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The Power of Giving … with Thirty-One Gifts

World Vision Staff — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 22:35:39 +0000

“It is so powerful to see the impact our products can have in spreading hope—whether it’s to survivors of a natural disaster, refugees, or children in poverty.”
—Cindy Monroe, Founder and CEO of Thirty-One Gifts.

For the past six years, Thirty-One Gives (the charitable arm of Thirty-One Gifts) has partnered with World Vision on Giving Tuesday to spread generosity during the holiday season.

The past year has highlighted the power of partnership with Thirty-One Gifts—through its Thirty-One Gives program—to bring vital resources to communities in need. Moved by the mounting needs of vulnerable people impacted by the COVID-19 crisis, Thirty-One Gifts partnered with World Vision again on May 5 for Giving Tuesday Now.

“Thirty-One Gifts has partnered with World Vision in the past for other important causes, so it was only natural to give back during this unprecedented time, by providing 1,000 family emergency kits to families in the U.S.,” says Cindy Monroe, Founder and CEO of Thirty-One Gifts.

Since 2014, products given by Thirty-One Gifts and monetary donations by Thirty-One Gives have totaled more than $43 million. “It is so powerful to see the impact our products can have in spreading hope—whether it’s to survivors of a natural disaster, refugees, or children in poverty,” says Cindy. “It’s our pleasure to give back to families in need everywhere.”

Thirty-One Gives and World Vision have a shared common goal of empowering girls, women, and families. “We have partnered in many ways,” says Cindy, “including building Hope Kits for women and families impacted by domestic violence or natural disasters; and by donating a variety of products such as towels, totes, and thermal sets that assist new moms, carry crucial medical supplies, and transport books to help keep children in school.”

Working with World Vision, Thirty-One Gives has helped children reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice in a wide variety of ways:

Thirty-One Gives has partnered with World Vision on Giving Tuesday for the past six years to spread generosity during the holiday season.
Since 2012, Thirty-One Gives has donated more than $100 million in products and cash to charitable organizations that share the Gives mission.
During the coronavirus pandemic, Thirty-One Gives has provided 1,000 Family Emergency Kits to families in the U.S.

It’s easy to join companies like Thirty-One Gifts to help more people through your business. Simply partner with World Vision today!

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5000 Containers: A Milestone to Celebrate

World Vision Staff — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 00:15:51 +0000

World Vision has reached a milestone in humanitarian aid relief. On July 18, 2019^th the organization shipped its 5,000^th international container to Zambia. The container included bikes from Free Bikes 4 Kidz, clothing from Abercrombie & Fitch Co., school and hygiene supplies from World Vision Promise Packs©, towels from 31 Gifts, and much more.

These gift-in-kind donations not only provide children and their families with vital supplies that can help lift them out of poverty, they also offer corporations a responsible business solution for excess inventory.

The container arrived in the Choma district of Zambia on October 30, 2019 and was shared among the communities of Hamaundu and Moyo. In total, over 4,100 children and 1,500 adults in need benefitted from these donations.

One of the children, 8-year-old Beatrice, had the privilege of receiving a school bag and expressed gratitude to World Vision for her gift. Now, she no longer must face the challenge of carrying her schoolbooks in a plastic bag and feels encouraged to share what she has with her friends.

World Vision’s Product Donation program has been aiding vulnerable children and families around the world with donated product for more than three decades. Since 2003, World Vision has received product donations from approximately 3,670 donors across the United States ranging from individuals to large corporations. In some cases, World Vision receives donations that can only be shipped internationally, and we distribute those through our warehouse in Fife, Washington. Under normal circumstances, our donations are brought to our Pittsburgh Global Distribution Center in trucks, sorted onsite by volunteers and then shipped to roughly 40 of the 100+ countries our organization serves.

World Vision’s incredible achievement was made possible because of the generosity and support from donors. It’s a partnership that is helping impact and transform the lives of the children and families we serve.

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Touching donations surprise 9-year-old with a special Christmas wish

World Vision Staff — Mon, 30 Dec 2019 19:18:46 +0000

Joey Johnson has a rare genetic condition, but is focused on giving back to others
An anonymous donor, Relief Beds International, and You Can Toys joined forces to fill Joey’s list

One incredible boy from Indianapolis got his Christmas wish list filled early this year. But it wasn’t Santa making the special delivery, and what he wanted under his tree may surprise you.

Nine-year-old Joey Johnson has mitochondrial disease, a rare genetic disorder that has no cure. It means he needs to use a wheelchair to get around. But his time isn’t spent thinking about what he can’t do, but rather how he can take action to make the world a better place. He and his family have been raising money to donate to World Vision’s Gift Catalog.

Joey and his sister Annie at their home in Indianapolis.

“I want other kids to be able to achieve their goals and dreams because we are all in this together,” he said.

Joey has saved for months to buy the bicycles for children in need, selling popcorn through his Cub Scout troop. His 5-year-old sister and parents also pitched in to Joey’s Christmas campaign, scrimping and saving work bonuses and tax refunds. They had raised more than $1,000, giving medicine, food, education, animals, a bicycle, and a wheelchair to children around the world in need.

Joey also created a Christmas wish list including: an alpaca, relief beds, soccer balls, wheelchairs and more. His story made national headlines and hundreds of people donated in his name. The story caught the attention of an anonymous donor and several corporations. Now they’ve stepped in to make sure his Christmas wish list is filled.

Joey was surprised with the news that so many people had given to help others in his name when some unusual presents showed up on his front lawn. In all, 100 wheelchairs, 40 bicycles, 14 alpacas, 158 relief beds, 626 soccer balls, and nearly 200 toys were donated in Joey’s name.

“This is like the biggest present I’ve seen in my life. And I’m probably gonna keep going,” said Joey. “I’m gonna keep going until there’s no such thing as the catalog. That means there’ll be no more catalog, because everybody will have at least something that they can use.”

The response came thanks to a community effort. An anonymous donor was moved by the story and gave $25,000 to help fill the wish list.

Relief Bed International donated 100 beds to Joey’s list. “World Vision is a fantastic partner of Relief Bed International and helps us further our mission to provide innovative and strategically built beds for impoverished people in emerging countries, in support of victims of natural disasters and homeless shelters across North America,” says Scott Smalling Relief Bed International Founder.

You Can Toys also heard the story and wanted to help, donating more than $6400 in toys to children in poverty in Joey’s name. Their educational ABC Alphabet Cards and Water Mats will be sent to children overseas – a rare gift for kids who don’t have a toy that is all their own.

Since 1996, the World Vision Gift Catalog has given people the opportunity to better the lives of children, adults and communities in the U.S. and around the world through hundreds of gifts in all different areas of need: clean water, food, education, sexual exploitation, job training and others. There are over 100 life-saving gifts ranging from $16 to $50,000. In fiscal year 2018, 146,000 people donated more than 310,000 items from the Gift Catalog that helped people around the world raising over $30 million. To order from World Vision’s Gift Catalog, click here.

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Corporate Partnerships

IBU-D2-Accounts@worldvision.org — Thu, 06 Apr 2017 19:26:14 +0000

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