Shop to Help
Shopping at retailers and purchasing products featured below not only raises funds and awareness for the Make-A-Wish Foundation®, but it can help make wishes come true.
Make-A-Wish Valentine’s Day Treats From Cheryl&Co.
Share the power of a wish with a Cheryl&Co. Make-A-Wish gift items – the Make-A-Wish Bakery Sampler, the Make-A-Wish Cookie Gift, the Make-A-Wish Treats Gift, the Make-A-Wish Supreme Gift Tower and the Make-A-Wish Bakery Gift Tower – all appropriate for any occasion. Cheryl&Co. offers a wide array of gourmet desserts, including award-winning cookies, brownies, cakes and snacks, all in distinctive gift packaging. For each Make-A-Wish gift sold, approximately 20 percent of the purchase price (excluding tax and shipping) will benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation®. You can purchase these delightful gift items through the Cheryl&Co. catalog and at www.cherylandco.com.
Ghirardelli Chocolate Company
Ghirardelli is celebrating the holidays by featuring the Make-A-Wish Foundation logo on packages of its baking chips and bars. Ghirardelli has also created a special Wish Star cookie to commemorate its $100,000 donation. Visit www.ghirardelli.com to learn more.
Einstein Noah Restaurant Group
Visit your local Einstein Bros® Bagels or Noah’s® Bagels locations to pick up a winter blend co ffee and mug created to bene fit the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Find a restaurant near you at www.einsteinnoah.com.
Active Parenting
The Power of a Wish: A Celebration of Love, Hope & Gratitude is Ali Lauren Spizman’s book published to bene fit the Make-A-Wish Foundation. The book is available at www.activeparenting.com/Wish.htm.
Discover® Financial Services
Use your Discover® Card to redeem your Cashback Bonus® as a donation to the Foundation, and Discover Card will add 20 percent to your donation. Visit www.discovercard.com for details.
Bank of America
Introducing the Make-A-Wish® Personal Checking Account
In partnership with the Make-A-Wish Foundation® , Bank of America is pleased to introduce the Make-A-Wish personal checking account featuring a Make-A-Wish check card and checks. The Make-A-Wish personal checking account lets you show your continuing support for our mission while giving you all the account benefits you’d expect from Bank of America. Bank of America will donate $10 for each new checking account and $5 every year on the anniversary of enrollment to the Foundation, as well as 0.10 percent of all new net retail purchases made using the card. Sign up at www.bankofamerica.com/makeawish.
And don’t forget about the Make-A-Wish® Visa® card…
The Make-A-Wish Visa card offers a unique way to support the Make-A-Wish Foundation. For every open and activated account, the Foundation receives a minimum of $2, plus 0.65 percent of all net purchases made on the card.
Visit your neighborhood Bank of America or go online for more details, http://www.bankofamerica.com/makeawish .
For more information call 1-866-267-2340 or visit, http://www.makeawishvisa.com .
Giftcraft
Giftcraft’s Eden’s Angels™ Collection premiered in 2007 and includes 21 full-sized sculptures. Each Eden’s Angels piece in the collection features a hand-carved appearance and is hand-painted in a soft pastel palette with a wash finish. Eden’s Angels™ has developed a special sculpture dedicated to the Make-A-Wish Foundation and the piece, featuring a child and mother embracing a star, is entitled “Joy.” All of these angels make great gifts for any occasion. Giftcraft will donate between 20 cents and 55 cents of the wholesale price of all Eden’s Angels products sold and will donate $2.50 of the wholesale price from the sale of the “Joy” Angel to benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
To find the closest Eden’s Angels retailer near you please visit http://www.edensangels.com/finder.php.
The Power of a Wish
The Power of a Wish, a much-anticipated book to benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation® , is now available. This compilation of touching stories from our chapters nationwide was created by 18-year-old Ali Lauren Spizman, a national teen volunteer ambassador for the Foundation, and is published by Active Parenting Publishers. Within the pages of The Power of a Wish, wish kids and their families describe in letters of thanks their special day and the powerful impact that the wishes – and the people who grant them – have on their daily lives and their hope for the future. Celebrities and heroes from all walks of life share their life-changing experiences in making wishes come true, and the profound effect that these courageous children have on them. You have the opportunity to support the Make-A-Wish Foundation by purchasing this book. $1 of the retail price of $14.95 will benefit the Foundation.
To order your copy today, visit www.activeparenting.com.
Growing Up With Loukoumi
New York attorney and children’s book author Nick Katsoris wanted to create a project to encourage children that if they believe in themselves, their dreams can come true. In the new book Growing Up With Loukoumi, a lamb named Loukoumi (Greek for “sweet”) doesn’t know what she wants to be when she grows up, but her friends, Gus the bear, Fistiki the cat, Dean the dog and Marika the monkey, each help Loukoumi realize that if she looks inside her heart, she can be anything, because if you believe in yourself, your dreams will come true!
The book includes a narrated CD featuring the voices of Grammy winner Gloria Gaynor, Oscar-winning actress Olympia Dukakis, CBS national correspondent Alexis Christoforous, American Idol’s Constantine Maroulis, and Guiding Light star Frank Dicopoulos. The CD also includes an original song from Gloria Gaynor called “Believe.” $2 from the sale of each book/CD will benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation® .
Growing Up With Loukoumi is available at thousands of retail outlets as well as at www.loukoumi.com.
Your Opinions Can Mean Cash for the Make-A-Wish Foundation
NFO (National Family Opinion), owned by TNS Custom Research, a worldwide leader in consumer research, gives reward points for joining their consumer panel and for taking surveys about a variety of products and services. Members can “cash in” their points and make a donation to the Make-A-Wish Foundation® (1,000 points = $10). There are no processing or administrative fees – 100 percent of the donation goes to the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
To join the research panel, visit the NFO Web site.
Help Create Memories for Wish Kids While Preserving Your Own
SCRAPBOOK ADHESIVES BY 3LTM will donate four (4) cents from each product sold with a minimum guarantee of $50,000 to the Make-A-Wish Foundation® . SCRAPBOOK ADHESIVES BY 3LTM manufactures a wide array of adhesives that satisfy any scrapbooking and papercrafting need. They not only put their hearts into designing easy-to-use adhesives so stories will last throughout the ages, they also put their spirit into their community through corporate sponsorships.
To learn more about SCRAPBOOK ADHESIVES BY 3L and find out where you can shop to help in your neighborhood, log onto www.scrapbook-adhesives.com.
TSS Photography
Since 1983, TSS Photography has been the leader in youth school, sports and event photography. Known also as The Sports Section, TSS Photography has built a strong reputation in the industry by consistently delivering quality service and products to its customers.
TSS Photography has been a supporter of the Make-A-Wish Foundation® since 2003, providing a financial donation based on sales of certain Make-A-Wish® branded products and capturing special moments by providing in-kind donations of photography services.
TSS Photography has proven to be a generous community citizen and believes passionately in our mission as it helps raise awareness of the Foundation’s life-changing work.
To learn more about TSS Photography, visit www.tssphotography.com.
