Introducing PURPOSE PARTIES at The Giving Village!
Purpose Parties at Bright Blessings
Purpose Parties are service-focused celebrations held at Bright Blessings such as birthday parties, baby showers, or any type of special occasion group event.
Personalized giving with “Heart To Heart” at Bright Blessings
SEND A WISH. CREATE A GIFT. FROM YOUR HEART TO THEIRS.
Bright Blessings introduces “Heart To Heart,” personalized giving that will warm your heart and the heart of a homeless child.
Build-A-Bucket
Your $10 donation provides a personalized giving experience as you create a one-of-a-kind gift for a homeless child! Perfect for the young and the young at heart, our Build-A-Bucket projects bring the givers just as much joy as those who receive them.
Inside The Giving Village, you will choose your own gift container and a theme from our Heart To Heart “specialty shop.” Enjoy hand-decorating your bucket or caddy with themed accessories, and then fill with coordinating gift items that you select from our shelves. Add festive tissue paper, wrap in a clear cello bag, and top with ribbon and a cheerful gift tag signed just from you.
Complete your gift set by choosing a keepsake pocket card with a message of encouragementand joy. Your one-of-a-kind gift creation will welcome a homeless baby at a local shelter, or will be delivered to a homeless child on his or her birthday.
Choose from any of these Build-A-Bucket gift themes: Clean ‘n Cozy; Wee Wonder; Pretty Princess; Busy Bee; Funosaurus; Game On!; Beauty & Bling; Have a Ball; Go Time.
To sign up for your Build-A-Bucket personalize giving experience at Bright Blessings, email us at Contact@BrightBlessingsUSA.org or call 704-846-2329.
Tag-A-Bag
Your $5 donation will send a heartfelt wish to a homeless child on his or her special day.
For birthdays, a bright and cheerful tag will be personalized with your name* and added to a child’s gift package. Your tag will also include a keepsake pocket card with an uplifting message for the birthday boy or girl.
For babies, a “welcome wish” tag will be personalized with your name* and added to a Blessing Basket for a ho
meless baby. Your tag will also include a keepsake pocket card with an encouraging message for baby’s parent.
* First name with last name initial
To make your $5 donation and Tag-A-Bag, visit us online at www.BrightBlessingsUSA.org or mail your check payable to Bright Blessings to 608-A Matthews Mint Hill Road, Matthews, NC 28105. Be sure to include the first name and last initial of the Wish Sender!
New project expansion; busy summer at Bright Blessings!
The Bright Blessings team is happy to announce expansion plans for our Bless-A-Birthday schools program!
As one academic year comes to a close, summer time at Bright Blessings will be busier than ever as we prepare to serve even more homeless students in the coming 2011-12 school year.
In partnership with Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, our birthday program for elementary, middle, and high school transient homeless students will expand to serve an additional 500-800 kids in need. That means we’ll be busy all summer long organizing and preparing program supplies!
Are you interested in volunteering at Bright Blessings this summer? If so, we need your help!
It’s going to take thousands of additional snack bags, hundreds of Care & Comfort Bags, and plenty of gifts, backpacks and more. We invite you to come volunteer and help us prepare for this expansion project. Please consider bringing some donations to help! Visit the “Support” page on our website for more details about this project and a list of our needs.
Your contributions and volunteerism will help Bright Blessings bring joy and support to over 500 additional homeless students in the coming school year. We thank you!
Local & national television media help spread the mission of Bright Blessings
STAY TUNED… The mission and programs of Bright Blessings continues to spread to both local and national audiences!
NBC’s TODAY SHOW regular Sara Haines and producer Dana Roecker recently flew in from NYC to visit Bright Blessings and Charlotte Emergency Housing as they filmed and interviewed for a segment that will air on the TODAY SHOW at a date still to be announced. Stay tuned for more information!
