FRIENDS OF KAREN
Friends of Karen is an extraordinary organization. Its mission is to provide emotional, financial and advocacy support to children with life-threatening illnesses and their family. Woodlands has been involved with Friends of Karen for a while now in various ways - Back to School Collection, High Holy Day Paper Product Collection, Mitzvah Projects. Several of our congregants have taken on an additional project and find it very rewarding - so much so tht we want to be sure that all the rest of you know about it and have the opportunity to participate. For more ways to help with collection call Friends of Karen at 914-277-4547 for more information.
COLLECTIONS
¨ Thanksgiving Baskets– Put together a basket of Thanksgiving food and a $20 A&P/Food Emporium gift certificate for the turkey. Call for details in October.
¨ HolidayAdopt-A-Family Project– Fill the wish lists of our special children – call for information in October.
¨ Hospital Goody Bags – Collect bath & body products & then make up gift bags for our hospitalized children and teenagers.
¨ Pantry Drive – Collect paper towels, tissues, Purell, hand sanitizer wipes, antibacterial hand soap (pump), Clorox wipes, laundry detergent, disposable diapers and baby wipes.
¨ Coin Harvest – Organize and run a loose change collection to benefit Friends of Karen. Then sell chances to guess how much change is in the jar for a percentage of the take.
¨ Birthday Program– Collect items for our birthday toy pantry – call for wish list of gifts.
¨ Gift Certificate Drive– collect $5 gift certificates to iTunes, Dunkin’ Donuts, McDonald’s, Subway, Burger King, Pizza Hut and Starbuck’s.
¨ School Supplies Project – Fill a new backpack with school supplies - anytime.
¨ Food Program – Collect grocery gift cards to A&P, Stop & Shop, Pathmark and ShopRite.
¨ Journey of the Heart Bike Tour – Put together a team and ride for Friends of Karen – Fall 2009.
¨ Tag Sale – Turn your junk into treasure and organize a tag sale to benefit Friends of Karen.
