Support The Family Place This Holiday Season to Help Their Programs All Year

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One day a man was walking along the beach when he noticed a boy picking something up and gently throwing it into the ocean. Approaching the boy, he asked, “What are you doing?” The youth replied, “Throwing starfish back into the ocean. The surf is up and the tide is going out. If I don’t throw them back, they’ll die.”

“Son,” the man said, “don’t you realize there are miles and miles of beach and hundreds of starfish? You can’t make a difference!” After listening politely, the boy bent down, picked up another starfish, and threw it back into the surf. Then, smiling at the man, he said, “I made a difference for that one.”

At the beginning of the busy holiday season, many families pause and look for ways they can help those in need of physical, emotional, or financial support. The Family Place Utah witnesses the generosity of the Cache Valley community who step up and seek for ways to love and care for their neighbors. We receive calls from businesses, youth groups, individuals, and large and small families who are looking for ways they can make a difference. “During this past year and a half, we have seen firsthand the personal heartache and loss many children and families have experienced because of the pandemic. These very specific challenges have created very specific needs,” Sheryl Goodey, executive director of The Family Place Utah, said. “Because of that, we are shifting our holiday focus to provide critical services for children and families all year long in therapy, education, respite care in The Kid’s Place, and our Starfish Children’s Shelter, the only children’s shelter in Northern Utah.”

Instead of accepting individual and family gifts this year, we want to support the amazing local organizations that specialize in sponsoring families who need help with holiday gift giving. With your help, we can focus on the greatest needs in our community throughout the year and expand our ability to strengthen families

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who are suffering and protect children in need. This is how you can give a specific gift that will keep giving all year long: • Online Starfish Giving Machine found on our website thefamilyplaceutah.org on the "Give" tab under "Starfish Giving

Machine." • #GivingTuesday participation on November 30, as part of a global "movement that unleashes the power of radical generosity around the world." • Amazon Wishlist on our website thefamilyplaceutah.org on the "Give" tab under "Donate." • Smile.amazon.com — Designate The Family Place as your charity of choice and we will receive a percentage from Amazon for of all your

Amazon purchases. • Starfish Holiday Giving Tree hosted at your place of business or organization. You provide the tree with the cards and instructions provided for you by us. Contact our outreach coordinator, Maria

Lopez, at maria@thefamilyplaceutah.org to coordinate the details. • Volunteer with a variety of options found on our website thefamilyplaceutah.org on the "Give" tab under "Volunteer." We are proud to be recently recognized and awarded the Best Place to

Volunteer by the Best of Northern Utah!

This year, we have a generous donor match of $100,000 so all contributions will be matched dollar for dollar from November 1 through December 31. “This will double your impact and your ability to help our community!” Family Place chief relationship officer, Jennifer Anderson, said.

Thank you for making a difference to that one!

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