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Donate Your Time
Donate Your Time
Can't spare the cash? Volunteer your time!
Cook for Love is always on the look-out for people who can help develop our vision of our website. We are just two moms being pulled in too many directions trying to run a non-for-profit and are honestly in way over our head. We could really use your help so that we can get back in the kitchen and give you more recipes.
Can you or someone you know help us out in any of the following areas? The more we can save on paying professionals to help Cook for Love, the more we can concentrate on what we love best -- the food!
Recipe testers: We aim to have every recipe tested by at least five different people before it gets published on the site. Help us out by being a guinea pig and letting Brenda know if she forgot to translate one of her scribbles into the final recipe!
Marketing: Our brilliant idea of marketing is to put something on the PKU LIST-SERV. Help spread the word by making Cook for Love recipes at local events and letting people know about the site, posting about a recipe on the List-Serv, PKU.com, or facebook to motivate others to try. Any other ideas for helping promote the site -- that you can help implement --would be incredible.
Web Development: Yikes it is expensive to develop a website and no-one told us about maintenance costs! There are lots of ideas to expand the site and encourage more community involvement, but not lots of funds to do so.
Accounting: Brenda’s organizational skills are renowned…for being awful. She has a tough time balancing a checkbook, let alone running a business. Please help!
Grantwriting: We are Irish, so we can certainly tell a story, but grant applications scare the cr*p out of us. We bought some books, went to a seminar and are still too overwhelmed to even know where to begin. Please help.
Artists: We want the site, published brochures and even e-blasts (new word we learned and wanted to use to impress you with our brilliance) to be as pleasant to look at as possible so if you've got a background/ hobby in graphic design, get in touch!
Publishers: We have loads of ideas but no idea how to get them on paper, literally. If you know someone in the publishing field, we have ideas on organizational tools to make the diet a little easier to manage.
Clinical help: Nutritionists and metabolic doctors to help spread the word about our site to their patients, to answer member questions, to offer input, to help analyze our recipes, or just to tell us how awesome we are.
Host a Fundraiser: Actively involved in your community or church? Why not host a simple and fun event like a morning coffee, spaghetti dinner or a car wash where the money raised goes to Cook for Love! If you’d like some ideas or more info, send an email to Jennifer@cookforlove.org
