**Green Fundraising: We're recycling used Ink Cartridges, used Cell phone/PDA to exchange canned foods for needy. All makes and models are accepted. details, please click here.
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- Special Thank you Dr. Benson W. Yu, MD.(Fairfax, VA) provides over-the-counter medications and vitamins for free clinic use.
- A very special gratitude to our long term sponsors - Benjamin L. Leung, CPA.
Year 2011 Thank you letters: (details information, please click on the month abbreviation)
On December, 2011 : Find a way to make a difference in someone's life this holiday season. With our help, Christmas can be a happy time for everyone. Would like to be a Santa Claus to make someone's dream come true? if so, please check the list below.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlX1t6yF4X0BdEotcHhfQjBHQ18wRDFRTU1VQ21LZVE#gid=0
On December, 2011 : Find a way to make a difference in someone's life this holiday season. With our help, Christmas can be a happy time for everyone. Would like to be a Santa Claus to make someone's dream come true? if so, please check the list below.
- Family 1: Hard-working father in this family. Works as a school custodian and does odd jobs to supplement income. Father needs a pair of shoes (size: M). Mother needs a set of glove and scarf. kids need winter clothes.
- Family 2: Mother who is the sole support of her husband and daughter. Husband was recently disabled and cannot receive help for a few months. Mother works for a cleaning service and walks downtown to work at 4:00 a.m. each day. She needs a warm winter coat.(This wish list has to be taken care of by students of the Langley High School, McLean, VA)
- Family 3: a couple with 5 girls have been here a little over a year and are trying hard to adjust to a different culture. (This wish list has to be taken care of by Mrs. Shellie Mashburn family)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlX1t6yF4X0BdEotcHhfQjBHQ18wRDFRTU1VQ21LZVE#gid=0
| Mr. Stephen Chen, student of the River Hill High School, Clarksville, MD, has assisted in the food packing for our Thanksgiving baskets for past four years. He not only care about the community, but are able to manage his time well enough to balance a volunteer job with other commitments. | |
| On Saturday, November 19, 2011, Volunteers delivered Thanksgiving Food Baskets to families identified as needy by the St. Vincent de Paul Society, Martinsburg, WV. For the third year in a row, the CHARITY GROUP of Evergreen Senior Care in conjunction with the St. Vincent de Paul Society have participated in a Thanksgiving Basket Program. We delivered a complete turkey dinner, including at least one turkey depending on the size of the family, and winter coats drive. | |
| On 11/13/2011, because of the generosity of our community, we have delivered holiday food baskets to more than 500 families in DC in the past 8 years. What a wonderful demonstration of caring for our neighbors in need. | |
| Volunteers Make The Difference!! On 11/12/2011, there are over 50 volunteers who help collected donations, pack meals, and winter clothes to about 200 people who receive Meals from us. We have volunteers from a wide variety of backgrounds doing a wide variety of tasks. Our volunteers ranged in age from 13 – 68, represented a wide range of education levels from not graduating high school through doctorate degrees, and were fluent in different languages. Despite these differences, for many of our volunteers, the thing they have in common is the commitment to our mission. In addition to the volunteers, we like to Special Acknowledgment to Mrs. Joan Lee and Mr. Allen Lai - we could absolutely not do this without your big helps. :) |
May~Aug : Thanks Note, letters- helping 100+ children and Teens back to school. ?
- Special Thanks to the following Donors for making our work possible!Gifts of $500 and above: Benjamin L. Leung, CPA
Gifts of $100 and above:(in alphabetical order by last name)Byles Family(Rockville, MD), Cheng family (Clarksville, MD), Cowen famil, Ho family (Rockville, MD), Indtai Inc., Ai Chu Lin, Vivia Liang, Tseng family(McLean, VA), Maggie Wang, Yee family - Gifts-in-Kind and Others Monetary Donations:(in alphabetical order by last name)Amy Shieh Allen, Joy Butler, Yang &Jing Cai, Flora Chen, Loretta Davis, Leigh Henderson, Helen Huang, Jiuan-Jiuan Hu, Debra Marshall, Alicia McCoy, Sze Patrum, Bing-sing Wang, Elizabeth Walter, Jeff Whitesell, Joe Wang, Timothy Yee
- Special Acknowledgement to the following volunteers: (in alphabetical order by last name) Show-Fune Chen and family, Allen Chen, Flora Chen and her mother, Wane-Jang Lin & Min-Ching Chen, Lily Cheng, Flanders family, Quach family (Arlington, VA), Shu Fei Chuang & AK Shyu, Tsai family (McLean, VA), Tseng family, Jen Wang, Joan & Ming Wang Family, Yee family, Hongwei Zhang
April :
- To support Dr. Chaujun Lee's family (full story; Dr. Chaujun Lee passed away peacefully at 9AM 4/19/2011. )
- Thanks to the following Donors:Josephine Wang,Wu family (Holmdel, NJ), Vera Zhao, Tsai family
March:
- To assist helping end hunger for those in need in the Martinsburg, WV community.
