Last weekend, the bread + butter project team dug out their favorite T-shirts and traveled to Amesbury to participate in Mill 77’s First Annual Guerilla Staging Competition – a unique fundraising event to benefit Our Neighbor’s Table. Today, we’re asking our friends and fans to watch the video below and "like" it on YouTube. If we receive the most 'likes', we will win $500. And, as you might suspect, our plan is to donate 100% of our winnings to Our Neighbor’s Table. So watch the video and give it a thumbs up now, won't you?
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Sunday, April 14, 2013
Thursday, April 1, 2010
bread + butter spring break
As we wrap up our 5-month partnerships with nonprofit food banks in each of the six New England states, the bread + butter project team is going on haitus to figure out what we want to do next. During the month of April, we'll be taking a break from our blog and e-store, and focusing our efforts on helping to raise money for Project Bread through the 2010 Walk for Hunger, the country's oldest continual pledge walk and the largest one-day fundraiser to alleviate local hunger. While we're away, we hope that you will continue to support the bread + butter project's mission by contributing to our walk team. Please check back frequently. You never know what we might do next...Tom, Sue, Katie + Emma
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Wednesday, March 31, 2010
bread + butter project contributes $2,400 to New England food banks
The final numbers are in, and we are happy to report that the bread + butter project – with help from all of our friends, followers, and customers – will contribute $400 to each of our six New England food bank partners: Connecticut Food Bank, Good Shepherd Food-Bank, Greater Boston Food Bank, New Hampshire Food Bank, Rhode Island Community Food Bank, and Vermont Foodbank.
The total contribution of $2,400 exceeds the commitment we made through the New England-wide expansion we announced last fall. At that time, we promised to give 50 percent of our profits from the sale of bread + butter products over a 5-month period to our partners. But profits don't come quickly to start-up businesses like ours. Most small businesses take 2-3 years to break even, and longer to start sharing their profits. But bread + butter isn’t like most businesses, and we promised to provide benefits to our nonprofit partners from the very beginning. So, when we looked at our sales results from November 2009 – March 2010, we knew we wanted to make an even bigger difference and decided to give 100 percent of our revenues to our partners. And, to get to a nice round number, we also provided each of our partners with a small gift from our family’s charitable giving account.
When we started the bread + butter project last August, our goal was to work together as a family to help hungry people, develop a sustainable business model, and find out what it takes to make a real difference. We have learned so much over the past several months, and with your help, we know that we are making a real difference for hungry people throughout the region. Thank you to all who have supported our project and encouraged us in our efforts.
Tom, Sue, Katie + Emma
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The total contribution of $2,400 exceeds the commitment we made through the New England-wide expansion we announced last fall. At that time, we promised to give 50 percent of our profits from the sale of bread + butter products over a 5-month period to our partners. But profits don't come quickly to start-up businesses like ours. Most small businesses take 2-3 years to break even, and longer to start sharing their profits. But bread + butter isn’t like most businesses, and we promised to provide benefits to our nonprofit partners from the very beginning. So, when we looked at our sales results from November 2009 – March 2010, we knew we wanted to make an even bigger difference and decided to give 100 percent of our revenues to our partners. And, to get to a nice round number, we also provided each of our partners with a small gift from our family’s charitable giving account. When we started the bread + butter project last August, our goal was to work together as a family to help hungry people, develop a sustainable business model, and find out what it takes to make a real difference. We have learned so much over the past several months, and with your help, we know that we are making a real difference for hungry people throughout the region. Thank you to all who have supported our project and encouraged us in our efforts.
Tom, Sue, Katie + Emma
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Sunday, March 28, 2010
What's next for bread + butter?
With only a few days left in March, and our partnerships with six New England food banks coming to a close, many of you are probably wondering what's next for the bread + butter project team. Be sure to check our blog this Wednesday, March 31, to see the final numbers and the amount of the contributions we'll make to our New England partners. And on Thursday, April 1, we'll reveal what's next for bread + butter. Stay tuned. It's going to be an exciting week!
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Friday, March 26, 2010
Another bread + butter video
Here's a great lip-synch chair dance to the Newbeats' classic, "I like Bread and Butter." Enjoy!
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