2ND ANNUAL COAT & UNIFORM DRIVE BENEFITING A LOCAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL:

NORTH CHARLESTON ELEMENTARY 

SONIA HANSON THE FOUNDER OF THIS DRIVE HAS A PASSION FOR HELPING THE COMMUNITY. SHE STARTED THE DRIVE TO HELP LOCAL STUDENTS AND THEIR FAMILIES AND LESSEN THE COST FOR THEM DURING A TIME WHEN MANY NEED HELP.

AS WE GO INTO THE WINTER SEASON THESE STUDENTS NEED A COAT AND MANY OF THEM NEW UNIFORMS AND YOU CAN HELP. 

GOAL IS TO COLLECT OVER 300 COATS & UNIFORMS THIS YEAR.

HIS KINGDOM COMMUNITY DEVELOPEMENT OF NEW VISION CATHEDRAL IS THE SPONSORING CHUCH THIS YEAR. 

YOU CAN DONATE BY ALSO DROPPING OFF TO ANY SOUTHSTATE BANK BRANCH IN THE CHARLESTON REGION. 

THANK YOU FOR YOUR GIFT TO HELP THESE STUDENTS AND CARE FOR OUR COMMUNITY. 

Eliminating Period Poverty in Iredell Schools

The Red Cart Project is a collaboration of local advocates who believe that menstrual health products are not a luxury. When students have access to period products, they can:

·    Avoid stress from the potential for embarrassing leaks

·    Stay in class

·    Focus on learning

·    Avoid risking their health by creating a menstrual barrier out of toilet paper, fabric, paper towels, or other unhealthy products.

The ripple effect of COVID-19 and high inflation has forced local families to continue to make difficult decisions each day regarding basic needs such as food, utilities, and now more than ever, backpacks and school supplies for their children for the new school year.

Join the HopeNow Foundation and WFTV Channel 9 as our Central Florida community comes together in unity as a strong positive force to help our local children.  This virtual school supply drive will provide children in Osceola, Seminole and Orange County public schools with a new backpack and complete set of supplies.

Together, we can ensure that no child in our community is left behind due to the inability to access basic school supplies. Thank you for your help and generosity!

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A special thank you to WFTV 9 Family Connection,

D&W SourceAll, McCoy Federal Credit Union, Stanley Steemer, The UPS Store, Mr. Sparky and so many of our Central Florida companies, organizations, and fellow residents.

Kindest Regards, 

Michael

Michael Radka

Founder & President

HopeNow Foundation | Living Water

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Every child experiencing homelessness that we serve receives a NEW backpack filled with school supplies. We are also distributing art kits and gift cards to students. Help us make sure that every student we serve has a backpack, school supplies, and resources to learn. 

We are the MIGHTY HEART HELPERS, we match needy heart families with generous donors like yourself.  This is the third holiday season we are fundraising on behalf of the Mighty Oakes Heart Foundation, with gifts and funds going directly to patients and their families at the holidays. We are so thankful for your commitment to adopt a family this holiday season. Many of these families have all received grants from MOHF throughout this year and are still struggling at the holidays.

We want to make this holiday season easier on these families and despite the struggles, help them to have hope against the odds, to find peace in the battle, to choose love over fear.

Center for Children and Families, Inc. (CCFI) is seeking donors to participate in this year’s annual Holiday Wishes gift drive. Last year alone, this longstanding effort provided supplemental holiday gift cards to more than 300 clients, Boys & Girls Club members and their siblings.

To make this program a reality, CCFI needs the help of the Norman community. Individuals, families and organizations can help support a child by "adopting" their holiday wish list. Wish lists are submitted anonymously and include everything from toys to books to basic needs, such as clothing and winter coats.

Many families in our community are not able to purchase presents for their children. Through Beverly Bootstraps’ Winter Wishes Holiday Gifts, donors can help these children receive new clothes, games or toys. Donors have the unique opportunity to give holiday gifts to local children in need. After all, the holidays are all about giving!

Thank you for your support!

Calling all Santas! 

The giving season is here and we invite you to become a Santa to one of our families in need! 

More than 90% of the children and families we serve are low income, and celebrating the holidays can be stressful time and a very real challenge. In many cases, the only holiday gift these families receive come through our annual Families Helping Families holiday drive. You can share in the holiday spirit and create a new cherished family tradition by adopting a family in need this holiday season.

Glad Tidings this Christmas with Star of Hope!