- Andrew Cheng ran out from japan tsunami (full story)
- Randy Liang Tragedy (full story,Liang family got back to normal life on May, 2011.)
- The Rotary Club of McLean presented its 2011 Youth Service Awards to our Youth volunteer during a special ceremony. (connection newspaper)
- Thanks to the following Donors:Chih-Hung Chen, Kaelin Lee, Chunyen Chang, Indtai Inc., Ming Wang, Shu Fei Chuang, Woan-Yi Byles, Cowen family, Yee family, Shiow-Min Lin and Yiling Tu, Roche family(Bethesda, MD), Hue-hsing Cheng, Kenny Quach, Lin-lin Kuo, Lily Chang, Tseng family
Jan. Feb.: New warm winter items will be collected and given to local charities for distribution to local, needy families.
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Hello All, Through the helps from all volunteers, the money from the underwear sales plus some small amount of cash and recycled items donations assembled a "Huge" help for the people in need. It enabled us not only helped the local people but also helped the international orphans and children in need.
The effect of our "little steps", through sharing and giving, that we took around with us daily is enormous. We do make a difference and hope everyone is keeping up with the good work doing the charity together.
If you have had ever to make donation to charity groups, you might understand that not every institute is willing to take the time to write Thank you letter or to issue donation receipt to you. However, they would mail you for collecting cash or goods only.
Since we emphasized that we don't have overhead of any administrative expenses, all our volunteers who involve in the charity cases are "100% volunteered" – meaning that not one cent goes to as the administration fees. All gas money is coming out from volunteers' own pockets. Our financial is open and transparent in public. Our volunteers, as always, try the best to get the donation receipt(s) at the same time when the donations are delivered to the needy.
At here, we would like to clarify one thing though: the Evergreen Senior Care does not do any fundraising for others charity groups but for itself. However, since we don't have an account for our charity fund, the fund is actually handled jointly by the Evergreen Senior Care CEO, board members and volunteer Yarlin Ho. We post on the website for where the donations go regularly. Please go to the month abbreviation link above and click on the Month of Thank you letter to see details for the monthly activities. If you have questions, please email to Evergreen Senior Care, Inc. at evergreenseniorcare@gmail.com directly for verification.
The charity group of Evergreen Senior Care in conjunction with the Salvation Army in Baltimore city, Red Cross, SHARE at McLean, the Providence Hospital in DC, The Daughters of Charity Emmitsburg Province, churches in D.C. area, the Charity group of Tzu Chi Greater Washington DC, Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Washington DC , the Rural Outreach and Immigration Services of Martinsburg, WV and the Victim Services Section of Fairfax County Police Department, to help people in need does not charge the administration fee. During the past 7 years, our volunteer activities included distributing food to the homeless, packing back-to-school supplies in backpacks for low income children, providing Thanksgiving meals to less fortunate families, and distributing over 2,000 stuffed animals to over 40 organizations and hospitals in the Washington metropolitan area.
Below explain how we do the charity work - Once we get a request from our contacts, volunteers will decide the budget of the project by determining the types of materials, supplies and quantity for the needy and planning on how much should be raised or how many items should be collected. Then, we actively work on the fundraising to meet the goal. We do not donate cash to any of these organizations, but when they are at need for goods or food, we try in all our ability to provide assistance as much as possible. We even, sometimes, followed them through the process as they distributed the donations to the people they support.
If you would like to support our charity activities, the checks can be written to the Evergreen Senior Care and sent to our new address: 1921 Birch Road, McLean, VA 22101. On the year 2011, the Evergreen Senior Care will be on the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) list of approved charities. For more details for all charity activities, please see : http://evergreenseniorcareva.blogspot.com/
