2016-2018 Gift Drive for Children

The mission of Friends of Karen is to provide emotional, financial and advocacy support to children with a life-threatening illness and their families. As a part of this effort, Friends of Karen recruits local volunteers who can help organize material drives in their communities.

Below are just a few examples on how you can help:

• Coloring Book Drive – Collect new coloring books and crayons for our kids in the hospital.
• Birthday Program – Collect items for our birthday toy pantry. Call for wish list of gifts.
• School Supplies Project – Collect school supplies and backpacks. All year round.
• Pantry Drive – Collect paper towels, tissues, hand sanitizer wipes, baby wipes.
• Coin Harvest – Organize and run a loose change collection to benefit Friends of Karen or recycle cans and bottles and donate the change to Friends of Karen.
• Gift Certificate Drive – collect $5 gift certificates to iTunes, Dunkin’ Donuts, McDonald’s, Subway, Burger King, Pizza Hut and Starbucks.
• Tag Sale – Turn your junk into treasure and organize a tag sale to benefit Friends of Karen. We’ll start you off with a box of tag sale “stuff.”