Fundraising is an essential activity for the success of a Troop. Funds earned support the Troop Budget, provide for the service project, adult leader registration, and enable girls and their families to lessen the out of pocket costs of the Program.
Therefore, each American Heritage Girl Member is expected to participate in this effort. Participation in fundraising provides an intrinsic value to each Girl Member. She will develop her leadership skills and marketing experience as well as life skill development.
This Year’s Fundraiser
This year, our fundraiser will be the World’s Finest Chocolates!
Each box contains 60 chocolate bars that will be sold for $1 each:
- 12 – Milk Chocolate with Almonds Bars, 1.30 oz.
- 6 – Dark Chocolate Bars, 1.30 oz.
- 12 – W.F. Crisp® Bars, 1.15 oz.
- 12 – Milk Chocolate Bars, 1.30 oz.
- 18 – Caramel Bars, 1.30 oz.
The Incentives
Fundraisers are not easy and require that girls learn and grow. We want to reward them for their efforts, so we put together this incentive program.
For the first complete box of chocolate that a girl sells, she will win a New Class B T-Shirt from AHG.
For each additional box of chocolate that a girl sells, she will win a $5 gift card to a big box store (ie. Amazon, Walmart, Target, Kroger, Publix)
We will also have grand prizes. The girl(s) who sell the most boxes could win an additional gift card depending on the total number of boxes the troop sells.
Pie-A-Leader – everyone who sells 3 boxes or more gets a whipped cream “pie” to hit a leader with (participating leaders only).
Troop Party – we will either take a Monday night or another night to have a party.
Questions
If you have questions that are not answered below, please let us know!
Why are we doing a fundraiser?
In an effort to keep our yearly dues low, we do a fundraiser every year to cover the costs of the badge work the girls do, the service projects, and special events and projects.
For instance, if your daughter wants to do the Cake Decorating or Sewing or Needle Arts, we can reimburse leaders for the cost of supplies for the necessary activities rather than ask parents to come out of pocket for those expenses. It also allows us to more easily do service projects that involve gathering supplies, like if we do care bags for the homeless this year.
Why World’s Finest Chocolate?
Tasty. Easy. Affordable. 50% profit.
How will the fundraiser work?
During September, you will let us know how many boxes you think your daughter can sell. We’ll make the order by Sept 24th, so that we can have them in by Oct 1st.
Your daughter will collect the box(es) that she will sell on October 1st and will have 3 weeks to sell them. Each bar sells for $1. At the end of the fundraiser, she will turn in the box with any remaining chocolate and with the fundraising money she has collected.
Does every girl *have to* sell a box of chocolates?
No. You are not required to participate in the fundraiser, but every girl is strongly encouraged to participate.
It helps the girls learn and grow and helps support the activities of the troop. Plus, if she sells one box, she earns a Class B T-Shirt that she can wear to meeting and activities.
When will we start selling?
Monday, October 1st, the fundraiser begins with a small kickoff meeting at 8:00 PM (so units come back a bit early before the closing ceremony).
All remaining boxes and money will be turned in on October 22nd, giving the girls 3 weeks to sell.
The following Monday, October 29th, we award prizes.
How many boxes can my daughter take to sell?
We ask that everyone give us an estimated number of boxes that they believe they can sell in the 3-week timeframe. Please keep in mind that we don’t want a lot of chocolate at the end of the fundraiser, so don’t take more than you think you can sell.