Team Effort at Connie’s Bakery Get Brownie’s to the Inauguration on Time

Connie’s Bakery, located in Mt. Kisco, New York, closed down from January 5th until January 17th so that the staff would be available to bake, wrap and store 20,0000 brownies to be distributed at various events and venues of the presidential inauguration of Barak Obama. Working 20 hour days, the staff at Connie Milstein’s bakery worried if they would be able to complete the task at hand by the deadline, when they only managed to pack 810 brownies by the end of the first day.

Enlisting the help of the community by placing a sign on the door of Connie’s asking for help from the public, volunteers came to the rescue and brought the 20,000 brownies goal to fruition.
Expressing a theme of Connie’s Bakery in general, Deena Plotka, one of the employees at Connie’s, said,

“That’s the only way for us to be successful, is through the support of the community.”

Plotka continued:

“This goes to show us how many people are becoming aware of who we are, what we do and our mission, and they support our efforts.”

Twenty Thousand Brownies for Inauguration of Barak Obama from Connie’s Bakery

Connie’s Bakery, one of Connie Milstein’s philanthropic projects, donated 20,000 brownies to the historic inaugural celebration of President Barak Obama in January, 2009. In order to facilitate this mighty undertaking, Connie’s was closed from January 5th until January 17th, although the facility was itself was hard at work producing the scrumptious brownies by the thousands.

The yummy treats were distributed to the large cadre of volunteers working hard to make the inauguration an outstanding success, and were Connie’s way of saying thank you and giving back to the community. The largest number of brownies, 10,000, was distributed at the “Day of Service” even which took place at RFK Stadium. The rest of the brownies were made available at seven other events in honor of and in celebration of the inauguration.

Connie Milstein: TOP is Tops at Medical Missions for Children

One of the outstanding features of the Medical Missions for Children organization is the Telemedicine Outreach Program, (TOP.) The main mission of TOP is to help children who are seriously ill, who are having trouble getting a correct diagnosis. Without an accurate assessment of what is wrong, it is impossible to embark on the right course of treatment, and even worse, incorrect treatment could cause even more damage. Unfortunately, as much as one third of diagnoses in the developing world have been shown to be incorrect. MMC and TOP hope to correct this problem through telemedicine.

Since there is a severe shortage of expert medical care in many underserved communities around the world, the mission of TOP is to supply the expertise of physicians who are located in the developed world to people in communities without access to this high level of medical care. This is achieved via hi-tech telecommunications technology.

TOP and MMC presently runs a network of 27 level-one mentoring hospitals in the U.S. and Europe participating in TOP. Because TOP enjoys a partnership with the World Bank, TOP has a presence in over 100 countries all over the globe.

Connie Milstein Supports Telemedicine with MMC

Medical Missions for Children is an organization whose goal is to “restore hope and health through technology.” Connie Milstein is one of the founders of this unique organization, and is on the board of trustees. Headquartered in St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital in Paterson, New Jersey, MMC is an award winning charity which sends out its message in many distinct ways.
MMC includes among its programs:

1. Telemedicine Outreach Program (TOP): a distance-medicine network which operates in over 100 countries.

2. The Medical Broadcasting Channel (MBC): a global satellite and IP TV Network.

3. The Global Video Library of Medicine (GVLM)

4. Giggles Children’s Theater: a troupe whose motto is “laughter is the best medicine.”

5. Four Television Programs which are targeted for general audiences including Plain Talk, Tomorrow’s Medicine Today, Take Care and Encore Lifestyles.

Through these media and more, MMC hopes to improve the health and wellness of millions of people throughout the world each year.

Milstein Founder and Member of Medical Missions for Children

Connie Milstein is a founding member and is on the board of trustees of the international organization Medical Missions for Children. The goal of MMC is to “transfer medical knowledge from those who have it to those who need it” using the most up-to-date communications technologies.

Our civilization is in the midst of a medical revolution where new breakthroughs and discoveries are happening at a pace never before seen in history. MMC believes that this knowledge should be spread as rapidly as it is discovered. MMC is therefore constantly seeking ways to transfer this knowledge from the place it is developed to the “front lines of medicine.”

By helping to facilitate this transfer of knowledge, Connie Milstein and the MMC organization hope to improve the health of millions of people each year.

Charity Begins at Home at Connie’s Bakery

Taking a great idea to the next level, Connie Milstein of Connie’s Bakery and General Store in Mt. Kisco, New York, insists that her employees are treated with dignity and respect, regardless of the fact that all profits from the business enterprise are given to charity.

Every worker is paid a “living wage” as well as given medical benefits if they are full-time employees. Not only that, but there is an effort to support small local farmers and craftsmen whenever possible when purchasing decisions are made.

Connie’s Bakery and General Store is a model business enterprise which donates all its profits to charity, which is really the icing on the cake.

Baked Goods for Charity at Connie’s Bakery Make Good Business Sense

Connie Milstein is a Principal of Ogden CAP Properties, but she is also the force behind the successful business Connie’s Bakery and General Store. This is the award-winning shop that donates 100% of its profits to charity.

But just because the profits are “only” for charity does not mean that the business side of the enterprise is in any way neglected. Rather, only the best ingredients go into each tasty pastry, cake, pie, tart and cookie. Everything is made with the most wholesome elements by hand, just the way grandma used to.

Employees are paid a living wage, which means Connie’s is also an example and role model for other businesses to do the same, including providing medical benefits to all of Connie’s full-time employees.