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Cupcakes 2020: Let’s Pick the Winners!

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Thanks to the more than 40 contestants who entered the 5th Annual Ithaca Cupcake Baking Contest (Virtual Edition)! Now the judging begins! Throughout the week, The Sophie Fund will publish posts here and on social media spotlighting all the cupcake masterpieces. On Saturday October 24, the judges will announce the winners in a Facebook Live Event. Stay tuned!

Contest Producer Mickie Quinn displaying 2019 entries

The Sophie Fund extends its deep thanks to the contest’s sponsors this year, GreenStar Food Co+op, Alternatives Federal Credit Union, and Well Said Media.

Our gratitude also goes to the student organizations supporting the contest: Active Minds at Ithaca College, Active Minds at Ithaca High School, and at Cornell University, Cornell Minds Matter; Alpha Phi Omega Gamma Chapter; Phi Sigma Pi honor fraternity; PATCH (Pre-Professional Association Towards Careers in Health); and Building Ourselves through Sisterhood and Service (BOSS).

Meanwhile, enjoy a slideshow of past Ithaca Cupcake Baking Contests held in the Ithaca Commons—hopefully we’ll be back at the Bernie Milton Pavilion again next October!

Blueberry Bourbon Cupcakes

Pumpkin Cupcakes

Cupcakes, and more cupcakes

The Judges

Have a cupcake?

Kitschy Scofflaw and GreenStar’s Debbie Lazinsky

The Alternatives crew

Alpha Phi Omega

Cornell Minds Matter

CMM’s Chelsea Kiely delivers a mental health message

Lyn Staack of the Advocacy Center of Tompkins County

Advocacy Center’s Lara Hamburger speaks on domestic violence and sexual assault

American Foundation for Suicide Prevention

Mental Health Association in Tompkins County

Suicide Prevention and Crisis Service

Tompkins County Bullying Prevention Task Force

Nellia Mattson

Joe Gibson

SingTrece and Kenneth McLaurin

Josh Dolan

Hannah Martin

Ginny Maddock

Friend of The Sophie Fund

2019 Grand Prize Winner Zoë Dubrow

Support the Village at Ithaca!

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Student organizations are participating in the 2020 “Cupcake Button” fundraising campaign organized by The Sophie Fund to aid the Village at Ithaca, an organization that advocates for excellence and equity in Ithaca and area public schools.

To DONATE, click here to contribute via GoFundMe. You can select a specific campaign team member to donate through. (100% of the donations will be delivered to the Village at Ithaca.)

Every October, The Sophie Fund along with students from Cornell University, Ithaca College, and Ithaca High School organize a fundraising campaign to support a local nonprofit focused on community well-being. Normally students fan out across Ithaca to collect donations in person, but this year’s effort is entirely online due to social-distancing needs during the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic.

The Village at Ithaca strives to fulfill its mission by developing strategic community relationships, programs, and services to support all students, particularly Black, Latino/a, low income, and other underserved students.

Village Support Services include academic mentoring, tutoring, family advocacy, emergency outreach, youth employment, and recreation programs.  These services are the “village” it takes to raise a child, and are there to support historically marginalized families in accessing the opportunities they deserve.

The Village at Ithaca also serves as a hub for youth activities, from making music, creating rock paintings, and designing t-shirts to kitchen skills—where else can kids learn how to make pickles, create sauces, and dish up sushi, zoodles, and collard greens?

Click here for more information about the Village at Ithaca.

Previous “Cupcake Button” fundraising campaigns have raised monies for the Suicide Prevention and Crisis Service, the Mental Health Association of Tompkins County, and the Advocacy Center of Tompkins County.

The symbol of the campaign is a “Cupcake Button,” because the fundraising takes place in the runup to the Annual Ithaca Cupcake Baking Contest hosted by The Sophie Fund. Click here for information on the contest and how to enter.

Student groups participating in the 2020 Cupcake Button campaign include:

—Active Minds at Ithaca College

—Active Minds at Ithaca High School

—Cornell University student organizations: Cornell Minds Matter; Alpha Phi Omega Gamma Chapter; Phi Sigma Pi honor fraternity; PATCH (Pre-Professional Association Towards Careers in Health); and Building Ourselves through Sisterhood and Service (BOSS).

2020 Cupcake Button (detail from Evolution, a painting by Sophie Hack MacLeod)