You Can Make A Difference
Are you ready to sprinkle a little love in your community and help Cake4Kids build the self-esteem of underserved youth?
We have volunteer opportunities across the country — check if we’re in your area: Chapter Locations.
Bake and Deliver
Whip up homemade cakes, cupcakes, or cookies in your kitchen for a youth’s birthday, graduation, adoption, and more. Join us in delivering smiles, joy, and hope!
Host A Bake Sale
Great for all ages! Bake and sell sweets and treats in your neighborhood — perfect for school groups, work friends, or community groups.
Bake And Deliver
Our volunteers are whisking, baking, and decorating their way through every community we serve, knowing that each cake, batch of cupcakes, or box of cookies matters.
If you live in one of our Chapter locations, join us in delivering joy and hope!
How It Works
Register to become a volunteer baker
Attend a one-time online volunteer orientation
Sign up to bake and deliver, choosing from our list of youths’ requests
Have fun and go at your own pace! Whether you want to bake once a year or once a month, you choose the cake requests that you are comfortable baking and decorating, and that work with your schedule.
Sample requests
Volunteer Requirements
Must be 18 or older to volunteer independently
Attend a one-time online volunteer orientation session and pass a short orientation quiz
Be a good baker with reasonable decorating skills -- but you don’t need to be a professional by any means! Visit the Cake4Kids Photo Gallery for examples of cakes and treats our volunteers have made
Be able to bake and deliver the cake to Cake4Kids partner agencies during regular business hours, Monday–Friday
Follow the CDC, FDA, and USDA’s food safety guidance from FoodSafety.org: 4 Steps to Food Safety
Looking for a way to bake with friends?
Volunteering with Cake4Kids is designed around individuals baking and delivering for one youth or small group of kids at a time.
To bake as a group, host a bake sale! Find out more in the Bake Sale section below
Teen Opportunity!
If you are 16 or 17, you are welcome to join the fun and give back to your community, alongside a parent, grandparent, or guardian. We can even confirm your volunteer hours for school!
16- and 17-year olds must volunteer with an adult who is 18 or older, as a parent-teen team
Your parent or guardian must complete the volunteer form
Your parent/guardian will be the primary, responsible volunteer and the contact person for all Cake4Kids communications
Both you and your parent/guardian must attend new volunteer orientation
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Host A Bake Sale
We love getting the community involved in our organization.
Who are bake sales good for? Pretty much everyone!
Bake at home or team up with friends, family, or coworkers—then share or sell your sweet creations at the office or in your community to support Cake4Kids. It’s a fun way to get creative in the kitchen, connect with others, and spread a little extra joy through homemade treats.
How It Works
We’re here to help you get started, so you can focus on the fun part: BAKING!
Cake4Kids will provide you with a downloadable toolkit:
Planning and supply lists
Flyers
QR codes for donations through Venmo, PayPal, credit cards
Decorations and kids activities
Requirements
Bake sale host(s) must confirm that local laws allow bake sales for nonprofits
Bake sale host(s) must provide own bake sale supplies
Sweet Challenge!
Boost your sales with this challenge: Meet your bake sale goal and one lucky person gets to smash a cupcake or pie in someone’s face!
Who will take the sweet and sticky hit — the boss, the principal, or your coach?
Frequently Asked Questions
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Our volunteers bake at home and deliver directly to our partner agencies (often government or nonprofit office buildings). We have over 1,500 partner delivery locations and counting! You will see the delivery address for each request before you decide if it is an appropriate driving distance for you. You can check out this map to see a list of zip codes we currently serve. Cake4Kids does not maintain a physical office and there is not a central delivery location in any of the territories we serve.
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Many of our volunteers don’t have a car. As long as you are able to take public transportation or rideshare, borrow a car, or get a ride from a friend to deliver, that’s fine. The only requirement is that you must be the person delivering the cake unless you have made arrangements with Cake4Kids in advance. On the volunteer form, please still fill in your driver’s license number (or other government ID if you do not have one), and for the auto insurance fields, write “borrow car or public transit” or whatever best describes your plan.
We cannot guarantee that all delivery locations will be accessible by public transit, but you will always have a choice in what you bake and where you deliver to.
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We are not accepting applications for new chapters at this time. If you’d like to stay in the loop, we invite you to sign up for our newsletter. That's where we will announce any new chapters or expansions in addition to when we will open up applications again.
Please consider hosting a bake sale to spread some sweetness and support Cake4Kids in the meantime!
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Yes! If you love to bake and want to help Cake4Kids, you can host a bake sale — either on your own, with friends, or with your school or community group. Check out the details above, in the Host A Bake Sale section.
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Yes, we do it all the time for registered Cake4Kids volunteers! Document your hours and send the form to our Program team at volcor@cake4kids.org.
Reminder: You must be an approved Cake4Kids volunteer
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Once each of your group members completes their individual volunteer registration and orientation, you are welcome to each sign up for a cake request on the same day. However, we cannot guarantee that there will be enough available requests to meet your needs.
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It’s pretty sweet that you love baking and want to build a club around it! In order to volunteer with us, each person under 18 must volunteer with their parent/guardian and may not be led by one teacher or administrator. Unfortunately, that means you can’t create a Cake4Kids club. But, there are other ways to keep spreading joy!
Create a general baking club:
Host Cake4Kids bake sale events at your school or in your local community
Plan baking meetups or potlucks with your peers
Host baking and decorating skills classes in your club
Please note that the Cake4Kids name and logo may not be used for your club.
Become a Cake4Kids volunteer baker:
If you are 16 or 17, sign up to be a parent-teen volunteer team with your parent or guardian
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Cake4Kids is built around providing individual volunteer opportunities, with volunteers baking in their home kitchens. Without commercial kitchen space, we are not able to provide group volunteer opportunities at this time.