From Drop In & Decorate headquarters here in snowy Rhode Island, to all of you -- event hosts, volunteers, donors and friends -- on behalf of the Board of Directors of Drop In & Decorate Inc., I send greetings, best wishes, and our hopes for a happy, healthy, fun, and oh-so-sweet 2010.
With thanks to all for the wonderful gifts you have given to so many in your own communities,
Lydia Walshin
Founder and Director
Want to do something really sweet before the end of the year?
Donate to Drop In & Decorate by using this little button (see it? at the top, over there to the right?) that goes directly to Network for Good, a wonderful online site where you can donate to all of the nonprofit organizations of your choice.
Drop In & Decorate is a nonprofit public charity under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, which means that your contributions to us are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. All of our funding comes from individual contributions.
We support cookies-for-donation events all around the country (and in Canada and other countries, too). We serve hundreds of families in need in our home state of Rhode Island through Drop In & Decorate® events. We purchase supplies or procure donated goods that we send to event hosts everywhere.
In 30 states, Canada, Japan and Germany we've decorated and donated more than 13,000 cookies to people who have found themselves, never by choice, in less-than-happy circumstances. We plan to do more to help make cookies-for-donation events easy and affordable for anyone who wants to host one in his or her own community.
We can do that, with your help.
Network for Good accepts major credit cards and is a super-secure donation site, so we feel comfortable asking you to donate through them. You can make a one-time donation, or set up a recurring gift to donate a bit each month. Network for Good keeps a small fee, or you can add that to your donation so the entire amount of your gift comes to us.
You can make a gift in honor of a friend or family member, and send an ecard to that person, directly from the Network for Good donation page.
Thank you for helping us spread the cookie love. We're grateful beyond measure.
A quote from Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Buddhist monk, author, poet, peace activist:
When I was four years old, my mother used to bring me a cookie every time she came home from the market. I always went to the front yard and took my time eating it, sometimes half an hour or forty-five minutes for one cookie. I would take a small bite and look up at the sky. Then I would touch the dog with my feet and take another small bit. I just enjoyed being there, with the sky, the earth, the bamboo thickets, the cat, the dog, the flowers.... I was entirely in the present moment with my cookie.
