Team PIE IT FORWARD
Team PIE IT FORWARD, founded in 2009, is a team of volunteers that sell Thanksgiving pies to help raise funds to benefit Community Servings.
Since 2009, our fundraising total to date is over $1,000,000 with the sale of over 33,000 pies! Not only do we have fun in our fundraising but we also put in the effort to support Community Servings in any way possible. We are grateful for the unwavering support provided by our family, friends, and clients.
2024 Fundraising Results
🥧 Thursday, January 23rd was National Pie Day and we announced PIE-STONISHING news! YOU helped us raise over $109,000 in 2024 AND reach a team milestone of raising OVER $1 MILLION for Community Servings since 2009! Celebrating our “Sweet 16” team anniversary in 2024 was even sweeter and we cannot THANK YOU enough!
🧡 Your generous support in helping our team raise over $109,000 in 2024 means together we are helping 59 critically ill Community Servings Clients, their children, and caretaker receive medically tailored meals at home for an entire year in 2025!
🥧 As if that isn’t PIE-TASTIC enough, we are jumping for joy with Congratulations to Community Servings for raising $975,000 in total for the 32nd Annual “Pie in Sky” Thanksgiving Bake Sale in 2024!
🧡 I am thrilled to have raised $9,450 selling 270 pies. THANK YOU so very much for helping to PIE IT FORWARD for Community Servings for a very sweet 16 years! We believe in the astonishing power of food and the amazing accomplishments of Community Servings in their leadership of the Food is Medicine coalition locally and across the country.
Team PIE IT FORWARD Members:
Team PIE IT FORWARD Members for 2024: Tamela Roche, Mike Bavuso, Jim & Barbara Conen, Joe Aceto, Karen Coleman, Kathy Wentworth, Brian Jurgens, Stella Marquez-Murray, Ryan Wittig
“Pie In The Sky” for Community Servings
“Pie In The Sky” created by Community Servings CEO David B. Waters is one of the most successful bake sales in the country. For a $35 donation you receive a freshly baked pie as a Thank You for your support. Three pie flavors are available in 2024 which are apple, pecan, and pumpkin.
More than 90 cents of every $1 raised directly benefits Community Servings Clients who are too sick to shop or cook for themselves. Community Servings is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.
2024 Thanksgiving Pies
The 32nd Annual “Pie In The Sky” Thanksgiving Bake Sale for 2024 has ended and we’ll resume the next one in the Fall of 2025!
ONE Pie – or $35 donation – provides ONE WEEK of scratch-made medically tailored meals delivered to a Community Servings Client, their children, and caretaker at home throughout Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
Order Pies and Donate with “Captain Cutie Pie”: Pie In The Sky Volunteer Tamela Roche
About Community Servings
Community Servings believes in the astonishing power of food. They create delicious, scratch-made medically tailored meals with the highest quality of ingredients from food sources good for the economy and environment.
Community Servings is a 501(C)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 1990 which is consistently given high ratings by GuideStar. GuideStar – Community Servings
Medically Tailored Meals
Licensed Dieticians develop over 15 medical diets aimed to help clients combat more than 35 specific illnesses. Community Servings serves clients who are battling a range of conditions, including HIV/AIDS, cancer, kidney disease, diabetes, and heart disease. In some cases, clients require diets designed for multiple devastating illnesses.
Presently, over 2,300 Community Servings clients receive medically tailored meals but the waitlist continuing to grow. In January 2020, the new Food Campus was inaugurated in Jamaica Plain MA. Additionally, the new food campus is able to support an increase of 70% in the production of medically tailored meals for critically ill clients.
Food Is Medicine
Community Servings is leading the “Food Is Medicine” campaign across the country. They share expertise with other cities in the “Food Is Medicine Accelerator Program”. Because of several grants received from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Community Servings conducts national research to help change the way America feeds the sick. Additionally, Community Servings proves that medically tailored meals improve medical outcomes and reduces overall healthcare costs by 16%!
Servings Direct
“Servings Direct” is the self-pay version of the medically tailored meals (MTM) program. Medically tailored meals are a proven nutrition intervention developed over 30 years for people experiencing critical and chronic illnesses.
Teaching Kitchen
Community Servings “Teaching Kitchen” is a free 12-week job training program for people interested in careers in the food service industry who face barriers to employment. As trainees learn food preparation and cooking techniques, they help the culinary team prepare meals to be delivered to Community Servings clients.
