2013 Annual Report

**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.
Year 2013, all cases should be reported to Mrs. Mei-Ling Flanders (evergreenseniorcare@gmail.com), the new head of emergency cases.
 

For information on our volunteering activities, please refer to our volunteer calendar. 

Nov.: What to Know About Turkey Day

11/23/2013 - foods packing at SOCIETY OF ST. VINCENT DE PAUL, MARTINSBURG, WV 25401	11/23/2013 - foods packing for DC and Fairfax county, VA families

Oct:  Thanksgiving Basket Pack 2013
Miss Ashley Tseng and Mrs. Alex Cochran from Langley High School's National Honor Society are currently working on fundraising and collecting the food items for the 60 needy families:

1. Sat, November 16th from 10am – noon at McLean, VA
2. Sat, November 23rd from 10am – noon at Martinsburg, WV

Here is the list of Items that we will need donated:

• Turkey (13lbs or larger) or $15 gift cards
• box of stuffing
• box of potatoes flakes
• gravy (dry mix)
• canned cranberry sauce
• canned corn
• canned green beans
• canned pumpkin mix
• pie crust
• dinner rolls

September:

• Mid-Autumn Fest Moon Cake Fundraiser Event

Because we are going to be supporting 60 families for this year's Thanksgiving project, we will be having many fundraisers for it this fall. We will also be collecting canned foods. Due to two weeks' worth of moon cake fundraising, we have already sold 125 boxes and raised $546.92. If anyone has any other fundraising ideas, please contact us. Or if anyone is interested in helping us pack in West Virginia for the Thanksgiving project, also let us know.

July & Aug: Finally, we have successfully delivered all the school supplies and helped more than 100 students in the DC and West Virginia area.

Volunteer Allen and Alice Lai
delivered donations to
Providence Hospital, DC

Volunteer Ashley Tseng
familydelivered donations
to West Virginia

• Coffee donations to D.C. Ronald McDonald House and victim service of Fairfax police station.
• The 2013 Back-to-School Project is being lead by Mr. Ben Epsey

  

  Mr. Ben Epsey

  this fall, and we have already begun to raise money and collect supplies for it. For activity details, please see here.  This event requires pre-registration prior to the day of. You can register here.

• Packing time: 11 am
• Packing date: 8/3/2013
• Packing location: Rockville, MD (Once you register, we will send you an e-mail letting you know the exact address)

June: 
We joined the Oklahoma disaster relief project and the following is their thank-you letter to us. Our volunteers sent more than 3,000 pieces baby diapers to the victims along with numerous other baby supplies.

May: 

• Our senior-student volunteers have received admission into the following universities for the Fall of 2013: Yale University, Carnegie Mellon University, California Institute of Technology, Cornell University, Virginia Tech, University of Maryland at College Park, Johns Hopkins Univeristy, Stanford University, and many more. Congratulations to you all!

• We collected 58 packs of disposable briefs from a few anonymous donors and delivered them to the Daugthers of Charity of Providence Hospital in DC. Details, please click here.

• The 2013 Back-to-School Project has started already, and we have already begun to raise money and collect supplies for the Fall. Below is information about the project.

Students, parents, and teachers can all make a difference in reducing waste at school. By practicing the "3 Rs" of waste reduction—reduce, reuse, and recycle—we can all do our part. We encouraged our teenage volunteers to work with school teachers and friends to find ways to motivate everyone in their community to make waste reduction a part of their everyday lives. Teens can also look for unique ways to make their schools more waste-free, such as starting a school compost project or ask for a day in art class where you can use things that would have normally been thrown away.

Activity contents -- Teens participated the year-round recycle collection fundraising effort to support the following three main projects: 1) collecting canned food on a monthly basis for people in need, 2) supporting back-to-school in July, and 3) preparing food baskets during the Thanksgiving holiday for family in need in DC, MD, VA and WV areas.

Before starting a new school year (between now and July), teens will participate by:

a) Collecting old shipping boxes (standard size: 16" x 11" ; 2 times copy papers size) with a list of supplies that student need on the top of box

b) Sorting through your old materials and donating your extra old folders and binders with good condition (of course), and all others stationary. (Note: Many of last year's supplies can be reused or recycled.)

c) Volunteering to make a list before donors shop for school supplies. This will help the group to remember what needs to be purchased and limit impulse buying. When you have a plan it's easier to take action.

d) Scheduling delivery

e) Getting ready for school next year by making locker decorations out of old CDs. Decorate them with paint, stickers, rhinestones, or photos; stick magnetic tape to the back; and spruce up your locker! Another great locker decoration: pictures from old magazines that would have been thrown away.

