end of buying GS cookies for me. 
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Boy you were really misinformed.  First, the majority of cookie sale money goes to council which does help local under resourced troops.  Second, you can always write a troop check to SHARE, which supports the under resourced troops.  Third, you absolutely can donate to charities but the preference is that the girls do something — eg shop off the agency’s wish list, buy supplies to make food or whatever.  This is to avoid the parents just writing a check to a charity and the girls never get any benefit.  The girls could have bought lots of bouquets of flowers and brought them to a hospital or old age home.  Or could have bought lots of bread and sandwich meat to make sandwiches for a shelter.  Could have bought diapers to deliver to DC Diaper Bank and spend a day packing them.   Etc etc.  [/quote]

Two other leaders received the same information I did. [b]This was 25 years ago[/b][i][u], so maybe things have improved since then. 
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Really, you come on here to bad-mouth an organization with incorrect information from 25 years ago?  I have no idea if your info was correct 25 years ago (I'm guessing not) but as a PP said, it's not accurate for now.  They don't want a troop juts writing a check to another non-profit, but kids can absolutely spend their money on about a zillion different ways to help other people, and every troop I know of us does that.
My troop cooks dinner at a homeless shelter, using cookie money to buy all the food as well as extra non-perishables for donations.  We also help sort/organize a christmas toy drive, and spend cookie money on items the girls think the need more of.

As for OP... there are soooo many ways to spend that money, that it's pretty impossible for people to do anything other than list random suggestions.
"Girl Led" is the whole point - have the girls brainstorm what they want to do, and find a way to do it!  (Of course somethings they suggest will be impossible - my Daisies wanted to go to Hawaii with their cookie money at age six - but you'll find some gems in there too)
When my troop was younger, the Port Discovery overnight was one of their absolute favorite activities!  
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