Imagine never getting a birthday cake? Imagine not being able to provide one for your child? Cake4Kids and its network of talented volunteer bakers is out to change that, one
Twelve years after a Sunnyvale woman first decided to bake a few birthday cakes for a Los Altos nonprofit serving kids in foster care, Cake4Kids, now a national nonprofit, delivered its 40,000th cake to a youth in need this year.
Twelve years after a Sunnyvale woman first decided to bake a few birthday cakes for a Los Altos nonprofit serving kids in foster care, Cake4Kids, now a national nonprofit, delivered its 40,000th cake to a youth in need this year.
Kids can even submit their own requests on what they want their birthday cake to look like.
The people who bake these cakes never get to meet the kids because of privacy concerns. Rather, they deliver cakes to caseworkers. Me baking something that they personally want for their birthday cake is just such a rewarding experience, Cake4Kids social media coordinator and volunteer baker Malissa Tibbling said.
Connecticut s Cake4Kids branch started about a year ago when a local family decided to expand from California s chapter and move here.
It started when the parents of this family were stressed out about their kid s upcoming birthday. They couldn t afford a cake, so they started looking for local resources to help, but couldn t find any in Connecticut.