Bake Me Home

Bake Me Home was a charitable organization dedicated to promoting volunteerism and encouraging shared family experiences for those in crisis.

See our website at www.bakemehome.org for details about our programs.

04/16/2022

Thank you One Kind Cookie for taking care of Honor Flight Tri-State! For our friends, please consider donating and/or volunteering to help keep these cookies coming! ❤️🍪

11/29/2021

Since the announcement of our closing, we have been incredibly busy at . I confess that I have struggled with my decision not to share good news with you here regularly. Although we have had several positive and productive months, I would be lying to say that they haven’t also been difficult.

Our time in our beloved Mt. Washington home has officially come to an end. After a few more months of paperwork our dissolution will be complete. Please stay tuned for our Final Outcomes Report, where we will share the details of our fall programming and the dissolution of our assets, including providing Tote Bags for an additional 500 families for the holidays and charitable donations of more than $100,000! PLUS, the exciting news of the other local non-profit that will make our home their new home!

My gratitude towards all of you, our incredible team members, and my family is immeasurable. Thank you.

-Alison 🍪❤️

09/11/2021

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09/03/2021

After 13 years, we have made the heartbreaking decision to close down our operations by the end of this year.

Although this was a very complex decision, ultimately, the economic impact of the pandemic and the current labor shortage led to this decision. We are choosing to close in a financially strong position that will allow us to lift up other non-profits with our assets as we dissolve. Please read our annual report for more details, and stay tuned for a full accounting of all the good we’ll do on the way out. Thank you for 300,000 cookies worth of love! 🍪❤️

-Alison (Cookie Mom and President Emeritus)

https://bakemehome.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Annual-Report-2020-2021.pdf

08/04/2021

New volunteer opportunities posted! Check out the link below to sign up for August tote-bag deliveries
https://bit.ly/3ytcRQj

08/02/2021

The team is so proud to acknowledge this recognition from The United States Army for our Bake Me Back Home shipment of over 1,000 cookies to troops in Poland. It is always our honor to lift up our military in this way, and we couldn’t do it without our dedicated supporters and volunteers. Thanks to all who helped make this possible, and to the Army for an accolade we will not soon forget ❤️.

07/13/2021

We are thrilled to receive a grant from the Maxwell C. Weaver Foundation. This will fund the reprint of our Family Cookbook, which has been an integral part of our Tote Bag program since 2013. Thanks to this grant, we can put recipes in the hands of 2,500 families to encourage learning and creativity in the kitchen, together!

07/08/2021

And the winner is...

Thank you SO MUCH for everyone who shared the info about our Disney World Ticket raffle and donated for a chance to win this awesome prize. As always, we are thankful for the generous community... we couldn't do it without you!

Watch the video below to see who our big winner was. We will contact you directly :)

07/06/2021

Happy Tuesday Friends! Two important updates.

First up.... Fisher House has resumed operatrions! Please follow the link below to check out volunteer delivery opportunities.

https://bit.ly/3AwFm10

Second up... don't forget tomorrow is the last day to buy tickets for our Disney World raffle. Check out the pinned post at the top of our page for details and entry info.

07/04/2021

Wishing you all a happy and safe Fourth of July 🇺🇸

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http://www.bakemehome.org/

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Our Story

Bake Me Home is a 501(c)3 non-profit established in 2008 by then 7-year-old twin sisters, Amy and Emma Bushman, with help from their mom Alison.

SPECIAL MESSAGE: March 13, 2020

Bake Me Home is sensitive to the challenges that Covid-19 presents to us all. We are continually monitoring the situation while we implement a safe plan to support the families we serve and make decisions for scheduled volunteer and fundraising events.

Bake Me Home grew from their desire to do something more for the families staying at the homeless shelter where they had volunteered together for three years.

Their volunteer work began by collecting items for the shelter at the twins’ birthday party each year, then delivering them and preparing a homemade pancake breakfast for the families. While they always enjoyed working together in the kitchen, it saddened them to see the shelter children standing in the doorway watching (for safety reasons, the shelter children were never allowed to enter the kitchen).

The girls grew older and realized that a simple jar of cookie mix for families leaving the shelter could give those children the fun, valuable bonding experience of baking with their families that they so loved, and Bake Me Home was born.

After lots of hard work (and taste testing!) Alison, Amy and Emma perfected their original Bake Me Home Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe for their jar, and added all the necessary baking supplies (bowl, pan, spoon, spatula, pot-holder), including a Kroger gift card for butter and eggs (and a few other grocery items) to a Tote Bag for families in crisis.

After nine years, in addition to our primary Tote Bag Program, we have added our Bake Me BACK Home and Bake It Forward Programs.

Bake Me Home has been blessed to receive support from thousands of generous volunteers who share their passion for making the world a better place, one cookie at a time!

We currently serve local families throughout Hamilton, Clermont, Butler and Warren counties utilizing domestic violence/homeless shelters and food pantries, children in foster care, pediatric cancer survivors, local veterans, and members of our military serving overseas.

Our growth also necessitated the need for more space! In February 2013, Bake Me Home moved into a new building in the Mt. Washington neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio.

The office portions of the renovations were completed with an incredible volunteer team!

The Spaulding Foundation and Magnified Giving, the pros completed construction of a kitchen with commercial appliances.

This 450-square foot space is suitable for hosting volunteer groups, filling hundreds of jars of cookie mix and baking thousands of cookies!

Bake Me Home’s success is owed to their hard-working staff, the tremendous dedication of their volunteers and the Cincinnati community that continues to fill every volunteer need year after year! To learn more about Bake Me Home, visit bakemehome.org.