Helping Military Families

I just wanted to say thank you for your kind note inside the card and thank you for the beautiful tree... My husband is...currently deployed over Christmas.  Our children ages 8 and 5 had a wonderful time decorating the Christmas tree and I told them about how we received the tree from Trees for Troops.  My 8 year old daughter, said "Wow, that was awesome that someone thought about our family during Christmas."  

The holidays are hard on every military family but especially on the children.  As a parent, it always warms your heart to see your children "grateful" for what someone has done for you.  Also, we appreciate the the companies and employees who donated their time and money and the foundation who took the time to organize the Trees for Troops.   We hope that your family has a blessed Christmas and Happy New Year!!

Allison
Ft. Benning, GA

 

 

 

Volunteer at Christmas

In the Spirit of Christmas, we encourage everyone to volunteer some time to help others during the holidays. Donating your time during the Christmas season is equally important (and usually much more rewarding) as donating money. Your local church, synagogue or temple is a good place to offer your assistance. Your neighbors, the local homeless shelter, soup kitchen, American Legion, VFW, etc. may be able to use your services.

If you would like to volunteer and donate your time to the Christmas Spirit Foundation, we have a few ways that you can help us by simply using your computer!

1) Help Us by Surfing the Net & Shopping Online

GoodShop: You Shop...We Give! Shop online at GoodShop.com and a percentage of each purchase will be donated to our cause! More than 600 top stores are participating including Amazon, Target, Staples, Best Buy and more!

GoodSearch: You Search...We Give!

GoodSearch is a search engine that offers a charity commision to non-profits when people use them to surf the net. GoodSearch uses the Yahoo search engine and index, so it's like searching on Yahoo. Simply visit http://www.goodsearch.com/?charityid=883889 to tie into our foundation account.

Every dollar counts!


 

2) Write Local Business Reviews on InsiderPages.com

InsiderPages is a local business/review directory on the Internet. They offer a fundraising opportunity for us in the form of a commission for your review or opinion of your local businesses. It's simple, they are looking for inside/local insight to your area businesses. Think of local restaurants, doctors, plumbers, hairdresser/barber, handyman, mechanics, carpet installer, tree farm, etc.

Three Easy Steps for a Good Cause

  1. Create a free InsiderPages account by clicking here. Click on Join this Fundraiser button (top right of page).
  2. Search for the local business you would like to review

    PLEASE NOTE: insider pages will donate around four times as much to the Foundation if the review is a "first review" (in other words, it is either a business that has not yet been reviewed or a business that is not in their directory) than a 2nd-4th review. So if you can find unreviewed or unentered businesses, all the better.

  3. Review the business. Then repeat for as many businesses as you have time to offer. There is no limit to the number of individual businesses you can review. Again, your review must be one of the first four reviews for that business.

Complete Insider Pages guidelines/rules can be found here.

Thank you for your support!

 

How to Help

Donate

Use Google's secure technology above to donate online, or you can mail a check or fax your credit card info.

Volunteer

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Show Your Support

Purchase a Trees for Troops Ornament

trees for troops ornament photo

For $30 (plus S&H), you can purchase a commemorative pewter ornament, with proceeds benefiting the Trees for Troops program. With a $50 donation, an additional ornament will be sent to a deserving military family.

Order Trees for Troops Ornament

Or call 800/678-5752 and use product code “CSF”.

Purchase a Trees for Troops T-Shirt or Sweatshirt

trees for troops tshirt sweatshirt

The Christmas SPIRIT Foundation is partnering with Greater than Goods to sell t-shirts and sweatshirts benefitting the Christmas SPIRIT Foundation's Trees for Troops program.

Greater than Goods works with non-profits to create cause-related t-shirts and apparel and donates a portion of the proceeds to the cause. For every Trees for Troops item you purchase from Greater than Goods, $5 will be donated to CSF for the Trees for Troops program.

Order Trees for Troops Ornament

 




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