News Archive
These news items go back to the beginning of the Worldwide Vegan Bake Sale. They're listed in reverse chronological order.
In less than TWO DAYS, we'll kick off 84 bake sales in eight days!
From Australia to Arizona!
From Australia to Arizona!
Less than FOUR DAYS until the mega-bake sale week!
Bakers and organizers: Do you have all your supplies?
Check out these cool bake sale posters!
Three "early bird" bake sales this weekend!
Byfield, Massachusetts — Saturday June 13
Olney, Maryland — Sunday June 14
Vancouver, British Columbia — Sunday June 14 (with danishes!)
Olney, Maryland — Sunday June 14
Vancouver, British Columbia — Sunday June 14 (with danishes!)
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But there are at least a couple more early bake sales going on before crunch week — and they're all awesome! More on them soon!
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Farm Sanctuary is holding a bake sale in New York City, on the Upper West Side, on Saturday June 27, and in Chico, California on Thursday June 25. In Ithaca, New York, on June 27, friends and colleagues will hold a bake sale to raise funds for former Farm Sanctuary employee Chuck Pappas, who was diagnosed with a brain tumor earlier this year. You can read about Chuck's story here.
We hope you can make it out to one (or more!) of these bake sales, to enjoy delicious vegan baked goods and support these very worthy causes.
Louie has been very generous with giving us time on his show, and has been an enthusiastic supporter of the WVBS since it was first starting. We really appreciate it! Therefore, it is our pleasure to present him with a Worldwide Vegan Bake Sale Certificate of Awesomeness and Appreciation!
- Mint Chocolate Chip milkshakes
- Peanut Butter Banana milkshakes
- Pina Colada milkshakes
- Gluten-free brownies, cookies, and cupcakes
- Candy apples
- Jelly Donut and Boston Cream cupcakes
- And Much More!
Big thanks to The Humane Society of the United States for promoting the Worldwide Vegan Bake Sale!
Four weeks to go! What awesome things are you baking?
Shout-out to the
Vegan Waffle Party—this weekend!
If you missed this round (or if you want to do a waffle party encore), the joint waffle/bake sale committee is excited to
announce that you can have a waffle / bake sale combo extravaganza during the Worldwide Vegan Bake Sale timeframe of June 20 to June 28 and
participate in both events at the same time! There are all kinds of possibilities.
Major shout-out to FARM (Farm Animal Rights Movement) for featuring the
Worldwide Vegan Bake Sale in a recent issue of its excellent
Meatout Mondays newsletter. Each edition of the newsletter features simple and tasty
vegan recipes, plus information and inspiration to “improve your health, protect the environment, reduce global hunger, and save animals.”
- We made the Who's Participating page more legible. Check out where the bake sales are near you.
- The Links page finally has some links on it. We started with sources of vegan-related literature that you may want to put on your bake sale table.
- We need to put little dates on these news items—will do soon.
- Bake sales start in five weeks!
We're on 
! You can follow our
sweet tweets at http://twitter.com/wwveganbakesale.
! You can follow our
sweet tweets at http://twitter.com/wwveganbakesale.
TVA has been a great supporter of the Worldwide Vegan Bake Sale (WVBS). They were the first group to publicly promote the event, back on February 21st when the WVBS was unknown. Not only that, but TVA is also a participant—they'll be having a patio bake sale on June 20th. We'd like to give some love to TVA by presenting them with the Worldwide Vegan Bake Sale Certificate of Awesomeness and Appreciation.
(Note: We've got some more love-backs and shout-outs coming up, to various groups that have really helped this project.)
Here are some thinner banners that are more suitable for sidebars. Thanks to Mandee from
Cupcake Kitteh for this
excellent suggestion.
We'll be on Twitter soon. We'll start tweeting in a few days, and add a Twitter link to
the web site's pages.
Many thanks to steadfast animal advocate and author Erik Marcus for mentioning the Worldwide Vegan Bake Sale on
Vegan.com.
We'll probably eventually give these banners their own page, accessible from the main menu. But for right now, here they are.
Exciting New Opportunity if You'd Like to Participate In a Big Way
- You offer free vegan baked items on a busy street corner, community center, or other public place (assuming it's legal and you get all the required permissions!), or you arrange to give away vegan baked goods at a baseball game, concert, or other event.
- You contact VegFund.org, as per the instructions on this page and especially in this document.
- VegFund reads your request and determines whether to fund your project.
- Rather than sell the wonderful baked creations, you give them away for free. In the process, you help dispel myths about vegan food and probably get into some productive conversations with individuals who are unaware of the quality and breadth of vegan baking. "Cupcake activism," this is sometimes called. You can accept donations. If you want, you can give some or all of the donations to VegFund, but you're not required to do this. As long as the money goes to vegan outreach, or a vegan-friendly institution such as an animal sanctuary, VegFund is happy.
This a great program. Please peruse the VegFund web site, to learn about the
organization. The site also has lots of good tips on giving food to the public, much of which is applicable to bake sales.
The VegFund donation page is here.
Three Months To Go! » » »
Good venues for bake sales include community centers, public squares, and shopping centers where bake sales have been held before. You can do a search for "bake sale" and your community to get an idea of bake-sale-friendly places in your area. Also, it's never too early to start thinking about which stupendous creations you'll feature and which literature or other non-food items you want to offer at your table. See our bake sale tips for other bake sale planning advice.
Vegan Waffle Party! Invite your friends, neighbors, and anyone else to your vegan waffle party on or near May 23rd. waffleparty.com has all the details, plus recipes, waffle trivia, and even waffle party music.
Since the Vegan Waffle Party and the Worldwide Vegan Bake Sale are less than a month apart, the joint waffle/bake sale committee decided that participants can combine the two events: Ask for donations to a worthy cause at your waffle party, sign up for the Worldwide Vegan Bake Sale (as well as the waffle party!), endeavor to mix in some baked goods (scones and waffles—yum), and let the chocolate chips fall where they may. Or you can go wild and do both events.
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau, founder
of Compassionate Cooks and author
of The Joy of Vegan Baking,
was a teriffic special guest on the show, sharing her wisdom and practical advice with listeners.
An archive of the show will be available eventually. (We'll link to it as soon as it's online.)
We stretched out the dates!
Some people said they'd like to partipate but were unable to do so on the weekend of June 27-28.
So we moved the start date back to June 20, to encompass two weekends.
What if you can't make it that weekend either, but still want to be part of the event? Let us know, have the vegan bake sale as close
to the "official" time period as you can, and you're in. We're trying to be as inclusive as possible.
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