 Star of Hope Mission’s Extended Services program will continue the long-running Christmas Adopt-a-Family program this year. As we provide hope, encouragement, and resources to homeless, formerly homeless, and at-risk households in Houston and surrounding areas, we invite Sponsors to help provide Christmas gifts, household items, and other treats for those impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic.

For the past two years we have seen an unprecedented need in our city…and the entire world…caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and the rise of inflation. In this COVID19 era, millions of households were impacted by furloughs, lay-offs, and other economic crises. We expect there will be a great demand for assistance this holiday season…and this is who needs help:

Homeless Families: Working in conjunction with local schools to identify homeless families and unaccompanied youth/minors, in 2019, we were able to expand the program to include this often-forgotten population. These families are living “doubled-up” with family or friends, or in places not inhabitable.

Former Star of Hope program families: The history of Glad Tidings begins with our program graduates. In 1993 we had Sponsors “adopt” families who moved out of our shelters and began creating their new lives as they recovered from homelessness. That tradition continues today. Most are single-parent (single moms) homes and have children of varying ages.

Outreach families: Several years ago, we opened the registration for Glad Tidings to qualifying, at-risk families. These families are single parents with children; grandmothers raising their grandchildren; single dads with children; and two-parent families who are struggling in today’s economy. This is the largest group of Recipient Families…especially in this year following the Covid-19 pandemic. (NOTE: these families go through a screening process to determine eligibility and need)

What you can do…

While Christmas is not all about presents … gift-giving and receiving is a big part of this holiday season. Receiving a gift means someone cares, someone loves, someone took time. While toys and fun items are GREAT … clothing, household goods, and personal care items are extremely helpful as well.

As a Sponsor, you will have the opportunity to share the gift of Glad Tidings! Our Adopt-a-Family Christmas program allows you to connect with a family to share a word of encouragement and be the light of Christ to someone in need.

Our Sponsors personally deliver Christmas gifts to the adopted family they have chosen. This unique opportunity is a meet-and-greet moment for the family and the sponsor.

Check out the listings below to find a family you can help today. As a Sponsor, you will have the option to adopt a total two (2) families or less. 

For more information about our 2022 Glad Tidings Christmas Adopt-a-Family program email us at gladtidings@sohmission.org. 

More than 3000 foster youth and their families are served through our Adopt-a-Family program. Churches, school groups, local businesses, corporations, individuals and families are encouraged to participate. Bill Wilson Center's annual Adopt-a-Family Program works directly with Santa Clara County Department of Family and Children's Services linking caring donors to local foster youth who would otherwise receive few, if any, gifts for the holidays.

Could you imagine spending the holidays without your family? That is the reality for over 850 children in care with Children’s Home Society. Make a difference in the life of one child by sponsoring a holiday wish list. Beginning November 1st, you can select the child or children you wish to sponsor below.
 
 
Can you help brighten the holidays for a child in foster care?
As in the past, there are several ways in which you can participate:
  

• Sponsor a child’s wish list and purchase some or all of the items she or he has selected

• Make a cash or check donation so that we can make sure our children’s unmet wishes or needs are fulfilled. 

• Purchase gift cards (preferably Visa, Target, Wal-Mart, or general retailer) so that a parent or child can select the perfect gift. ( you can send them to our office at Children’s Home Society of NC 7701 Six Forks Rd. Ste. 120 Raleigh, NC 27615 c/o Hope for the Holidays   
  
  

• Ask your employer if they would match your contribution
  
  
• Ask family, friends and colleagues to join you in sponsoring a child's wish list. 

 
Please Sign Up for Gift Drop Off:

Gifts may be dropped off at the Raleigh office from November 28-December 2. Please sign up for your time slot. 

Drop off Location:
Children's Home Society, Raleigh Office, 7701 Six Forks Rd. Suite 120 Raleigh NC 27615

Can I shop on Amazon?

Yes! If you do shop online and have it shipped, we ask that you make sure the child’s ID is on the gift note or shipping label so we can match the gift appropriately.

Amazon deliveries should be sent to:
Children's Home Society, Raleigh Office, 7701 Six Forks Rd. Suite 120 Raleigh NC 27615

The need of children in foster care does not stop at the holidays. For more information on how you can support children and families throughout the year, please visit our website.

Thank you for making this holiday season special for a child in care! 

This year more than ever, the holiday season represents an opportunity for connection, generosity, and community.  Your gift will ensure that children and their families can celebrate, regardless of the challenges they currently face.  Thankfully with your help Rise will fill the wishes of 1,000 local children.

That single, specially chosen gift lets them know that someone in the community is thinking of them.

When our community is challenged, together we Rise.