A bit of stick-to-it-iveness
and Katherine Breen at the Danbury Mall.
If you”™re with a nonprofit seeking to raise funds by offering to wrap holiday packages in exchange for a modest donation, you”™re going to need a way to secure the wrapping paper around those gifts. If you can do it without cutting into the funds you”™ll be raising, that”™s a plus. So it was that the Ridgefield Chapter of the National Charity League held an adhesive tape drive to support Housatonic Habitat for Humanity”™s “Wrapping for Habitat.”
At the Danbury Fair Mall from Dec. 1 through Dec. 24, Housatonic Habitat”™s volunteers ran a wrapping station just outside of Macy”™s on the second floor. With a suggested donation of $5 per gift, shoppers could get their gifts wrapped while supporting Housatonic Habitat at the same time.
Ridgefield chapter volunteers collected tape for use by Housatonic Habitat”™s wrapping volunteers. The chapter has about 250 members. It serves more than 30 local philanthropies and donates approximately 5,000 hours of service to the community each year.