What We Do
Bake For Better was created in 2020 as a way to spread loving kindness in our community and help the food insecure.
Our Mission
Bake for Better helps spread love, compassion, empathy and kindness in our community. Bake for Better creates opportunities for the food insecure to feel valued, seen and heard by providing them with homemade baked goods and hand-written inspirational messages of kindness created by the families in their community. These treats are distributed at food pantry locations during holidays throughout the year.
Bake for Better works with local Elementary Schools, Middle Schools, High Schools, Girl Scout troops, Boy Scout troops, Temples, Churches and other Philanthropic Organizations to engage the community in caring for each other.
Bake for Better helps teach today’s youth about the importance of giving back and making a difference. We create an experiential environment where children and families can help facilitate change and touch people’s hearts. We are moving the conversation from the “I” to the “We”.
Our goal is to not only help our community survive, but to help each other thrive through simple acts of kindness. Together we can make a difference.
“Ralston has been a driving force at the food pantry, bringing baked goods and smiles to the food insecure in our community.”
— Barbara Javitz - Director of the North Hollywood Interfaith Food Pantry
Recent Events
Valentine’s Day 2021
• Memorial Day 2021
• Indigenous Peoples Day 2021
• Hanukkah Challah Baking 2021
• Valentine’s Day 2022
• National Charity League 2022
• Memorial Day 2022
• Summer 2022
• 2023 Events
Over the Valentine’s Day Holiday, Bake For Better enlisted the help of over 20 families at The Wesley School in North Hollywood to provide nearly 300 bags of treats to the food insecure and homeless clients at the North Hollywood Interfaith Food Pantry..
Over the Memorial Day Holiday, Bake For Better enlisted a record number of families from the Wesley School to participate in baking for the food insecure and homeless. What a joy it was to see the smiles on food pantry customers as they received these heartfelt packages of treats.
For Indigenous People’s Day, Bake For Better received the help of over 30 wesley school families to bake cookies and brownies for the food pantry customers. Ralston was able to deliver them directly and see first hand what a difference a kind gesture can make.
The Notre Dame Jewish Student Union and Bake For Better teamed up to bring over 50 Hanukkah Challahs to The North Hollywood Interfaith Food Pantry and just in time for Shabbat.
Over 30 Wesley School families worked with Bake For Better to bake over 300 bags of goodies for the North Hollywood Interfaith Food Pantry customers.
Bake For Better worked with the National Charity League to bake over 100 homemade Challahs for The North Hollywood Interfaith Food Pantry Customers.
The Wesley School Families worked with Bake for Better to provide over 200 bags of goodies with hand written notes of kindness. Showing that with a little support we can all help lift each other up
Next Bake For Better event coming this summer
Valentine’s Day
Memorial Day
Indigenous People’s Day
Veteran’s Day
Thanksgiving
Doctors Without Borders Event