Bolder Young Professionals Service Activity Share-A-Gift
Join the Bolder Young Pros as we give back this holiday season! We will be supporting Share-A-Gift in distributing toys to in-need families on the afternoon of December 19, 12:45-5PM. Register here (if you cannot stay the whole time, indicate in the comments what times work) and we will get our group set-up to have a great time.
Drinks to follow after at a Boulder Chamber member bar/restaraunt!
About Share-A-Gift:
Share–A–Gift is an all-volunteer, non-secular annual holiday project that provides toys, books, and bicycles for children of low-income families in the area of Colorado’s Boulder Valley School District. Share–A–Gift is a 501(c)(3) under IRS rules and has operated as a non-profit, all-volunteer organization since 1972. Each year, Share–A–Gift helps connect over 600 families representing over 1500 girls and boys, birth to age 14, with community donations.
Share–A–Gift collects toys at sites around the city of Boulder and in areas of eastern Boulder County starting Thanksgiving week through the middle of December. Volunteers set up and organize a “Toy Shop” in a donated warehouse space where toys are distributed to families-in-need. On a single day, all eligible parents are able to come and “shop” – selecting toys for their children with the help of 100s of volunteer assistants.
To be successful each holiday season, Share–A–Gift needs thousands of new and gently-used toys, books, games, puzzles, and bikes for infants, children and adolescents up to age 14. Share–A–Gift allows Boulder families and children the opportunity to meaningfully participate in gift-sharing by donating new or gently-used toys, books, and bikes with families who will appreciate getting these gifts.
About volunteering:
On Saturday, our clients are invited to choose gifts for their children at one of the 2 shop sessions. Volunteers are needed for check-in and check-out, and assist with toy selection. Spanish speakers are especially welcome. Over 70 volunteers are needed for each shop session, and help is also needed between sessions for re-stocking toys.
Volunteers are asked to arrive promptly and to stay for their entire session. The first 30 minutes of each session are for Share–A–Gift volunteer orientation. No children under the age of 14 (volunteer or client) are permitted in the shop while the parents are choosing gifts.
