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Sample Branded Site for Impact at Work's
Families in Need Campaign
Suggested Months for this Campaign:
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May: International Day of Families
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June: Global Day of Parents
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September: Hunger Action Month
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November: National Family Week
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December: The Holidays
(and many more)​
#AcmeSupportsFamiliesInNeed
December: We are Supporting Families in Need
With a vision that every person has a home and is interconnected within community, Aeon’s mission is to create and sustain quality, affordable homes that strengthen lives and communities. Our preservation and construction projects knit long-term affordability into communities, ensuring opportunity and access for all—not just those with the highest income. Aeon owns and manages 5,580 affordable apartment homes across 58 properties in the Twin Cities region. We serve 12,000 residents each year.
The
Charities
Ampersand Families recruits and supports permanent families for older youth, and champions practices in adoption and permanency that restore belonging, dignity and hope.
We help move Minnesota's oldest, longest waiting youth out of foster care into permanent families where they can heal from trauma with the help of a loving, well-supported parent at their side. We provide extraordinary post placement supports at no cost and for as long as youth and families need it.
Second Stork helps new families in need by providing them with immediate access to the essential items necessary for keeping a newborn safe and healthy
The
Charity Fair
December 15th
1:00 - 3:00pm
Atrium of the Building
Plan to stop down to our charity fair to meet the charities.
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You can learn about their important work, their programs & services as well as any volunteer needs they have.
We will have a raffle drawing for those of you who visit each nonprofit at the fair.
Popcorn will be served!
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Volunteer Event
December 15th
2:00pm
Atrium of the Building
We will have a speed volunteering event during the charity fair.
We will be opening and re-packing surplus diapers into large zip bags of 33-50/each. We will be packing baby hygiene packs (baby wash, diaper rash cream, etc.). These items will be shipped to Minnesota hospitals for less-fortunate mothers of newborns.
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Fundraising Activities
Casual for a Cause
Every day in December
$3 per day
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See Lonnie at our reception desk to buy a ticket. Each $3 ticket is good for one day to wear one or all of the following:
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sports jersey
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sports hat
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jeans or shorts
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Silent Auction
Week of December 20th
M-F: 8am - 5pm
Cafe
Each department will create a basket or two (see manager for budget) to auction off.
A pizza lunch will be awarded to the department with the best basket.
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Chili Cook-off
December 5th
11:30am - 1:00pm
Cafe
This will be brutally competitive as our amateur chefs cook up some chili for us! Come hungry and ready for some good food!
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$10 per bottomless tasting bowl
Informational Webinars
Did you know....1,000 Minnesota kids are awaiting adoption?
December 2nd
6:00 pm
Register
On any given day in Minnesota there are about 10,000 children and teens living in foster homes and other residential placements because they have been removed from their families due to abuse and neglect. About 1,600 of them are considered 'state wards' because their parents' legal rights have been permanently severed. Most of those kids are awaiting adoptive families. This session will provide basic information about how the child welfare system works. You will learn more about older youth who have experienced trauma and who desperately need the support of caring adults...and ways that you can help. You will also learn about the equity issues and racial disparities that pervade the system, and how youths' lives are deeply impacted.
Safe Sleep for Infants
December 5th
6:00 pm
Register
The newest recommended ways to safely sleep an infant to prevent injury, suffocation or SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome). Safe Sleep guidelines are issued and supported by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the National Institute of Health, as well as the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
The Connection Between Foster Care and Youth Homelessness - What Every Tax Payer Should Know
December 8th
6:00 pm
Register
Unfortunately, outcomes for youth leaving foster care are not very good. In fact, former foster youth make up a big portion of the homeless population. Only about half of youth leaving foster care have graduated high school by age 19 and almost half will become parents themselves before 20 years of age. These are not the outcomes anyone wants. So, what can we do differently? Come learn and be part of a rousing discussion on the issue.
Why Relative & Kinship Care Matters
December 12th
6:00 pm
Register
In the past few years child welfare systems around the country have come to understand that when children cannot safely live with their parent/s it is critical that social workers try very hard to engage relatives/kin as possible placements. If you are someone who cares about kids whose families are struggling, then this topic will help you understand one of the big 'behind the scenes' issues in child welfare.
Affordable Housing in the Twin Cities
December 15th
6:00 pm
Register
A presentation on the need and importance of affordable housing in the Twin Cities and relevant information.
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