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[Cookie Brigade] Holy diabetic coma batman, over $19,000 raised this year!
If you were looking for information regarding becoming a part of the Cookie Brigade for PAX East 2014 or you're just curious about what we're all about then you're in the right place. We're gearing up for PAX East 2014 and looking forward to trying to smash the fundraising record from last year $22,300+ at PAX Prime 2013 and the PAX East record of $17,650 last year!
If you're not already registered on the Cookie Brigade website please do so ASAP! If you are currently a brigadier and looking to join and help at PAX East 2014 please apply. If you are a first time brigadier please register on our forums and then apply to be a brigadier. Note: You just need an active registration on the forums for access to the application form.
PAX East 2014 Intake questionnaire is up! If you are participating please take a few minutes to fill this out:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDVfdWFVbFRadnRkM2F5WWo4Zm5henc6MA#gid=0
Current Announcements...
02/11/2014 - Oh god, how is it February already!? PAX East sign up is live, more information regarding some changes for PAX East this year coming soon!
09/02/2013 - Prime announced their total of $22,300+ raised over 4 days. Looks like we have our work cut out for us!
WHO WE ARE:
The Cookie Brigade is a ragtag group of Penny Arcade Forumers who have assembled since PAX 2007 to provide our fellow gamers with delicious baked goods! Cookies are baked by forumers, brought and shipped from afar by forumers, and distributed by forumers!
The Cookie Brigade does not sell cookies. We give cookies away for free.
Brigadiers also accept donations to Child's Play, which are entirely voluntary and greatly appreciated! 100% of the money raised goes directly to Child's Play.
And it's very convenient to get a cookie and give a donation at the same time.
Starting in 2007, the Cookie Brigade began a mission to give these cookies in exchange for donations to Child's Play, the charity started by Mike and Jerry that provides entertainment to kids in children's hospitals. Since starting on this mission, the Cookie Brigade has raised over $93,000 mostly by the handing out of cookies and the reception of donations from the incredible, amazing, and generous PAX community! In 2013 we've already raised over $23,000 before PAX Prime! Thank you everyone for your generous donations, you have helped an awesome cause!
WHERE CAN I FIND OUT MORE?
Looking to Volunteer? Head to http://cookiebrigade.org/ for more information and to register!
Looking for some general information? Check us out on the PAX Community Wiki, or check out the FAQ on our website.
You can also find us on the following social media locations,
Twitter: @Cookie Brigade
G+: Cookie Brigade
Facebook: Cookie Brigadiers
And during or pre-pax, feel free to light up the Cookie Signal!
Hashtag: #cookiebrigade
I WANT TO HELP IN THE BRIGADE!
If you're interested in
We can definitely use your help! Sign up at our website, http://cookiebrigade.org if you wish to participate in the organizing, baking, and/or distributing!
An important note: due to certain external pressures on the Brigade we have to keep some of our more sensitive planning operations private. If you sign up on the Cookie Brigade website you will have access to our public forums but will need to submit and application to through the site to become a brigadier. Thank you for your understanding!
BASIC BRIGADE GUIDELINES
If you're not already registered on the Cookie Brigade website please do so ASAP! If you are currently a brigadier and looking to join and help at PAX East 2014 please apply. If you are a first time brigadier please register on our forums and then apply to be a brigadier. Note: You just need an active registration on the forums for access to the application form.
PAX East 2014 Intake questionnaire is up! If you are participating please take a few minutes to fill this out:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDVfdWFVbFRadnRkM2F5WWo4Zm5henc6MA#gid=0
Current Announcements...
02/11/2014 - Oh god, how is it February already!? PAX East sign up is live, more information regarding some changes for PAX East this year coming soon!
09/02/2013 - Prime announced their total of $22,300+ raised over 4 days. Looks like we have our work cut out for us!
WHO WE ARE:
The Cookie Brigade is a ragtag group of Penny Arcade Forumers who have assembled since PAX 2007 to provide our fellow gamers with delicious baked goods! Cookies are baked by forumers, brought and shipped from afar by forumers, and distributed by forumers!
The Cookie Brigade does not sell cookies. We give cookies away for free.
Brigadiers also accept donations to Child's Play, which are entirely voluntary and greatly appreciated! 100% of the money raised goes directly to Child's Play.
And it's very convenient to get a cookie and give a donation at the same time.
Starting in 2007, the Cookie Brigade began a mission to give these cookies in exchange for donations to Child's Play, the charity started by Mike and Jerry that provides entertainment to kids in children's hospitals. Since starting on this mission, the Cookie Brigade has raised over $93,000 mostly by the handing out of cookies and the reception of donations from the incredible, amazing, and generous PAX community! In 2013 we've already raised over $23,000 before PAX Prime! Thank you everyone for your generous donations, you have helped an awesome cause!
WHERE CAN I FIND OUT MORE?
Looking to Volunteer? Head to http://cookiebrigade.org/ for more information and to register!
Looking for some general information? Check us out on the PAX Community Wiki, or check out the FAQ on our website.
You can also find us on the following social media locations,
Twitter: @Cookie Brigade
G+: Cookie Brigade
Facebook: Cookie Brigadiers
And during or pre-pax, feel free to light up the Cookie Signal!
Hashtag: #cookiebrigade
I WANT TO HELP IN THE BRIGADE!
