Upcoming Service Opportunity For Local Children

Have you heard of The Giving Tree Families? This local non-profit service group holds used book drives and, most notably, hands-on service-oriented community events for children to help others. Below is the latest news blast from The Giving Tree Families which describes some of their upcoming activities. For more information or to be added to the mailing list, please visit them at www.givingtreefamilies.org.

The Giving Tree Spring Giving 2012 Join us on Saturday, April 21st  10:00 am to 2:00 pm  at   The Montgomery Mall  (lower level in front of Sears)  for our 1st Annual Spring Giving Event! The project list for this for this event includes:  ~250 Backpack Buddies Bags to benefit  For        Pete's Sake Cancer Respite Foundation ~300 Flower Pots painted and filled for local      seniors in Assisted Living Facilities   ~350 Arts & Crafts Bags for needy students in      a Philadelphia elementary school  and  The debut of our new Peace & Smiles Boxes!   Introducing The Giving Tree  Peace & Smiles Boxes These  boxes will be donated to pediatric patients in local hospitals.  The Peace & Smiles box starts with an empty PEANUT FREE cereal box,  add in the 9 simple items and bring your box to the Spring Giving event at the mall to be wrapped  and decorated with good wishes!  The project sheet can be found on our website at  www.givingtreefamiles.org   under the Peace & Smiles Box tab. The Giving Tree Read-A-Thon Results We are very excited to report that our 1st Read-A-Thon raised $692!  The Giving Tree will be purchasing new books for the libraries of two elementary schools in Philadelphia. Contact us to have your service group be a part of our Spring Giving Event.info@givingtreefamilies.org