Letter to Civic Leaders
Dear community leaders,I am writing this letter to encourage you to support a new initiative from the Mayor’s office, called the “Mayor’s Birthday Club”. The Mayor’s Birthday Club seeks to show our children how to participate in civic life in a way that benefits children and families in great need. Children participate in the Mayor’s Birthday Club by asking their friends and family members to make a donation to the Crisis Nursery instead of buying the child typical birthday presents.
We invite Champaign schools, churches, and civic organizations to promote this initiative. We ask you to encourage children and families in our community to join the Mayor’s Birthday Club by announcing this program, distributing informational materials, and following up with periodic invitations to join.
Children who sign up and participate in the Mayor’s Birthday Club will be given a Mayor’s Birthday Club Membership Certificate along with Party Planning & Donation Tips that will assist them in planning their party. The Planning Tips include creative ways of asking friends and family members to make donations to Crisis Nursery. Participating children will also be honored at an annual community event in recognition of their civic generosity. This event will be organized as a “Birthday Party” with cake and ice cream, with Certificates of Appreciation personally awarded to each child by Mayor Schweighart, along with a group photo with the Mayor.
We are proud to have the opportunity to contribute, in our own small way, to the need in our community through the Crisis Nursery, an “Island of Safety” to children whose families are in crisis due to parental stress, illness, accidents, homelessness and substance abuse, children who through no fault of their own have no other resources. We also believe that the Mayor’s Birthday Club could become a model program for other communities in the area. For more information about this program please contact the Mayor’s Office: 217/403-8720.
Thank you for your time and interest helping us launch this important initiative.
Mayor Gerald Schweighart
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