the homefront blog

First, we need to CELEBRATE!

The number of cards entered in our Blizzard of Cards challenge: 7,314!!
The number of cardmakers sending in those cards: 164
The number of total cards sent in during the challenge: 19,052!!!!!

That is one seriously amazing number of cards, and we have been blown away by these totals…you have all kept our shippers incredibly busy! And with all these cards, we went through the donation of 10,000 envelopes! Many thanks to those who sent envelopes with their cards, thus stretching the donation that much longer.

These thousands of cards pictured are waiting to be shipped…read on to see how you can help ship them out to our heroes!

And now…we need your assistance!

NEED #1: ENVELOPES

Our shippers are either out of or very low on A2 envelopes. We need you to return to sending in your cards with envelopes, pretty please! And we’re also trying to work out getting envelopes to cover those cards we have without envelopes now…

If you’d like to help out, you can:

1. paypal a donation for envelopes so we can purchase those needed;
2. send in a package of envelopes (contact info@cardsforheroes.org so we can coordinate which shipper is in greatest need when you’re ready to mail them);
3. if you have a connection with a company or manufacturer who would like to help out our heroes with envelopes, we’d love to receive that blessing! Contact them, or share the contact’s information with us at info@cardsforheroes.org and we’ll contact them.

NOTE: This refers to A2 sized envelopes - the ones for 4.25 x 5.5 inch cards. I believe all shippers still have A7s (5x7s).

NEED #2: SHIPPING FUNDS
With the incredible donations of this many cards comes the need to pay for shipping the cards to the battlefield; we need to get the cards mailed in the next 10 days for them to make it over there and back in time for Christmas. A box costs us $10.95…Can you help?

1. Paypal funds to donate@cardsforheroes.org (Note: Paypal does deduct a very small fee from your donation.)
2. Mail a check with your cards or separately. If you make your check out to Cards for Heroes, it’s fastest for it to go to Sandy in WA, since our account is there; funds are shared with shippers from there. OR,
3. If you want to help by getting funds to a shipper immediately, you may make a check out to them (checks or cash donated this way still gets credited as a CFH donation!)
4. Invite your friends, neighbors, and family to help out with a few dollars!
5. Consider giving a donation to CFH as a holiday gift in the name of your loved ones! We’ll send you a gift card you can wrap up, telling them what the donation has gone toward.

We are SO grateful to all who have been donating cards so generously, and to those who have also been including donations–even a dollar or two—with your cards! Every card and every dollar means so much…bless you all!