Cell Phone Update!

Tomorrow we are going to Grubb & Ellis' office in Edison to pick up their cell phones. We really appreciate their help in collecting! Thank you Bob Sticht for all of your help in coordinating this! Also, we are planning a time to pick up phones from Rutgers Prep and Franklin High School as well as North Hunterdon High School next week. I had a great call with Carolyn at North Hunterdon High School and she is happy to help coordinate this effort.

Thank you to everyone who recently donated on First Giving! Your support is overwhelming!!

Stay tuned for more!

Cell Phone Collection Week!!

Kate and I are starting to collect cell phones! We got a huge box yesterday blackberry's yesterday from Gensler! Thank YOU! If you have a cell phone that you no longer use and want to contribute please email us.

Talk to you soon,

Event Pictures

Three Cakes!

Celebrity Photo Shoot (Who are those good looking stars?)

Scott and Cake

Sue and her Cake

Paula and her cake

Kate Singing for to raise funds. Good Idea Jerry.

Winning Cake (Studio 1200 - Sue Sweets)

The Cakes!

Pictures from Cakes for a Cause!!!

Hey All!

As John wrote, our Cakes for a Cause event was awesome!! We had about 52 people in attendance and everyone enjoyed a great evening of networking while enjoying wonderful appetizers and of course cake! A special thank you to everyone who participated, attended and is supporting our efforts to support Habitat!!!

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/sredir?uname=DominikaPhoto&target=ALBUM&id=5385785117645156865&authkey=Gv1sRgCKnkqtvTxtLHCg&feat=email

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Our event was AWESOME! I wanted to post a quick blog before getting to work today. More detials to come tongiht as well as pictures of the cakes. Thank you so much everyone for coming.

Talk to you all soon,

Jerry Frungillo of Masters of Reception will be at Cakes for a Cause!!!

Hi All,

Jerry Frungillo of TLC's Masters of Reception will be at our Cakes for a Cause event!! I just wanted to thank him so much for participating in this event and for being a guest judge! Saw this show this past Friday and loved it! Great job - we cannot wait to meet you tomorrow night.

We will give a full report of the event on Friday!!!

Good night,
J&K

2 Days Until Our Event!!

Hi All,

We are putting the final touches on our Cakes for a Cause event this Thursday! John and I would like to thank everyone who registered, those that are going to the event as well as everyone who donated on our site thus far. We are overwhelmed by your support. Right now, we have around fifty or so attendees that are planning to go to the event. We are so excited to see everyone and think that it will be a great networking event!

G'Night everyone~!

-J&K

Busy Weekend!!

Hi All,

John and I emailed TONS of real estate and construction professionals within the tri-state area to gain awareness of our event this Thursday and hopefully get some corporate sponsors....

We went on a run this evening (Sunday) and came back to a phone donated to us from one of our neighbors. Also a big thank you to Mrs. Covey who collected phones while away in Vancouver.

FOUR MORE DAYS TO CAKES FOR A CAUSE - REGISTER NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

John and Kate

Please register for our event!

John and I are Praying for The Cake Boss

Hi All,

John and I are praying tonight that Buddy, aka "the cake boss" will attend our event! It will mean so much to everyone that attends and I think it would be great for him to judge it. We will give everyone the final word tomorrow!

Also, Cakes for a Cause is only 9 DAYS AWAY!! If you have not registered, please do so before the ticket price goes up!! Please email john.r.covey@gmail.com for a sign up form if you do not have one yet....

We are looking forward to hearing from you!!

Sincerely,

John & Kate

NEED PEOPLE TO REGISTER

Hello all,

Everyone says they are coming, but no registering!! Please register as we need to get numbers to the caterer. Please tell your freinds and family. We sent over 1,000 emails today to business, friends, and family.

We really want this to be a good event. Please come out and support Habitat! It should be a lot of fun. I'm looking forward to all the wedding cake i'm going to eat.

Till tomorrow,

- John and Kate Minus Eight

Door to Door day 2

Hi All!

John and I went door to door at around 1:00 p.m. today until 4:00. We collected four cell phones and have to circle back this Wednesday to collect phones from seven other homes who had to gather their phones together. However, we have to give a huge thank you to Bonnie Pfeiderer of Cardella Waste who brought 24 cell phones to us today!! She collected these phones from her office, many of which were Blackberries and RAZRs. We looked up the value for each at phoneraiser.com and found out that we will receive a check for $155.00 from these phones! Overall, it has been a very successful day. For all of our neighbors who were not home, we dropped off flyers with are three initiatives and hope that they will atleast donate or come to our event...

This week, we are going to focus as much as possible on inviting everyone we can to our event, as it is in just two weeks!

Talk to you soon,
Kate & John

First Day Going Door to Door Collecting Phones!

