Holiday 4 Heroes
"We give because they give"
Who are we
Holiday 4 Heroes was founded in 2007 by Jonette Kessack, owner of Sip and Send. This grassroots effort was started to fill a need to provide comfort and care to out deployed men and women all over the world. We are a group of team members, volunteers and business owners who had a desire to show our military that we remember them and appreciate their sacrifices for us. What do we do What started as a Holiday Program, our first year sending 40 packages, became a Year-Round effort with us now sending over 100 comfort packages each month to our brave military's men and women, in addition to our holiday mission. We have now sent over 15,000 packages in total. |
Additions to the Mission
In 2019, we started our Backpack for Homeless and In-need Veterans Program partnering with the VA and various homeless coalitions. Our back packs are filled with personal care items, high protein snacks and information on where to get help. In 2020, we began distributing bulk food drops to our in-need veterans and their families through the VA.\Food Pantry. In 2021 our local VA Clinic asked us if we could help fill a need in our community. We were asked if we could provide tents and water filtration bottles for our Veteran's who are losing their homes during the current housing crisis.
We did an on-line fund raiser and our community came together to raise enough money to purchase both the tents and drinking water filtration bottles. |
Mission Make Merry As the mission evolves, Holiday 4 Heroes, supports our military families at home by giving them a Christmas filled with joy and less worries. Every year we provide a Merrier Christmas for local families, who may be going through some difficult times. The first year we started with 3 families. Fast forward to 2021, through the generosity of our donors, we have adopted 14 families. We provide all the necessary trimmings to make their Holiday Season a little bit brighter. We hope to do this each year helping as many families with some little extra cheer at the holidays. This year, through the tremendous generosity of our community, we also included gift certificates for food to help out with Thanksgiving Dinner too. We have added to the program and now have a "Mission Make Merry Continued" Project. See write up below. |
Saturday Packing April 2, packed another 50 comfort and care packages for our brave Military Men and Women serving all over the world! Thank you!
We are so fortunate to have a lady who hand makes cards for EVERY holiday. They are amazing!!! Hand written notes inside. Is anyone interested in reaching out to children / classrooms to see if they would like to generate more notes to our soldiers! If you are interested fill out the Contact Us Form and tell us what you would like to do. Thank you to all of you who have generously donated your time to make this effort such a success! |
Join us for one of our Packing Parties for some fun and friendship, all while doing something really wonderful for our troops.
Next Packing Party Sign Ups for: Saturday May 14th and Thursday May 26th Saturday’s are from 9am to 11am – coffee and breakfast munchies start at 8:30am Thursday’s are from 6pm to 8pm – wine and snacks start at 5:30pm If you would like to help, please send your contact info to triciah4h@gmail.com |