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Name:	Bake Me Home
Address:	PO Box 30082
	Cincinnati, OH 45230
Phone:	(513) 478-3520
Web Address:	http://www.bakemehome.org

Bake Me Home meets the 20 Standards for Charity Accountability.

The Tote Bag Program provides families exiting homeless and battered women’s shelters, and those utilizing local food pantries, with bags filled with homemade cookie mix, baking supplies, cookbook, toothbrushes and toothpaste, and a gift card to Kroger. Local volunteers, as young as age 4, help assemble the jars of cookie mix. According to the charity, since 2008, over 540 families have been served and the current projection is to serve 300 families in 2011-2012. The charity has currently worked with families from ten agencies in Hamilton, Clermont, Butler, and Warren Counties. The Bake Me Home Family Portrait Program provides disadvantaged families with a free 5x7 portrait in a picture fame. The staff of volunteer photographers (both amateur and professional) set up photography equipment and printer on-site in shelters and at community events and to provide portraits that are printed on the spot. According to the charity, portraits have been given to 135 families since the program began. The Bake Me BACK Home Program utilizes volunteers to bake cookies for troops serving overseas. According to the charity, over 2,100 cookies have been shipped to troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.

For the fiscal year ended June 30, 2011, Bake Me Home's program expenses were:

Program Tote Bag Expenses	9,586
Program Family Portrait Expenses	3,936
Program BACK Me BACK Home Expenses	1,956
Total Program Expenses:	$15,478

Chief Executive : Ms. Alison Bushman, President

Compensation*:

$

Chair of the Board: Ms. Amy Zimmerman
Chair's Profession / Business Affiliation: Great American Insurance Companies

Board Size: 9

Paid Staff Size: 0

*According to the charity, Ms. Alison Bushman is an unpaid volunteer.

Method(s) Used:

direct mail appeals, invitations to fundraising events, grant proposals, Internet, cause-related marketing appeals

Fundraising costs were 8% of related contributions. (Related contributions, which totaled $20,426, are donations received as a result of fundraising activities.)

This charity is tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. It is eligible to receive contributions deductible as charitable donations for federal income tax purposes.

The following information is based on Bake Me Home's unaudited financial statements for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2011.

Source of Funds
Cash Donations	10,498
Fundraising Revenue	5,226
Bake Me BACK Home Donations	2,702
Grants	2,000
Chase VISA Reward Points	165
Interest Income	1
Total Income	$20,592

Uses of Funds as a % of Total Expenses

Programs: 86%  Fund Raising: 9%  Administrative: 5%

Total income		$20,592
Program expenses		$15,478
Fund raising expenses		1,718
Administrative expenses		909
Total expenses		$18,105
Income in Excess of Expenses		2,487
Beginning net assets		5,586
Ending net assets		8,072
Total liabilities
Total assets		$8,072