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. ANNUAL REPORT 4TH YEAR • JULY 1, 2011 – JUNE 30, 2012 .

. . . I am happy we have Bake Me Home is a charitable organization dedicated to promoting volunteerism and providing . been able to do so many disadvantaged moms and kids with direct services that encourage shared family experiences. . . great things this year

. because of all the new . people who helped us. From the Founders . I bet we can do even . How do you thank a community that, . more next year! - Amy this year alone, donated more than $30,000 and thousands of hours of their time to provide the administrative, programming, This year I truly realized and fundraising support necessary to run how many people were our non-profit organization? We thank you by touched with something sharing what you’ve helped us accomplish. Due to your

that started with baking efforts, Bake Me Home served approximately 1,600 people

this year! Our amazing volunteers not only gave their cookies with our mom, personal time delivering tote bags, counting inventory, and turned into stuffing envelopes, and knitting potholders, but also spent something maybe not 500 hours at our 25 group volunteer events. big, but impactful.

Up until now I don’t Bake Me Home supporters understand that we are about Amy, Alison and Emma Bushman more than cookies. We are about home, and family, and think I realized how 2012 Bake Me Home Boutique sharing your time to make somebody else feel loved. You many people we help are all making the world a better place, one cookie at time. with this. It made me - Alison feel really good to

think that we caused 1,600 WHO WE SERVED IN 2012 PEOPLE SERVED! that. That even the

smallest action can ARC of Warren County Living Hope Transitional Homes Marine Corps

ripple and grow to Bethany House Shelter Madisonville Education YWCA Battered Women’s Shelter and Assistance Center something important. Catholics United for the Poor YWCA Dove House ProKids Community Kids YWCA Every Child Suceeds - Emma Inter Parish Ministry SEM Food Pantry YWCA House of Peace

StarShine Hospice Interfaith Hospitality Network YWCA Transitional Living Program

of Warren County United States Air Force James Sauls Homeless Shelter United States Army MARK YOUR CALENDARS!

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337 TOTE BAGS! Tote Bag Program

We exceeded our fourth-year goal to provide for Bake Me Home. Much gratitude goes to our Tote Bags to 300 families. We provided 337 volunteers who gave 325 hours of their time at 12 bags­—100 more than last year. A grant from cookie mix assembly sessions! Special thanks go The Sodexo Foundation and in-kind donations to Susan Earley, Jennifer Mace, and Lynn Stenger from SNOWIE, Coney Island Campers, Procter for their assistance helping this program run! and Gamble, and the Girl Scouts helped make this possible. Mt. Washington Presbyterian Church Our 2012–2013 goal is to serve 350 families What’s in the Tote Bag and Trinity Episcopal Church played vital roles through this program. Please contact us at • Bake Me Home Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookie Mix ? in our Tote Bag Program by providing us free [email protected] if you have access to their kitchens. Eastgate Sam’s Club questions about our Tote Bag Program or are • $20 Gift Card to employees also turned their volunteering hours interested in volunteering. Kroger Grocery Store into a $250 “Volunteering Always Pays” grant • Baking Pan • Mixing Bowl • Spoon WWW.SNOWIE.COM “The Bake Me Home Tote Bag Program is truly valued by the YWCA • Spatula Thank you to SNOWIE for Transitional Living Program! It provides an opportunity for our clients • Potholder donating all of our sugar! and their children to bond as a family as they leave our program and • Toothbrushes settle into their new permanent home.” • Toothpaste - TRACIE TALEFF, Program Coordinator, YWCA Transitional Living Program • Family Cookbook (EACH BAG COSTS APPROXIMATELY $38)

211 PORTRAITS! Family Portrait Program

Thanks to the new printer purchased with the Together our Family Portrait Team volunteered 2011 Magnified Giving grant, we were able to take 150 hours preserving precious family memories. more portraits this year than in the previous three years combined! Our expanding pool of professional Your donations make a huge impact in this program. and amateur photographers and photo shoot Just $2 will pay for the ink, paper, and frame for volunteers, provided portraits to 211 families. one family portrait!