If you're interested in
- Baking delicious cookies
- Distributing to people during PAX
- Helping organize cookies and distributors
We can definitely use your help! Sign up at our website, http://cookiebrigade.org if you wish to participate in the organizing, baking, and/or distributing!
An important note: due to certain external pressures on the Brigade we have to keep some of our more sensitive planning operations private. If you sign up on the Cookie Brigade website you will have access to our public forums but will need to submit and application to through the site to become a brigadier. Thank you for your understanding!
BASIC BRIGADE GUIDELINES
- We give out cookies, we do not sell cookies! We do happily pass donations along to Child's Play, so feel free to give us donations if you want.
- Keep it PG and family friendly. We love to give cookies out to kids and as such we ask all brigadiers to remain family friendly with their cookies (sorry no dickerdoodles) and distributing activities!
- Have fun and enjoy PAX!
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You could always make the dough ahead of time and freeze it.
Yeah that's what I plan on doing, just a little bit closer to the event XD
I wore hiking shoes. Great decision.
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I wore my vibrams, such an awesome decision as well.
We are also going to have a few organization spots available for East that I'll be sending emails out to Brigadiers probably in September for volunteers. Those positions won't involved as much walking but they might require a dedicated time block.
Such as:
Treasury - 0800 to 1300 Saturday - Job includes handling all incoming money and entering brigadier totals into the database. Responsible for hand off to next Treasurer or organizer.
I want to try and make these items shifts next year so the HQ work can be spread out some.
So much for late night posting... If I were really a time traveler, I could have fixed last year's mistakes.
My brother made us Forgotten Cookies (his idea of a Bioshock Infinite themed cookie) but they turned into Forgotten Bark with a diabetic coma worth of sugar in it.
I ♥ making awesome crafts! I ♥ my Cookie Brigaders!
I actually ran the thread title past mods before using it just to make sure it wasn't going too far.
I hear you though, the week before PAX is always madness for me and it always seems to be right around the time work gets completely batty. We're going to drive up this year and go up several days earlier then normal so I'm hoping that will help us.
Can we pre-donate for cookies or is it strictly a "first come first served" deal?
It is a first come first serve sort of deal, setting up meet ups at PAX can be... challenging. What I can recommend is to attend the Thursday Night Pre-PAX Boardgame night at the Westin, we are always there accepting drop offs from bakers so it can be a good change to catch us in one area for a long time.
I'm planning to drive to East so I'm going to bake a ton before East and load my car down with tastiness.
A fun fact, by 4 PM Sunday Prime had earned $200 less then we had by the same time at East. So with more people and cookies we can definitely beat them! They only had about 1200 more cookies then we did for East.
Prime supremacy will not stand!
The Cookie Brigade is a renegade charity group, we are not officially sanctioned and are 100% a community driven fundraiser. We depend on word of mouth from other community members and attendees and stealth to continue operation. I cannot go into all of the reasons here, so if you truly want to know more I recommend joining our website and applying to become a brigadier.
Suffice to say the convention facilities don't particularly like us because we're giving away food while they're trying to sell food.
Its a pretty common thing we hear and unfortunately beyond the efforts we already employ such as extension word of mouth talk on Social Media and recruiting more distributors each year there isn't too much else we can do to advertise we exist to PAX attendees.
I'm also driving to East this year again, so I'll make the rest of the team pack light so I can fit so many cookies (seriously, so many cookies).
For those of you who are not people persons (people people?) so you're unable to distribute, but want to help out; baking is not a bad option. I taught myself how to bake cookies from scratch and they turned out very nom, and I had almost zero baking experience before hand. Remember, the most requested cookies are the basics like chocolate chip and sugar cookies, and those are super easy to make!
I also had a market for "healthy" snacks like granola and trail mix!
I ♥ making awesome crafts! I ♥ my Cookie Brigaders!
Details: http://www.cookiebrigade.org/forum/index.php?topic=467
This is a TOP SECRET project, you must be a current user of our forums AND a approved brigadier.
http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/comment/26093093/#Comment_26093093
NOT ONE OF YOUR FOUND ME. I was so heartbroken that nobody wanted my money for cookies, but I am not giving up on you guys! This year, once I have finished all of my cosplays, I will post again. I will give you full pictures. I will lay down the gauntlet. I believe in you, Brigadiers. Seek me out.
I remember that, I actually had it on my list of things to try and do but I ended up spending the entire weekend in our secret cookie fortress of doom counting money.
... so much money...
I think for something like this though its easier for attendees to try to find us. Then its find 20 or so people out of 70,000 people not 1 in 70,000.
Oh trust me, I was actively searching for you guys as well. I just figured if Brigadiers knew what I looked like (rather shiny, easy to spot) that we could make that magical cookies-into-money alchemy happen. Maybe, to make you guys easier to find for people looking for cookies, you could wear cookie hats or some other kind of easy-to-spot icon. Maybe you already do, in which case, this year we'll have to play Where's Waldo with each other just a little better than last year.
Unfortunately we can't be that overt, the convention center is after all our main nemesis. Brigadiers wear a patch but anything more overt, especially at PAX East, isn't going to be possible. The last thing we want is to make the brigadiers easier for convention staff to locate.
Also, Cookie Brigade is awesome and you should join
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http://www.cookiebrigade.org/forum/index.php
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It's my first PAX ever, I'm excited!
We'd love to have you!
Looking forward to East this year even if I'm only now coming off the adrenaline rush of passes and hotels. Yikes!