Haddonfield Girl Scout Among Top 10 Cookie Entrepreneurs

HADDONFIELD, NJ — A Haddonfield Girl Scout was among the Girl Scout Council’s Top 10 Elite Cookie Entrepreneurs for 2021, the Girl Scouts of Central and Southern New Jersey announced.

Shayne Ventura sold more than 1,900 packages of cookies, according to the organization. She was among those honored by the Juliette’s Pearls Club.

The club is named after Juliette Gordon Low, the founder of Girl Scouts who sold a beloved string of pearls to fund the operating expenses of the first Girl Scout Council. The top sellers received a necklace with a single pearl or their membership in the club.

Each year they are among the Elite Entrepreneurs, they will receive an additional pearl to recognize their accomplishments. Ventura received a necklace and her first pearl.

“We are so very proud of our Girl Scouts and all they accomplished for their cookie sales in spite of the pandemic,” Girl Scouts of Central and Southern New Jersey CEO Ginny Hill said. “The girls used essential skills they learn in our program such as innovation, goal setting, and money management, and pivoted their approach to help them achieve their goals. Girl Scout cookies are known and loved by so many. We were glad to have provided something familiar during this time of uncertainty, while supporting programs to benefit girls for years to come.”

Girl Scouts offered virtual, hybrid and socially responsible ways to purchase cookies, including through deals with GrubHub and Walmart, when they began selling cookies in January. Read more here: Girl Scouts In South Jersey Enter Virtual World For Cookie Sales

Walmart allowed local troops to set up cookie booths at stores and Grubhub offered contact-free cookie deliveries. The girls gained hands-on e-commerce experience as they fulfilled orders.
It continued a way of doing sales the girls found themselves in from the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in March 2020. They also added to their repertoire with the advent of the Cookie Angel program.

Through the program, businesses bought cookies virtually and gave them to their customers and employees, as well as local organizations.

This year’s Cookie Angels included Advantage Outfitters, Bordentown Home for Funerals, Brown & Brown Insurance, Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City, and the Pennsylvania Lumbermens Mutual Insurance Company.

The Girl Scout Cookie Program is the largest female-led entrepreneurship and financial literacy program in the country. Proceeds from sales benefit local troops and the Girl Scouts of Central and Southern New Jersey, and assist in developing innovative programs that build girls of confidence, courage, and character who make a difference in their communities.

For more information about the Girl Scouts of Central & Southern NJ, visit gscsnj.org.