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Cookies For A Cause MCBA & SCBA Member Stacey Maloney Helps Local Youth One Chocolate Chip at a Time Contact Name: Stacey Maloney Contact Email: info@sandcastlecookie.com Contact Phone Number: (941) 400-3450 BRADENTON, Florida, April 22, 2022 – Want to feel less guilty about diving headfirst into a box of cookies? Check out stacey’s sandcastle cookies. The profits from your order will help disadvantaged children and young adults to find homes and experience a better quality of life. As Stacey Maloney says, “Every child deserves a castle!©” For many years, she dreamed of building a company to help those in need while doing what she loves: baking cookies. Maloney donates 10% of net income to groups like Boys & Girls Club, Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranches, and Roots & Wings. stacey’s will go live on Earth Day, April 22, 2022. Maloney is ecstatic to finally begin her lifelong dream, and she has several people to thank for helping her make it a reality. The University of South Florida, Maloney’s alma mater, has been a wonderful resource for stacey’s. Ms. Gabrielle Jarmoszko, an adjunct USF social media instructor, and Deja-lee Williamson, a USF Digital Communication & Multimedia Journalism student, worked on the social media element of Maloney’s business. The USF Sarasota-Manatee campus is also her first customer. Food consultant James Guido of Samaritan Marketing in Brooklyn helped Maloney find her cookie manufacturer in upstate New York, and USF Communications alumna Michelle Lane assisted with public relations. Initially hired to handle the company’s marketing, branding, and logo, Charles Zunda and Gary Seve Esposito of The Zunda Group have gone above and beyond to contribute to the stacey’s mission. The two, who also do artwork for Newman’s Own, donated to the SeriousFun Children’s Network under Newman’s Own in honor of stacey’s sandcastle cookies. SeriousFun is a worldwide group of 30 camps and programs that help severely ill children and their families. Maloney would also like to thank Matthew Liddell of Liddell Creatives, Inc for creating a video for her website, Anhelita Cherepanova, an SCF photography student who produced the photos for the website, and business owner David Cotrone of Vine Strategies in Bradenton led Maloney to his Project Coordinator as a strategic consultant. ELC Book Nook and the Early Learning Coalition of Manatee County, supporting high-quality school readiness opportunities for all children and their families, provide free reading books for stacey’s to hand out at their pop-up cookie tent. It’s not every day that you get the chance to change the world by eating cookies. So, what are you waiting for? Get yourself a box (or five) today! About stacey’s sandcastle cookies: stacey’s sandcastle cookies is a family-owned and operated online cookie store which uses a percentage of its net income to help disadvantaged youth find temporary and forever homes. stacey’s Mission: “To have an extraordinarily successful domestic and international business providing cookies as a personal/business/corporate gift or retail/wholesale product so that we can help foster/orphaned young adults worldwide with their housing needs and ultimately with their first-time home purchase.” To place your first mouthwatering order, visit www.staceyssandcastlecookies.com.