Following is a letter from Sarah Flowers Braswell, one of our local Mothers Acting Up:
Hello everyone! I am heading up a team for Share Our Strength's Great American Bake Sale, called Nashville Mamas, to participate in a nation wide campaign to help END childhood hunger in America by holding a bake sale in our community. Since 2003, this grassroots campaign has raised over $3 million and engaged more than 1 million people in baking, selling, or buying baked goods. 91% of proceeds from Nashville Mamas bake sale will help children in OUR community, either going towards local food banks, school programs to provide a healthy breakfast, etc. Making a difference in the lives of our children can be Piece Of Cake!
Hello everyone! I am heading up a team for Share Our Strength's Great American Bake Sale, called Nashville Mamas, to participate in a nation wide campaign to help END childhood hunger in America by holding a bake sale in our community. Since 2003, this grassroots campaign has raised over $3 million and engaged more than 1 million people in baking, selling, or buying baked goods. 91% of proceeds from Nashville Mamas bake sale will help children in OUR community, either going towards local food banks, school programs to provide a healthy breakfast, etc. Making a difference in the lives of our children can be Piece Of Cake!
I have high hopes for the sweet mamas in Nashville, and know that if we put on our aprons and tie our strings together we can make this a huge, wonderful event! And what a fun way to include our children in community outreach :) I am hoping to book a date and location very soon, but have mid-August in mind for 1-2 weekend days. More than 12 million children in America are at risk of hunger.... this just shouldn't be. I need a team to help make this all that it can be. Whether you would like to bake, donate your time for the bake sale, make a financial contribution, or anything at all, please let me know. My contact info is below. Please, even if nothing else is possible for you right now, encourage your friends, family and colleagues to stop by the bake sale or website and make a contribution.
Visit the website for more info:
Nashville Mamas team info:
Did You Know...
To date, grants from Share Our Strength’s Great American Bake Sale helped:
- Serve more than 5.3 million nutritious meals and snacks to children.
- Establish an additional 926 sites where children can get meals.
- Reach more than 97,000 low-income children with after-school and summer feeding programs.
Because of hunger, there are children in America not growing as they should be. They are underweight, and often neurologically and developmentally delayed and impaired. Of everyone who is hungry in America, children are most vulnerable and most at risk.
Thank you,
Sarah Flowers Braswell
I know lots of us MAUmas love to bake, and I know we all care about children, so this is the perfect marriage of the two. Contact Kate (kzwingate@yahoo.com) or Sarah (ilysmama@yahoo.com) if you are interested in participating, and stay tuned for more details...
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We now have a MySpace page:
"Nashville Mamas - GABS Team"
here's a link to our Nashville Mamas Team Bake Sale page: http://join.strength.org/goto/NashvilleMamas
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