“Most of our families have no photos of their families. Being able to share this gift was a wonderful experience. I have been to homes of some of the folks who had their portraits taken and it’s fun to see it

proudly displayed as a focal point in the home. What a wonderful blessing .” Volunteers and 5x7 picture frames welcomed! - LINDA RABOLT Executive Director, Interfaith Hospitality Network of Warren County Please contact us at: [email protected] 2,928 Bake Me BACK Home Program COOKIES!

Our donors, bakers, and cookie mix assemblers If you would like to send a batch of our Bake Me all made it possible for us to send 2,928 cookies to Home Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies to a “I’m a soldier deployed in military men and women in Iraq and Afghanistan service member overseas, please visit our website this year—all while raising $638 for our other at bakemehome.com/bakemebackhome for details, Afghanistan and I wanted to programs. Special kudos to our Program Director, or email us with questions at backmebackhome@ thank y’all for the support Erin Hunt, for making countless trips to the post bakemehome.com. Your $30 donation covers the y’all show and the very office this year, and to our “Cookie Crew,” the cost of sending the cookies AND helps support delicious cookies that we students from Turpin and Anderson High Schools our other programs. It’s “ONE DONATION, for helping bake the cookies. TWO MISSIONS!” receive. All of the soldiers

I work with go crazy for the cookies that we receive,

“Thank you so much for the delicious cookies! I received them a couple and the letters that are sent

days ago and shared them with the other soldiers and Airmen I work really help us get through with here in Afghanistan. Everyone loved them and we all truly the long hard days we go appreciate all of the time you’ve devoted to those of us overseas through out here, and they

- J. B. also put a smile on our faces.” through your program.” - D. R.

3 Bake It Forward Program GRANTS! The 2011 Sodexo Foundation grant that Amy We were pleased to recognize three winners for their and Emma won for Bake Me Home inspired them 2011 summer service projects in October 2011. to establish the Bake It Forward Program. Amy Each winner joined us at The Duke Energy Children’s said, “I really liked getting a big giant check, Museum for our Check Presentation and Celebration so I wanted to give them to other kids!” This event, and received a jar of cookie mix and a $100

new program furthers our mission to promote grant for their non-profit organization.

volunteerism by encouraging kids to be creative 2011 Summer Service For details and the grant application, please visit our and become involved with other non-profit website at bakemehome.com/programs, or email Projects grant winners: organizations in their communities. us at [email protected]. • Julia Feldmann 4th grade, for Community Kids

“Winning the grant made me feel like adults don’t have to do everything. • Samantha Ladrigan Kids can make a difference and not just adults. We can change the 5th grade, (with Creating Smiles for Kids) for StarShine Hospice

world! It is awesome to see other kids doing good work too!” - JULIA FELDMANN, Community Kids • Kellen Roddy 4th grade, for Catholics United for the Poor 2012 Financial Report Income Statement Revenue Total Cash Donations ...... $16,963.00 Fundraising Bake Me BACK Home Donations.....$1,655.00 9% Grants ...... $5,250.00 Administration Fundraising Activities...... $4,986.00 6% Bake It Forward Interest and Other...... $1,211.00 Program 2% Total Income ...... $30,065.00 Bake Me BACK Home Program 6% Expenses Tote Bag Program ...... $12,760.00 Family Portrait Family Portrait Program ...... $1,522.00 Program Bake Me BACK Home Program ...... $1,017.00 8% Bake It Forward Program ...... $418.00 Administrative ...... $1,141.00 Tote Bag Fundraising...... $1,689.00 Program 69% Total Expenses ...... $18,547.00 Change in Net Assets ...... $11,518.00 Expenses Beginning Net Assets ...... $8,072.00 Reserved Net Assets ...... (11,000.00) We are a Better Business Ending Net Assets ...... $8,590.00 Bureau Approved Charity.

