Try Pie

We're so grateful to everyone who brings our pies to family dinners, holiday celebrations, and the casual weekday night.

Every pie purchased helps empower our team of teens with financial literacy, job skills for their futures, and a place to belong.

Order your pies for the holidays today! https://try-pie.square.site/s/order #2

A whole-hearted thank you to an anonymous friend who is making a gift through a donor advised fund at the Community Foundation of Northeast Iowa!

https://trypie.networkforgood.com/projects/206604-impact-delivered-2023

We are so inspired by the generosity of our community - and THRILLED for the impact that it has on our team and program. 🙌

Join us in the kitchen and volunteer!
https://calendly.com/trypievolunteer/holiday-volunteer

The Try Pie teens can keep up with pie production most of the year, but during the holidays, almost half of our sales for the year come in! Volunteers helping prep during the day so the girls can hit the ground running at their shift help us keep pace!

Thank you to all the volunteers who joined in before Thanksgiving, too! 🫶

BIG NEWS‼️ A group of generous donors and board members have given to offer a match of the next $6,000 given toward our year end fundraiser. 🥳 Make your gift count double : https://trypie.networkforgood.com/projects/206604-impact-delivered-2023?utm_campaign=dms_email_blast_2855044

What could a delivery vehicle mean for Try Pie and teens?
🎉 smoother, safer, MORE deliveries
🎉 capacity to create NEW partnerships for pie sales

More pies to sell = more pies to make = more meaningful work.

We are so grateful for the strong start toward our goal so many of you helped us make yesterday during Giving Tuesday! Thank you. 🫶

We'll be continuing our year end campaign to raise funds for a delivery vehicle that will transport ✨more pies to ✨more places, and 🎉empower more teens with meaningful work.

Want to be a part of what happens here? Help us reach our goal of $20,000!
👉https://trypie.networkforgood.com/projects/206604-impact-delivered-2023

Did you see this from Scheels?
There are so many incredible non-profits in the Cedar Valley -vote for one you love! Here's what they posted and a link to vote! 👇

"Giving back to our community is a big part of the SCHEELS mission. Nominate your favorite non-profit by clicking on this link: https://bit.ly/47HA829
The most nominated from each category gets a portion of the total!❤ "

**Voting ends Dec 12th at midnight! Winners will be announced on December 13th!**

SCHEELS CF Community Giving Campaign We're excited to spread a little extra Holiday cheer this season, but we need YOUR HELP. Cedar Falls SCHEELS will be giving away a TOTAL of $10,000. We will be giving $2,000 to five different non-profit organizations in our community. **Limit one nomination per person!** Please note: a non-profit mu...

IT'S GIVING TUESDAY! And we're kicking off our year end fundraising campaign TODAY!

Join in the good things happening at Try Pie by helping us reach our goal for $20,000 to purchase a delivery vehicle.
👉https://trypie.networkforgood.com/projects/206604-impact-delivered-2023

In 2023, we've grown to have our largest team of teens employed. While this time of year offers plenty of pies to make and work to do, Try Pie is looking for new wholesale partners in 2024 to keep our team busy all year long. In order to expand in this way, Try Pie needs a delivery vehicle to transport more pies to more places, and empower more teens with meaningful work.

Will you help us make a strong start toward our goal this ?!
👉https://trypie.networkforgood.com/projects/206604-impact-delivered-2023

Join us tomorrow as Giving Tuesday kicks off our year end campaign and announce our our BIG GOAL for new things in 2024.

Sneak peek / get ahead of the game and give here: https://trypie.networkforgood.com/projects/206604-impact-delivered-2023

Get the DEAL! 👉 https://trypie.networkforgood.com/projects/173587-the-monthly-slice-club

Our storefront isn't open today (you're all full from pie, we're tired, we'll see you Monday 😅🫶 )

BUT!! You can still get in on a deal from Try Pie for Small Business Saturday!
>>Sign up for the Monthly Slice Club and get a FREE holiday MSC delivery to gift to a friend.

What do Monthly Slice Club Donors get EVERY MONTH?
👉 4 fresh baked mini pies
👉 A program update postcard
👉 Creating impact on our program as a monthly donor

Sign up here: https://trypie.networkforgood.com/projects/173587-the-monthly-slice-club

It's the week of Thanksgiving and our hours are different!!
We are done taking call ahead orders, but will do our best to keep pies stocked in our freezer when you stop into the store this week!
We're open the week of 11/20:
Monday 12 - 6
Tuesday 12 - 6
Wednesday 10 - 2pm
Thursday - Sunday CLOSED

See you soon!

