by Noella Noelophile®
As we celebrate spring, Justin Rudd and his nonprofit Community Action Team are looking for a few good “Easter bunnies”.
They’d like the volunteer kind–but if you’d rather donate the chocolate kind, that’s okay too.
Their eleventh annual “Operation Easter Basket” is scheduled for Thursday and Friday, April 2 and 3, at Bayshore Church in Long Beach. The goal is to collect and distribute two thousand baskets to economically-disadvantaged boys and girls.
(Last year, “Operation Easter Basket” beneficiaries included Carmelitos Housing Project, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and a local Boys and Girls Club. While the goal of “Operation Easter Basket 2014” was to one thousand, six hundred baskets, volunteers actually collected and donated two thousand, two hundred!)
So, what they need for right now are members for “Operation Easter Basket”‘s 2015 host committee.
If, like me, you hear the word “committee” and think, “Uh-oh–meetings!”, take heart. There will be NONE of those.
Instead, committee members are asked to do three things:
First, they’re asked to donate at least twenty completed Easter baskets–either on their own or by recruiting friends, coworkers and family members to help. Baskets can be for either boys or girls, ages birth to sixteen years. Here is a link to the list of suggested items to put in the baskets.
Secondly, they’re requested to post about Operation Easter Basket on social media. (Posting pictures of Easter baskets you’ve created strikes me as a great way to get into a festive springtime mood, very quickly!)
And finally, C.A.T. would like to have each member give at least two volunteer hours, on Thursday, April 2 or Friday, April 3, to help oversee Operation Easter Basket at Bay Shore Church in Belmont Shore. These hours can be anytime on Thursday, from 9 to 6, and Friday, from 9 to 4.
Would you like to serve and make Easter special for kids in the Long Beach area? If so, please RSVP to Justin at Justin@JustinRudd.com.
Can’t serve on the host committee, due to a busy schedule, but you’d like to help anyway? You’re welcome to drop off Easter baskets on Thursday, April 2 and Friday, April 3, at Bay Shore Church, 5100 East The Toledo at Granada, in Long Beach. And Community Action Team needs onsite volunteers for those days, too!