Posts by category: Children
December 22nd, 2011 | Birthdays, Children, Donations, Funding, Giving, Holidays
Did you know that 22% of annual giving happens in the last two days of the year? Online giving on December 31 is concentrated between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. in every time zone.
If you have already given, thank you very much! If not, there’s still time to make a tax-deductible donation to Cheerful Givers and to know that you showed the not-so-fortunate children that they, too, are special by allowing their parents to recognize their birthday with a toy-filled gift bag.
Your gift of $100 will bring birthday joy to 10 children. We appreciate whatever you can afford, and it will make a difference in a child’s life.
Thanks for your generosity and a very Happy New Year!
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November 17th, 2011 | Birthdays, Children, Funding, Giving, News
Cheerful Givers greatly appreciates everyone who made a donation during Give To The Max Day on November 16th. As a result of 97 donations, we raised $3,955. This will provide birthday gift bags for hundreds more kids!
Overall Give To The Max Day brought in over $13 million for 3,978 nonprofits in Minnesota. Many thanks to all who gave!
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October 21st, 2011 | Birthdays, Children, Giving, News, Volunteers
On Saturday, October 22, which was national Make A Difference Day, millions of Americans helped to change the world. 120 Cheerful Givers volunteers along with mentors and mentees with Kids ‘n Kinship got together to assemble 3,000 toy-filled birthday gift bags for less fortunate children.
Special guests Natalie Davis, Miss Minnesota 2011 and Haley Obrien, Miss Minnesota Collegiate, joined the efforts to help reach more of the 174,000 kids in Minnesota who are now living in poverty. The event was hosted by Thomson Reuters in Eagan. Many thanks to sponsors: AAA Minnesota/Iowa, Hands On Twin Cities, Northern Dakota and Southern Dakota/Scott County Chapters of Thrivent Financial for Lutherans.
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October 18th, 2011 | Birthdays, Children, Kids, Volunteers
The children and parents at Steppingstones Preschool
at St. John the Baptist in Savage, MN collected items and assembled birthday
bags for their service project.
“The kids really enjoyed this project and it was a great way for them to
help children in their community who are less fortunate” commented Shannon Martin, parent.
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August 26th, 2011 | Birthdays, Children, Schools, Volunteers
Vacation bible school students at St. John the Baptist School in Savage, MN spent a week helping others, and one of their projects was to create birthday joy for more than 100 less fortunate kids. Andi Little, Director of Faith Formation, said the group is anxious to do it again. 
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August 23rd, 2011 | Children, Donations, Funding, Giving, Kids
Cheerful Givers is now being featured on Groupon.com with a G-Team campaign running from Aug. 23-25.
As you may know, Groupon is a website that features daily deals (50 to 90% off) on local goods, services and cultural events in more than 500 markets and 46 countries worldwide. G-Team is a community outreach initiative within Groupon that brings communities together to do good, have fun, and make an impact. G-Team has been working in the Twin Cities to help mission-driven organizations like ours raise money and raise awareness, channeling the collective buying power of Groupon followers and our local supporters.
If you’re not currently a member of Groupon, sign up at (http://www.groupon.com/subscriptions/new) and confirm your city as Minneapolis/St. Paul. Then check your daily Groupon email, or you can go here to support our cause and encourage your friends to help.
We need 50 people to donate a minimum of $10 to get the funding. The result will be 50 less fortunate kids get to have a Happy Birthday!
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June 9th, 2011 | Birthdays, Children, Donations
A big thank you to Mindware, who offer “brainy toys for kids of all ages” for a very large donation of fun and creative booklets for our birthday bags. This donation will allow us to include these great booklets in the majority of our birthday bags throughout the next year.
Michael Majerus, Controller, MindWare Holdings, Inc. commented “You guys do great work! We wish you every success in achieving your mission which is so important to the parents and children you serve.”
Note from Cheerful Givers: We are now looking for donations of thousands of pencils to include in birthday bags along with these great booklets.
Contact karen@cheerfulgivers.org
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March 15th, 2011 | Children, Donations, Giving
“Teacher Created Resources is founded on the goal of helping children. The educational materials that we produce are designed to help children learn—at school and at home. At its best, learning is fun, so it makes sense that many of our products are ideal additions to the birthday gift bags that Cheerful Givers assemble and distribute. We are pleased to have the opportunity to support their efforts in providing less fortunate children with birthday gifts” wrote Nancy Nowak, Customer Service Supervisor.
Note: Not only did we receive a great donation of fun notepads for our birthday bags, but Teacher Created Resources has offered to make monthly donations!
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February 2nd, 2011 | Children, Giving
Giantmicrobes, Inc. said they “are proud to support Cheerful Givers in its mission to help all parents provide birthday gifts for their kids and hope our products bring a smile to each birthday boy and girl and spark their curiosity about the fascinating, microscopic world around them.”
GIANTmicrobes products are humorously educational toys modeled on electron micrographs and enlarged a million times actual size. The nearly 100 microbes in the Originals plush toy series include Common Cold, Ebola Virus, Brain Cells, and more. The toys are popular worldwide with college students, medical professionals, parents, educators, collectors, and kids of all ages.
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January 3rd, 2011 | Birthdays, Children, Kids
There were 52,227 kids who were able to have a Happy Birthday in 2010 thanks to our wonderful volunteers, donors, partners and suppliers.
To every person who helped in any way, we want to shout out our THANKS!
