Cakes For Cause

Amy McKinney

What We’re About• Cakes for Cause is the result of the work of

many individuals who have been involved with young people in the child welfare system over the past 30 years. Our program is built upon a desire to provide meaningful services that help youth transition successfully into adulthood. Our vision is to build programming that is effective and creative and, through our commitment to social enterprise, is financially viable. We believe that the community is a critical piece of our program and by building a community gathering place, we draw them into our services…as loyal customers, volunteers and donors.  

MissionOur program is built upon a desire to provide

meaningful services that help youth transition successfully into adulthood and to be open minded. Our vision is to build a strong program that is effective and creative and, through our commitment to social enterprise, is financially viable. We believe that the community is a critical piece of our program and by building a community gathering place for loyal customers, volunteers and donors.

As Executive Director, I personally think this is a great program and hope that there will soon be more programs like this. I can only hope that I explicate my passion for Cakes for Cause Cakes for Cause through this presentation.

How can you help?

In addition to supporting our bakery and eating cookies, there are additional ways to help the young people we serve every day.  Apprentices in our program work up to 30 paid hours per week in our social enterprise and are provided with a full uniform, knife roll and curriculum materials.  In addition to working as restaurant employees, our staff members mentor each apprentice and role model appropriate workplace behavior every day and are actively engaged in helping them reach their personal, vocational, and financial goals.  Please consider donating to support our work through the links on our site, or by helping us acquire items that will benefit us in other ways.

Additional Information

For questions or if you’d like to become a helpful part of our program contact us:

• Cakes for Cause is a program run out of the Moxie Bakery & Café in Frederick, MD.

• Visit us online at cakesforcause.org for substantive answers to inquire more information about our program.

DONATIONS• Each apprentice benefits from the generosity of the

community. Donations are a salient factor that keep our program running smoothly. Here are some examples of what your donation covers:

• $25 purchases curriculum materials for a new apprentice • $50 provides the support for an offsite extra-curricular

activity such as our regular Friday night basketball game • $90 buys a pair of top quality chef shoes • $150 covers the full uniform costs for one apprentice • $1,000 supports an apprentice stipend for the first month of

the program • $7,000 gives an apprentice the opportunity to complete the

entire 6 month program

In-kind donations

Perhaps you have some items that you are finished with, but still have a useful life.  Here are some things that we could put to good use.  Please contact us if you would like to donate anything on this list:

• Filing cabinets • Printer and scanner • Outdoor square market canopy • Outdoor umbrellas • Sturdy shelving units

Community needs• Today, more then ever, we have students harming

themselves and each other. There are children fearful of the actions of class or outdoor bully natures. The community has problems with children bullying. These are kids acting out. This is a problem that usually comes from lack of discipline and positive reinforcements. These kids need to learn positive behaviors. This will benefit the individual as well as the community. Teaching children non-violent ways to spend their time at the same time teaching them to work together. Our community needs this kind of program, it would be beneficial in many ways.

• Our program is positive stimulation for the youth of the area. It gives them a positive meeting place where they can have fun, learn to form fair-minded judgments and to improve their skills in the pastry field.

Our program can show the youth of the community more positive possibilities that are available to them and helps them to aggrandize their views on their future.

INPUTSIn order to keep our program

running we need some of the following:

• Donations of time or money• Help from volunteers to keep

things running smoothly• Donations of used items such as

outdoor umbrellas, cabinets, etc.• Media coverage, to get our

message out there to more of the youth in our local area.

OUTPUTSOur outputs include:• A safe place for young people to spend free

time.• A program that can show the local youth more

positive options for their future.• A safe and constructive place for kids to turn

to in times of need.• A place where youth can learn to assess and learn to analyze the things that are going on around them.

Cakes for Cause & The Just Think Foundation

Cakes For Causeprogram is built upon a

desire to provide meaningful services that help youth transition successfully into adulthood

mentor and model to the youth in our program and teach them the pride and sense of accomplishment that comes from working in a fast-paced and busy restaurant.

Just Thinkteaches young people to

lead healthy, responsible, independent lives in a culture highly impacted by media.

develop and deliver cutting-edge curricula and innovative programs that build skills in critical thinking and creative media production.

Cakes for Cause & Just Think

I believe that cakes for cause would be a good match up with the Just Think Just Think

FoundationFoundation. I believe this because Just Think supports after school programs focusing on media. Although Cakes for Cakes for CauseCause doesn’t focus on media, it has a similar goal of giving youth an idea of

possible careers, also giving them positive ways to transition into being an

adult. The combination of Cakes for Cakes for Cause Cause and Just Think Just Think would be a great

match because together they could teach young people about more positive

possibilities for their future as well as teach them about the effects of media.

CRITICAL THINKING CRITICAL THINKING & CRITICAL ACTION& CRITICAL ACTIONCakes for Cause promotes both critical thinking and critical action. We promote critical thinking because in order for the

youth to take advantage of this program they realize that there are many different possibilities with what they can do with their time and effort. We also support critical action because every

time a young person interacts with our program they are making the choice to do something positive with their time and they are

learning about more possibilities for their future. For example when a kid chooses to come and participate in our program

instead of doing something else, the child is knowingly making the decision to be open minded about the pastry field and this shows that they are using critical thinking and thinking about

better decisions.

I hope this presentation answered any inquiries

you may have about Cakes for Cause.

Be sure to visit us online or at our bakery

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