USE YOUR LOVE OF COOKING TO BENEFIT OUR COMMUNITY

Use Your Love Of Cooking To Benefit Our Community

Here are some more ideas:

1. Cook a meal for a local homeless shelter.
2. Make cookies for a blood drive.
3. Make cookies or small treats for a nursing home.
4. Teach classes on ethnic or healthy cooking.
5. Write a small cookbook on healthy kid-friendly recipes.
6. Create bags of mixes in decorative bags for a fundraiser.
7. Organize a healthy food fair for a local scout group.
8. Host a tea for senior citizens.
9. Start an ethnic food club with people from the community.
10. Make lunches for needy children in the park in the summer when school lunches are not being served.
11. Make bags of goodnight snacks for children in a local shelter.
12. Organize a food co-op.
13. Organize a dinner co-op.
14. Offer a class on basic cooking techniques for pre-schoolers or teen moms.
15. Bake cookie lollipops and arrange in a bouquet as an appreciation gift.


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About the Author

Devorah Vineburg is the lead staff professional at the Volunteer Center of Brown County, Green Bay, WI, in the areas of training, consultation and technical assistance to nonprofit agencies. Her website Crafty Community Connections located at www.craftycommunityconnection.com is an excellent resource of ideas for craft and volunteer service projects that can be donated to local people, agencies and charities as a community service. It is a great resource for crafters, kids, teachers, scouts, youth groups, Sunday Schools, parents and friends. The website is updated each month. Subscribe to our free newsletter. On our Shop for Charity page, buy a featured item, and an identical item or its wholesale value will be donated to your favorite registered charity. www.craftycommunityconnection.com