Holiday Giving Fills Our Hearts With Gratitude
This season has brought many opportunities to connect our youth (both residential and on the community mental health side) with an incredible amount of generosity from the community in the way of gifts and donations. No matter their age group, our young people have all received some love from our donors. The incredible businesses, individuals, and community organizations who have donated this year include:
Donors from the Church at Antioch drop off new clothing, toys, and gift cards for youth!
Alamo Women’s Club: $4000 in Target gift cards, dozens of hand-knitted hats and scarves, hand-quilted stockings, and placemats
Protected Investors: $150 in gift cards and more than $2K in donations from their clients
Frances Sturgess: more than a dozen toy dolls
Taylor Family Foundation: Two large bags of toys and games, one box of art and school supplies, socks/underwear/bras in various sizes, multiple sets of bedding/blankets/pillows, one mini-fridge, two vacuums, two dish sets, three sets of flatware, toiletries
The Alamo South Avenue Neighborhood Group: donated meals for our residential homes
The Carpenter family: large, festive goody baskets for our residential homes and; several hundred dollars of wishlist items for two of our youth.
Melody Covay: more than $1000 of gift cards collected from her community
Julie Dudum (Dudum Real Estate Group): $500 in wish list items
Bryan Hurlbut (The Hurlbut Team at Dudum Real Estate Group): $500 in wish list items
Qiagen (Redwood City Office): sponsored East Bay House wish list items
Walnut Creek Area Neighbors and Newcomers Club: New TV for one of the houses
Christine Seely: donation plus hygiene kits
Burr Pilger Mayer LLP (BPM) whose employees purchased items for the Andersen House wish list
Lindsay McCarrick: Projectors, projector screens, and webcams for all four houses
Blue Dog Events - Purchased items from Cherry youth and house wish list
The Church at Antioch - four bags of brand new clothes, toys, and over $500 in Target gift cards
There were a number of other individuals who purchased gift cards to be distributed to the youth, and we are so grateful to all of you for your generosity. Despite the general feeling of confinement right now, our donors have made the season bright for the young people we serve. They have been surrounded by a sense of abundance and care from this community.
