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Virtual Great American Bake Sale
Last night before bed I checked my email like I always do….I’m addicted to my email, I’m not sure why because it’s mostly junk. Anyway…I was surprised to have an email from a fellow blogger. Kate over at Cooking During Stolen Moments has partnered with Share our Strength to host a Virtual Great American Bake Sale. Share our Strength is a National Organization to that works hard to end childhood hunger in America. If you would like to help end childhood hunger all you have to do is submit a recipe. It’s free, you don’t have to buy anything or make anything, all you have to do is send a quick little email with a recipe, that’s it. You need to hurry because recipe submisson deadline is April 5th that’s Sunday! Hurry Hurry Hurry to Kate’s blog and submit a recipe! If you need more infomation just keep reading! If you can’t help and know someone that would like too please send them the link to Kate’s blog! Thank you!!
The Basics:
On April 13th, I will be hosting the Virtual GABS here at Cooking During Stolen Moments. I will write up a post that includes a link to each participants blog and their bake sale recipe. Readers can go from blog to blog and look over all the yummy selections, just like you would at a real bake sale.
Also on that date, the sale of an ebook (or ebooks) will launch. The ebook(s) will be filled with recipes from the Virtual GABS participants, and anyone else who would like to contribute a recipe. The books will be available for a donation of the purchasers choosing and all of the proceeds will go to Share Our Strength.
How To Participate:
You can participate in one or all of the following ways:
- Submit a baking recipe to be included in the ebook(s). Submit a recipe before April 5th. The recipes will be compiled, and the ebook(s) will be available for purchase on April 13th. You can submit a recipe here or via email – virtualbakesale@gmail.com
- Spread the word! If you have a blog, ask your readers to submit a recipe for the ebook. The deadline for ebook recipe submissions is April 5th. Feel free to copy and paste any information in this post when you spread the word. Make sure you offer your readers either a link to this post or the email address, virtualbakesale@gmail.com, so they can submit their recipes.
- Tweet! Spread the word about ebook(s) and the Virtual Great American Bake Sale through twitter. Please use hashtag #vgabs.
- Participate in the Virtual Great American Bake Sale. If you have a recipe you’d like to share, write up a post, include a link to the ebook purchase page (the link will be available the 12th), and then send me the URL to your post by April 12th. I’ll post a master list of all the VGABS participants on April 13th.
- Add a button in your sidebar that links to the ebook purchase page.
- Spread the word about the ebook.
Timeline Synopsis
- April 5th – Deadline to submit recipes
- April 13th – Kick off of the Virtual Great American Bake Sale and launch of the ebook(s) sales.
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!
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to leave a comment or send an email to virtualbakesale@gmail.com.
