Make A Difference By Volunteering

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, from baking and delivering to community and technical roles to group volunteer sessions — check if we’re in your area: Chapter Locations.

Volunteer to Bake and Deliver

Whip up delicious custom, 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!

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Host A Bake Sale

Host a bake sale with your community group, school group, or work friends!

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Volunteer To Bake And Deliver

We have volunteer opportunities across the country. Check to make sure we’re in your area: Chapters

How It Works:

  1. Register to become a volunteer baker

  2. Attend a one-time online volunteer orientation

  3. 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.

Sign up to bake and deliver
Sign up to bake and deliver

Looking for a way to bake with friends?

Baking and delivering with Cake4Kids is designed for individuals or parent-teen teams.

To find out ways to bake as a group, check out our Bake Sale and FAQ sections below

Volunteer Requirements:

  • Must be 18 or older to volunteer independently

  • Must be 16 or older to volunteer with an adult who is 18 or over as a parent-teen team

    • If you are 16 or 17 years old, have your parent or guardian 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

  • 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

Current Volunteer Bakers

Looking for the Baker Portal? Click Here!

Host A Bake Sale

We love getting the community involved in our organization! Whether you are part of a corporate team, church group, student group, or a bunch of friends looking to give back, we look forward to working with you.

Cake4Kids was created to provide personalized, custom sweets tailored to individual youth.

At this time we are not able to host group events to bake for the youth.

Bake at home or as a team, then sell your sweet treats at the office or in the community and help raise funds for Cake4Kids. It’s a great way to get creative, bake, and spread a little joy with homemade sweet treats.

Cake4Kids will:

  • Provide promotional templates for you to use

  • Provide a sample supply list

  • Provide QR codes for easy bake sale donations through Venmo, PayPal, and credit cards

Volunteer Requirements:

  • Must confirm that local laws allow bake sales for nonprofits

  • Must provide all bake sale supplies

Total volunteer time needed: Flexible! Depends on how many people are in your group, the number of sweets you would like to offer, and how long your bake sale runs.

sign up to host a bake sale
sign up to host a bake sale

Frequently Asked Questions

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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