Friday, December 10, 2010

Give Back in a Flash: Hands on Hartford Annual Holiday Toy Shoppe for Needy Kids Next Wednesday!

If you're looking for a fun, hands on, easy way to give back over the holidays and to help out needy families, look no further!  Hands on Hartford's Annual Holiday Toy Shoppe Event is next Wednesday, December 15th!

The Event is sponsored by the Avon Old Farms School which donates gifts for the needy children coming to the event.  While the kids are busy doing arts and crafts, their parents can "shop" for gifts in the next room.  All of the gifts are donated to the families.

What can you do?  Hands on Hartford needs volunteers to gift wrap presents, participate with the arts and crafts activities, serve refreshments, and to stay and help clean up after the event is over. Hands on Hartford needs 40 volunteers to make the event picture perfect. Can you help out?

If you want to volunteer, email Brittany Casciani at Hands on Hartford as soon as you can at bcasciani@handsonhartford.org or click here and click on "Volunteer for this Project."  If you've never volunteered before,  you'll have to create a profile on the Hands on Hartford page before signing up online.  You can also call Hands on Hartford at 860-728-3201 and ask for Brittany!

Happy giving, do-gooders!

xo Jessica

1 comment:

  1. Hi Jessica,
    My name is Samantha Sullivan, I'm the web editor for mywesthartfordlife.com. A fellow editor here told me about your blog and that you live in West Hartford, which got me interested in doing a story about your and your efforts, if you're available. I couldn't find any way to contact you via e-mail, so I hope that you see this comment soon. Please feel free to get in touch with me. My e-mail is ssullivan@ctlife.net. I look forward to hearing from you!
    Samantha Sullivan

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