ERIN – Community member and Erin real estate agent Ann Shanahan, along with her team at RE/MAX held a Cookie-a-thon fundraiser in support of East Wellington Community Services (EWCS) and the Erin Food Bank.
On July 18, Shanahan and her team banded together and baked cookies to raise money to go towards EWCS.
The event ran from 11am to 4pm in the RE/MAX office parking lot with members from around the community stopping by to make donations in exchange for the baked goods.
The event was drop by, but Shanahan explained when she initially put the post on Facebook advertising the event, she had already found herself with over 100 pre-orders almost instantaneously.
The event featured chocolate chip cookies, which Shanahan said they refer to as their “not yet famous open house cookies,” adding that people in the community will sometimes stop by their open houses just for the cookies.
She said they made the dough in advance and baked the cookies on wood pellet grills on the barbeque so that they could hold the event outdoors in order to allow for social distancing.
Cookies were sold at $1 a cookie of $10 for a dozen. Over 100 pounds of food was also donated to the Erin Food Bank.
The RE/MAX team also matched the proceeds from the cookies sold for EWCS.
Between the cookie fundraiser, people just dropping off donations and RE/MAX matching the cookie sales, the team has raised over $3,300 to go towards the EWCS and they’re still baking. To date, Shanahan said they’ve baked over 1,400 cookies.
Shanahan explained they’re also hoping to be able to donate more through the RE/MAX Integra, an umbrella company of RE/MAX, Summer of Service initiative.
The initiative brings RE/MAX offices together to participate in a service project within their community.
Participants are asked to submit a video of their service project by July 21 for a chance to win $8,000, $5,000 or $2,000 to donate to the charity of their choice, which in the case of Shanahan and her team, was EWCS.
“We chose EWCS because they are all encompassing in Erin and they do so much for the community,” she explained in a phone interview with the Advertiser. “Everything people in the community need is coming from East Wellington,” she continued, adding her team at RE/MAX has received lots of gratitude from EWCS for the work they’re doing.
