Cakes for Occasions - Cakes for Caring Fundraising Program

Cakes for Caring ... Giving has Never Tasted so Good!

Cakes for Caring 2008 Charity Organizations

	April - HAWC, Help for Abused Women and their Children, provides valuable services and support to victims of domestic violence residing in 23 cities and towns on Massachusetts' North Shore. Walk for HAWC - Sunday, April 27, 2008
	May - WFTE is a non-profit, working horse farm that has been successfully helping children and adults with physical, emotional, and learning disabilities since 1964. Windrush Farm Day - Saturday May 3, 2008 10 a.m to 4 p.m. Rain Date, Sunday May 4.
	June - Join us Sunday, June 22, 2008 at the 18th annual NSMC Cancer WALK. Over the past seventeen years the WALK has contributed more than $13 million to the NSMC Cancer Center, ensuring the availability of the most sophisticated oncology services here on the North Shore of Boston.
	July - The North Shore Arc is dedicated to providing lifelong individualized support to people with, or at risk of developing disabilities, and their families, ensuring opportunities to choose and realize their goals of where and how they learn, live, work, socialize and play. Join us Sunday, June 29, 2008 at the 12th Annual Walk and Family Celebration.
	August - The National Gaucher Foundation (NGF) was established in 1984 as a non-profit, tax exempt organization dedicated to supporting and promoting research towards the cause, treatments and a cure for Gaucher Disease. Their mission has expanded to promote education and awareness, fund financial programs vital to the Gaucher community and to meet the ever-increasing needs of individuals with Gaucher disease and their families.
	September - The Alzheimer’s Association is the leading voluntary health organization in Alzheimer care, support and research. The Alzheimer's Association Memory Walk, to be held in Andover this September, is the nation's largest event to raise awareness and funds for Alzheimer care, support and research.
	October - Making Strides Against Breast Cancer is the American Cancer Society premier event to raise awareness and dollars to fight breast cancer. Since 1993, nearly 4 million walkers across the country have raised more than $280 million through Making Strides events to help fight breast cancer. Last year alone, dedicated supporters like you raised more than $50 million nationwide to help the American Cancer Society continue fighting breast cancer and offer hope to people facing the disease.
	November - Dystonia Medical Research Foundation (DMRF) was founded in 1976 and has grown from a small family-based foundation into a dynamic membership-driven organization. Dystonia is a movement disorder that causes the muscles to contract and spasm involuntarily. The mission of the DMRF is to advance research for more treatments and ultimately a cure, to promote awareness and education, and to support the needs and well being of affected individuals and families.
	December - The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America/New England Chapter (AAFA) is the local food allergy resource. AAFA’s New England Chapter serves the six New England states: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont. Since 1979, they have assisted thousands with asthma and allergies to live safer, healthier lives in many ways, including, helping parents develop school plans for their food allergic children, training childcare providers, nurses and respiratory therapists, publishing a newsletter and other educational materials, and providing telephone information and referral services.
	January - McLean Hospital is a comprehensive mental health care system committed to providing a full range of high quality, cost effective, mental health services to patients, their families and the larger community. The Hospital is dedicated to training mental health professionals, to supporting basic and clinical research to understand the causes of mental illnesses and to developing effective new means for their prevention and treatment. McLean Hospital is the largest psychiatric clinical care, teaching and research facility of Harvard Medical School, an affiliate of Massachusetts General Hospital and a member of Partners HealthCare.
	February - In partnership with CITGO, Citizens Energy works with thousands of oil heat dealers and local fuel assistance agencies in 17 states to provide deliveries of home heating oil to those in need. This year the Oil Heat Program provided eligible families a one-time delivery of 100 gallons of home heating oil. The Citizens Energy Oil Heat Program has delivered millions of gallons of discount home heating oil to poor and elderly households in Massachusetts and other cold weather states since 1979. This unique program helps protect needy families from volatile heating oil prices, which often leave households having to choose between heating the home and paying for other life essentials, such as food, health care, or clothing.
	March - Shiyanne’s Playground Fund was created shortly after Joy and Don Thornell’s beloved daughter Shiyanne Thornell, also known as ‘Princess Shiyanne’ to her family members, passed away in July of 2005. One of Shiyanne’s favorite things to do was to go to Endicott Park and go to the playground there for play dates with her best friends. She also spent many sunny afternoons and weekends at the park with her family. Helping to raise money for Shiyanne’s Playground Fund means continuing to support the renovation of the playground at Endicott Park. The money raised and the continued support from those in and around Danvers, Massachusetts will make the playground at Endicott Park the jewel that it is for North Shore residence, and more importantly, for the children.
Special charity cupcake flavors – Honey Cinnamon and Chocolate Marshmallow. The cupcakes are selling for $2.50 each. Cakes for Occasions will donate $1 from the sale of each cupcake to benefit the featured charities. Our specialty charity cupcakes will be available at our Danvers store and will be available at fundraising events throughout the year.Cakes for Occasions is accepting orders for our charity cupcakes, however please be advised that they are only available in the specified flavors and colors. Please consider purchasing cupcakes to support the Cakes for Caring program. Giving has never tasted so good!