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2024 Holiday Giving Challenge

7th Annual Holiday Giving Challenge

Giving Opportunities

• Animals

  Foster an animal over the holidays:

  • Bring home a pup for a few weeks of foster via
  • Cats, kittens, or bunny fostering through in Escondido
  • Open your home to dogs or cats through
  • Provide some time away from the shelter for a dog at

  LYFF is a 501(c)3 non-profit animal rescue group. LYFF mainly focuses on educating about and managing feral cat populations, fostering adoptable cats, and offering no/low-cost spaying and neutering of pets to north SD county residents. Our very own Amanda Umphrey has been volunteering with them for nearly 4 years! Amanda is happy to answer any questions!

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  Senior Animal Advocates

  • Help socialize senior dogs onsite in Ramona
  • Join the Frosted Fakers Hike on Sundays in Ramona area
  • Foster a senior dog for two weeks on a Frosted Fling

  • Donate items from the
  • Walk dogs in Oceanside from 11:30-1:30pm

  • Help get dogs to and from important vet appointments

  • Crochet, knit or quilt blankets for shelter animals
• Donations & Fundraising

  OHR's Angel Tree

  The Office of Human Resources has teamed up with a local afterschool program to bring holiday cheer to elementary students in need. Every child deserves a moment of joy this season. The program we've chosen provides free access to a safe, enriching after-school environment for families facing challenges such as food, housing, and financial insecurity. Let鈥檚 come together to be the reason a child smiles this holiday season.

  Stop by the Office of Human Resources, Administrative 4800, and select an ornament. We will match you with a child鈥檚 wish list. Gifts should be valued at around $30. Detailed instructions will be provided when you select an ornament.

  If you are not on-site to pick up a child鈥檚 ornament, please email hr@csusm.edu and we can provide a profile.

  
  

  • Donate lunch goods that Brother Benno's uses during their weekly lunch distributions OR new children's pjs and stocking stuffers for their Children's Christmas giveaway

  Care Packages

  • assemble care packages to hand out as a random act of kindness

  大发 Sick & Vacation Time Donation

  • Donate sick and/or vacation time to a 大发 staff/faculty member who may be in need of a catastrophic leave donation

  • Donate funds to help provide meals to families and children in San Diego

  • Host an online Red Kettle drive

  Wishlist Giving:

  • Rady Children's Hospital
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• Food & Clothing Drives

  Virtual

  • Organize donation drives for items like: hygiene items (shampoo, soap, toothpaste, toothbrushes, deodorant, etc...), pillows, pillowcases, twin sheets, undergarments, socks, shoes, blankets and bottled water for distribution to homeless populations

   

  • Help PATH (People Assisting the Homeless) reach their goal of providing fleece blankets for local homeless populations.

  • Host a virtual or contactless drive through donation drive to provide coats, food, and blanket to North County families in need

  • Knit homemade teddy bears for children affected by HIV/AIDS in developing countries

  • Host a food drive or donate a $5 Hunger Bag at check-out during your next trip to Albertson's or Vons

  SD County Food Bank

  • Online shopping to donate via a SD Food Bank-hosted site

  SD County Food Bank

  • Donate food to elementary school children living in poverty
• Volunteer Work

  • Pick up grocery donations from local stores, sort through donations, assist with donation distribution

  • Find opportunities to sort children's books, arrange donations for military families, make no-sew fleece blanets, or help with a virtual Turkey Trot through this volunteer database

  • Write letters or send postcards to adults and children with developmental disabilities

  • Spread holiday cheer to children in hospital via Cards for Hospitalized Kids (CFHK)

  • Drop off warm meals to local seniors in need

  • Write letters or make holiday cards to send to service members serving overseas

  • Adopt-a-day to ring the Salvation Army Bell and raise money for those in need

  • Sort donations, help customers, and ring sales at the WRC thrift store

  Write a Letter to an Elder

  • Send homemade cards or letters of encouragement to senior community residents via