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Fall Product Sale
Overview
Girl Scouts of Central and Western Massachusetts has partnered with Ashdon Farms and QSP/Reader’s Digest for the 2008 Fall Product Sale (FPS). The Fall Product Sale gives girls the opportunity to build skills for success in the real world, like goal setting, budgeting, planning, earning and managing money, marketing, sales techniques, money handling, record keeping and safety. Specific program links and references are included in troop training materials. The sale is managed by volunteers with staff supervision. Each service unit and troop has a sale manager. All of these managers are trained to provide sales and safety training to the girls and to administer the sale.
Timing
The Fall Product Sale is conducted in the fall to help provide troops with start-up funding for their activities.
Week of August 25 |
Training kits to GSCWM, material shipments to SUFPSM |
September 8 - 12 |
Trainings for Service Unit Fall Product Sale Managers (SUFPSM) |
September 8 - 28 |
Training for Troop Fall Product Sale Managers (TFPSMs) |
September 15 – Oct 18 |
Order-taking |
October 20 |
Deadline, Girl orders to Troop FPS Manager |
October 24 |
Deadline, Troop submits orders to NUT-E website |
October 27 |
Deadline, SUFPSM reviews and confirms troop orders on NUT-E website |
October 31 |
Deadline, Council orders to vendor |
November 12 -14 |
Products delivered to SUFPSM |
November 12 -14 |
Troops pick up products from SUFPSM |
November 12 -30 |
Products delivered to customers |
November 30 |
Deadline, ALL Money turned in to Troop FPS Manager |
December 2 |
Deadline, council money deposited into council account (Citizens Bank) |
December 4 |
Deadline, troop reports to SUFPSM |
December 8 |
Deadline, SUFPSM enters data online and submits end of sale paperwork to Leeds Service Center |
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