“Cookie campaign aids McDonald House” (From The Charlotte Observer)
March 30, 2011
Charlotte's soon-to-open Ronald McDonald House expects to need 200 to 300 cookies a day as part of its mission to help families dealing with a child's illness.
That's up to 109,500 cookies annually. And they'll need to be fresh baked, so the "sweet smell of home" wafts through the 35,000-square foot house on East Morehead Street.
Volunteers, 3,000 of them, have already stepped forward with offers to help with things like baking, but one detail remains unsettled: the cookie fixings.
For that, the Ronald McDonald House has turned to one of the region's more unusual charities to handle an equally unusual campaign.
Cookies for a Cause, based out of Cornelius, is asking for $15 donations, to buy tubs of frozen Otis Spunkmeyer cookie dough to stock the pantry of the Ronald McDonald House. The goal, say organizers, is to get enough dough to last the house a year, more than 3,000 tubs.
While that sounds intimidating, Charlotte has a history of supporting unusual causes, including recent campaigns built around hams, turkeys and oat meal.
The latter, launched last fall by the Men's Shelter of Charlotte, wanted 2,000 pounds in donated oat meal. Instead, it got 62,750, along with 32,600 pounds of sugar, flour, butter and grits. Oh, and $40,000 in cash, too...
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