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Share the love! What better way than by providing a toasty pair of new pajamas for a child in need. Read about F-to-F’s Pajama

Drive and choose a community to send your PJ’s to!

Go shopping...and don’t forget a warm cuddly lap blanket too!

Make your own unique wrapping paper (brown bags/newspaper etc.) and homemade

Valentine’s Day card!

Package up your gift, bring it to the post office and mail it!

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http://www.family-to-family.org/kids-helping-kids/giving-parties/

Start a tradition of generosity on your child’s very special day. Throw a birthday “giving party” and include the gift of

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Read about F-to-F’s One Book At A Time program and talk with your kids about how your family can connect with a book hungry child living below the poverty line...and help get books

into their hands!

Email F-to-F and request the age/gender of a child to sponsor and have your child help write the email!

With the name/age and gender of the child you’ve been linked to, it’s time to buy your book and write your letter!

Mail your book and letter and wait for your new book pal to write you back!

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Host a vegetable packet seed drive and replenish a garden. It’s easy! Send much needed vegetable seeds and help a family

struggling with poverty to grow their own food.

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Contact F-to-F at [email protected] for a location to drop off your GivingWorks! in a Box packages!

Party!! Sort your collected books, pack boxes of books/labels and backpacks, play games etc.

Shop for your Book Drive Party

Read about GivingWorks Empathy Project and plan your GW Book Drive Party! (Games/Food etc.) Make invites and mail them.

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Got party clothes? Recycle and repurpose by sharing your bounty with little ones with “less”. A truly empowering

gift for those parents who have so little and a super “Princess or Prince for a day” treat for their kids.


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Share the info with your family and visit the food pantry you are going to deliver your food box to!

Check out the F-to-F suggested shopping list, print it and go shopping!

Call the pantry director and check in....find out how your box helped a family this past week and share your

story on our Facebook page!

Read about F-to-F’s Sponsor a Family program on our website and email F-to-F your family’s zip code! F-to-F will link you to a

local food pantry partner with families in need of help.

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Help your kids and their friends host a gently used doll drive... Clean them up… dress them up...and pass them on to little ones in need. Help teach your child what it means to give as they donate

one of their own “like new” dolls to child living in poverty It’s easy and fun for kids to make a difference!


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Check out F-to-F’s Birthday Giving Project!Choose the age of the child/children you will make

your Birthday in a Box(es) for.

Make your shopping list and go shopping! Dollar stores are great.

Put your boxes together and email F-to-F with your zip codeand the number of boxes you made. Also let us know what age

they are for, and if they’re for a boy or girl!

Deliver or mail your boxes to the location we link you with! But first... Take pictures and upload them to F-to-F’s facebook

page. (https://www.facebook.com/famtofamily)

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Make a difference! Stuff a t-shirt or gym bag with soap, shampoo, toothbrush and more… and help the homeless in your town.

A hands-on giving project to do with family and friends.


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Read about how you can “Give up a Gift” this holiday season and donate the $ that gift would have cost to F-to-F… so we can purchase gifts for kids in need. What’s different about this toy drive is your donated funds are used to buy gifts for

impoverished moms and dads to give to their kids on the holiday they celebrate, making them the “givers”! Double Giving!

Choose the toy/gift you’re going to give up.

Go shopping!! And take a photo of yourself with the gift you’re giving up. You might need to visit a local store to do so...but it’s worth it! MOMS AND DADS… We want to help teach your kids

how good it feels to give!

Upload your pic on our website or facebook page and share your story and how your family “Shared their Bounty!”

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Host a “30 x 30” Closet for Good Kids (or Adult) Clothing Swap! Clean out your closets and re-wardrobe your kids, or yourself!

Gather and invite 30 selected swappers (friends, neighbors, co-workers) and ask them each to bring items to swap. A $30 donation

to F-to-F is their ticket to the Swap!!

JANUARY

Pajama Drive Share the love on Valentine’s Day! Send comfy new pajamas with a snuggly soft blanket and help a child living in poverty feel special and secure.

“As a mom, I love the idea that we can give a cozy, cared-for feeling to a child in need. I know my own girls always loved the way a brand-new pair of pj’s made them feel.”- Pam

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Sponsor a Child with One Book a MonthFeed a hungry mind! Link up witha “book-hungry” child living in poverty by sending one new book and a letter every month. Do it with your family and get your kids in on the action!

