2009 Grant a Wish for a Senior Holiday Gift Program

Special thanks to all of you who contributed to the 2009 Grant A Wish for a Senior Holiday Gift program.  Each gift was important towards providing over 850 homebound seniors with gifts this past holiday season.  We would like to extend a special thanks to the local Corporations, Faith Based Organizations and Clubs who generously donated their time and gifts to help make the 2009 Gift Program the most successful ever: 

2009 top Corporate Gift Contributor:
Cisco Systems:  129 total gifts

Organizations contributing
100 or more gifts:
Anaheim United Methodist Church
Ingram Micro Inc
Orange County Register

Other top organizations contributing to the gift program include:
Center for Spiritual Living, Financial Freedom, Frontier Airlines, Visiting Angels, UPS, Senior Resource Alliance, WECARE (Americorps), St Jude Hospital (Senior Care Services), Ebell Women’s Club, Cindy and Friends

“My family and I were looking for some way to give back to the community while my children were on winter break and I am so glad that we found Community SeniorServ. My family and I arrived at the Anaheim office in December to pick up holiday gifts for the homebound seniors. We set out on our delivery route and were pleasantly surprised by all of the wonderful people that we met. We will always remember the tears of joy and look of surprise on everyone’s face. We never knew that providing a gift could bring such joy to so many people. We will definitely be participating in this program again next year.” ~Volunteer

There are two ways you can help: 

1) Provide a gift to a homebound senior: Personalized requests from clients currently receiving home delivered meals are listed on gift tags and distributed to caring individuals and organizations in the Orange County Community.

Volunteers place gifts in decorative bags and secure the original gift tag firmly to the bag.

Gifts are then delivered back to the CSS administrative offices in Anaheim (no later than December 11th) where volunteers pick up the gifts for December delivery directly to the homes of the recipients.

Often this is the only gift these seniors receive for the holidays.
Call or email to sponsor a gift request today!
Groups are welcomed!

2) Deliver Holiday Gifts and Smiles to Homebound Seniors:

(Mid December) Each volunteer will collect gifts at the Community SeniorServ administrative offices in Anaheim and will be given a route consisting of 5 to 10 stops in one of the cities we serve. Cities include Anaheim, Brea, Buena Park, Costa Mesa, Cypress, Fountain Valley, Fullerton, Garden Grove, Huntington Beach, Orange, Santa Ana, Stanton, Seal Beach, Tustin, Westminster, and more. Gifts must be picked up weekdays but may be delivered weekends. For some, this will be the only holiday visit they receive.  Groups are welcomed.  Excellent Family Holiday Activity.

For More Information Contact:

Theresa Powell, Volunteer Manager
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(714) 229-3349