Connie Milstein Shows Support with Gift of Delicious Brownies

Assistant pastry chef Jamie Jeffrey, along with Liane Paap of Connie’s Bakery, delivered 20,000 brownies to the inaugural celebration in Washington D.C. last January. According to Deena Plotka, who works at Connie’s too,

“Connie Milstein wanted to support the efforts of our president-elect, of all the people in Washington, D.C., our nation and all the volunteers.”

Connie’s is an amazing enterprise which is well-known for its one year apprenticeship program, which hires people having difficulties finding work and trains them to be employable in the food service industry. Jamie Jeffrey, the employee that delivered the brownies to Washington, was living in a shelter with no prospects for gainful employment when she became an apprentice at Connie’s Bakery, in 2006. After finishing her apprenticeship she was hired at a full-time assistant pastry chef at the Bakery, and got to deliver the brownie’s to the inauguration.

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.