Children's Holiday Fund

Children's holiday fund

Over the past decade, the Peninsula Community
Foundation has administered the Daily Press–Ferguson Holiday Fund. This fund was established in 1929, when officials of the newspaper, concerned about the plight of the poor and jobless, created a Stocking Fund “for children of the poor”. By 1933, when the nation was mired in the Great Depression, the fund assisted families with food, clothing and fuel during the winter holidays. The fund has provided toys, clothing and food for hundreds of thousands of needy children and families on the Peninsula. In 2019, after 90 years, the Daily Press decided to dissolve the Peninsula based Holiday Fund. They will be joining the south side’s Joy Fund, which serves the Salvation Army on both sides of the water.

As the foundation’s CEO, I have felt a real burden to continue to assist the organizations on the Peninsula serving children and families that will no longer benefit from the Daily Press‐Ferguson Holiday Fund. Now more than ever, our local non‐profits need funding during the holidays to continue their programs. The Foundation has therefore decided to continue the spirit of generosity by creating a similar fund called, the “Children’s Holiday Fund”. The purpose of the new fund is to continue to provide an abundance of toys for children during the holidays, but also provide family programming and year round support to the needy families that live in our community.

Your gift will carry on the holiday tradition started back in 1929, well into the future.

We wish each of you the happiest of holidays,

Michael A. Monteith
Chief Executive Officer

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donor tributes

Week of 11.2.20

Michael Lamonte Anderson in memory of Helen Carr in memory of my parents and wonderful Christmases
Susan Barker in honor of Ryan & Justin
Shirley Beale in memory of Robert and Frances Fuller
Joseph and Anita Boucher in memory of Sean Boucher and George Willard
Lorraine Brown in memory of Cyrus Uriah Brown, M.D.
Chryse and Lonnie Cheney
Mary Beth Collier in memory of Dr. Thomas Mercer Collier, Jr.
Wendy Cumming in memory of her father, Robert M. Cumming
The Dubay family in honor of the Christmas Spirit
David and Barbara Eberly
Barry and Dianne Forbes in honor of our family
Herb Hodge in honor of Albert Ware In memory of Dick and Lillian Jones
LYE-A-LOT Golf Association

Charlton and Suzanne Mann in memory of Kenneth Forrest
Doug and Mary Ellen Perry in honor of Bob and Kay Lummus
James W. Reynolds in memory of Ann Gay Reynolds
In honor of peace in our time.
Linda K. Scholl in memory of Charles E. Scholl
Frank and Shirley Sebra
Carl A. Settle in memory of Mary E. German Settle
Carol Wallace Sherman in memory of Roger Wallace
Emily Todd in memory of Fred W. Chase
Anne G. Vannice in memory of Gladys and Clarence Green and Mary Louise and Bud Vannice
John and and Elizabeth Whistler
James Frederick Whitley in memory of Nancy Hall Whitley
William E. Wilds in honor and memory of family and friends
C.D. and Kathy Young in memory of Clifton and Nellie Young and Bill and Anita Banks

Week of 11.9.20

In memory of Richie Adams
Dorothy and Luke Critzer in memory of Patrick C. Rand, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph M. Drozdowski in memory of our parents
Blanche Gillis in memory of parents, Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Doles, husband, Mr. Richard M. Gillis, Jr. sister Mrs. Margaret Sills Carter and brother, Mr. Robert E. Doles
Fran Hehle in memory of Bud Hehle
Judy and J.M. Hudgins
Irene Jenkins in memory of husband, John E. Jenkins
Sonia Johnson in honor of Beverly and Dick Finnerty

Patricia L. Johnson in honor of John Stephen Rasmussen and in memory of Glenn W. Lewis
Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Martin in memory of Victoria and Terry Simmons
Claudia and William Melgaard in memory of Joseph and Saralee Dellapenta
Dora and Steve Melochick
James and Marilyn Morrison in honor of family and friends
Mr. Edwin Prior in memory of Margaret Prior
Henry and Judith Thayer in memory of our parents