Hi Everyone,

John and I walked around our townhouse complex for about an hour and a half today...we were pretty successful! We collected 15 cell phones & have another 12 houses to go back to this week, as they needed to gather them. We are going to start out again tomorrow and go to another neighborhood, this time in the morning. We hope that we will be lucky enough to catch people at home watching football....

Until tomorrow....

Kate

We Need A Food/Event Sponsor!

100% tax deductible Donation. $4,000 Also can be event sponsor. Please email if your interested.

CAKE BOSS MAY BE COMING!!!

Just got off the phone with Carlo's Bakery! Buddy wants to do the event, but needs to figure out his scheduling. We should know by Wednesday! So excited everyone please cross your fingers.

http://tlc.discovery.com/tv/cake-boss/cake-boss.html

http://www.carlosbakery.com/

We may come knocking!! Door to Door Used Cell Phone Drive Drive

Cake Boss Please Help us in our Event!!

Hi Everyone,

John spoke with Buddy' publicist today and they are considering coming to our event! Buddy, we would love to have you at our event. We think that everyone planning to attend would love to meet you and we hope that you will consider joining us for charity!

On another note, thank you to everyone who donated on our first giving Web page...your donations are very generous and much appreciated!!

Good Night All...

Kate

Where is John?

Cakes for a Cause is Set!!!

Today, we confirmed all three bakeries and paired them with our three design firms that are designing the wedding cakes: Scott of Aztec Architecture in Iselin will be paired with Vinnie of Del Ponte's Bakery in Bradley Beach, Sue of Sue's Sweets will be paired with Sandee of Studio 1200 in Millburn and Rich of Ronald Schmidt & Associates in Englewood will be paired with Paula of Cake Fiction in South Orange....Thank you to all participating bakeries and design firms!! We are so excited to see what you create.

We have been trying to get the word out about the event to ensure a good turnout. Please join us at our Cakes for a Cause networking event at Sublime Restaurant, 12 Lackawanna Avenue in Gladstone, NJ 07934. The event will begin at 6. It will be a good opportunity to network with business associates in real estate, as well as decide the winning cake! The cost is $100 per ticket before September 18th and all proceeds will be donated to Raritan Valley Habitat for Humanity. Appetizers and delicious cake will be served! We hope to see you all there. Please email johnc@officefurniturepartnership.com to sign up!! The cost goes up to $125 at the door so please register early!!!

We need everyone's support. For those of you who cannot attend, please consider making a donation here: http://www.firstgiving.com/johnandkate. So far we have our first donation from Lisa Westerfield - thank you so much!

Thank you for everyone's continued support,

Kate

Cake Boss Here I Come

We have a bakery!!!

Today was an AWESOME day for John and I!!!!!!! We called bakeries all morning and were able to get a firm committment from Delponte's Bakery in Bradley Beach. A huge thank you goes out to Vinny at Delponte's for baking one of our lovely wedding cakes at our event. It was a pleasure meeting you this afternoon and we look forward to working with you for this cause. Additionally, we have two other local bakeries that we are meeting with tomorrow, as we have decided to put a slight spin on our contest. We are teaming each of the three bakeries up with a design firm, so that they can have more time and focus all their energy into the cake. We also received a respone from Christine at Design Cakes in Kearny sent us a response via email asking for the specifics so hopefully we will have more to report by tomorrow! As soon as we have all of the bakeries lined up, we will then send our interior design firms a set of rules for the contest.

On another note, thank you Jennifer Cameroni for getting the other Alfonso's (in Somerville) to host a used cell phone drive....

G'Nite,
Kate and John

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September 5th

Today, we got a few more sponsors to conduct used cell phone drives in their offices. These include Gibbons Law, RMJM Architects and Cardella Waste. Also, we have to write a BIG HUGE thank you to Bonnie who is sick with strep throat and is STILL walking around Hoboken with our cell phone flyers trying to get support. And Happy Birthday Bonnie!!! We are so grateful for your help.... we are still in search of a bakery so if anyone knows a bakery willing to bake cakes for charity, please let us know...We also have a few potential guest speakers at our event but if anyone has ideas or people willing to talk, please email us!!!!!

Thank you everyone for your support...

Kate

Sept. 3rd

Police Departments / General Questions Used Cell Phone Drive

Z100 Vs. WPLJ: Place your bets!

Used Cell Phone Drive: More Help is on the way

Thank you Lupo!!!

Thank You Angelo's - Had a great meal tonight and thank you for your support.















Scott - Thank you for donating your space. Everyone food here is excellent. Please support this new business.










Thank You Jen Cameroni!!! She called 25 Companies today to run a cell phone drive. Looks like Alen Security stock is going up!











Thank You Studio 1200 for running a cell drive in your office as well as our Cake design contest!!

Thank You Greg Tabone!! Get as many cell phones as you can get. Unlike golf the higher the number the better:)

THANK YOU NORTH HUNTERDON HIGH SCHOOL!