• Activity time: 5/1/2013 ~ 8/10/2013
• Packing date: 8/3/2013
• Delivery date: To be announced (TBA)
• Location: Rockville, MD

Any teenagers interested in participating in this project can send an e-mail to evergreenseniorcare@gmail.com.

Edited by: Ashley T.

April:

• Feeding Homeless in The Salvation Army Feedmore mobile, the sandwiches making location changed to the Salvation Army Warehouse at 3800 Buena Vista Ave, Baltimore, MD 21211.
• We encourage all of our volunteers to participate in National Crime Victims Rights Week, which will take place April 21-27. This annual observance, first designated by President Ronald Reagan in 1981, aims to increase public awareness and knowledge about the wide range of rights and services available to people who have been victimized by crime. The Fairfax County Police Department is sponsoring a 5K Walk and Candlelight Vigil on Sunday, April 21 from 4:30-7:30pm. FLYER
• Hans, one of our volunteers, delivered eight bags of household items and clothing and three boxes of canned food to the Seton thrift shop and center. Details, please click here.

Edited by: Ashley T.

March:

• When members of needy families are sent to the ER, they often are in need of new briefs since their old ones were disposed of; therefore, we decided to donate a great number of new disposable briefs to the Daugthers of Charity of Providence Hospital in order to help those who needed them. We welcome everyone to contribute to this project, if interested. We will be delivering more briefs every other month. Details, please click here.

Edited by: Ashley T.

February:

• We donated winter hats, coats, women's briefs, socks, and canned food to the Daugthers of Charity of Providence Hospital, who passed our donations onto needy families. Details, please click here.

• Delivered six boxes of canned food to the Seton Center in Emmitsburg, Maryland. In the picture to the left, Hans (one of our volunteers) stands with Sister Salvatrice Murphy.

• We fundraised for the Fairfax County Police Departments Victim Services Section, in total donating 20 $25 gift cards. These funds came from our teenage volunteers' year-long efforts through collecting recycled items as well as from other anonymous donors. Thank you letters can be viewed here.

Edited by: Ashley T.

January:

• We donated winter hats and socks to the St. Vincent de Paul Society in Martinsburg, WV. Individual donors should receive their donation receipts via mail soon. To see the thank-you letter written to Evergreen, please click here.
• Delivered canned food to the Seton Center in Emmitsburg, Maryland. Their mission is to assist low income families to meet their needs by offering supportive human services. 
• Hurricane Sandy Relief Project (November and December 2012). Our teenage volunteers spent their winter holidays gathering together and collecting items to benefit the victims of Hurricane Sandy, including collecting winter clothing along with food that would later be delivered to various shelters in New Jersey. To see detailed pictures about this project, click here. 
• click here to see Year 2012 activities.

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Hello All, 
Through the help from all of our volunteers, the money from the underwear sales plus some small cash and recycled items donations all contributed to the cause for people in need. It enabled us to not only help the local people but also to help the international orphans and children in need.

The effect of our "little steps", through sharing and giving, is enormous. We truly do make a difference in the society and hopefully everyone is keeping up with the good work.

If you have ever made a donation to charity groups, you might understand that not every institute is willing to take the time to write thank-you letters or to issue donation receipts to you. Often times they take a while to mail donation receipts to you.

Since we emphasized that we don't have overhead of any administrative expenses, all our volunteers who are involved in the charity cases are "100% volunteered" – meaning that not one cent goes to as the administration fees. All the gas money comes right out from our own pockets, and our financials are open and transparent in public. Our volunteers, as always, try their best to get the donation receipt(s) as soon as they receive the donations.

We would like to clarify one thing though: the Evergreen Senior Care does not do any fundraising for other charity groups but soley 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 one of our volunteers, Yarlin Ho. We post on the website regularly, keeping our readers updated on where all the donations go. 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 is in conjunction with the Salvation Army in Baltimore city,  the Providence Hospital in DC, The Daughters of Charity Emmitsburg Province, churches in D.C. area, 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 without charging the administration fee. For the past 10 years, our volunteer activities have 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 explains 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/

Edited by: Ashley Tseng (May 2013)

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