Hugs for Hope Bags collaboration with Color me SAFE Foundation

Date: April 13, 2024

Location: Coppell, TX

More than 70 Charities2Love and Color me SAFE volunteers brought donations in and made 80 “Hugs for Hope Bags” for 3 local nonprofits: Heart House, New Horizons of North Texas, and CASA of Tarrant County. We also learned about Guardians of the Children! The bags were filled with thoughtful items by our volunteers and donors, with beautiful handmade cards attached. In addition, Vaishnav Milan of Texas, a local nonprofit, donated all of the fidget toys and Hindi’s Libraries, a nonprofit in New York, donated all of the books! A huge thank you to everyone who supported this impactful volunteering event!

Granite Properties CORPORATE Volunteer Event

Date: April 2, 2024

Location: Plano, TX

Charities2Love and 62 incredible Granite Properties employees volunteered their time to make over 700 PBJ Sandwiches for Austin Street Center (ASC), a homeless shelter in Dallas, TX. It was a wonderful way to celebrate National PBJelly Day and the start of Global Volunteer Month! A huge thank you to all of the volunteers!

Leukemia Texas Buddy Bags

Date: March 2, 2024

Location: Southlake, TX

More than 40 Charities2Love volunteers brought donations in and made 100 “Buddy Bags’ in collaboration with Leukemia Texas. The reusable string bags were filled with 18 thoughtful items, including a blanket, markers, crayons, colored pencils, activity books, play-doh, stuffed animal, and handwritten notes. Warm blankets were generously donated by an anonymous donor. In addition, Vaishnav Milan of Texas, a local nonprofit, donated all of the fidget toys and Hindi’s Libraries donated all of the books! A huge thank you to all of our donors and volunteers!

AA RPT Team CORPORATE Volunteering Event

Date: February 27, 2024

Location: Fort Worth, TX

Charities2Love‘s first event as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization was with the Revenue and Planning Technology (RPT) Team at American Airlines. 50 Team members gathered to make 1,200 sandwiches for 430 Austin Street Center clients, collected shelf stable snacks, and generously donated $500 to Charities2Love!

Tarrant Area Food Bank

Date: February 3, 2024

Location: Fort Worth, TX

Charities2Love and Texas Exes Fort Worth Chapter (for Project Worldwide) collaborated to give back at Tarrant Area Food Bank! Almost 60 volunteers packaged over 4,000 5lb bags of apples, for a total of 19,000 pounds. A total of 16,000 meals were prepared by the group in less than 3 hours to make a huge impact for their hungry neighbors. Tarrant Area Food Bank serves Tarrant County and 12 surrounding counties.

AA IEBRG CORPORATE Volunteering Event

Date: January 23, 2024

Location: Fort Worth, TX

More than 40 American Airlines Indian Employee Business Resource Group volunteers came together and made 600+ PBJ sandwiches, collected 150+ snacks., and wrote out 40 heartfelt notes for those experiencing homelessness. This volunteering event was in honor of India’s Republic Day. All of the items were dropped off to Austin Street Center in Dallas, TX by Charities2Love. Austin Street Center expressed their gratitude to the AA IEBERG and C2L for their generosity.

MLK Volunteering Event

Date: January 13, 2024

Location: Irving, TX

More than 40 Charities2Love volunteers came together and made 500+ PBJ sandwiches, 300+ gallon sized snack bags, and 100 brown bags for Under My Umbrella (beautifully decorated by our young volunteers) filled with a drink/sandwich/snacks.  We also collected 25+ winter clothing items.  Thank you to Patricia RIgsby-Scott (founder of Caring Compassionate Hearts and Helping Hands), IrvingHomeless.Com, and Helping Around Town (HAT) for coming, distributing, and sharing resources with Grand Prairie Homeless Outreach.