{"id":1145,"date":"2009-09-07T22:35:32","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T06:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madethisforyou.com\/?p=1145"},"modified":"2009-09-07T23:13:35","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T07:13:35","slug":"baking-for-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/madethisforyou.com\/says\/leben\/baking-for-good\/","title":{"rendered":"The Launch of Baking For Good"},"content":{"rendered":"

We first happened to hear about Baking For Good’s upcoming website and product services via CrushLovely<\/a>‘s twitter stream. We reached out to them in anticipation and are happy to share the news that their website is now open to the public.<\/p>\n

What is Baking for Good you ask? Well, so did we – and we got an answer : ) In short, imagine an online version of the bake sale you used to have when you were a kid.
\nIn the future we’ll hear more about what makes them tick, but in the mean time we’ve got their press release to explain who they are, what they are setting out to do and links to their website below. We’ve also gone through their site and highlighted some of the items that we can’t wait to try out for ourselves.<\/p>\n

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A Little Sugar Goes a Long Way: Baking for Good Launches<\/p>\n

Baking for Good will sell made-to-order, all-natural, gourmet baked goods and give 15% of every purchase to a cause the\u00c2\u00a0customer chooses.<\/em><\/p>\n

New York, NY (September 1, 2009) \u00e2\u20ac\u201c BakingforGood.com launches today, offering customers nationwide a\u00c2\u00a0selection of handmade brownies, cookies, and other baked goods with a social conscience: 15% of every\u00c2\u00a0purchase goes to a cause the customer chooses. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We want to bring the bake sale online and into the 21st\u00c2\u00a0century,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d says CEO and founder Emily Dubner. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Our goal is to give people and organizations around the\u00c2\u00a0country a new way to raise and donate money, bit by bit and batch by batch.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Baking for Good sells all-natural, baked-to-order treats, allowing customers to personalize their orders.\u00c2\u00a0Dubner, a 25-year-old former management consultant, says that this customer control makes Baking for\u00c2\u00a0Good\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s treats perfect as gifts or as favors for weddings, showers, and other events. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Our products are great\u00c2\u00a0for any occasion or for no occasion at all. They make a wonderful alternative to flowers, because they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re\u00c2\u00a0thoughtful, original, and sweet, and they let you give back to the community.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Fifteen percent of every purchase at Baking for Good\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s website goes to a cause the customer chooses, and\u00c2\u00a0customers can add to their automatic donation at checkout. Causes include nonprofits such as the ASPCA\u00c2\u00a0and the Fresh Air Fund and community fundraisers such as school groups, children\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sports teams, and\u00c2\u00a0marathon efforts.<\/p>\n

For more information, to start shopping at the online bakery, or to get your favorite charity on board, visit\u00c2\u00a0www.BakingforGood.com<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Some of our favorites listed on the site include their Gluten-Free Mint Choc Chip<\/a>, Toffee Crispy Rice Square<\/a>s and the Coconut Chocolate Chunk Blondies<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We’ve also heard that they are nominated for the Shine a Light small business grant competition – check out more information below:
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We first happened to hear about Baking For Good’s upcoming website and product services via CrushLovely‘s twitter stream. We reached out to them in anticipation and are happy to share the news that their website is now open to the public. What is Baking for Good you ask? Well, so did we – and we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/madethisforyou.com\/says\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/madethisforyou.com\/says\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/madethisforyou.com\/says\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/madethisforyou.com\/says\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/madethisforyou.com\/says\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1145"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/madethisforyou.com\/says\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1159,"href":"http:\/\/madethisforyou.com\/says\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions\/1159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/madethisforyou.com\/says\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/madethisforyou.com\/says\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/madethisforyou.com\/says\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}