Service Projects
Please contact us for approval before beginning a service project. We will be able to work with you on our real-time needs.
Birthday-in-a-Box Build
Please contact us to confirm our real-time needs before planning to build and deliver boxes.
Does your group or organization provide opportunities for community service? Are you looking for a team-building event that can make an impact? Birthday Wishes needs your help to meet the growing demand for our Birthday-in-a-Box program.
The Birthday-in-a-Box Program serves birthday children and their families who are living in homeless shelters throughout New England and New York. Each brightly wrapped box is packed with everything needed to celebrate a birthday including party and baking supplies, decorations, and wrapped gifts for the birthday child.
Here’s how you can help:
Participating individuals and groups sign up and agree to build a minimum of 10 Birthdays-in-a-Box.
Individual and groups purchase specified supplies and assemble boxes according to the instructions provided by Birthday Wishes.
Arrange delivery of your boxes to our Natick, MA office.
Contact us to sign up and receive our Birthday-in-a-Box guidelines to get started!
Organize a Fundraising Event
Share your commitment to Birthday Wishes with your friends and associates by hosting an event at your home, office or in your community. Below are some ideas of how you can make an impact!
Walk for Birthdays
Walk for Birthdays is our signature fundraising event: a family friendly walk and festival held each spring. Register to walk as an individual, or as a team alongside family, friends, group or colleagues. Learn more about Walk for Birthdays and how you can get involved.
Donate Your Birthday
Celebrate you birthday by providing a homeless child with a birthday party. Donating your birthday to Birthday Wishes will allow us to provide birthday parties for kids and families currently in homeless shelters. Create your own unique fundraising page and goal to send to friends and family! Get started.
Host a Bake Sale or Car Wash
Raise funds by washing cars or selling pizza slices, candy, or baked goods at a school, sporting, or community event. Take the money you raise and make a monetary donation to Birthday Wishes, or go on a Birthday Wishes shopping spree!
Host a Drive
Please contact us for approval before beginning this service project.
At our current service level, Birthday Wishes distributes over 2,000 toys every month. Make a difference by collecting new children’s toys or other needed items, such as wrapping paper or batteries. Birthday Wishes has collection boxes and flyers available. Please contact us for information on our current needs.
Please keep in mind that gifts should be appropriate for children who may not have access to a computer, yard, bath tub, oven, or window/sills of their own. Click here to view the items we cannot accept.
There are four easy steps to hosting a drive: plan, promote, collect & deliver.
Plan Your Drive
Decide on what to collect – contact us for our most needed toy and party items. Make sure all items are brand new and in original packaging.
Decide when you will hold your drive and how long it will last.
Decide where it will be held (your school, church or temple, local business or special event).
Promote!
Let everyone know what you are collecting and who your drive is benefiting.
Post signs with collection details around your school, church or temple, business or event.
Use social media to spread the word.
Send an article to your local newspaper – many publications welcome nonprofit events/programs.
Collect
Find a few large cardboard boxes and wrap them in fun birthday-themed paper or request collection boxes from Birthday Wishes. Attach a sign including all the details of your drive including the Birthday Wishes logo!
Deliver it
Schedule your drop-off.
Planning Your Mitzvah Project
Congratulations on reaching this special milestone! A service project supporting Birthday Wishes is a wonderful way to mark this special and important occasion. Our Service Projects offer one-time or ongoing opportunities to collect, create, and support our birthday parties. In addition, there are fun ways to incorporate these projects into your day-of event:
On your invitation, suggest that attendees bring an item from our Wish List or make a monetary donation to Birthday Wishes in lieu of a gift.
Plan your centerpieces and party décor to reflect a favorite party theme, supplies, or gifts. Decorations and centerpieces can then be donated to Birthday Wishes for use at our parties! Please contact us for information on suggested projects.
Hold a supply drive or host a Birthday-in-a-Box Build out.