Cookie Cart Bakery
Summer Hours |
Monday - Friday
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Fall Hours
Monday - Friday
9:00 AM - 7:00 PM
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Don't miss Cookie Cart's 3rd Annual Chefs' Dinner! We are planning for another wonderful event so mark your calendar for Sunday, November 6th, 2011. |
Sister Jean's
New Home
Cookie Cart's founder Sister Jean Thuerauf, recently moved from her home in North Minneapolis to Catholic Eldercare River Village, less than 3 miles from Cookie Cart. Please help her feel at home there with letters, cards, phone calls and visits.
2919 Randolph St NE
Apt 310
Minneapolis, MN 55411
(612) 605-2634
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Rising Star
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Cookie Cart chooses one youth employee each month as our Rising Star. Our program staff work together to determine which young person is striving to be their best. They look for a positive attitude, mindfulness of adult staff and youth peers, strong attendance to scheduled shifts, and demonstration of initiative and willingness to help others. Learn more about Chia at www.cookiecart.org
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Win-A-Condo! Raffle
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Aegis Foundation is selling 10,000 chances to "Win-A-Condo" located in South Minneapolis.
Tickets are only $100!
When you purchase a chance, please select Cookie Cart as your favorite charity to designate $10.00 for each raffle sold.
For more information, please visit the
Aegis Foundation website.
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Cookie Cart youth employees have been busy this summer participating in community events, attending career fairs in downtown Minneapolis and business camps in greater Minnesota and exploring workshops at Cookie Cart. Each new experience contributes to our vision for all teens to posses confidence, experience and relationships to pursue their dreams. Cookie Cart is able to offer these experiences because of you, our customers and donors, and we're excited to share with you some of our success.
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Summer Festival
The high temperatures didn't prevent community members from coming to West Broadway Avenue on Saturday, July 30th to explore Cookie Cart's Summer Festival and FLOW. Friends and neighbors came together to celebrate Cookie Cart's history of youth employment training.
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Audience members participate in the magic show
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In the parking lot behind Cookie Cart, the SMACK SHACK food truck was serving up brats and pulled pork sandwiches while youth employees offered cookies, popcorn, ice cold lemonade and Dairy Queen Dilly Bars to guests. Magician Matt Dunn performed his magical act for a crowd of parents and young kids who watched in awe as he pulled a fish out of a dollar and poured water through one of his audience members.
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Youth employees working at the 2011 Summer Festival
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Throughout the day there was music and dancing on the KFAI stage, along with games and activities. Youth employees led tours of Cookie Cart's bakery, describing the process of making cookies, what it takes to be a good employee and sharing the mission with long time supporters and new friends.
View photos from the event by Mike Jackelen.
A special thanks to community partners FLOW and Emerge as well as the SMACK SHACK for serving up awesome food with a smile!
Thank you for making this year's Summer Festival such an amazing day. We look forward to seeing you next year.
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TCF Career Day
Last month, 15 Cookie Cart youth employees participated in a Career Day at TCF Bank in downtown Minneapolis. They explored many aspects of TCF including TCF history, what it takes to be a TCF employee, and different career options at an institution like TCF Bank. Youth employees were able to explore different departments at the bank and had an opportunity to ask questions of staff.
Click here to read more about Cookie Cart's 2011 TCF Career Day.
Thanks to all the staff at TCF Bank for coordinating the valuable experience for Cookie Cart youth employees and to Mae Lance for her hard work and support.
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Minnesota Business Venture
Partnering with BestPrep, Cookie Cart sent more youth employees to Minnesota Business Venture this summer than any other year! Teens traveled to St. John's University or St. Cloud State University to participate in a week-long residential enrichment program. High school students and business professionals come together from across the state to spend a week on a college campus and learn about business, financial literacy, and career information.
This year, 344 people attended MBV camps. When asked about her experience, Chia, a Cookie Cart youth employee who attended the camp at St. Cloud State University this summer said, "It was awesome! I didn't know anything about running a business and by the end our group had to launch a unique product and present a business plan for a loan. I also got to meet a lot of new people and do some networking."
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Sales Events
Many of you have seen young people wearing bright yellow shirts and selling Cookie Cart cookies this summer, so you're familiar with Cookie Cart's sales events. Youth employees are given opportunities to practice their formal customer service training by participating in sales events out in the community. This summer, youth employees held 25 events at 20 different sites raising $15,000 for the organization.
Did you stop by the Cookie Cart table at IDS last week? See pictures and "Like" our album on Facebook!
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STEP-UP
Cookie Cart partnered with the City of Minneapolis again this summer to act as an enclave site for their STEP-UP summer jobs program, which place young people at a variety of work sites over the summer. Because of this partnership, Cookie Cart is able to dramatically increase it's programming during the summer months, offering more youth employment training hours in the bakery and more classroom hours.
- 22 youth employees came to Cookie Cart this summer through the STEP-UP program
- 8 Cookie Cart youth employees worked at other step up locations
You can help us continue to offer important training to teens in North Minneapolis with a donation to Cookie Cart today! Thank you!
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Cooking Matters
 Every Tuesday for six weeks in the summer, Cookie Cart youth employees spend the afternoon in the kitchen making something besides cookies. Together with Cooking Matters, they are learning to make healthy, economic meals from scratch using whole ingredients, and take home ingredients to make the same meals at home. Teen favorites include homemade pizzas and fresh mango salsa.
Learn more about this summer activity on our facebook page. A special thanks to Chef Phil Bruning from Le Cordon Blue, CeAnn Klug, Associate Director of Cooking Matters, Dawn Montgomery, Nutrition Educator from the University of Minnesota Extension for making this program available to our teens and to the volunteers for their participation and support.
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| Thanks for your ongoing support for Cookie Cart.
We couldn't do it without you!
Sincerely,
Matt, Ann, Katie, Taronda, Anna
and Cookie Cart youth employees
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