Please visit www.bakemehome.com/about for more detailed financial information

We couldn’t do it without you! Thank you to EVERYONE whose time, talent and treasure furthered our mission Board of Directors this year. Please forgive us for not having an all-inclusive list here. Unfortunately Back Row: Jennifer Hartley (CPA/Treasurer), Jay Burt, Amy Zimmerman (Chair), (and fortunately!) our printing costs would triple if we took the space needed to Susan Earley, Tammy Imhoff, Alison Bushman (President) thank each and every one of you by name. Although a handful of our supporters Front Row: Kristin Shuba, Emma Bushman (Co-Founder), Amy Bushman (Co-Founder), are listed below, please know how grateful we are to all of you! Marianne Falk (Secretary)

123...BOW! Coney Island IBM Alex Nyktas Lynn Stenger Kathryn Aldrich, Aldrich’s Creative Creative Scapes Lawn and Landscaping Tom Casperson, In A Snap Photography Anne Nyktas Kathleen Stewart, MWPC Alternative Designs Tom and Janice Forte, Curly Buffalo Inspiringkind Boutique Bakery Kara Olding Gift Fair Baking for Good Jewelry Jenny Johnson, Jazzercize Jo Osborne Eleen Svannas

Lynn Barnett Breanne Daly Sandy Jones-Croxton, MWPC The Paper Trail Swan Maiden Soap Stephanie Honnert, Bella Sorella Salon Lisa Desatnik Junior League of Cincinnati Park+Vine Cindy Hanna, Tastefully Simple Christy Berning Dowling Family Caroline Keating The Patt Family Betsy Thompson Big Apple Bagels Dream Dinners Anderson Kid Kovers PEO, Chapter EK Thomson MacConnell Cadillac Brenda Boedker Duke Energy Children’s Museum Gail Kiley Beth Hoyt, PHOYTography Three French Hens The Brodbeck Family Elizabeth’s Closet Kindermusik with Cathy Siebert Preview Productions Amy Tobin, www.amystable.com Holly Burkholder Jim, Dylan, Paige and Lily Falk Kings Island PRIDE of Forest Hills Trinity Episcopal Church Burney Lane Cleaners Lisa Farwick Amber Kizer Procter and Gamble HWB QA unit Two Fishes Burt Family Amy Fontaine Debra Kopena Q102 Barbara Wallace, Jim and Barbara Bushman Lisa Wakeland, The Forest Hills Journal Lois Kratohvil Barbara Robb Urban Chick Lee Bushman Karen Folz Kristen Ladd Sam’s Club, Eastgate Usborne Books with Susie Dunn Stacy Herman Bushman Fox 19 Morning Show Tony Lawson Scallywag Tag Valenti Salon CafeMom Sean Fraunfelter, CPA Limbach Family Debbie Grace, Scentsy Natalie Wais Jackie Carrier Alex Gartner Barbara Ludke Megan Schaefer Ben Walz Gelene Morales Jennifer Mace and Family Alyson Schenz Peggy Jessee, Wildtree Cincinnati Rollergirls Girl Scouts, Adena Elementary Lisa Martin Diane Sherrard Marberta Heery, Willow House Cinsational Sweet Treats Girl Scouts, Ayer Elementary Dave Kuhar, The Media Cellar Debra Simson Amy Wyatt

City Dash Laurie Harmon Mercy HealthPlex Anderson Amy Smith Zimmerman Family Clark Theders Insurance Company The Hartley Family Mt. Washington Presbyterian Church Linda Smith AND MANY, MANY MORE Soozi Cobb Headbands Galore, Stacey Norton Megan Mudman Lyle Rupp, SNOWIE VOLUNTEERS AND DONORS! Coffee Emporium Heritage Presbyterian Church VBS NEST The Sodexo Foundation Coldstream Country Club Erin Hunt Tara Bonistall Noland Lily Sons

MANY THANKS to two talented people who make us look good—Debra Kopena for donating her graphic design services, and Dave Kuhar of The Media Cellar for designing, maintaining, and hosting our website free of charge! Another special thank you goes to a wonderful local business that keeps our printing costs low and wishes to remain anonymous.

BAKE ME HOME • P.O. Box 30082 • Cincinnati, OH 45230 • Email: [email protected]