Did you know that Arkansas is tied with Mississippi for having the highest rate of food insecure households in the nation? I don’t know about you, but I think that needs to change.
Many children in Arkansas are depending on the free or reduced-cost breakfast and lunch that they are provided at school as their main source of nutrition. That means many go without dinner on a regular basis and are without many meals during the weekends and especially during the summer.
Regardless of your political views on federal assistance programs, I hope we can all agree that children shouldn’t be going hungry. Children can not provide for themselves and we have the opportunity to help provide for them.
The Arkansas Blogger Bake Sale began three years ago as part of the national No Kid Hungry initiative. 100% of the money raised goes to No Kid Hungry who then partners with the Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance to help distribute these funds statewide through a variety of programs aimed at ending childhood hunger.
This year’s sale is scheduled for Saturday, May 3rd in the Argenta District of North Little Rock and there are several opportunities for you to help out with this event. We have all been blessed by Arkansas and it is time for us to join together and give back.
Arkansas Women Bloggers is the largest statewide group of bloggers, the social media megaphone of Arkansas, and we need to REPRESENT at this event! Let’s do this girls!
Here are several ways you can help!
BAKE
We are in need of baked goods on the day of the bake sale and you don’t even have to be a food blogger! You can even use a boxed mix if you want!
Individual items and small packages of a few items are the most successful. Things like cookies are great, but you can check out our Arkansas Blogger Bake Sale Pinterest Board for all kids of great ideas for bake sale goodies.
Sign up here.
TAG PARTY
Come participate in the tag party on Saturday, April 12th from 3-6 in Little Rock. Details of the exact location will be released later.
We’ll be making tags for the baked goods (our own and for whoever asks us to help) and working on any handmade decor for the event. Folks should bring their own supplies (Cardstock, stamps/ink, etc.) and be willing to share. We’ll have a couple of Sizzix (?) machines and other tools. If someone wants to bring supplies for any craft or card project that could be sold on the auction, that would be great. This is a great opportunity for crafters and anyone who doesn’t bake to participate!
Sign up here.
ONLINE AUCTION
We are hosting a pre-sale online auction. This is perfect for those of you who make stuff or have a business that would like to donate a good or service to be auctioned off. One of our favorite guy bloggers, Kevin Shalin of the Might Rib, is handling the auction which beings April 14 on http://www.32auctions.com/ARFBBS.
Sign up here.
VOLUNTEER
We are in need of volunteers to work the bake sale on Saturday, to help with setup and clean up, and to pick up baked goods from professional bakers on Friday afternoon and Saturday morning and deliver them to the bake sale.
NWA Girls: We are in need of someone (or a group of you) that would be willing to collect baked good donations in NWA and bring them to the sale!
Sign up here.
FOLLOW US AND SHARE ONLINE
The Arkansas Blogger Bake Sale is all over the place on line! Please follow us and share us with everyone you know!
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Write a blog post to tell others about the bake sale! Help us get the word out!
COME TO THE BAKE SALE
Who doesn’t love sweets? Come to the bake sale and buy something! We will have a large variety of professional and blogger baked items. We will even have vegetarian, gluten free and low sugar offerings.
The bake sale takes place at 6th and Main in NLR on Saturday, May3 beginning at 9AM.
Oh and did I tell you how to sign up yet? I didn’t?!? You can sign up to help HERE!