Community Work Urban Cookies’ commitment to its community started on day one when its owners created a trade agreement with the non-profit that gave them their start – free use of their kitchen in exchange for teaching some of their at-risk teen girls to bake and run a business. To this day, Urban Cookies continues to support Florence Crittenton’s mission with cash donations and in-kind cookie and gift donations for fund raisers. Throughout the years, Urban Cookies has provided additional job training and mentorship to clients from organizations such as Good Will of Central Arizona and Southwest Autism Resource and Research Center. In addition, it provides internship experiences to culinary institute students from across the Valley, allowing them the rare opportunity to learn directly from a small business owner. In 2010, Urban Cookies, in partnership with Shamrock Farms launched its Milk & Cookies community project. Fulfilling its mission to make people feel good, Urban Cookies’ goal was simply to bring the joy and comfort of milk and cookies to children and families in need. Visiting organizations such as Phoenix Children’s Hospital, Child Crisis Nursery and Florence Crittenton, Urban Cookies’ Milk & Cookies project touched more than 500 kids and families in the Valley. From 2011-2017, Urban Cookies pledged its support to Kitchen on the Street, a local start-up non-profit dedicated to turning hunger into hope by providing meals to school kids on the weekends when they would otherwise go hungry. Its annual support includes cash donations, volunteer time, marketing support and hosting food drives throughout the year. In 2018, Urban Cookies began supporting St. Vincent de Paul with volunteer hours and monetary donations and Waste Not with day old pastries each week.