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Blizzard of Cards Challenge - due Oct 31!
Deadline: Oct 31 (You can still send holiday cards til Nov 14, but the challenge cutoff is the 31st.) We’ve gone past 3,000 - how many can we send to our heroes?
Where to send cards: Any address on our shippers page
An entry for each of these kinds of cards:
- Thanksgiving and fall (deadlines now passed, but entries sent in will count and cards will be saved for next year)
- Christmas (religious or secular), Chanukkah, Kwanzaa, happy holidays, etc…child-focused or general.
- Wintery-themed birthday, general (hello, thinking of you), love and miss you.
- Happy New Years (please avoid alcohol references).
- AnyHero thank-you cards and letters. (See footnote)
Christmas shipping costs:
It may easily cost us hundreds of dollars to get these cards sent out to our heroes over the next months. Please consider sponsoring a box of holiday joy! You can include a check made out to the shipper or to Cards for Heroes (our boxes cost $10.95), or cash, OR log into your Paypal account and send a gift to donate@cardsforheroes.org. If you’d like to include a message to the hero receiving your box, we’d be glad to do that for you, too. (Ask your friends and family to help out with sponsoring a few boxes too!)
Ten prizes: These are made up of wonderful donations by cardmakers and companies!Plus a GRAND PRIZE: For every box of 100 or more cards sent in, the cardmaker will be entered into our GRAND PRIZE DRAWING! This will be a flat rate box filled to the brim with wondrous goodies, and you’ll be delighted by all that’s inside!
Here’s the prize just for KIDS!
And we’ll have a grand prize for those sending in 100+ cards!
Footnotes and fine print:
About the envelopes:
The envelopes were donated, but the shipping of those envelopes to each of our shippers was paid out of pocket. (over $120) If you’d like to include a small donation to contribute to the costs, please include a few cents per envelope you might have sent in and note that’s what it’s for. Any extra donations received beyond the cost of that shipping will be used for mailing all these Christmas cards to our heroes.
About glitter:
During holiday cardmaking season it’s tough to avoid glitter, but we ask that you save the glitter for your personal cards. (It is possible that glitter can make a hero visible to night-vision goggles if they get it on their uniforms.)
About AnyHero cards:
These can be thanksgiving themed, general thank you, patriotic, or holiday—but with written-out messages inside. Drawings from kids count as well. Consider sending one of your family cards—it could even be your photo card for the year if you’re done early! If you would like to sign it with your name and hometown that’s fine, or you can put your address if you feel comfortable. (No guarantees that anyone will write back.)
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