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Help Find Hosts For Fresh Air Fund Kids

We have over 200 children scheduled for Fresh Air trips this summer and need your help to host or find hosts!

• The Fresh Air Fund has provided free summer vacations to New York City children from disadvantaged communities since 1877. This is your summer to help!
• The end of July is growing closer and we still have 200 children who need to be placed with host families for this August
• Unless all prospective host families are screened and vetted by the end of July these 200 children may miss out on an invaluable experience
• Please host a child or help us get the word out that we need folks who can welcome a child from the city into their homes next month
• One last thing that is actually very important. We are looking for families who want to extend an invitation to a 9-12 year old. We really need more families who want older children and boys
• Please Email Angie, angie@freshair.org, immediately and she’ll speed you through the process!
• Or, you can call us at 1-800-367-0003 (212.897.8900) — ask for Angie

If you want to help but don’t live in these areas – BLOG about this program, tell your friends, recommend someone, or DONATE

Call to Artists from the Mend Project!

Presenting the second Mend donation project, “The Altered Toy Project”. Mend is a non-profit educational arts organization, located in Boise, Idaho USA. As an organization, we are interested in exploring the potential of hand made objects. Through this project, we hope to expand awareness of the importance of craft, improve quality of life for those in need and provide an organized opportunity to give back. Keeping with current trends towards green projects, we are inviting you to reuse existing toys, in the creation of new toys. All contributing artist/craftspeople will be part of Mend’s donation to the Children’s Home at the Warm Springs Counseling Center in Boise, Idaho. We welcome all artists and crafts people to join this project. Your toy will be a part of two group fundraiser shows and possibly included in a surprise publication. Submission deadline is September 19th, 2008. To participate or get more information please visit our website, www.themendproject.com.

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