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I recently learned that when you buy a $5 box of #GirlScout cookies, less than $1 actually goes to the girls' scout troop. So if you are buying the #cookeis because you like them, great. If you are doing it only to help the girls, give them a #cash #donation instead, it's 5 times more powerful.

Oh and apparently they aren't supposed to tell people this because reasons.

@picofarad @Fu If I understand correctly about 50% goes to the manufacturer and about 30% goes the the national & regional girl scout overhead.

@fu@libranet.de @Fu@hostux.social i'm fine with all of that, though. If the girl scouts themselves (like individual members) baked the cookies and there was 90% overhead on that, then i'd say "hey wait a minute"

but fundraisers like this are often 50/50 split and that the individual troop gets money *directly* from sales is surprising to me, actually.

I've done fundraisers as an adult and it's usually not 50/50 but "we take $4500, you take everything past that, here's $10,000 in tickets" sort of thing.

@picofarad yeah, I wasn't trying to say therer was a problem with selling cookies, all I was saying is that cash donations do more good. Always have, probably always will, at least as long as cash continues to exist.