Super Love Sender Launches on Target Facebook Page in Celebration of Valentine's Day and The Big Game. Online Community to Help Target Give $1 Million to Select Charities.
Target, which gives $3 million a week to support education, the arts, social services and volunteerism nationwide, today invites the online community and its more than 725,000 fans on Facebook® to participate in Super Love Sender, a two-week-long giving campaign on its Facebook Page (facebook.com/Target). The campaign, which runs from January 31 through February 14, 2010, combines football and love just in time for Super Bowl XLIV and Valentine's Day, and allows participants to choose how five national charities will receive a portion of $1 million from Target to fund educational programming.
The five charities are:
· Kids In Need Foundation · United Through Reading® Military Program
· St. Jude Children's Research Hospital® · United Way
· The Salvation Army
Through Super Love Sender, everyone can upload a personal photo and customize one of three quirky Valentine's Day, football-inspired video cards to send to friends and family in support of the select charities. Every time a video card is sent, the guest-chosen charity will receive one vote. The total percentage of votes will correlate to the charities' portion of the $1 million received in a one-time donation from Target.
http://tinyurl.com/targetsuperlovefundraiser
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Thank you to everyone who made a donation to one of our Red Kettles during the holiday season. With your help we raised $126,984. This surpasses our goal of $125,000. We truly appreciate your continued support.
God's blessings for 2010.
Social Networking Sites and The Salvation Army
The Salvation Army sees the youth in our community as a vital resource not only for voluntary service but also as a our future leaders. Young people are wired into technology and look to social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace as a way to stay constantly connected. With this in mind, The Salvation Army of Battle Creek has created a fanpage on Facebook. The page can be found on Facebook at The Salvation Army of Battle Creek, MI. This page contains information about upcoming events, volunteer opportunities and the programs & services of The Salvation Army. We continue to look for new ways to engage volunteers, donors, members and young people through technology.
The Salvation Army
Looks To The Future
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In July of 2007 a twenty year dream was realized with the purchase of the McKinley School property. The purchase of the former elementary has been a tremendous blessing for The Salvation Army. The services we provide have truly been enhanced. To find out how we currently use the property, please read the article "McKinley School-What We've Done With The Place" (this article can be found in the drop down menu on our home page). This building has also made it possible for us to envision other areas of service The Salvation Army could provide to the Battle Creek community.
This vision includes opening the gym for an after school recreational program, using two classrooms for a teen drop in center which would include a game room, creating a space for adult programming & local groups to hold meetings, building a computer lab for youth & adults, solving our shortage of office & storage space and providing a 200 seat auditorium which can be used for worship & performing arts programs.
With our vision in mind, The Salvation Army set out to find an architectural firm to help us realize our next dream. Through this search we meet Isaac Norris of Isaac V. Norris & Associates, P.C. Isaac and his firm created a design that fills all of our dreams for the future. Dreams of continuing the services we've provided for the last 123 years in Battle Creek and dreams of being a positive partner with the residents of the McKinley Neighborhood.
Currently, The Salvation Army has 80% of the amount needed to build this beautiful addition. In the coming months we will work to acquire the other 20% needed. We hope to break ground in 2010.
In its 145 year history The Salvation Army has never settled for doing just the minimum. We're always evaluation where we've been, where we at and what else we could be doing to help our neighbors and our community. We believe this addition is the next step in doing more for the Battle Creek community.