About Our 4th Annual Holiday

Gift-a-Family:

In 2020, due to COVID restrictions, we pivoted from our beloved Holiday Shopping Spree event to the Gift-a-Family model in order to continue to support Sunday Friends' families during the holidays. It has been such a great success, we are excited to invite you to support our 4th annual Gift-a-Family program. Please read through the instructions below and follow the link farther down for the 2023 Gift-a-Family Wishlists to sponsor a family.

All year here at Sunday Friends, families have been hard at work developing their skills in our classes and activities that are equipping them to achieve economic mobility. While participating in these opportunities, families receive basic necessities and other goodies throughout the year, but the holidays can be extra challenging. Gift-a-Family is an opportunity for you to partner with us to elevate hope this holiday season and recognize the consistent self-improvement and learning that families are diligently investing in at Sunday Friends.

~ Sponsor ~ Shop ~ Wrap ~ Label ~ Deliver ~

Sponsor a Family:

Each family at Sunday Friends has the opportunity to provide a wishlist. You are invited to sponsor one (or more) families by shopping for gifts from their wishlist, wrapping them up, and delivering them to Sunday Friends on Sunday, December 10, 2023 from 9:30 to 11:30 am.

All you have to do is

Sponsor, Shop, Wrap, Label, & Deliver…It’s Easy!

Instructions:

Here are the instructions on how you can elevate hope this holiday season by sponsoring one or more families

• SPONSOR - By sponsoring a family, you are choosing to provide a gift to each member of the family.

  • Their wishlist provides gift ideas, sizes, color and style, etc. (At the end of the instructions, follow the link to the wishlist portal hosted by Roonga)

• SHOP - Family members have been asked to provide two gift ideas, but you are only expected to purchase one item per person. You may, however choose to buy both gifts or additional gifts, it’s entirely up to you.

  • Members were instructed to request gifts that could be found for around $50. Any amount above that is optional. You are under no obligation to purchase their exact request.

  • Please include gift receipts whenever possible.

  • Please no realistic toy weapons! Please no gifts that look like a gun and/or shoots a projectile in facsimile of a gun including nerf guns or variants thereof. Please no gifts that condone violence. We also ask that you exclude anything depicting drugs or drug-use.

• WRAP - Ensure all gifts are wrapped, boxed or bagged, preferably, using the same material to wrap each gift for ease of identification.

• LABEL - Include Family ID #, Members' First Name, as well as the “Gift #” out of “Total # of Gifts” (eg. Family ID #9999, Andy, Gift 2 of 3). If more than one person shares the same name in the family, also include their age. All of the information for the label will be found on the wishlist.

• DELIVER - Gifts must be delivered on Sunday, December 10th between 9:30 AM & 11:30 AM. If this ABSOLUTELY CANNOT work with your schedule, please send us an email at contact@sundayfriends.org to schedule an alternative drop-off time during the week of December 4th.

  • DROP-OFF LOCATION - Donated gifts should be dropped off at our office located within the Franklin McKinley School District Building at 645 Wool Creek Drive, San Jose, CA 95112.

  • DONATION FORM - please include a completed Sunday Friends Donation Form with your donation.

  • DISTRIBUTION - Families will receive their donated gifts starting at 1:00 PM on Sunday, December 10th. 

ANY QUESTIONS?

Email us at contact@sundayfriends.org