What: A simultaneous national bakesale hosted at some of our favorite bakeries, restaurants, and other businesses featuring baked goods made by some of the most talented professional and amateur bakers around.
Where: At locations across the country!
When: Saturday, April 2nd from 10am-2pm
Who: Professional and amateur bakers, cooks, artists, artisans, and musicians coming together around food to make something BIG happen.
How: Want to help? We’ll need bakers, artists, volunteers, and lots and lots of customers. Visit the locations page to find a location near you and participate.
Why: So we can donate BIG BUCKS to Peace Winds Japan and help our brothers and sisters over there in the best way we can.
We will be folding 1,000 paper cranes to send to friends in Japan. Do you have origami paper to donate? Can you teach others how to fold cranes on the day of the sale? If so, send me an email.
Our long list of accomplished collaborators includes folks from:
- Pizzaiolo
- BiRite Market & Creamery
- Gioia Pizzeria
- A16 & SPQR
- Chez Panisse
- Peko-Peko
- ClaireSquares
- Tartine Bakery
- Summer Kitchen Bakeshop
- Starter Bakery
- Bakers Dozen
- Viola
- Blossom Bluff Orchards
- Tell Tale Preserve Company
- Four Barrel Coffee
- Blue Bottle Coffee
- Mr. Espresso
- Oxbow Public Market
- June Taylor Company
- Rudy’s Can’t Fail Cafe
- Bar Jules
- Out the Door
- Citizen Cake
- Ritual Roasters
- Ici Ice Cream
…and so many more that I haven’t had time to list. I will keep adding to this list later in the week! Last year, we raised $23,000 at our Bakesale for Haiti. Can we double, triple, or quadruple that number this time?
If you’d like to offer a corporate sponsorship, match, or involve your organization, please email me at bakesaleforjapan@gmail.com.
Don’t live in the Bay Area? Host your own Bakesale for Japan on April 2nd! Let’s band together and take this thing national. Email me and I will get you set up.
March 24, 2011 at 11:55 am
Wow! Thanks for sending out this information. I think the bake sale is a wonderful and delicious idea. I live in Oakland and even though I can’t volunteer on that day I will stop by Pizzaiolo and make a purchase to support Japan. I will tell all my friends to stop by as well. You guys ROCK!
March 24, 2011 at 2:27 pm
I would love to contribute and buy baked goods but the site is unclear.Anyone who can help me?Peter
March 24, 2011 at 6:15 pm
Hi Peter. If you click on locations at the top, it’ll take you to a list of locations.
March 24, 2011 at 6:25 pm
Peter. You can find a list of locations here: http://bakesaleforjapan.com/category/locations Thanks!
March 24, 2011 at 3:56 pm
I do not live in the bay area, but am happy to buy/donate paper for the 1,000 cranes if there is still a need for paper… who do I send to!?! LOVE that you are doing this bake sale to raise funds…
March 30, 2011 at 5:09 am
We are making cranes and would love more paper but am not sure well get it on time
March 25, 2011 at 5:54 am
I just found out about this and can’t wait to talk with our bakers to see how Grandaisy Bakery NYC can participate.
It is a great opportunity to join others for a moving cause.
thanks!
March 25, 2011 at 9:56 am
How do I donate baked goods and origami paper? Is there a need for wax bags or paper plates? I would need to drop my things off on April 1 in case I don’t make it to the bakesale. Thank you for doing this; I had *just* discussed holding a fundraising bakesale with my husband the night before and, lo and behold, I received the announcement about this!!
March 25, 2011 at 12:24 pm
Don’t think I can make it on 4/2, but I’d be happy to drop off some hearth loaves on Friday, 4/1, to sell at the Marin Country Mart; just need someone at the receiving end. Let me know if that’s possible.
March 26, 2011 at 8:32 am
Neat. You can see how to contact the various locations and sign up: http://bakesaleforjapan.com/category/locations
March 30, 2011 at 5:42 pm
Joy: Marin location is Marin Country Mart (Larkspur Landing Shopping Center). We’re accepting donations anytime after 8:30am on Saturday 4/2. If you need more info, email Ariane at marinb4j@gmail.com.
THANK YOU!
March 25, 2011 at 5:26 pm
I would like to participate by baking olive oil cakes. I can even hang out during the event to help out.
March 25, 2011 at 11:40 pm
Thank you! Posted: here.
March 26, 2011 at 3:28 pm
Thank you so much for organizing the event.
As a Japanese, I really appreicate the kind souls in this country.
I can teach/perform Origami and also have origami papers.
Let me know how I can help for this event.
March 30, 2011 at 4:56 am
We will be holding a bake sale in TIburon/Belvedere along with Origami Crane making
Please come by if you are in Marin!
