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Girl Scouts–Arizona Cactus-Pine Council is celebrating the entrepreneurial achievements of Girl Scouts across central and northern Arizona following a successful 2025 Cookie Season, held from Jan. 19 to March 2.
This year, more than 2.7 million boxes of delicious cookies were sold in the Girl Scout Cookie Program, promoting essential skill-building and raising funds that remain 100% local to support Girl Scout programs, according to a press release.
Here is the 2025 Girl Scout Cookie Season by the numbers:
•2,720,161 total packages sold across central and northern Arizona.
•7,279 Girl Scouts participated this season, with a per-girl average of 374 packages sold.
•The top individual seller, Kaitlyn Van Der Werf of Glendale, sold 7,875 packages of cookies.
•The top troop, Cactus Bloom Troop 558 in Peoria, sold 54,403 packages of cookies.
•Girl Scout Thin Mints were the top-selling cookie.
“Girl Scouts soared this season by adapting their strategies and confidently showcasing their leadership and entrepreneurial skills,” says Mary Mitchell, co-CEO of GSACPC. “We’re inspired by the creativity and determination of Girl Scouts and appreciative of the continued support of these leaders from our community of parents, families, friends, and businesses.”
The funds raised through the cookie program stay in Arizona and provide local girls with access to a range of opportunities in the coming year, including:
• Sparking adventure through Girl Scout Summer Camp, while maintaining four camp properties and offering year-round outdoor programming.
• Empowering individual troops with proceeds to fund troop activities and community service projects.
• Providing STEM, outdoor, life skills, and entrepreneurial programs for Girl Scouts across central and northern Arizona, including girls from the Navajo Nation and Hopi Lands.
• Offering financial assistance for membership, uniforms, and camperships to families in need.
• Supporting girls’ passions, take-action projects, and the pursuit of Girl Scouts’ highest awards through impactful service projects that benefit our community.
“The Girl Scout Cookie Program is just one step of the Girl Scout journey that leaves a big impact by providing girls with knowledge in goal setting, decision making, money management, people skills, and business ethics, along with real-life opportunities to nurture and grow these skills,” says Christina Spicer, co-CEO of GSACPC. “Through experiences like Empowering Girl Scout Entrepreneurs with our partner OneAZ Credit Union, Girl Scouts received advice from local business leaders to enhance their cookie selling techniques and took part in elevator pitches, brainstorm sessions and had a professional headshot taken among other opportunities.”
The Empowering Girl Scout Entrepreneurs event also culminated in OneAZ Credit Union’s purchase of 1100 cookies packages from participating girls, Ms. Spicer notes.
To mark the end of cookie season, GSACPC once again partnered with State Forty Eight Foundation to host the annual Bring Home the Cookies 5K, welcoming over 1,200 attendees in its largest year yet.
