Your gift will help us send gifts to needy kids
"from Santa". You can make them smile!
Tell Santa thank you! This little girl received gifts from USPS Operation Santa volunteers one Christmas Eve with her sisters looking on. Smiles all around!
She wrote to Santa asking for basic necessities, and Be An Elf answered her letter. Your tax-deductible gift will make children smile this Christmas.
Greetings!

Today is Giving Tuesday, and I'm asking you to help Be An Elf bring joy to low-income children on Christmas morning. This year we will adopt as many USPS letters to Santa as our donations will permit. We'll respond to letters from kids and moms asking only for "new shoes, size 8," "a warm coat," a toy, and other basic necessities.

One letter said, "I'm sad this Christmas because my Mom lost her job. I'm not asking for much, but I need new clothes. I feel ashamed sometimes at school." 
  
Be An Elf does more than adopt letters; thanks to a major in-kind grant from Google for free advertising, we recruit new volunteers every year who also adopt letters. Our news releases and Google ads increase public awareness of the USPS program, and our website offers tips to volunteers who adopt letters.

We also offer tips for struggling families asking for help getting their kids gifts this year, and to companies to help them organize employee teams to adopt letters to Santa.

Some letters we adopt are from single moms who say their children are still too young to write and list their kids' ages and clothing sizes. Be An Elf uses donations to help send the Moms $100 Target gift cards; we trust the moms will buy what their kids need most.
This single Mom cried in her driveway when gifts arrived unexpectedly on Christmas eve from volunteers. She said she had no money to buy her children gifts for Christmas.
Overwhelmed when our gifts
arrived, this Mom began to cry.
Volunteer Hans comforts a woman who cried upon receiving gifts from Santa for her kids.
“I had no money to buy my children
presents this year. This is wonderful!”
In 2020 Be An Elf did not raise enough to send gifts to all the letters we felt were worthy. View some of the Santa Letters from kids we've adopted in the past.
 
I'm asking for your support so that more volunteers across the nation will adopt children's letters and send their gifts directly to families who wrote to Santa.

You can sponsor a child's letter to Santa by making a tax-deductible gift at BeAnElf.org.

Giving Tuesday is November 30 this year, but why wait? The more contributions we receive, the more letters we'll answer. Your gift means that more low-income kids will get presents this Christmas. Donate at our page BeAnElf.org/give or if you wish to give by check, our mailing address is below.

Thank you for supporting our worthy work. We're an all-volunteer group, so your gift goes a long way here. Please donate, and together we will put smiles on more children's faces.

You'll rediscover the true meaning of Christmas, and help bring joy to kids in real need on Christmas morning.

Thank you for making a generous gift!


Patrick Reynolds
Executive Director

Be An Elf
8117 W Manchester Ave Suite 500
Playa del Rey CA 90293