Satoko Akuhara Boris
March 31, 2011 at 11:21 am
I can bring paper and teach crane-making if you still have an open shift. . .
March 31, 2011 at 3:11 pm
We are hosting a multi-family bake sale in downtown Menlo Park on Sunday from 10-2. Look for signs along El Camino, Santa Cruz, Valpariso and Oak Grove. We needed Saturday for the baking, so it is Sunday, not Saturday as the rest of the sales on this site.
April 1, 2011 at 7:23 am
East Bay Residents – If anyone has baked goods they wish to donate for Bakesale for Japan but can’t make it this Saturday….feel free to drop off at Mr. Espresso’s office today between 9:00-4:30. We’ll personally deliver them for you tomorrow morning!
We are located at 696 Third St in jack London Square, Oakland.
April 1, 2011 at 11:49 am
So happy to be a part of this amazing event! My sis-in-law and I will be baking a TON of goodies tonight and blogging about it on http://bakedtoorder.blogspot.com/. We’re delivering to the Ula Cafe location in Jamaica Plain, MA tomorrow morning. The weather will be great tomorrow (after the snow last night) so I’m hoping for a great turnout to support the rebuilding effort in Japan.
April 2, 2011 at 9:31 am
I wish there was a participating bakery closer to the Triangle, NC area!
April 2, 2011 at 9:40 am
This is fantastic!!! I am so inspired by all of the volunteering happening- I love to see people serve one another. Baby Boot Campers came out to Los Gatos, CA yesterday and donated $180 towards the bake sale fund during our “Exercise for Japan” class, and a number of the moms are delivering baked goods this morning as well. Let’s hope we raise a ton of $$$$ for the rebuilding of Japan!
April 2, 2011 at 3:38 pm
It was wonderful! Thanks for doing it!
April 2, 2011 at 6:10 pm
So heartwarming to see many come together for this. It was truly an honor to contribute. I can’t wait to hear about your success!
April 2, 2011 at 8:00 pm
my friends and i stopped by on Fillmore today. we got 12 cupcakes, 4 green tea cupcakes, and 2 brownies for $20. Bakesale for Japan shouldn’t be just a day. we had had no clue about this event til we got there. it should definitely have another day. my friends and i would love to stop by and show some love to Japan
xx
S
April 2, 2011 at 9:03 pm
We raised $500 today at our Chicago Bake Sale for Japan with truffle truffle. It was so wonderful, and we can’t wait to share what you raised across the country.
April 4, 2011 at 7:31 am
I would like to say thank you very much for all of your support to my county. I coincidentally found one bake sale last Saturday and purchased some cookies and chocolate. They taste really good and gave me a smile
You are now making origami paper cranes. I really appreciate your concern; However, I would like to ask you not to send these cranes to Japan. Unfortunately, they just become litter, and they still do not have space to hold everything in the locations effected by the disaster. It also requires energy to send the cranes there. Japan does not have enough fuel right now and is having a difficult time sending products to the locations of the disaster. Please understand a lot of sufferers still do not have enough food and water. And of course the suffers who receive the cranes would feel guilty to get rid of them.
How about display these cranes at next bake sale instead of sending them to Japan? A lot of Japanese also try to send cranes, and it is often a problem in Japan. I hope you can understand and change your plan. Again, as a Japanese, I really appreciate your consideration in making paper cranes.
Thank you so much. Arigato Tomodachi!!!
April 4, 2011 at 10:13 am
Thanks so much for organizing such a successful event! I helped out at the Akasha location in Culver City and we were able to raise close to $3K! Any tiny bit help so kudos to all who participated – the talented bakers and the passerbys who decided to treat themselves! Excited to see what the nationwide proceeds total is! Please keep us posted!
April 4, 2011 at 11:29 am
I’ve created a flickr group for the sharing of photos!
http://www.flickr.com/groups/bakesale4japan/
April 4, 2011 at 2:41 pm
Thanks Christina. I’ve just added the flickr photos to the sidebar >
April 4, 2011 at 4:39 pm
Very awesome, thank you! When will we have a total? I’m so anxious to know how much we were able to raise!
April 4, 2011 at 8:47 pm
Your photos are beautiful! Which bake sale was this? I hope to share photos from DC’s bake sale soon too!
June 20, 2011 at 7:41 am
Hey,
I think what you have done is amazing and wonderful. A great act of proactivity, imapct and fulfillemnt and pray your efforts go and long way to impact the change you need. I love the idea behind it. I am also planning on organizing a bake sale on my own, maybe not on a national scale and I am wondering if there’s anyone I can contact for ideas/support or advice concerning the organization. GOD BLESS YOU GUYS (and everyone else that contributed to it), and I PRAY THAT LIVES WILL INDEED BE TOUCHED BY YOUR MUCH APPRECIATED SUPPORT!