FRIDAY is the last day to pre-order pies for pick up before Thanksgiving. We'll do our best to keep our grab-and-go freezer stocked next week, but pre-ordering online is your best bet at getting most-loved flavors for the holiday.

Get your family's favorite before it's gone at trypie.org! 👇
https://try-pie.square.site/s/order

This month, our Classroom Workshop focused on giving! Sharing our time, our skills, and our dollars can have huge impact on the community.

Teens spent time reflecting on what it looks like to give with humility.
They wrote affirmations of each other, sharing the unique gifts each has to offer.
They named what they saw as their own skills to give: something they know a lot about, something they can do, and something they're passionate about.
Finally, our team wrote letters to a person in our lives who has given much to each of us.

In this season, we are grateful for what we have and hope to be generous with what we have to give!

During our October Classroom Workshop, teens learned the importance of preparing for their future. On top of habits like tracking spending, saving for emergencies, and budgeting, Try Pie supports teens in preparing for the big picture of their financial future too.

Try Pie offers two ways for teens to save beyond their bank account: a SIMPLE IRA with a 3% match, and 529 College Savings Accounts. Both these offerings are a chance for teens to learn how compound interest when investing can make a huge difference in reaching long term goals like obtaining higher education with less debt, or preparing well for retirement!

We can't wait to see what's ahead of each student as she builds financial habits that can change her future! 🫶

Congratulations to our director, Sarah Helleso!! She has made such a great impact on our community, especially in the workplace. She has been an awesome mentor, manager, support, and overall friend. Sarah has gone above and beyond, guiding young members of the Cedar Valley, helping them learn important life lessons and teaching them essential values.
Shout out to Sarah Helleso 🤗
https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/waterloo-courier-20-under-40-honorees-2023/article_0140555e-6781-11ee-8382-5b8f49d23b1e.html?fbclid=IwAR1qLB3zJMkFr4KesOGg57YpHbhxq8r3FUrPB4JQDuqlUWR5Iq1UBw0rTL8

Recipients named for The Courier's 20 Under 40 class of 2023 Recognition honors individuals under 40 who are doing good works and serving their communities.

Don’t forget to come out for Pets on Parade today! There will be a pet obstacle course, a tennis ball giveaway, a pet parade at 2:30 p.m., Flip's food truck, Trypie, and many more! 🐾

Admissions: ⬇️

Adults (Ages 18+) - $7
Children (Ages 5-17) - $4
Children (Ages 4 & Under) -Free
Museums For All - $2

Arboretum Members - Free
AHS Reciprocal Members - Free

Fall is our FAVORITE season at Try Pie!!
It's busy.
It's exciting.
It's delicious.
Couldn't imagine it without YOU! 🥰🍂

$5 Pecan, Pumpkin, and Coconut Cream pie shakes for the rest of October to celebrate!

As a junior, Sydney's big goal she made with Try Pie back in January was to find out what careers she's most interested in.

Sydney has been taking small steps in learning about what she wants to do with her future and who she is as a person to achieve this goal.

Earlier this year, a Try Pie Classroom Workshop went through the Myers Briggs Personality test. That was helpful in understanding how her interests and tendancies in interacting with people might come into play. Through Try Pie's summer job shadow program, Sydney shadowed a role in the medical field responsible for taking CT scans and realized she didn't enjoy that so much. :) All this plus noticing what subjects in school she enjoys most has helped her narrow down 3 careers she can see herself pursuing after graduating in 2025!!

Her top picks *right now*:
🧪Chemist
🩺Anesthesiologist
🫀Cardiologist

This goal has helped Sydney be more aware about possible careers that could be a fit for her and how she can better prepare for the future.

We're proud of you Sydney!!

Monthly Slice Club Donors GIVE monthly and GET the perk of a peek into programming while enjoying the sweet receipts. 😋

✨NOW through the end of the year, sign up to be a Monthly Slice Club donor and spread the love by sending a delivery to a friend in the Cedar Valley FOR FREE.

Click the link to sign up and get in on October's delivery on the 13th! 👇
https://trypie.networkforgood.com/projects/173587-the-monthly-slice-club

There's never been a more delicious way to support Meaningful Work!

