Portland Vegan Bake Sale For Haiti: Victim Of Success
The Portland Vegan Bake Sale for Haiti was a smashing success! Over 3K was raised (exact number tomorrow, I’ll let the bank count it), friends were made, community was built and tons of other wonderful things. All told, the vegan bake sales have raised over 25K so far. Hopefully our contributions will help a little bit. I feel grateful to be in a place where I can help, and I hope everyone else does, too. I’ll go to sleep tonight very aware of my place in the world and my duty to the all of the people and animals (and plants!) in it.
Big thanks to:
Monica Cuneo and People’s Co-op for donating such a perfect location. I hope we left it clean enough! Support your local vegetarian co-op, y’all. (I don’t say y’all.)
Mercy Corp! We are so happy to be able to give you guys money to do what you do!
Back To Eden and Dovetail bakeries for donating so generously and happily, and for being generally awesome and community minded (I mean, two vegan bakeries on the same street! Welcome to Portland!)
Kelly Clarke at The Willamette Weekly and Jen McCabe at Oregon Live for helping to get the message beyond all our Facebook friends. (For all other media who did not list it, what is your prob?)
Everyone who volunteered! Kittee, Jess, Kate, Natasha, Jessica (too many Jess’), and god I can’t remember everyone’s names, but you know who you are and you are amazing.
I am off to vacay so don’t expect too much from me this week. Just wanted to get in a quick internet hug and let everyone know how we did. <3<3<3 [|} [|} [|}
I leave you with more pics from the FlickR set:
Steady cakin’
Hustlin’
Kittee’s King Cake
Get that paper!
February 1st, 2010 at 1:56 am
I like big bundts and I cannot lie! Way to go PDX!
February 1st, 2010 at 12:55 pm
Wow….that looks amazing…congrats! I’m looking forward to going to our local vegan bake sale in New Orleans. And now…..I NEED the recipe for that vegan kingcake!!! Where can I find it??
February 1st, 2010 at 2:35 pm
Nice show on the king cake Kittee! Looks gorgeous!!
February 1st, 2010 at 2:46 pm
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February 1st, 2010 at 5:06 pm
That’s awesome! I dream of having one here if I can gain some interest (Springfield, Mo). No success in the forums yet, so I may just scout the town or aim for something in the Spring (if I need to save the dough to it solo;)
February 1st, 2010 at 5:20 pm
Amazing job Portland! Luv yer lil Texan friends
February 1st, 2010 at 5:42 pm
Oh, how I wish I coulda been a customer at that bake sale…sigh. I wish we could more than two people to do this in Memphis. As far as I know, it’d just be me and my pal Poopie Bitch…but then again, she can bake the hell out some cake. Hmmm….
February 1st, 2010 at 7:32 pm
Nice job guys!
February 1st, 2010 at 7:39 pm
You guys are all awesome and adorable! Look at that turnout!
February 1st, 2010 at 8:41 pm
Maybe this is obvious- but DON’T let the bank count it! When I brought in over 2k in cash and checks for a fundraiser I organized last year, the teller at the bank counted it wrong THREE times (granted, she was only gonna short me $10, but that’s not the point!)
February 1st, 2010 at 8:43 pm
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February 1st, 2010 at 11:33 pm
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February 3rd, 2010 at 4:27 pm
The Saints are playing this Sunday and then Mardi Gras is coming up… so you better make a big bad post about vegan king cakes, OK?
We NEED it.
February 4th, 2010 at 7:01 pm
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February 6th, 2010 at 2:10 am
It’s so good to see another example of vegans showing kindess to their fellow humans. I, for one, am tired of people assuming that because I believe in animal rights, that I don’t care about people. My prayers go out to the people of Haiti and all those suffering around this world. And, blessings heaped upon you and all those making a positive difference.
February 10th, 2010 at 2:53 pm
this affirms my desire to move to portland, just to be around greater numbers of compassionate human beings and eat yummy vegan food!
February 19th, 2010 at 1:59 am
great bake sale, great idea. but is “victim of success” really the best tagline for a bake sale meant to raise funds for people who are actually victims of something terrible? perhaps a more appropriate adjective could have been used.
February 19th, 2010 at 2:47 pm
Hi,
Awesome vegan cupcakes for good!
I love your blog. I added a link to it on my blog Look To Beauty | A Vegan Blog
Happy eating!
February 28th, 2010 at 5:28 am
Great blog. Can’t wait for you to post another one, please hurry!
March 1st, 2010 at 1:27 pm
Any thoughts or is the ball rolling to organize a bake sale for Chile? Although the displacement may not seem as great, it’s a catastrophic event, over 500,00 Chileans displaced, no water or electricity and widespread destruction. Here in Vancouver, we organized a haiti bakesale and raised over $3000 as well….anyone? Anyone?
March 2nd, 2010 at 3:03 pm
OMG, everything looks delicious! Congratulations on a great fundraising effort, impressive!!
PS, have a great vacay!
March 2nd, 2010 at 3:04 pm
OMG, everything looks delicious! Congratulations on a great fundraising effort, impressive!!
PS, have a great vacay!
PPS, had an error in previous post, sorry!!!!!!!!
March 11th, 2010 at 3:39 pm
Everything looks great! It’s so nice to see people volunteering for a good cause.
March 17th, 2010 at 2:18 pm
Vegans sure know how to have a kick ass bake sale! Congrats on the funds, it’s really great to see everyone come together to help out in a time of need.