PRESS RELEASE: Cake4Kids Celebrates 8th Anniversary
Volunteer Bakers Continue Founder’s Legacy to Deliver Homemade Birthday Cakes to Underprivileged Children
September 17, 2018, California — Today, in honor of their very first cake being made and delivered on September 17, 2010, Cake4Kids is celebrating its 8th anniversary.
For the past eight years, in 10 counties across California including San Francisco, Contra Costa, Alameda, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Marin, Fresno, San Diego, Napa & Sacramento Counties, Cake4Kids’ non-profit organization has baked and delivered over 10,000 birthday cakes for foster children and at-risk youth.
Cake4Kids was founded in September 2010 in Sunnyvale, CA by Libby Gruender to provide free birthday cakes to foster children and at-risk youth in her community. What Libby started in 2010 as a grassroots effort with a few volunteers baking 13 cakes for a few agencies in her neighborhood has turned into a robust operation with hundreds of volunteers currently baking for over 140 agencies. Sadly, Libby passed away in 2013, but Cake4Kids strives to keep her mission going. Every year Cake4Kids recruits new volunteers, partners with more agencies, and provides more and more children with birthday cakes.
Cake4Kids supports underprivileged children and youth through partnerships with social and human services agencies, such as foster care programs, group homes, domestic violence or human trafficking programs, and homeless or low-income housing, with or without a parent.
Cake4Kids is powered by a small staff and a talented, compassionate group of volunteers, most of whom are home-bakers. There are no minimum volunteer commitments - volunteers choose how often they want to bake a cake and which cake theme to fulfill from the Cake4Kids’ online platform. Each volunteer then bakes in their home and delivers the cake to one of the agencies Cake4Kids serves. Cake4Kids is looking to grow and add more agencies and bakers to their team as well as non-baker volunteers that have operational, communications and fundraising skills.
To find out more about Cake4Kids, please visit: www.cake4kids.org or find us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram & Pinterest. You may also contact Julie Eades, Executive Director, Cake4Kids, Tel: 650-521-6437, julie@cake4kids.org
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On September 17, 2018, we will deliver 8 cakes to underserved children between the ages of 4 and 19 years old to a variety of agencies, including: Monument Crisis in Contra Costa County, Bill Wilson Center and KAFPA in Santa Clara County, Casa de Amparo in San Diego and Transitions Children's Services, Golden State Family Services, and North Star Family Center in Fresno.
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