We are Camille DeBiase and Tom Gambale, native Brooklynites and co-owners of a New York City audio post production company called MediaRacket. In 2008, Camille authored a children's book called "Bert The Runner Duck Runs the New York City Marathon" which lead both of us to become more aware and involved in various homeless and children's issues here in New York City.
As recent statistics reflect, the number of homeless have been increasing rapidly each year throughout the City. To make the upcoming season festive and do some goodwill for New York City area homeless children our goal is to donate 100 Easter Baskets filled with items such as coloring books, crayons, candy, small toys, etc., to children and their families residing in New York City's homeless shelters.
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THE EASTER BASKET PROJECT NYC - 2014, with your donation, is a wonderful way of bringing some fun and happiness to at least 100 homeless children and their families. Your donations will be used to purchase and fill the 100 Easter/Passover/Spring Baskets.
100% of your donation will go to buying and filling the baskets.
A donation of $1.00 can buy items such as crayons or a coloring book or candy; $5.00 can buy items such as puzzles, small toys or a stuffed bunny; with a $10.00 donation we can buy socks, hats, toiletries, food vouchers or a gift card for the older kids (who unfortunately sometimes get overlooked); or with a $25.00 Sponsored Basket donation, we can really load up a basket with all these items and more.
This is our first Indiegogo campaign, so even an E-mail wishing us luck and cheering our project on, or helping to get the word out about our campaign to your family and friends would be so appreciated. At the very least, if we don't meet our goal, we can still make as many baskets as donations allow, and still be able to donate to the shelters - but of course, more money means more baskets - 100 Easter/Passover/Spring Baskets is our minimum goal.
Under the guidance of the New York City Department of Homeless Services (DHS), we will be delivering all Easter Baskets to shelters within the five boroughs. We will be posting video of our deliveries.
- Your thoughtful contribution will go a long way to put smiles on the faces of homeless children, their parents and families. The families you will be generously donating to are from many different backgrounds and faith traditions, our aim is to bring a festive and surprising seasonal gift to as many children as possible.
Please check out these important links:
The New York City Department of Homeless Services
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dhs/html/home/home.shtml
The Coalition for the Homeless
http://www.coalitionforthehomeless.org/
MediaRacket Audio Post
https://www.facebook.com/mediaracket