Family Giving Tree

Cause Area

  • Children & Youth
  • Community

Location

Sobrato Center for Nonprofits606 Valley WayMILPITAS, CA 95035 United States
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Mission Statement

The Family Giving Tree fulfills the exact holiday wish and provides backpacks filled with school supplies to those children in the most need in our communities while inspiring the values of kindness, philanthropy and volunteerism.

Description

The Family Giving Tree began in 1990 as a San Jose State University MBA class project. Jennifer Cullenbine and Todd Yoshida were asked to "create a program that adds value to someone else's life." They created the Family Giving Tree with the hope of providing holiday gifts to 300 children in East Palo Alto. Encouraged by the success of the first year, Jennifer decided to continue and expand the organization. In the 20th year of the program's existence, the total number of gifts and backpacks donated had grown to over 1,000,000, making the Family Giving Tree the largest gift and backpack donation program in California.

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by Phoebe L. from sunnyvale, CA (2017-07-10 00:25:37.0)
it was a really laid back, friendly, flexible, communicative environment, although at first it was a bit tricky to locate where the place was. But aside from that it was a good 5-6 hours of volunteering from home, and extremely manageable.
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