“I love this program because it does so many things at the same time! It encourages children to read…to write… but most importantly, for kids living in poverty, who don’t often receive new things, a new book each month is simply magical. “- Mairead

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Collect Vegetable Seed Packets for a Family in Need!Host a vegetable packet seed drive and replenish a garden. It’s easy! Send much needed vegetable seeds and help a family struggling with poverty to grow their own food.

“We’ve all heard that old Chinese proverb, “Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” By helping a family struggling with hunger become self-sustaining, we’re helping them to help themselves.” - Nancy

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Host a Book Drive Party! Clean out your children’s book shelves and Share Your Bounty!Help those with less be “givers” too! Host a book drive and help provide a unique opportunity for some of our nation’s most underprivileged children to “share their bounty”. A group of children living in poverty will read your donated books to younger children and then share with them that the books are theirs to take home.

“Those of us who give of ourselves know how good it feels to share with those in need. Through this compassionate giving activity, we hope to provide children in poverty -- who rarely have the opportunity to give -- with that VERY SAME empower-ing experience.” - Pam

FEBRUARY

Host a “Giving” Birthday PartyStart a tradition of generosity on your child’s very special day. Throw a birthday “giving party” and include the gift of giving as part of your child’s celebration.

“As mothers working at Family-to-Family, we see such deprivation and poverty in the communities we serve… and sadly, children are the primary victims. So we thought, what better way to help our own children celebrate their birthdays than to have them help other, poorer children to celebrate theirs?” - Nancy

JUNE

Collect Gently Used Children’s Party Clothes for Kids in Need.Got party clothes? Recycle and re-purpose by sharing your bounty with little ones with “less.” A truly empowering gift for those parents who have so little and a super “Princess or Prince for a day” treat for their kids.

“My kids’ party clothes never seem to wear out – if I’m lucky they wear them twice before outgrowing them. So it makes perfect sense to pass them on to someone else, and if it’s to someone who can’t afford them, that’s even better. - Mairead

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Make a Birthday in a BoxHelp your child experience empathy and compassion as they make a“birthday celebration in a box” for a child in need. A concrete, hands-ongiving project for kids eager to make a difference! Cake mix, icing, candles, goody bags and your family’s kindness, all wrapped up in a box!

“I believe that when you provide a child with a concrete way of giving to others – the physical act of wrapping a present, making a birthday card, filling a box for another child – it immediately and powerfully increases their ability to feel empathy for others.” -Pam

NOVEMBER

Holiday Gift Giving By Kids, for KidsA national toy drive for some of our country’s poorest children. Encourage empathy and compassion by asking your child to give up one special gift she asked for this holiday season.

“Our belief is that when you provide children with a hands-on opportunity to give to others, empathy becomes more than just an idea; it becomes a behavior -- an action. And for kids, “actions speak louder than words.” – Nancy

OCTOBER

Stuff a Shirt for the Homeless!Make a difference! Stuff a t-shirt or gym bag with soap, shampoo, toothbrush and more… and help the homeless in your town. A hands-on giving project to do with family and friends.

“We love this because it’s so hands-on and direct – getting soap, toothpaste, and shampoo to a person with next to nothing, at a vulnerable time in their lives just feels like a really good thing. - Al

JULY

Sponsor a FamilyMake your giving personal. Through your local food pantry, reach out to an American family struggling to put food on the table. Share your bounty by providing groceries for 7 dinner-type meals in a truly one-to-one way.

“The effect of reaching out to one particular family -- of not just providing them with monthly groceries, but also of sending letters or an occasional box of clothes -- is HUGE… because it lets that family know there’s someone outside of their limited world who cares about them and wants to help.”- Nancy

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A Gently Used Doll Drive for Childrenin NeedHelp your kids and their friends hosta gently used doll drive. Clean them up...dress them up...and pass them on to littleones in need. Help teach your child what it means to give as they donate one of their own “like new” dolls to a child in need. It’s a quick, easy and fun way for kids to make a difference!

“ We want our children to learn to automatically think of others when they have something special to give; this seemed like the perfect opportunity to embed the idea of “giving” into the fabric of their lives. - Pam

DECEMBER

Host a Clothing Swap Host a “30 x 30” Closet for Good Kids(or Adult) Clothing Swap! Clean out your closets and re-wardrobe your kids, or yourself! Gather and invite 30 selected swappers (friends, neighbors, co-workers) and ask them each to bring items to swap. A $30 donation to F-to-F is their ticket to the Swap!!

“This giving project is one of my favorites because everybody wins. It’s a way to gather your friendstogether for a fun social event, choose a bag of “new” clothes to take home, and at the same time make a difference to families in need.” - Pam


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