Help a child build holiday memories to last a lifetime.
Holiday Heroes provide gifts to local children and families participating in Youth Villages’ programs. Generous donors and shoppers like YOU enable us to fulfill the wish lists of more than 2,200 Middle Tennessee youth and children.
Your family, company, civic or religious group can bring children and youth near you a holiday they will always remember! All donations will help the children we serve in Middle Tennessee and the Nashville area.
HOW TO PARTICIPATE
Shop
- Each child fills out a wish list of three gifts.
- Heroes sponsor a child or sibling group ($100-$150 per child)
- Heroes shop for the items on the wish list (new gifts only)
- Please focus on the three wishes (it is what the child is hoping for)
- Bundle the unwrapped gifts and wish list in a clear bag
- Deliver the gifts no later than Friday, Dec. 6 to DeVry Building
Sponsor
- $5,000 – Sponsor youth who enter our care days before holiday break
- $3,000 – Sponsor the LifeSet holiday party
- $1,000 – Sponsor a Nashville group home holiday party
- $500 – Sponsor the wish lists for a sibling group
- $100 – Sponsor a wish list for a child
Other Ways to Participate
- Stuff stockings: We love to gift stockings to our teenage youth filled with small gifts, toiletries and gift cards. Gather your supplies and spend time together as a family or group stuffing stockings, then deliver them to the address below.
- Host a gift drive: Want to amplify your support for Holiday Heroes? Organize a gift drive to help collect our most requested items from friends or coworkers. This is a great way to get others involved! Contact Lyndsay to learn more.
Contact Lyndsay Wilkinson at Lyndsay.Wilkinson@YouthVillages.org or at 615-250-7323
Deadline:
Friday, Dec. 6
Drop-off:
DeVry Building (8 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.)
3343 Perimeter Hill Drive, Suite 300
Nashville, TN 37211
Contact:
Sponsorship
Email: Lyndsay Wilkinson
615-250-7323
Shop
Email: Julie Abbott
615-250-7266
*Sponsors for Holiday Heroes
This holiday season, local company Alternative Solutions will match all financial gifts to the Holiday Heroes campaign. Give today and double your impact this holiday season!
Alternative Solutions provides Salesforce business consulting, CRM project management and IT problem-solving for major organizations worldwide. At Alternative, our associates are committed to YOUR business. Our primary areas of expertise is Salesforce.com, including strategic planning and business process redesign.
“Youth Villages fills a need in our community for children during a period when they are at their most vulnerable. At Alternative Solutions we feel strongly in supporting an organization that provides a caring and safe environment to help these young people cope and find supportive ways to continue moving forward. Youth Villages provides not only foster care services, but their involvement in shaping young lives for their professional journeys begins at the foster level as well. Their services & support reach beyond the children to families in need also. Organizations like Youth Villages need community support and we are happy to partner with them. They help keep us grounded and remind us that the hands that too many children are dealt aren’t fair and they need a soft place to land.”
-Tom Jones, Managing Director Alternative Solutions Consulting
Social News
Steven Tyler's Janie's Fund third annual GRAMMY Awards® Viewing Party was a night to remember! From the red carpet to dinner to the electrifying after-party performance by Gavin Degraw more than 500 passionate people joined together and helped raise more than $2.4 million for our important cause!
We are so proud of our girls who rocked the house with samples of therapeutic drumming and our very own Jennifer Rhodes, who was last night’s featured speaker. Thank you to Terry Crews for being an amazing host, and of course, to Steven Tyler for making everything possible and giving a platform for girls and young women to amplify their voices! #jamforjanie
Click the links below to see some of the fun:
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This weekend, we’re heading to L.A. with some of our girls for @iamstevent’s third annual private dinner and viewing of the GRAMMY Awards benefiting @janiesfund. Follow us on Instagram @youthvillages, and check out our stories this weekend for inside look including, rehearsals, activities and scenes from the red carpet!
Strengthening families and giving young people the support they need to move away from gang activity can make a difference in our communities. Special thanks to The Commercial Appeal columnist Tonyaa Weathersbee for highlighting this issue and interviewing Youth Villages foster parent Yolanda Tate and clinical consultant Katie Puckett in her story today.
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Weathersbee: Can federal money end Memphis' gang violence? Not if G-A-N-G spells F-A-M-I-L-Y
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Memphis will get $10 million to fight violent crime. Much of that crime is caused by gangs, and youths raised in gang families struggling to get out.
In an effort to promote positive parenting and prevent adverse childhood experiences consider making use of Advancing Parenting’s fifty-four parenting norms bumper stickers. Parenting messages on vehicles will be read thousands of times by thousands of people of all ages for years to come...a unique and powerful way to get quality parenting information out to the community. Sets of the stickers can be put in holders and placed on counters and tables in doctors’ offices, agencies, schools, and businesses so patients, parents, customers, and clients can choose one or more for their cars. They can also be made available to attendees at events and meetings. The best strategy is to have them laid out on three tables... and it does take three tables! Tell the attendees that they may choose one or two for their car(s). Handing them out doesn't work as well. Some folks don't put stickers on their cars and everyone who wants one will appreciate the opportunity to make their own choice. Visit advancingparenting.org for more information. 🙂
The countdown has begun!
We are so excited for this year's GRAMMY viewing party benefitting Steven Tyler's Janie's Fund. You can get an exclusive look at the festivities this weekend by following our Instagram page and viewing our stories (@youthvillages).
Steven Tyler's Janie's Fund
It’s that time of year again!
We’re just five short days away from @Steven Tyler’s Janie’s Fund 3rd Annual Viewing Party to celebrate the GRAMMY Awards.
#JamforJanie
We're just a little over a week away from Steven Tyler's third annual private dinner and viewing of the GRAMMY Awards benefiting @janiesfund!
Steven Tyler's Janie's Fund
Last year at our Viewing Party, the girls of Janie’s Fund put on a spectacular performance.
Steven Tyler's Janie’s Fund 3rd Annual Viewing Party in honor of the GRAMMYs is less than just a couple of weeks away and we couldn’t be more excited!
For more info about this year’s party, visit https://janiesfund.org/
#JamforJanie
