Holiday Giving 2014

1. Good Afternoon Fellow Rotarians!

For 20+ years the Marion Independent School District has participated in the Holiday Giving Project helping residents in our community with financial struggles to help provide a Christmas to their families. Over the last two years, Marion Independent has helped adopt over 140 families covering more almost 600 individuals in each of those years.

Marion East-CR Rotary Club has been a valuable partner in this quest by continually increasing the amount of families that we supported, helping to adopt 12 families covering approximately 50 individuals in our community last Holiday Season. There are more families than ever to help; this email is to gather information on how much we can offer as a club.

As a club we budget $500 toward this project, anything additional comes directly from our members. We can help in 3 ways.

1)      Financial donation

a.   We are budgeting approximately $40 for each individual that we adopt. The clubs budget covers 12 children. Would you like to help increase our ability to adopt?

2)       Donate your time

a.     We will be delivering gifts purchased during the school day in the 2nd and 3rd week of December.

b.     Volunteer to help wrap gifts which will most likely be scheduled for an evening at the Marion High School in the 2nd week of December.

c.     Shop for gifts for children using the funds we have raised as a club.  

3)      Spread the word

a.       Last year UICCU and State Farm adopted family's with the help of Sarah Hughes and Shawn DeVries. Kudo’s for this effort, maybe more employers in the area would like to help with the cause.