Donations to The Tablet’s Bright Christmas Campaign this year so far have totaled $101,036. Dozens of parishes and other diocesan organizations have been helped as they assisted needy children with gifts and parties.
Bright Christmas
Final Request for Help from Bright Christmas Campaign
Occasionally I get a letter for the Readers’ Forum from Eileen Duffy Hynes, a former Brooklynite who lives in Chicago. This week, a letter came from her with a donation for The Tablet’s Bright Christmas Fund.
Readers Are Responding to Bright Christmas Campaign
One of the most satisfying aspects of The Tablet’s Bright Christmas Campaign is opening the mail and reading the personal notes that so many of our readers send with their contributions. “I’m grateful to God for the many blessings He’s bestowed on me that enable me to share with others,” writes Marie Fleuranges of Jamaica. “I hope every child and family has a truly Bright Christmas.”
Requests To Help Children Arriving at a Record Level
Not sure why, but we have been deluged with requests for help from our annual Bright Christmas campaign. Maybe the times aren’t as good as some of us think and the poor need more assistance this year than we even thought.
Bright Christmas Campaign Is Now Officially Underway
It hardly seems possible that Thanksgiving has arrived and Christmas is just around the corner. Parishes and diocesan groups are making their plans for Christmas celebrations and that, of course, means requests are arriving for help from The Tablet’s Bright Christmas Fund.
Need Bright Christmas Funds?
Diocesan organizations and parish groups in need of funds for Christmas should apply for The Tablet’s Bright Christmas campaign grant.
Bright Christmas Donors
Dear Editor: Enclosed please find a donation of $150 from my sixth, seventh, and eighth graders and me at Queen of All Saints Catholic Academy in Brooklyn. They donated a “Dime a Day” during Advent to help Bright Christmas.
Bright Christmas Thanks
Dear Editor: Greetings from Trinity Human Service Corporation (THSC)! On behalf of our Executive Director, Father Pedro De Oliveira, O.F.M. Conv., and the staff and volunteers at THSC, I would like to express our heartfelt appreciation for the Bright Christmas Campaign grant. Your grant helped us provide Christmas gifts for many children in our neighborhood. […]
Bright Christmas Reaches Out to Kids in Brooklyn
Yes, Brooklyn, there is a Santa Claus. His name is Thomas Neve and last weekend, he brought Christmas to nearly 1,000 disadvantaged boys and girls.
No Tricks, Just Treats From Bright Christmas
I just finished reading a book titled “The Santa Claus Man: The Rise and Fall of a Jazz Age Con Man and the Invention of Christmas in New York.”
The author is Alex Palmer and the main subject is John Duvall Gluck, Jr., a distant relative of the author.