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2023 in review
An idea started by four children around a kitchen table became a year of monthly community service across central Ohio.
This was our biggest project of the year! We cleaned out our playrooms before Santa arrived and collected 1,253 gently used toys for children in need. The toys were donated to Grace Haven, a free store in Lancaster, Ohio benefiting those in need and single women recovering from addiction.
We collected over 100 new toys to create a toy bank for the holidays and for children's birthdays throughout the year.
Our main social event of the year! Hosted by the four Templin children, Sending Hope members celebrated the holidays with snacks, crafts, and cards made with Cards of Joy for local nursing homes — and by making new friends. Cozy pajamas were highly encouraged!
Through the generosity of our community, Sending Hope independently adopted local families for the holidays, ensuring children woke up to gifts and families felt the warmth and support of their community.
Sending Hope was thrilled to support the Fairfield County Charity Newsies in their annual paper sale and food boxes fighting food insecurity. We LOVE the Newsies!
We donated 36 giant bags of new and used clothing of all sizes, distributed during a Thanksgiving dinner to local foster families and youth newly graduated from the foster care system.
Sending Hope members volunteered their time to serve Thanksgiving dinner to local young adults newly graduated from the foster care system in central Ohio.
Sending Hope members volunteered both their time and food to serve over 120 local homeless individuals with the Newark Homeless Outreach — completing over 200 donated food items with the organization throughout 2023.
Sending Hope provided emergency assistance — urgently needed items and clothing — to a homeless postpartum immigrant mother and her newborn son, a woman following a devastating house fire, and three young children needing winter clothing.
Ten-year-old Emily has been in and out of the hospital since her liver transplant in 2022. Because her treatment forces her to miss childhood events like trick-or-treat, Sending Hope made Emily and her brother a private trick-or-treat complete with over 20 volunteering families, decorated cars, and dozens of loving new friends!
Sending Hope partnered with the Newark Homeless Outreach to prepare for the winter months ahead. Over 100 coats, new gloves, and blankets were collected for local people experiencing homelessness.
Hosted by the four Templin children, Sending Hope members welcomed fall at this fun social and community service event! Hotdogs and s'mores were roasted with new friends, homemade cards and toiletry bags were created by children, and tons of fall fun was had outdoors — there were even glowsticks involved!
Sending Hope members collected over fifty different types of items and made toiletry bags hand-delivered by the Templin children to local individuals requesting assistance through the Newark Homeless Outreach. The bags contained over 1,000 items!
August was all about the return to school! Sending Hope members gathered curriculum resources needed for an intervention teacher and came together to replace a large number of teaching supplies stolen from a local kindergarten classroom.
Sending Hope provided emergency assistance — clothing, diapers, toys, and baby gear — to a woman gaining emergency custody of an infant and toddler.
Hosted by the four Templin children, Sending Hope members celebrated the Fourth of July at the Templin Freedom Fest! Independence Day was celebrated in style with lots of food, friends, and fireworks — and over 200 lbs of food were collected for the Licking County Food Bank.
Sending Hope members gathered together to collect new toys for two little boys who had their toys stolen while in foster care.
Sending Hope members provided assistance to an immigrant family of four, including a new baby arriving in the fall — children's clothing, carseats, and large amounts of baby items.
Sending Hope members provided assistance to a single mom and her newborn son following the incarceration of his father — infant clothing, diapers, and large amounts of baby equipment.
Sending Hope supported Seeds of Caring Columbus to create snack bags and notes given to children using the New Albany Food Bank.
Sending Hope members sent cards of cheer to a critically ill child during a long-term stay at the Ronald McDonald House.
All birthdays should be celebrated! Sending Hope joined a local Girl Scout troop to create birthday kits for the Licking County Food Bank — everything to celebrate a child's birthday: cake mix, icing, decorations, plates and napkins, balloons, and even a present!
We love our schools! Sending Hope members gathered curriculum resources, board games, activities, and toys needed in a new school occupational therapist's and kindergarten teacher's classrooms.
We challenged Sending Hope members to complete 100 Acts of Kindness in 2023. The Templin Four tracked their progress by coloring in 100 hearts.
Sending Hope gathered maternity clothing and baby gear for a 16-year-old mom-to-be, helping her prepare to welcome her baby.