I'm pleased today to allow the fabulous Kate from A Simple Walk and Cooking During Stolen Moments to share about a project that she has been spending so much time working on lately! Kudos to you, Kate, for the work that you are doing that will help so many! But, now, I'll let Kate take it from here and tell everyone about it...
On my blog, Cooking During Stolen Moments, I have partnered with Share Our Strength to hold the first ever Virtual Great American Bake Sale. I hope you will consider submitting a recipe, spreading the word, and/or participating in the Virtual Great American Bake Sale on April 13th.
Each year Share Our Strength asks people to host bake sales in their communities with all of the proceeds going to their ultimate mission - making sure no child goes hungry! The virtual bake sale is going to spread this movement to the blogosphere.
The Virtual Great American Bake Sale consists of two key elements; the sale of baking recipes ebooks filled with the recipes of participants (with 100% of the proceeds going directly to Share Our Strength) and an actual virtual bake sale on April 13th. On that day, I will publish a post that includes links to each participants blog and their recipe. Virtual bake sale visitors will go from blog to blog looking at the recipes, much like you would walk around from table to table at an actual bake sale. Each participant will have a link to purchase the ebooks also. The ebooks will not have a set price. Instead, they will be available for any donation amount of the purchaser's choosing.
I am asking that recipes be submitted by April 5th so that they can be compiled into ebooks before the kick-off of the Virtual Great American Bake Sale. The more recipes and participants we have, the more money we will be able to raise for Share Our Strength.
To submit a recipe, you can reply to this email, email a recipe to the official Virtual Great American Bake Sale address (virtualbakesale@gmail.com), or fill out the submission form here. Also, if you have a previously posted recipe that you'd like included in the ebooks, you can just provide me with a link to that post and I can take it from there. Your name and blog URL will be included with your recipe, if desired.
If you would also like to participate in the Virtual Great American Bake Sale, please let me know and I will email you with more details as we get closer to the kick-off date of April 13th.
Please also consider spreading the word and asking your blog readers to submit recipes for, and/or participate in, the Virtual Great American Bake Sale. On Twitter, please use #vgabs. Feel free to copy and paste any of the information in this email as well as the attached button. Also, this is the link to the official write up of the VGABS - http://stolenmomentscooking.com/virtual-gabs/
The blogosphere is a mighty powerful place and I'm excited to see how much money we can raise for Share Our Strength!
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I hope you’ll join me in my vision to make the Virtual Great American Bake Sale a success. Let’s support Share Our Strength’s work to make sure that no child goes hungry!
Thanks again, Kate, for sharing this project with us! I hope that it is a wonderful success!
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