We’re awed by the reception we’ve gotten to our One Book At A Time sponsorship program. So far we’ve matched up 90 book-hungry kids with sponsors who send “their” child one book and a letter every month. The kids come from programs in Hawaii, Kentucky, Illinois, South Dakota, Texas, Michigan and Florida — and we’re expanding every day. Learn more.
Using our basic F-to-F shopping list, we’re asking our friends and supporters to come up with recipes we can share with our F-to-F recipient families. Using the food items on our basic list, plus one additional fresh food addition, we challenge you all to come up with healthy, tasty dishes!
Please email your recipes to pkoner@family-to-family.org. Your recipes will help families all across the USA eat just a little bit better…..and that’s a big thing!
We believe hungry minds ache just like hungry bellies, so using our one-to-one model, Family-to-Family has created “One Book at a Time” –
a simple way for donors to sponsor a child in need with one new or gently used book a month. Learn more…
When a deadly tornado hit Joplin, Missouri in May 2011, killing 161 people and destroying much of the town, Family-to-Family reached out to help.
Using our 1-to-1 model, we matched 55 families that lost homes and belongings in the tornado with sponsors from around the country. Each sponsor first sent a duffel bag for their Joplin family…providing a place to put recovered possessions. Included with the duffle was a questionnaire that asked what items were needed most. After getting the answers back, sponsors sent packages filled with those most needed items — (e.g. blankets, sheets, & clothing) and/or gift cards…and wrote to “their” families as well. And when the internet company Groupon featured Family-to-Family’s Joplin effort on its website in June 2011, we raised enough money to help an additional 11 Joplin families – bringing the total helped to 66 families.
With our “Pennies, Nickels, Dimes and Quarters from Heaven!” effort, Family-to-Family encouraged school children around the country to fill 1-gallon milk containers with pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters brought in from home. Collected funds were sent from the schools to Partners in Health, Doctors Without Borders and UNICEF to aid in the relief effort.
