If you prefer not to shop, we will arrange to do it for you! Pick out a family and send a check payable to Brenda Piatz, Academic Programs. We will provide you with store receipts after we shop, if you wish.

are headed by women working to become self-supporting and to provide stable homes for their children. They are participants in the Transitional Housing Program of the St. Paul YWCA, through which they gain a variety of job and family skills. In each of the last seven years, we have contributed more than $5,000 in gifts to the 36 families in the program.

Please join Mac staff and faculty in our special project to provide holiday gifts for needy families. Just visit the wish list page, choose a family, and buy one or more gifts for each member of the family.

• Bring gifts to BRENDA PIATZ in the Academic Programs Office, Weyerhaeuser 215 (62 Macalester Street).
• CLEARLY MARK each bag or box of gifts with the number of the family. On a separate, removable tag or Post-it, please provide your name.
• DO NOT WRAP your gifts.
• We need all gifts by noon TUESDAY, DEC. 9.

As a general guideline, while some donors give nearly everything on a family's wish list, gifts tend to average in the range of $15-20 for very young children, $25-30 for pre-teens, $30-35 for teens and $40-60 for moms.

Questions?

To find out more, or to arrange to deliver your gifts,
e-mail Brenda Piatz,

piatz@macalester.edu,
or call x6036.

This is a project carried out by staff and faculty at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. We also thank staff, students and faculty at the St. Thomas University Law School for adopting several families each year.