The Adopt-a-Family event is a partnership between City of Scottsdale and Scottsdale Community Partners, the non-profit philanthropy arm of COS. Families are interviewed by social workers, who record children’s requests for three gifts for the holiday as well as clothing and shoe sizes. Susan matches up adopters and adoptees and emails assignments and full information in early November. Every effort is made to match troops with a child near their age.
Then, we purchase at least three gifts of around $100 in total value for each recipient based on their wish list. We also provide a gift certificate for $30 to the family’s grocery store to help provide a holiday meal. Troops frequently supplement the three main gifts with clothing, stocking stuffers, or other items, and sometimes also include a small gift for the mom or parents. Many troops also include gift wrap, bows, and tape for the families to wrap the gifts with. All gifts are dropped off and delivered to the families unwrapped, so the parents can have the pleasure and dignity of wrapping their own children’s gift.
We drop off a donor report and all the gifts, bagged and labelled for each recipient at Holly’s place in early December and she takes them over to Vista del Camino. Thank you for making a child's holiday special!
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