Share the Power of a Wish this Holiday Season and Help the Make-A-Wish Foundation®

The holiday season inspires the joy of giving, and you as volunteers can help spread that joy through special holiday promotions that benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation. A donation is made to the Make-A-Wish Foundation® for each product sold, helping to make wishes come true for children with life-threatening medical conditions.

Your holidays will sparkle even brighter when you give a personalized gift that helps make children's wishes come true. This year, Things Remembered is offering three unique holiday gifts – a festive holiday throw, a collectible ornament, and a star keepsake box.

All three gifts benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation, and each gift can be personalized to create special memories for the recipient. For more information about the Make-A-Wish holiday gifts and for store locations, call 1.800.274.7367 or log on to www.thingsremembered.com.

Handbag of Hope
The much-anticipated Handbag of Hope is now available at Claire’s Stores, Inc, which include Claire’s Boutique and Icing by Claire’s. The Handbags were inspired by a courageous young wish child, Hope, who wanted to help grant the wishes of other children with life-threatening medical conditions. The product line includes four unique styles in two colors, which were designed by 18-year-old Ali Spizman to benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation®. For more information or to find a Claire’s Boutique or Icing by Claire’s near you, visit www.claires.com.
                                      

Bath & Body Works Celebrates “The Perfect Christmas"
Bath & Body Works is offering three unique gifts this holiday season to celebrate “The Perfect Christmas” while helping to make wishes come true. Pick up “The Perfect Christmas,” a 3-CD set featuring a variety of popular artists singing your holiday favorites and special tracks from Paige Armstrong, a Make-A-Wish kid. Also benefiting the Foundation is a spice scented holiday candle and specially designed Make-A-Wish gift card. Bath & Body Works will donate $1 from each of these holiday gifts up to a maximum $500,000 contribution to the Make-A-Wish Foundation. For more information about these special holiday items and for store locations visit www.bathandbodyworks.com.

Thursday, Dec. 1 and Friday, Dec. 2, Brooks Brothers will host their annual holiday shopping event. The Make-A-Wish Foundation® will receive 2% of the total sales from stores nationwide, up to a maximum of $50,000. In addition, Brooks Brothers will be offering some great discounts to their customers, so shop ‘til you drop!
Visit www.brooksbrothers.com to find a Brooks Brothers store near you.

Disney supports the Make-A-Wish Foundation® with "Wishes!",
A CD to inspire hope, strength, and joy.

Disney is celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Make-A-Wish Foundation® with a new compilation -- “ Wishes!” – released by Walt Disney Records. This CD features Barbara Streisand, Elton John, Tony Bennett and many more singing classic Disney songs that reflect upon the power of wishes, friendship and hope. This destined to be a classic CD also offers a newly recorded track, "Wishes," performed by Peabo Bryson and Kimberley Locke. In addition, for each “ Wishes!” CD purchased, Disney will donate $5.00 to the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Look for “Wishes” at Disney Store, Best Buy, Musicland, Kmart, Circuit City and other participating retailers.

                                   
Frontgate outfits America’s finest homes with furnishings, accessories and some of the finest holiday décor items available. This year, through the Frontgate and Holidays By Design catalogs, Frontgate will not only help decorate your home for the holidays but it will also help the Make-A-Wish Foundation® make a child’s dream come true.

Frontgate’s Natural Series Trees have been named the Official Holiday Tree of the Make-A-Wish Foundation®. Frontgate will be donating $10 from every Natural Series Tree (Fraser Fir, Noble Fir and Virginia Pine) sold from now through December 31. Please join the Make-A-Wish Foundation and Frontgate in helping make the dreams of special and courageous children come true this holiday season. For more information on Frontgate’s selection of high-quality Pre-Lighted Holiday Trees, visit www.frontgate.com or call 1.800.533.7502.

Gordon’s 2005 Holiday Bear
Gordon’s Jewelers is proud to introduce its new Make-A-Wish Holiday Bear for 2005. This loveable caramel-colored bear holds an exquisite red velvet box and is adorned with artwork prepared by wish sibling Madyson. The bear also wears a gold-trimmed, heart-shaped medallion around its neck to celebrate Gordon’s 100 Years of Love. The Gordon’s bear is available at all Gordon’s Jewelers locations for $9.95, with any $99 purchase. Gordon’s will donate $2 to the Make-A-Wish Foundation from each bear sold. To locate the Gordon’s store nearest you call 1.888.GORDON-1.

This holiday season Harold’s is sending you and yours warm wishes with Sunny, the grand marshal of its 2005 Holiday Season. Sunny is fashioned from citrus and peppermint versus his icy artic-bound cousins made of snow and coal. For each Sunny plush sold, Harold’s will donate $15 to the Make-A-Wish Foundation ® . For the Harold’s store nearest you, visit www.Harolds.com.

Macy’s East Thanks for Sharing
Thanks for Sharing is all about how shopping can be giving – and rewarding. This holiday season, Macy’s East cardholders have the opportunity to give to the Make-A-Wish Foundation® while earning 10 percent rewards back on their holiday purchases at Macy’s!

Thanks for Sharing is a rewards program available exclusively to Macy’s East cardholders. Enrollment requires a one-time $25 fee charged to the customer’s Macy’s account.

For each enrollment, Macy’s East will make a $10 donation to one of two charities. The first $400,000 generated through Thanks for Sharing enrollments will be donated to the American Heart Association. All additional enrollments will benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation®. See stores for complete terms and conditions. Visit www.macys.com to find the Macy’s East store nearest you.

The Power of a Wish
This compilation of touching stories from our chapters nationwide was created by 18-year-old Ali Lauren Spizman, a national teen volunteer ambassador for the Foundation, and is published by Active Parenting Publishers. Within the pages of The Power of a Wish, wish kids and their families describe in letters of thanks their special day and the powerful impact that the wishes--and the people who grant them- have on their daily lives and their hope for the future. Celebrities and heroes from all walks of life share their life-changing experiences in making wishes come true, and the profound effect that these courageous children have on them. To order, please visit www.wish.org.

With more than 300 locations nationwide and new stores opening every month, Rack Room Shoes has evolved into one of the fastest-growing shoe retailers in the country. Through Dec. 31, Rack Room Shoes will host a holiday promotion by which customers will have the opportunity to donate to the Make-A-Wish Foundation® through donation cards at the register. Rack Room Shoes has guaranteed a minimum donation to the Foundation of $100,000. For the Rack Room Shoes location nearest you, visit www.rackroomshoes.com.

This year marks the ninth holiday season that Zales Jewelers has created the Limited Edition Zales Holiday Bear to benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation®. This cream-colored plush bear holds a red velvet gift box adorned with tone-on-tone red sheer satin ribbon. The special box is perfect for presenting that special someone with a gift of jewelry. To find the Zales Jewelers nearest you, call 800.311.JEWEL, or visit www.zales.com.

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