The Virtual Bake Sale
It works this way: You tell your group (the works, even the "Long shots") that you are going to have a bake sale for ACCES. "Every little bit counts", you tell them. What would they like to bring? But explain that none of you really has time for a stupid bake sale. Why not make it a virtual bake sale and then no one has to work at it, least of all you. What they need to do is just give you the money they would get for the item they planned to provide for the sale. Like this :
| For two dozen cookies | Send $2.00 |
| For a dozen butter tarts | Send $4.00 |
| For an apple pie | Send $5.00 |
| For a lemon pound cake | Send $10.00 |
| For date squares (a pan of) | Send $8.00 |
And so on. All of this can be done with just the one message to all of the people on your email list. Takes half an hour.
Could even your Long Shots ignore this tick off response when you request donations to the Virtual Bake Sale?
I would like to support the work of ACCES but:
- I just ran out of flour. Here is $15 instead of some cookies and a banana
loaf. - I am 'way too busy to bake. Here is $20 instead.
- I baked for ACCES, but it looked so good, I ate it all. Here is the
$20 the baking would have been worth at the sale. - I don't know how to bake. Here is $25 so I can avoid taking baking
lessons. - It is too hot to bake! Here is $15 to avoid my hot kitchen.
- I don't dare bake for ACCES. I would eat it all myself. Here is $25
to help the work of ACCES and my figure.
