Thank you for your support for our annual Adopt-a-Family project! Pima has been participating in this project for decades, and each year we adopt more than 25 Scottsdale children whose families live in poverty.
The Adopt-a-Family program is a partnership between City of Scottsdale and Scottsdale Community Partners, the non-profit philanthropy arm of the city. Families are interviewed by city social workers, who record children’s requests for three gifts for the winter holidays as well as clothing and shoe sizes. Susan Vargas will email assignment information in mid-November. Every effort is made to match troops with a child near their age if possible.
Then, you purchase at least three gifts of at least $130 in total value for each child based on their wish list. You also provide a $40 gift card 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 parents. Many troops also include gift wrap, bows, and tape for the families. All gifts are given to the families unwrapped, so the parents can have the pleasure and dignity of wrapping their own children’s gifts. The total expenditure per sponsored child is at minimum $170.
You will drop off a donor report and all the gifts, bagged and labelled for each recipient to either Vista del Camino on Monday, December 9 (if you sponsor all kids in a family) or to Susan Vargas's home on Saturday, December 7 (if you are sponsoring some but not all kids in a family).
Sign up here: https://forms.gle/
Thank you for making a child's holiday special!
