Revive Christmas Basket Program (date shown is last date)
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Time again for the Christmas Basket program. For those who don't know, each year, Revive in Chicago (formally the Cathedral Shelter) adopts low-income families to furnish Christmas presents and meals for. People sign up for one of these families. In Good Company has been doing this for several years now. I have been assigned a family of 5 and people who sign up for this meetup will buy gifts for at least one member and/or donate money for food.
It is suggested to pay $35-$50 for each gift and $25 for each family member, but it is up to the donors. I hope we can do at least that well.
People who sign up for this meetup do one or more of
- Pick one or more family members, purchase one or more gifts for each, wrap them, put a tag with the recipient's name (don't label the gift with what is inside) and drop them off at my house (address later).
- Donate an amount towards the meal (total should be at least $125 but maybe more). It is important to send me the money and I will buy the food gift card. That is how they want it. I promise I won't abscond with the money.
I have done something a bit different this year and am trying Signup Genius The signup has one slot for each person/gift and several slots for cash donations. Sign up for one or more. There are instructions there too, but I am just not sure how good the formatting will be.
The signup is at
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090845A5AC2EA7F58-59764336-2025
please don't forget to sign up..
The family information can be found here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/17_eQEPvKYexwlUfxBAUYQJRCBk-TFBt4/view?usp=sharing
Detailed instructions can be found here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TQ5NzXLba2GoUQnZhzBVvx3PRgEJRd0X/view?usp=sharing
please let me know if you have any problems.
Also making the signup was a bit tedious so please report to me any errors you see.
Again the dates are the day that the gifts should be dropped off by. Earlier is fine. Don't forget to wrap and put the name.
If anyone has empty boxes I can use to pack the presents please let me know.