Cookie Dough

Everybody loves cookie dough, right? If the schools can do this so can I!

The cell phone collection and "Change for China" are still on going fundraisers. Now we are adding cookie dough to the list. We will be taking orders for home made cookie dough beginning this week! I have fiddled with our recipes and come up with 4 cookies that freeze and bake nicely. So here's how it works:

-We take orders with a pre-set delivery date.

-We prepare and package our cookies by the dozen. Each dozen comes pre-balled and frozen.

-Payment is due at delivery.

1 dozen Peanut Butter Cookies- $3.00
1 dozen Snicker Doodle Cookies- $3.00
1 dozen Chocolate Chip Cookies- $4.00
1 dozen Oatmeal Raisin Cookies- $4.00
1 dozen Chocolate Chip Cookies with nuts (Walnut or Pecan)- $5.00

Buy 2 dozen get $1 off
Buy 4 dozen get additional $1 off

-Then our supporters get to bake and enjoy the sweet reward of helping an orphan home! Just bake as many frozen cookies as you like at a time. No need to thaw. Your cookies are waiting whenever you are ready!

 

Fundraiser updates

All 60 of our "Change for China" containers have found homes and are collecting pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters. We have received 4 full containers so far each averaging over $5 each in loose change! The goal is 100 containers, so 96 to go...

Our first cell phone drive was a success! We have collected 15 cell phones. The goal is 100. Which leaves 85 more to go. We are working with other neighborhood associations to plan more collections in different areas. More on this soon.

Our first goal is to raise the $300 application fee for our placing agency by May 3. Currently we have raised a total of $128.57 which leaves $171.43 to be raised in the next 9 days. No problem, right?

Our next fundraiser will be home made cookie dough sales. My next post will have all the details on this yummy fundraiser.

And we have REALLY big news coming about a REALLY exciting fundraising opportunity that we REALLY can't wait to tell you about that will be a REALLY huge accomplishment for Brad and I and has a REALLY big potential to be a REALLY big deal in our adoption. Did I get your attention?

Stay tuned...

Cell Phone Recycling Fundraiser

Did you know your old cell phones can be recycled? There is such a thing as an Eco ATM (we have one in our local mall) where you can take your old phone and turn it in for cash. The process is a little time consuming though.



There are also groups online that will pay postage for larger numbers of phone to be shipped in then they will pay cash for the items based on their condition. Each phone is worth at least $1 and could be worth up to $250.

So, for our second fundraising effort, we will be collecting unwanted cell phones and recycling them to raise funds for our adoption.

We are holding a phone drive the second Saturday in April right in our own neighborhood. Our neighborhood association has a newsletter that goes out to all the residents every other month. The person in charge of writing the newsletter offered to 'advertise' our phone drive in the newsletter. We are also looking into other ways to advertise our event through church, friends, Facebook, and craigslist.

This first phone drive is the guinea pig. The goal is to collect 100 phones. If this first collection is successful we will definitely repeat the phone drive in other locations.

Do you have unwanted cell phones?...