Birthday Club tips for young people
The Mayor’s Birthday Club Party Planning/Donation Tips
Make it a fun event:
Organize your party as you would any other birthday party: Cake and ice cream, games, decorations, etc. Make sure your friends know that it will be a “typical ” fun birthday party. If you go to a special restaurant, to a movie, or have a sleep-over as your birthday event - the same idea applies - keep the event fun. The idea is not to give up having a fun party!
About the presents:
Think about how much stuff you already have, and about how much you really use or play with the stuff you have. The idea of the Mayor’s Birthday Club is to “trade” getting the usual inexpensive birthday presents (a bunch of stuff that you probably don’t really need anyway) for a donation by your friends and family members to those children and families who are in great need.
You would still receive a nice present at your Birthday party. If you have one special thing that you have really been hoping for, talk to your parents about that one special thing. Maybe just getting that one thing as a special present from your parents is enough.
Along with your birthday party invitations, you might enclose three additional items:
(1) A short handwritten letter from you asking your friends and/or family members to send a donation to the Crisis Nursery instead of buying you a present. You should write your own personalized letter. Share your own ideas and feelings about making donations to others in need.
(2) A stamped, addressed envelope to the Crisis Nursery already made out by you to:
Crisis Nursery - Mayor’s Birthday Club
1309 West Hill St, Urbana, IL 61801
This stamped, already addressed envelope makes it much more convenient for your friends to send their donations.
Here are some Address Labels to print on label paper.
(3) An information sheet about the Crisis Nursery. You may use the information sheet included on this website here, or go to the Crisis Nursery web site and create your own information sheet:
http://www.crisisnursery.net/.
You may also want to list some items that one could purchase as gifts for the Crisis Nursery, such as blankets, PJs, and sippee cups. To see what they need at the Crisis Nursery go see their needs list.
You should send that information sheet along with your invitations so that your friends may learn more about why a donation makes a difference in the lives of others.
After the party, don’t forget to thank your friends and family members for making their donations, just as you would thank them for buying you a present.
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