Do You BELIEVE? Giveaway * Macy's Make- A-Wish Foundation
It all started with a letter from Virgina O'Hanlon to the New York Sun Newspaper in 1897, in which she was seeking advice on whether Santa Claus truly existed.
The editor responded with that now well known phrase "Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus", and a whole lot more. Visit the Macy's Believe website to see the rest of his answer.
This holiday season Macy’s BELIEVE campaign is inspired by Virginia's letter and the editor's response. If you visit a Macy's location you will see letter-writing “Believe Stations” where children can send a note off to Santa. For each letter received, Macy’s will donate $1 to the Make-A-Wish Foundation, up to $1 million.
On Friday, December 11th, Macy’s will celebrate the first National Believe Day to recognize and reward acts of kindness and generosity from coast to coast. Also that day, CBS will premiere a new original animated special called, “Yes, Virginia.” on that same day, at 8 p.m. ET. Check out the trailer.
Macy's is also holding a contest. Tell them why you Believe, and you could win a trip to the 2010 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. View the details HERE. You could also win a $500 Macy's gift card by voting for those already entered (once per day), so even if you don't want to submit an entry for the trip contest, in the spirit of the season, you could help someone who does.
So have your kids write their letters to Santa, bring the stamped letters to Macy's and drop them in Santa's special letterbox. Then Macy's will take care of getting them to the post office to mail to the North Pole. Just think that you can do something you may have been doing anyway (writing Santa letters), but by taking the extra step of dropping them off at Macy's you could be a part of raising up to $1 million dollars for the Make-A-Wish Foundation! There is even a downloadable template for stationery to get you started.
To enter this giveaway tell me what your child(ren) will write on their letter to Santa that you are going to drop in a Macy's Santa letterbox to help raise money for Make-A-Wish Foundation.
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Open to US residents, ages 13+, ends November 28, 2009 at 11:59 pm cst. Winner will have 48 hours to respond or a new winner will be chosen. Email must be in comment or available in profile. By entering this giveaway you are stating that you have read my **About Reviews and my Privacy/Rules statements and agree to them.
I received no compensation from Macy's or M80 their media representatives to post about the Macy's Believe campaign or host the giveaway on my blog.
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Reader Comments (279)
My daughter is going to write a letter thankng them for letting her friends wish come true, when they sent her Disney World. She is also going to ask them to start granting wishes for older ppl, because her grandpa has cancer.
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I forgot to include this in my first post, she is going to collect pennies also for the make a wish foundation.
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My daughter will ask for Santa to please give our local homeless shelter some toys for the kids.
Thank you for the giveaway :)
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My my son will ask Santa for Legos and my daughter a new doll and little sister :)
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my kiddo is too young to write - so he'll color somethin' purdy!
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My son is going to write that he wants a WII and that he wants every child in the world to have love and a WII!
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Thank you to Macy's. Love shopping at Macy's.
I wasn't really aware of what all Macy's was doing in this campaign since my son isn't old enough to write yet.. but I'm glad you shared this with us. It's great.
I think I'll do as one of the above posters and have my son color something. Maybe we'll draw him a cute little picture of santa and then he can do his thing.
I'll def be voting for others on the site!
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My son wants Guitar Hero 5. Thanks!
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My son is going to write that he wants more nintendo DS games
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My son, after seeing his grandmother in a nursing home, will ask santa to remind others to remember older people that may need a friend or a hand.
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My little boy can't write yet but he would transcribe he wants a doggie, thomas trains and a big boy bed
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they want hannah montana!
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My daughter is going to write that she wants Santa to bring her a Zhu Zhu Pet Hamster.
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my daughter is going to write make sure you save the good stuff for the kids who really need it. I am happy all the time so I will be okay
I think my kids are going to write about science related toys. I love them, but they are into the things I never was at that age.
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DD is going to write she wants a new doll house and every little girl can have one as well.
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They will ask for a wii and wii games.
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Thank you for the giveaway. My children are going to write about some of the toys that they are wishing for but, I'm going to remind them to include wishes for the less fortunate.
knowing my son, he'll ask for things for other people.
that they have been good most of the year mverno@roadrunner.com
My grandson will write about wanting some outdoor toys to play with--he wants a bike, but we really don't have anywhere safe for him to ride it!
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