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Because of your support, our 11th Annual Gingerbread

House Workshop was a sweet success!

In the local news:

"Candyland in Action" Published in the Glenwood Springs Post Independent

Back this year, our custom gingerbread house kits are available for you to take home and enjoy creating with family and friends! These custom kits are perfect holiday gifts or for hosting your own gingerbread house party!

Each gingerbread house kit purchase includes a $100 tax-deductible donation to the Buddy Program in support of our year-round youth mentoring programs!

Your purchase helps us offer our four mentoring programs at no cost to over 500 youth, their families, and volunteer Big Buddies from Aspen to Glenwood Springs, and Rifle. Additionally, your purchase supports our in-person Gingerbread House Workshop event for over 150 Big and Little Buddies.

Purchase a Gingerbread House Kit

Sponsor this event

Hosted by: Molly Gilmore, Amanda Hirsh, Jennifer Mason, Dana Presutti, and Nicole VandeBoom

With special thanks to Helen DeFrance for her 10 years of service, and the creation of this event!

Each gingerbread house kit comes

fully equipped with:

A pre-assembled gingerbread house chalet
Top-of-the-line holiday candy
Frosting and utensils
Apron
A donation to the Buddy Program to support our four youth mentoring programs!

Pick up information:

Your gingerbread house kit will be available for pick-up on December 4 -8 between 9 am- 4 pm at either our Aspen or Carbondale offices (select your pickup location at checkout).

Aspen Office:
Red Brick Center for the Arts: 110 E. Hallam St. Ste. 125
(970) 920-2130

Carbondale Office:
Third Street Center: 520 S. 3rd St. Unit 30
(970) 927-1001

Purchase a Gingerbread House Kit

“These gingerbread houses are everything I didn’t know I needed for the holiday season. The pre-made house is beautiful and it comes with everything you need to creatively decorate with your kiddos. The way they are packaged makes them perfect for gifting or hosting your own little gingerbread house party!”

– Lauren Myatt, Leadership Development Board Member and 2020 gingerbread house kit customer

THE GINGERBREAD HOUSE WORKSHOPS

The Buddy Program's Gingerbread House Workshops are our largest activity for youth participants and their Big Buddies and our second largest fundraiser!

Your support of the 11th Annual Gingerbread House Workshops will help us offer this amazing activity to over 150 Big and Little Buddies while also supporting our year-round work with over 500 youth, their families, and volunteer Big Buddies throughout the Roaring Fork Valley through our 4 mentoring programs.

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Volunteer at the Workshops

Supporting the Gingerbread House Workshops:

Raise community awareness and goodwill for your business through the following ways:

Branding and logo placement at the event*
Logo placement on emails and communications about the event to our 8,000+ email list*
Social media outreach of over 4,000 accounts and growing
Listed in full-page thank you ad in the Aspen Times post-event
Special thank you reception for sponsors of $1000 or more at Lugano Diamonds
100% tax-deductible donation to the Buddy Program

*Dependent on sponsorship level

Thanks to our sponsors and donors,
over $135,000 was raised last year
in support of the Buddy Program’s
year-round mentoring programs
and special memories were created
by our youth.

THE GINGERBREAD HOUSE WORKSHOPS

Thanks to our sponsors and donors, over $135,000 was raised last year in support of the Buddy Program’s year-round mentoring programs and special memories were created by our youth.

Sponsored by:

Thanks to our sponsors and donors,
over $135,000 was raised last year
in support of the Buddy Program’s
year-round mentoring programs
and special memories were created
by our youth.