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Happy New Year! We hope that each of you and your families have had a peaceful start to 2025. We want to begin the year by expressing our heartfelt gratitude to everyone who made the Holiday Cheer program possible. The Easter Seals ECI Holiday Cheer program provides assistance to families enrolled in our ECI program who have been identified by their ECI team as needing help with gifts. These families do not receive support from any other programs, such as Elf Louise or Blue Santa. What started as a small initiative about 18 years ago, fully supported by Easter Seals staff, has grown significantly over the years. Community partners, including HEB, local clubs, and individual donors, have generously contributed the support needed to develop the program into what it is today.

This year, the Easter Seals Holiday Cheer program assisted 105 children, in addition to many other children and families that our staff adopted independently, without formally including them in the Holiday Cheer program. This year's Holiday Cheer was made possible by the generous donations from H-E-B Public Affairs, which contributed $2,500 in cash and $2,500 in H-E-B gift cards, as well as support from H-E-B Partner Solutions Engineering, Cindy Scott's team, the Sonterra Tennis Club, Marathon Made CrossFit Gym, Easter Seals Family & Friends, and Easter Seals Staff. We are deeply thankful to all who helped make Holiday Cheer a success!

Above: Holiday Cheer gifts wrapped and ready for case managers to collect and deliver to families.

Left: Zack Norman delivering gifts for the 16 children Cindy Scott's group at H-E-B Partner Solutions Engineering division adopted this year. They are long time supporters of Holiday Cheer.

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I'm a SuperStar!

Tickets for the 8th Annual Calendar Raffle will go on sale in February!

Stay tuned for a chance to support Easter Seals ECI.

Great prizes raffled off DAILY in March. All proceeds from raffle ticket sales benefit our Champions fore Charity campaign.

Check out all confirmed donors here.

You Can Make a 107% Difference

Easter Seals Early Childhood Intervention invites you to support us through Champions fore Charity, an exciting fundraising program linked to the Valero Texas Open, the 3^rd oldest tournament on the PGA TOUR schedule. Our fundraising goal from Champions fore Charity is ($25,000), and your contribution will get us off to a great start.

How Easter Seals ECI will benefit…

We will receive 100% of what we raise through Champions fore Charity. Valero Texas Open and Champions fore Charity pays all the costs to run the program. And depending on how well we do, we can even earn additional “Bonus Money” provided by the Valero Texas Open, including a 7% match to make your donation even grow further!

A $25.00 donation helps identify children who need early intervention services through child find activities.
A $50.00 donation helps provide access to community resources and services for ECI children and their families.
A $100.00 donation helps provide therapy services for ECI Children so they can excel in meeting their developmental milestones.

Fun Incentives for YOU…

To add sizzle to the program, twenty-five (25) lucky donors will be randomly drawn to each win a $100 Valero gas gift card compliments of Valero. Winners will be selected after the conclusion of the fundraising campaign which ends April 14.

You also have a chance to guess who the 2025 Valero Texas Open Champion will be for a chance to win a Stay & Play Gift Package to TPC San Antonio and the JW Marriott San Antonio Hill Country Resort & Spa. Participating donors who have provided an email address will receive an email from tournament officials after the player field is announced on Friday, March 28. Donors will have until Wednesday, April 2 to select from the player field who they believe will win the tournament.

The winner will be drawn from those who correctly guessed the tournament champion and receive the grand prize, along with earning us a donation of $5,000! If more than one person correctly guesses, a drawing amongst those who guessed correctly will be conducted. If no one correctly guesses, a drawing among all donors will take place… and you may just win!

One (1) lucky donor who attends the 2025 Valero Texas Open will win a two-year lease on a Lexus NX, compliments of North Park Lexus San Antonio and Dominion. Donors must use the same email address for their purchased ticket to the Valero Texas Open, to verify attendance upon gate scan and entry to the tournament grounds.

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