Mark your calendars or set your DVRs to record the Charlotte Today show, April 19, on local NBC affiliate WCNC-NewsChannel 36. In February, reporter Davina Sutton spent time at the home of Bright Blessings founders Amy and John Cervantes and then filmed one of our Bless-A-Birthday parties in action at the YWCA. Be sure to catch the show on April 19!
Local production company, Full Scale Productions, has recently been on site at Bright Blessings and at partner agency Florence Crittenton Services to capture the heart and impact of our Bless-A-Baby program. This special video segment is for baby-care industry giant, Johnson & Johnson, and will air on the company’s Online Health Channel at a date to be announced. More details soon!
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Bright Blessings’ Grand Opening Event!
OPEN HOUSE!
Bring your friends and family, and come celebrate Bright Blessings’ new Matthews location, The Giving Village.
Join us on Sunday, April 10, 1:00 – 5:00 p.m., for lots of fun and FREE festivities!
Bounce House Mad Science Games & Prizes
KidzArt projects Shoot-Out Contests Sand Art
Face Painting Refreshments And More!
Plus, stop at “Treat Street” inside the Village & fill your own goody bag!
* Participate in hands-on SERVICE PROJECTS for all ages *
“PENCILS & POPS” Raffle! 
Donate a new package of pencils or a bag of lollipops, or give a cash donation and be entered to win one of many great prizes!
Join us for this fun-filled afternoon and help support the programs of Bright Blessings as we bring joy & support to over 3,000 local homeless children each year. Learn more about volunteer opportunities at The Giving Village and throughout our community.
THANK YOU to our event sponsors and partners!
Your Event Source
Children’s Party Plus
KidzArt
Suzi Skinny Cakes
Mad Science
MomsCharlotte.com / The Charlotte Observer
Community cheers for Bright Blessings!
(March 24, 2011) - In just eight weeks since Bright Blessings began and completed its move and facility renovations at our new location in Mattthews, the local community has already rallied its support for the cause! We want to share a few of these remarkable volunteer and special project efforts that have helped us keep the wheels in motion during our move, enabling the programs of Bright Blessings to continue making an impact for thousands of homeless children across our community.
* Members of a MARA (Matthews Athletic & Recreation Association) basketball Cheer Team spent time together at Bright Blessings filling hundreds of favor bags for the homeless children served by the organization’s Bless-A-Birthday program.
* “Kids For A Cause” at Providence Springs Elementary School in Matthews filled more than two dozen backpacks with snacks, supplies, goodies and care essentials to aid transient homeless students served through Bright Blessings’ Student Birthdays Project.
* Over 20 youth from Philadelphia Presbyterian Church in Mint Hill spent hours at Bright Blessings’ new facility helping sort and organize gifts, labeling and shelving books for its Gift of Literacy project, and assembling party kits and supplies.
* Middle School students from Christ Covenant Day School worked together for a morning of service at Bright Blessings, selecting and wrapping birthday gifts for for local homeless children ages tots to teens; filling birthday snack bags for transient homeless students; and wrapping and labeling book gift sets.
* More than 200 volunteers participated in projects at Bright Blessings during Love Week, a city-wide week of volunteer service led by Elevation Church. Every day scores of volunteers helped with organization, sorting, wrapping, shelving, and more!
Our greatest thanks to ALL of our dedicated volunteers and supporters who help Bright Blessings bring joy and support to thousands of homeless children across our region every year.
Matthews Chamber 10th Annual Taste & Trade Show
CHARLOTTE, NC Bright Blessings will have a booth at the Matthews Chamber 10th Annual Taste & Trade Show on Thursday, March 24th from 3:00 – 7:00 pm at CPCC – Levine Campus in Matthews. Come by and see us at Booth #31.
As part of its 10th Annual “Taste & Trade Business Show”, the Matthews Chamber of Commerce has added an author-speaker forum that will include Stacey Simms of NewsTalk 1110 WBT, Mary Elizabeth Murphy of S.T.A.R.
Resources and Fabi W. Preslar of SPARK Publications. The business showcase will take place on Thursday, March 24 from 3:00-7:00 p.m. at the Central Piedmont Community College Levine Campus atrium located at 2800 Campus Ridge Road in Matthews.
