Just in Time for the Holiday Season and National Adoption Month
Children's Hope International has teamed up with two organizations this season to help support orphan care in the eight countries we work within.
Usborne Books
Misty Lay, an Usborne Supervisor, has started a fundraiser to benefit Children's Hope Orphan Projects.
For every order that is placed online a portion of the retail sales will be donated to Orphan Awareness Projects.
What can you do to help?
Go to www.mistysbook.com;
Click on Children's Hope on the right hand side at anytime before you complete your order;
A portion of your order will benefit orphan care.
It is so easy. All you have to do is go online and purchase educational children books for your friends and family. The books can either be sent directly to you or you can select the books be shipped as a gift to family and/or friends.
For more information about Usborne Books or questions about your order please contact:
Misty Lay, Educational Supervisor Usborne Books
mistyllay@yahoo.com
309-261-3609
www.mistysbooks.com
Feel free to forward this information to friends and family.
Tastefully Simple
Adoptive mother Kelly Pairman, Tastefully Simple Independent Consultant, is opening up her Tastefully Simple sales to benefit Children's Hope's ministry. When you purchase through Kelly's website a portion of her sales of easy-to-prepare gourmet foods will benefit orphan care.
What can you do to help?
Place an order with Tastefully Simple at www.tastefullysimple.com/web/kpairman;
Shop Tastefully Simple products;
At check out when it asks if you "would like to associate this order with a host or event?" hit yes and enter Childrens Hope
First Name: Childrens
Last Name: Hope
To view the complete Tastefully Simple catalog or if you have questions about your order, please contact:
Kelly Pairman, Tastefully Simple Team Leader
kn46wl@aol.com
843-575-4506
www.tastefullysimple.com/web/kpairman
* This fundraiser is offered by and exclusively through Kelly Pairman, Tastefully Simple Independent Consultant
Shop Online and Raise $$ for Children's Hope...
...without spending an extra cent! Sign into www.iBakeSale.com and www.CharityBlast.com, and direct the proceeds to Children's Hope International Foundation. A portion of EVERY purchase you make at online stores like Target, Best Buy, Gap, Old Navy, Staples will go directly to Children's Hope International at no additional cost to you.
Click here and here to shop for our cause!
Support Children's Hope through eScrip!
Do you already use eScrip to help fund your child's school? Don't worry - just add Children's Hope as one of up to 3 organizations you choose to support!
Register with eScrip and your normal, everyday purchases can earn cash for Children's Hope!
1. Click here to register your existing debit and credit cards with eScrip on behalf of Children's Hope - Group ID #500006039
2. Participating merchants will contribute up to 10% of your purchase to Children's Hope. Click here to see the merchants in your area.
Hundreds of national and regional companies are linked to eScrip: merchants like Macy's, OfficeMax, Orvis, Eddie Bauer, Barnes & Noble; groceries such as Schnucks, Whole Foods, Piggly Wiggly and Dominick's; newspapers including the Boston Globe, Arizona Republic, and St. Louis Post-Dispatch!
This is one of the easiest ways for YOU to help Children's Hope, without any additional expense!
Adoption Jewelry
Deirdre & Company makes beautiful jewelry that celebrates adoption, gotcha days, birth countries and much more.
Use coupon code 4A30F6DBFA92 and 35% of your purchase will be donated directly to Children's Hope!
Searching for a New Way to Support Children's Hope?
What if Children's Hope International earned a penny every time you searched the Internet? Well, now we can! You can make a difference just by changing the way you search the Internet!
GoodSearch.com donates half its revenue - about a penny per search - to charities designated by its users. Use it just as you would any search engine, and it’s powered by Yahoo!, so you get great results.
Go to www.goodsearch.com and be sure to enter Children's Hope International as the charity you want to support. Just 500 of us, searching four times a day, will raise about $7,300 in a year - and you won't spend a dime!
Spread the Word!
- Send an email about GoodSearch to your friends and family.
- Encourage everyone you know to download the GoodSearch toolbar. http://www.goodsearch.com/toolbar/
- Write about GoodSearch on blogs and message boards.
- Click here to download a flyer to hand out at events or hang up in your office.
- You can see examples of what some other organizations have done at: http://www.goodsearch.com/About.aspx#faq16
Stomach Growling? When You Eat, Orphans Can Too!
When you feed your family, you can also help feed orphans worldwide. Swipe your eScrip card whenever you shop at your local Schnucks Market and you'll earn funds to support Children's Hope International's programs for orphans.
- Pick up your card at any Schnucks location (Customer Service area).
- Activate your card(s) by calling 1-800-931-6258 or visit www.escrip.com/schnucks.jsp; designate Children's Hope International (group ID 500006039) as the recipient.
- Present your card to the cashier every time you shop at Schnucks.
- The more you shop, the higher the contribution to Children's Hope: for every dollar you spend, Schnucks will contribute up to 5% of your purchase amount.
Donate your tickets
In Chicago you have another way to support Children's Hope. If you have tickets for events in the Chicago area that will go unused or that you would just like to donate, you can do so through Donate the Tickets. You will receive a tax receipt for your donation from Donate the Tickets, the tickets will be sold and the proceeds will benefit Children's Hope. Don't let those extra tickets go to waste. Donate them and help orphans at the same time. www.DonateTheTickets.com
Donate Your Car
Just in time for tax season!!!
Click here to learn more about how easy it is to donate your vehicle to benefit Children's Hope. There is no cost to you or Children's Hope for this service, and V-DAC averages about 20% more in gross revenue for its charities than most other car donation programs.
Befriend Children's Hope
Check out our MySpace page at myspace.com/childrenshope and join our group of friends. Help spread the word of the needs of orphans by adding us to your friends list and placing a Children's Hope banner on your page.