Welcome to the neighborhood, All-In Grocers! 🎉
We're so excited to have a grocery stop close by and investing in this community we love! We snagged a few things for our classroom workshop this afternoon. 🙌🏼

Congratulations to Rodney Anderson and team!!

We have a need for a Meal Volunteer THIS WEDNESDAY after our Classroom Workshop (on Investing for the Future *!!*). Could it be you? :)

Meal volunteers provide a main dish, side, dessert, drink and tableware for our team of 20 students to enjoy after learning together! Meal volunteers are welcome to drop a meal and go, or stay and eat with us. We love sitting down to share a meal and connect outside of the kitchen.

Sign Up Here!
https://calendly.com/trypievolunteer/meal?month=2023-10&date=2023-10-04

Need a gift to appreciate your clients or celebrate your employees?
We have corporate pricing and pies to please your people!
Contact us at 319-404-7008 or [email protected] for more info before the holiday rush!

Another goal achieved! Dece is super excited to have met her goal of saving 30 dollars from each paycheck throughout this past year. She said learning to use her Credit Union banking app really helped her to stay on track with her goal.

Dece feels achieving this goal has been a great start of learning how to save money paycheck to paycheck and is a habit that will benefit her in the future. Her next steps are to increase the amount of money saved to reach bigger financial goals!!

Dece says to others looking to save: "Consistency is key. Finding a simple way to develop good financial habits will benefit you in the future."

Congrats on meeting your goal Dece!!🥳 🎉👏

SALE on a summer favorite to make way for fall flavors!
Stop in for a Rhubarb Raspberry Lavender 9" take-and-bake pie for only $15! Order online and use code SEEYA at:
https://try-pie.square.site/s/order?location=11ea3750250e8b51a2130cc47a2ae378

Sale ends when they're gone!

Joyce Oaks at Ameriprise Financial Cedar Falls will be partnering with Try Pie for her FIFTH YEAR to appreciate clients during the holidays!
Giving a pie at the holidays is a win-win-win for business owners, their clients or employees, AND Try Pie teens.

Thank you, Joyce and team for your support!
Joyce Oaks - Ameriprise Financial Services

Want in? Contact us at [email protected] or call 319-404-7008 to find out more!

At the beginning of this month, we had a Classroom Workshop about the importance of connections both in person and online. We made LinkedIn accounts and considered how using that tool now can affect how future employers could view us as applicants.

Thank you Mark Hoskinson from the CAPS program for coming to teach our team!

It's so convenient to snag your favorites from Martin Bros. Food Market Cedar Falls!

Seasonal items from Try Pie are here! Pecan and Pumpkin Praline...that just speaks Fall to us! 🍁

Peep the Pecan Pie 👀
Coming at you so soon!! 🍂🍂

We are so excited to have Ally Tenson with us as our new Program and Operations Coordinator! Check out the marketing committee's interview of Ally to get to know her. Welcome, Ally! We're so glad you're here.
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Tell us about yourself!

“My name is Ally Tenson, and I'm 25 years old. I graduated from UNI with a degree in elementary education, taught for 3 years in Waterloo, then was looking for something else and found Try Pie."

What do you know you’re good at?

“I love having conversations and interacting with people I do and don't know. I have strong organizational skills, I'm good at prioritizing tasks and the important things in my life, and I have a passion for inclusion and equity."

What’s something new about Try Pie you’re excited to be a part of?

“I'm excited about the leadership dynamics of Try Pie. I love that the Juniors have leadership of the organization and team to help the younger students then become leaders the following year. I find it interesting that it's not just the adults on staff, but the girls that are almost fully running this store. I'm also excited about seeing the committees be put into play, that's just another way their leadership skills get to be utilized to help the store run."

Stop in the store and visit Ally and our team!

Our storefront is closed today because our Try Pie Food Truck is at the Food Truck Festival!!

There will be so many great treats to try on today from 11am - 8pm. Make sure to get a sample of our pie shake!

Tickets available $5/person at the gate - kids under 12 get in free!

We share updates on what's happening at Try Pie, reminders about sales and specials, and more to your inbox! (but usually not more than once or twice each month) ;)

Right now, get on our email list before September's update comes out and be entered to win a FREE Try Pie sweatshirt. 🫶 Click the link below!
https://trypie.dm.networkforgood.com/forms/newsletter-and-updates