Caring Hearts Card Drive 2018
Hi Everyone! The Caring Hearts Card Drive has been going on for a bit now. Although I have referred to it a few times, I wanted to also share all the details.
This is the 9th Annual Caring Hearts Card Drive! The purpose of our card drive is to collect holiday cards for the elderly that live in nursing homes. Vera Yates started this card drive in 2010 and I have been helping her out each year. This year the card drive is in memory of Sean Wilkerson, brother of Christy Wilkerson (our volunteer from last year) who passed away recently. Sean was well known for his kind heart and his family’s request is for people to do an act of kindness. We’d like to fulfill Sean’s wish through Caring Hearts.
Here is a bit more about the card drive…
The holidays are about family, kindness, and joy. During this time many of the elderly living in nursing homes may feel extra lonely or miss their families. We can bring a smile to their faces and brighten their holiday season simply by sharing our love of card making. A simple gesture to let them know that they are not forgotten. We all love making cards and what’s better than knowing that our creations can bring a smile to others, right?
A team of helpful volunteers are all ready to assist us in delivering the cards to selected nursing homes.
We are asking you to send in your holiday cards! We have MANY prizes to help encourage everyone to participate! NOTE: THIS YEAR’S CARD DRIVE ENDS EARLIER THAN PAST YEARS.
IMPORTANT DETAILS:
- This card drive will be run from October 1 to November 10, 2018. We need to receive your cards by November 10, 2018. HURRY!
- Please make the cards for Christmas or Holiday Wishes only.
- Please limit 100 cards per person.
(The reason for this is because Vera’s 5 year old niece was recently diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and she’ll be making a trip abroad during the card drive to be with her. Being with her family at this time is very important to her and at the same time she wanted to continue doing the card drive. Limiting the number of cards will also help in keeping things manageable for our volunteers. Thank you for your understanding.) - All cards need to have a message inside (can be stamped or hand written).
- Sign your name and where you are from inside the card.
- Include an envelope for each card and please don’t seal the envelope.
- Please stick to standard size A2 or 4-1/4″ x 5-1/2″ card as this will help us in packing more efficiently.
- Please don’t use any pins or loose glitter (for safety reasons).
- This is totally optional, but if you’d like to include $2 or $3 to help with shipping, it’ll be much appreciated. We cover the shipping cost ourselves & postage prices have increased, so any donation toward shipping would help tremendously.
- In each package, PLEASE include THIS SUBMISSION FORM.
- Vera Yates, 1314 Roy St., Houston, TX 77007
- Cindy Groh, 111 10 Mile Rd NW Sparta, MI 49345
- Lynn Marasigan, Pine Tree Villa, 3353 Cimmarron Road, Cameron Park, CA 95682
For Australia:
- Deb McCleary, CHCD, PO Box 54, Watsonia, VIC, 3087 Australia
For Canada:
- Caroline Bredeson, 11 Ave. des Oblats, Unit 112, Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 5V8, Canada
- Rita Andrews, 28 West Gissing Rd, Cochrane, Alberta T4C 1L6, Canada
For United Kingdom:
- Tania Ahmed, 47a Melbourne Road, Bushey, WD23 3LT UK
In each package, PLEASE include THIS SUBMISSION FORM.This helps us in keeping track for prizes! For each card you send, you will get a chance. So the more cards you send, the better your chances.
To thank you for your generosity in supporting this drive, we have several PRIZES ready for several winners. There will be many winners. 🙂
The nursing homes that we supported are based on what people suggested to us. If you want your local nursing homes to receive cards from the card drive, please Vera the name of the nursing homes and the number of residents, so we can make sure that we send enough cards. The number of nursing homes we support are totally based on how many cards we received. To keep things organized, we assigned the 7 collecting addresses above.
Here are the prizes that are up for grabs! Thank you to these wonderful companies!
PLATINUM PRIZES (everyone sending 100 cards will be entered for these prizes)
Organize More – $75 GC
Stamp-n-Storage – $100 GC
GOLD PRIZE (everyone who send cards will be entered for these prizes)
Altenew – Two $50 GC
Honey Bee Stamps – Two $50 GC
Simon Says Stamp – $50 GC
Spellbinders – $25 GC
Taylored Expressions – Four $25 GC