The event, which is free and open to the public, is expected to draw 100 vendors and more than 2,000 people.
There will be a $2 charge to sample food from participating Matthews Chamber-member restaurants. Attendees can meet and speak directly with area business owners to learn more about the innovative new products and services being offered by Chamber-member companies across the greater Matthews area. The event is sponsored by Matthews Primary Care and the exhibit sponsor is Windstream Communications. For more information, contact the Matthews Chamber at 704-847-3649.
Bright Blessings moves headquarters to Matthews, NC
CHARLOTTE, NC On Monday, January 17, 2011, Bright Blessings hosted a ribbon cutting and kick-off event to commence the up fit process of its new facility located at 608-A Matthews Mint Hill Road, which is scheduled to open to the public on April 10, 2011.
Bright Blessings key partners, sponsors and volunteers, as well as community leaders and media were in attendance.
Bright Blessings is a volunteer-led nonprofit organization serving thousands of homeless children and families across the Greater Charlotte community. Plans for its new facility, The Giving Village, is a concept inspired by the organization’s founding goal of providing relevant, hands-on volunteer opportunities for children—and people of all ages—in a safe, comfortable, and uplifting environment.
The nearly 4,000 square foot facility will be home to the nonprofit’s two main programs, Bless-A-Baby and Bless-A-Birthday, and its many supporting projects, and will host hundreds of volunteers and visitors monthly. Each aspect of the organization and its program services will be brought to life through artistic rendering in the form of a small town operated by its “villagers”—a community of volunteers.
As a volunteer-led organization that now serves over 2,000 homeless children and families across the Greater Charlotte region, this new facility goes to the heart of what Bright Blessings is all about: service to the community, by the community. The Giving Village will offer visitors and volunteers an opportunity to not only help deliver Bright Blessings’ programs and services to children in need, but also learn how and where they can do even more for our community’s homeless. With plans for an informative display of its partner agencies, Bright Blessings aims to help others learn about the rise in family homelessness and the many needs its agency partners have beyond what Bright Blessings helps fulfill. Together, we can all make a huge impact.
Bright Blessings’ 3rd Annual Celebrate the Children Soiree and Silent Auction
CHARLOTTE, NC OH, WHAT A NIGHT!!! Bright Blessings’ Celebrate the Children 3rdAnnual Soiree & Silent Auction was a huge success! The event was held at The Speedway Club at the Charlotte Motor Speedway on Saturday, March 5th. The evening was filled with great food, guest speakers with touching stories, silent auction items and a victory lap candy bar. The highlight of the evening was a live auction trip to New York that included a 3 night stay in an apartment on 5th Avenue, 2 airfare vouchers courtesy of AirTran and 2 tickets to a Broadway Show. The event’s emcee, Larry Sprinkle from WCNC, had the crowd bidding back and forth with a final bid over $3,000.A special thank you to the following sponsors:
Event Supporters:
Akropolis Cafe at Arboretum
Arboretum Pediatrics
Beard Conveyors & Automation
Family Dollar
David A. Hodson
Farris, Cooke & Associates
Hendrick Honda
The Fun Bus
Laxer, Long, Savage DDS
Levine Children's Hospital
A special thanks to the NASCAR Foundation and Pionear for supporting the programs of Bright Blessings with major contributions to kick-off our 3rd annual Celebrate the Children event.
Today Show’s Sara Haines visits Bright Blessings
CHARLOTTE, NC Sara Haines with the Today Show made a visit to Bright Blessings!! She spent the afternoon with us at our new office as we prepared for a party and then headed over to a local shelter for a birthday party. We had a fabulous dinner provided by the Ladies of Jack & Jill of America – Charlotte Chapter. Then it was party time with our friends from FunkyTown Parties . Sara and all our volunteers had a blast with the birthday kids and families dancing the night away. Stay tuned for more details to watch our segment on the Today Show with Hoda and Kathie Lee.
