Through local bake sales, Cookies for Kids’ Cancer provides the inspiration and support for individuals, communities, and businesses to help fight pediatric cancer.
Last year agents at Prudential Starck, REALTORS had so much fun hosting the bake sale and raised over $1,000 for Cookies for Kids’ Cancer, they have decided to make it an annual event. The bake sale will be held at Prudential Starck, REALTORS office located at 300 W. Golf Road in Mt. Prospect from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. Agents are working together with their families and friends to bake homemade cakes, pies, muffins, brownies, cupcakes, specialty cookies, banana bread, homemade candy and other delicious treats to raise money for pediatric cancer research. Items will start at $1 and all money collected will be donated to Cookies For Kids’ Cancer.
The first Cookies for Kids’ Cancer bake sale was held in December 2007, when the mom of a young child with cancer decided to have an enormous bake sale where she and others would sell 96,000 cookies to raise money to help fund a pediatric cancer treatment in development. With the help of more than 250 volunteers, all 96,000 cookies were baked and sold in just three weeks; the bake sale raised over $400,000. From the support the first bake sale received, the idea to create an organization for people to hold their own bake sales came to life with the creation of a national organization.
Cookies for Kids’ Cancer is not about one child or one type of pediatric cancer. It is about changing the facts of pediatric cancer for the better, forever. Childhood cancers are the number one disease killer of children – more than asthma, muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis and pediatric AIDS combined. Nearly 13,000 children are diagnosed with cancer each year. Survivors of childhood cancer face a broad range of physical and psychological challenges imposed by the disease, and some will suffer its long-term effects for the rest of their lives. Despite all these statistics, there has not been a new drug developed specifically for pediatric cancer in 20 years.
Together we can raise the funds and awareness necessary to change the face of pediatric cancer research and to provide more families and children with the hope they deserve. Cookies for Kids’ Cancer is committed to raising the funds to support research for new and improved therapies for pediatric cancer. Make the future of pediatric cancers something more than a scary statistic. Join the fight because every child deserves a chance to live their dreams.
Please pick up some homemade baked goods for your home and/or holiday parties at Prudential Starck, REALTORS office at 300 W. Golf Road in Mt. Prospect on Saturday, December 12th from 9 A.M. until 2 P.M. to support Cookies for Kids’ Cancer. Norbert Pools has arranged for Santa to visit the bake sale and pose for pictures between 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. For directions, call 847-255-3900.