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2007 Community Service
Project
Make-A-Wish
Foundation
The Make-A-Wish Foundation was
founded in 1980. Since its inception, the Make-A-Wish Foundation®
has enriched the lives of children with life-threatening medical
conditions through its wish-granting work. The Foundation's mission
reflects the life-changing impact that a Make-A-Wish® experience has
on children, families, referral sources, donors, sponsors, and
entire communities. Since 1980, it has reached over 144,000 children
worldwide. Their stated mission is: "We grant the wishes of children
with life-threatening medical conditions to enrich the human
experience with hope, strength, and joy."
Help make a child’s wish extra
special by donating a small amount of your time, supplies, and
creativity by making some scrapbook pages for these wish recipients to use for
recording their special gift made possible by the Make-A-Wish
Foundation.
This year, the Simply Southern
Scrapbook Convention and Paper Artist Expo have selected the Make a
Wish Foundation, Alabama - Georgia Chapter as our community service
project.
Our goal is to collect 6 x 6,
8 x 8, 8 1/2 x 11,
and 12 x 12 scrapbook pages created by our very talented show attendees to
combine into albums. These albums will be given to wish
recipients for them to record their wish memories through pictures
or journaling.
To make it easier when
designing your pages, please keep this information in mind.
Greater than 50% of the wishes
granted involve trips to Disney. Disney is much more than
Princesses and Mickey Mouse. There are the Winnie the Pooh
characters, Buzz Lightyear, Goofy, Donald, Stitch, Minnie Mouse,
Peter Pan, Aladdin, the Mad Hatter, Pirates of the Caribbean, Tom
Sawyer, singing bears, train rides, roller coasters, fireworks and
Indy cars to name a few of the Magic Kingdom attractions. Many wishes are for travel,
including Hawaii. Some wishes are for room makeovers.
There are always wonderful opportunities for general sports themes,
boy, girl, and teen.
All pages must be 6 x 6, 8 x 8,
8 1/2 x 11, or 12 x 12 in size
Pages must be flat enough to fit into a page protector in an album.
Opportunities to win prizes include:
- For each (set of 10) 6 x 6, 8 x 8,
8 1/2 x11, 12 x 12 pages, turned in
at the Make A Wish booth, the giver will receive 1 entry slip to complete
and put into a drawing for hourly prizes to be given away. The more pages you complete, the greater
your chance to win.
- For each new 6 x 6, 8 x 8,
8 1/2 x 11, or 12 x 12
album you donate at the booth, the giver will receive 2 entry slips to
complete and put into the drawing.
- For the attendee who contributes the
most pages within the 6 x 6, 12 x 12 and combined 8x 8 and 8 1/2 x 11
category, by noon on Saturday for our worthy cause we have some very
special prizes for you to take home with you.
6 x
6 category -
Wacom Graphife4
8 x 8 and 8 1/2 x 11 combined category - Close To
My Heart gift basket
12 x 12 category - prize to be announced from Epson
Please consider bringing preprinted
address labels to use on your prize entry slips. Prizes must
be picked up at the show and cannot be shipped.
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