Charity Profile: Birthday Blessings

I have to feature Birthday Blessings in this week's Charity Profile, because I think it's such a neat idea. In 2005, Amy & John Cervantes of Charlotte started Birthday Blessings as a way to encourage their kids to give back to others in need. It's grown a lot since then, and now they serve the greater Charlotte area and are trying to take their giving to a national level.

Birthday Blessings has 3 programs: Shelter Parties, which enables children in local homeless shelters to have a birthday party with cake, snacks, party games, presents and goody bags; Student Birthdays, which gives elementary- and middle school-aged kids in unstable housing situations (kids living in motels, campgrounds, etc.) birthday parties at school, complete with cake, presents and goody bags for their classmates; and Blessing Baskets, which provides homeless mothers of newborns with laundry baskets full of baby clothes, diapers, and other necessary supplies. Now, how can you not love this charity?

Please visit Birthday Blessings' Support page to view all the things they need, as there's just too much to list in one post. They need gift cards to Target, Walmart, Dollar Tree and other area stores, gift wrap, laundry baskets (pick some up for $1 each at Dollar Tree!), size N diapers, and much more. If you're like me, you want to give all year long, not just during the holidays. Birthday Blessings is definitely worthy of your help.