SF
Vegan Bake Sale Coming in December!
After two
successful bake sales, San Francisco's vegan bakers continue to help raise
money for local charities just in time for the holidays.
San Francisco, CA.
November 15, 2009 -- Mark your calendars for December 5th and bring your appetite. The San Francisco vegan
foodie cartel will be holding a bake sale, with the proceeds benefiting two
local organizations: Food Empowerment Project and Save a Bunny. The event will
take place from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm in front of Ike's Place at 3506 16th St. at
Sanchez and is sponsored by VegNews Magazine, Vegansaurus.com &
Veg-Table.net.
Ike's Place hosted this
summerÕs wildly successful vegan bake sale (part of the World Wide Vegan Bake
Sale.) The San Francisco event raised more than $3,000 in two days, garnering
the title of most lucrative sale in the world. Based on this success,
organizers decided to make the fundraiser an on-going event, held every other
month.
The most recent bake
sale, held in October exceeded all expectations, raising $2600 in just three
and a half hours and featuring over fifty local bakers. All proceeds went to
Give Me Shelter, a local cat rescue center. Organizers are upping the stakes
for the next bake sale, which will benefit two non-profits. Food Empowerment
Project works with young people
and low income populations to make informed, healthy food choices. (Read more
at foodispower.org). Save a Bunny
is a volunteer-staffed organization that rescues and assists Northern
California shelters to adopt more than 300 domestic rabbits per year
(saveabunny.com).
December's SF Vegan Bake
Sale will feature goods from even more bakers – professionals and
amateurs alike. Highlights include Cinnaholic Sweets, who recently took 1st place in
SF Food WarsÕ Mini Cupcake Clash (cinnaholic.com), Sugar Beat Sweets, Violet
Sweet Shoppe, whose goods can be
sampled at Rainbow Grocery as well as local cafes (violetsweetshoppe.com), Bike
Basket Pies and Fat Bottom
Bakery. There will also be baked
goods from the editors of VegNews
Magazine.
All baked goods will be
vegan (free of animal products), and an effort will be made to include
gluten-free and low-fat baked goods. Bakers are still being recruited and
donations of plates, napkins, and to-go containers are needed. Interested
contributors can contact laura@vegansaurus.com.
You can also follow
updates on Twitter: twitter.com/SFVeganBakeSale
Contact:
Sharon
Troy
Laura Beck
sharon@veg-table.net
laura@vegansaurus.com
415-203-4890
415-832-9113