About The Empty Stocking Fund

 
Welcome to The Empty Stocking Fund’s Peer Donation Tool, an online application that enables organizations and individuals to quickly create and easily manage Sponsor-A-Child campaign donation pages.

Sponsor-A-Child campaigns offer individuals an opportunity to get involved in a big way. For about the cost of lunch, you can bring holiday cheer to a family by empowering parents or guardians of children living in poverty to give them gifts at Christmas time.

About the Peer Donation Tool
By partnering with MCG Communications, we have made leading a Sponsor-A-Child campaign easier than ever! Using this simple and secure fundraising tool, you can help us provide gifts for more than 50,000 children this holiday season. Simply:

1. Create your fundraising page.
Group leaders can create the group’s page including images, videos, documents and a written description of their donation page. Then, simply send it to individuals who can pass it along or create their own pages in support of the overall effort.

2. Set a fundraising goal.
Remember, it costs The Empty Stocking Fund approximately $20 to provide a gift package for EACH of the 50,000 children we serve every year!

3. Ask for help.
Email your page to your family, friends, neighbors and co-workers, post it to your Facebook page or Tweet a link.

4. Track, monitor and record ALL contributions.
Obtain real-time information regarding online donations and manually enter offline (cash and check) donations as needed.

5. Encourage your contacts to help you reach your goal.
Periodically update your network on the status of your campaig

About The Empty Stocking Fund
Since 1927, the generous contributions received from thousands of Atlantans along with local businesses and foundations have enabled us to provide gift packages to hundreds of thousands of children living in Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Douglas, Fayette, Fulton, Gwinnett, Henry and Rockdale counties.

Through relationships with wholesale distributors, we purchase brand new items in sufficient quantities to offer a variety of age- and gender-appropriate choices. In December, we invite parents and guardians of eligible children to visit Santa’s Village and select gifts for their children.

For every $20 we raise, a child receives a gift package consisting of two toys, an educational item and a clothing item. The total average retail value of these items ranges from $30 to $50.