Holiday Cards for Seniors
Please join us for the 5th Annual Holiday Cards for Seniors! PANE is looking for volunteers to share some holiday spirit by sending cards to formerly homeless seniors in the Boston area. We’re collaborating again with Hearth Inc., a non-profit working to end elder homelessness through housing placement. We’d like every senior in permanent housing or in Hearth’s outreach efforts to receive a card – let’s make sure everyone gets a bit of holiday joy! Since 2020, PANE has sent hundreds of cards to these deserving seniors – let’s keep the great effort going!
Instructions are below & please RSVP to the email listed. We’d love your photos to share on our social media - photo details are included below.
Thank you so much for making the holidays extra special for these treasured members of our community!
Kendra Gahagan ‘93
“2024 HOLIDAY CARDS FOR SENIORS” DETAILS:
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Deadline: Please *postmark cards by Wednesday Dec. 18, 2024*
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RSVP: please RSVP with the subject line “PANE Holiday Cards for Seniors” to princeton.alums.newengland@gmail.com and include how many cards you’ve sent
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Number of cards: 2-3 if possible or more if you can!
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Type of cards: Please send non-denominational/non-religious holiday cards so they can work for all residents. Cards about the winter season are great as well any non-religious holiday cards (though if all you can find are cards mentioning the December holidays, a card is better than no card!). Store-bought or homemade cards are great!
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Salutation inside card: “Dear Friend” or “Dear Neighbor” are great intro’s to use and please sign the cards however you’d like.
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Languages: The majority need to be in English, but if anyone’s able to send a few cards in Spanish or Haitian Creole, those would also be appreciated and please note in your RSVP email if they’re in another language.
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Return address: Please add “(PANE)” to your return address after your name on your envelope so Hearth can help us track the number of total cards.
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Photos: We’d love to get photos of your cards for PANE and Hearth’s social media! Please email photos you’d like to share in the same RSVP email with the word “photo” added, such as: “PANE Holiday Cards for Seniors: photos”
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Address for card envelopes: (individual cards can be mailed or multiple cards can be placed in one large envelope, in which case leave the individual card envelopes themselves blank):
Hearth, Inc.
ATTN: Dylan Curtis, IA Department
1640 Washington Street
Boston, MA 02118
** NOTE: After ATTN: that’s the letter “I”, not the number “1”
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Hearth Inc resources on the web: Facebook.com/HearthInc hearth_inc @ElderlyHomeless