Our efforts are made possible by the support of our community. Donations are welcome via Venmo at Cookies for the Troops LLC is a non-profit organization dedicated to showing gratitude to our service men and women by sending out packages of baked good and treats to deployed troops and Veteran’s hospitals during the holiday season. The organization was founded by the late Sant
ina Flynn, a Marine mom. She often sent care packages to her deployed son to remind him he was loved and missed back on the state side. While chatting with her son one day during the holiday season, she learned that many servicemen don’t receive letters or care packages at all while overseas. She wanted to make sure every deployed service member knew that someone at home was thankful for them, so she started the Cookies for the Troops Christmas Cookie Bake which turned into an annual event. The organization members are a local group of family members and friends of servicemen and women. Throughout the year, the CFTT board members and volunteers collect donations to put towards baking supplies and ingredients, holiday decorations, snacks, small gifts, as well toiletries, small games and cards, undergarments and more all to be sent to troops overseas. Donations also go towards boxes and postage (to ship all the packages). In late November, we hold the annual cookie bake and spend the entire day baking over 3,000 cookies and then packaging them up with lots of other goodies. While we get to enjoy our holidays at home safely with family, we dedicate the entire Cookie Bake day from 8 am until about 8 pm to our heroes who won’t be able to be home with their families this holiday season. It is our way to say thank you for serving our country and making the sacrifices they do. Our hope is that when they receive the package, they get a small taste of home and a few moments of joy and cheer. We even send over small holiday decoration for them! On top of the cookies and goodies, we also reach out to local schools to have students make holiday and thank you cards to include in the packages. It really brightens their spirits to be remembered by people at home. We hope to continue to grow our organization so we can add a Spring Cookie Bake in addition our Annual Holiday Cookie Bake. If you would like to donate, have a hero deployed for the holiday who you’d like to receive a package, or have questions, please contact Taylor or Stephen at (908) 509-4357 or [email protected] or send us a message here on facebook! Any items that we receive that we are not able to ship are given to Veteran’s hospitals in the area and the local Rolling Thunder-Chapter 3 group, who donate follow-up packages with more holiday goodies. Cookies For the Troops LLC is a 501C(3) non-profit organization. Donations may be considered a tax deduction.
