News Update Oct 25th 2006 6:00 A.M. PST
Did you receive something for Christmas last year that you really don’t have a use for?
Put it to good use! Santa’s Heart is now listed on Ebay’s Givingwork’s. This service allows people to sell items on Ebay and designate a percentage of the selling price to be donated to the Non-Profit of their choice. You have the ability to designate from 10% to 100% of the selling price of your items to be sent to your chosen charity and you will receive a receipt for tax purposes. Santa’s Heart is a 501(c) 3 Non-profit so any donations are considered tax deductible.

Anything from toy trucks to real ones!

There is a minimum of $5 to be donated and there is a small processing fee for the transaction. If you donate 90% or greater of the items selling price then Ebay will donate the transaction fee to the Charity also.
Here is a link to the Santa’s Heart page on Ebay (Since this is new there aren't any listings as of this posting there aren’t any items listed yet, hopefully this will change soon!)
Thanks for being here!

News Update Oct 19th 2006 9:00 A.M. PST
Santa's Heart on

In an effort to promote our cause I created a short video and uploaded it to the You Tube system.
This Video describes the Mission of Santa's Heart and what Our current needs are. There are a lot of emails coming in from people asking what they can do to help, and asking how the system works. Start by watching the video and then scroll down to read more.

Please tell your friends! Thanks!
Jim 

News Update Oct 17th 2006 4:00 P.M. PST
I can't believe it has been almost a year...

We are in the process of "resetting" the website for the 2006 Christmas Season. I have posted on Craig's list in the San Francisco area just seeing if that would be a good way to let people know that we exist and we will be needing volunteers to help process letters from the Children.

Here is a link to the 2005 site
all the letters that we received are still up there so enjoy!

For 2006 there are three basic functions we will need lots of volunteers for....

1. Getting the letters from the Post office and scanning them to our website.
(this will start four weeks prior to Christmas I will post the actual date as soon as I know it)

2. Adopting the letters and answering them thus helping brighten the holidays for children everywhere.
(This will start as soon as the letters are available from the post office)

3. Getting the WORD OUT!!
With out a lot of word of mouth advertising and without a lot of people posting flyers now,
alerting people to what our mission is, nothing will happen.  

People are emailing me and asking "what can we do to help?"

At this time my answer is "ORGANIZE"
Organize groups of people who see the benefit of helping children in your area.
Someone will have to go to the post offices and read through the letters and take them and
scan them with a computer and upload them to the Santa's Heart database.

Talk to people where you work, at your Church, and don't forget the Civic clubs.
It really is not difficult to get people involved once they know the whole story! 

Last year the week before Christmas people stopped adopting the letters as they were focused on their own families.
If we can organize some groups who will commit to helping during the last days before Christmas writing letters at a minimum. We need people to pledge to help so we do not have any left over children this year.

4. Website help needed now...

As far as what we need here at home base we need some programming volunteers,
currently we have the site being converted to a DRUPAL CMS. The developers forum will be up in a few days
and we will have needs arise throughout the rest of the year as things pop up.
We can use assistance creating flyers, and material for people to mail and post for others to see.
We could use volunteers to re-write the text on the web pages of the site and fix my grammar issues :)

I really could use someone to help write tutorials on how to use the system. Last year I was on hiatus from
my job and I was able to spend 12 hours a day answering the emails and providing support to people.
This year I will not have that luxury.

I am starting to send emails to the volunteers from last year and I look forward to hearing from all of you.

If I can be of any assistance please don't hesitate to contact me. parrish@santasheart.org

May God bless all of you.

Thank you,

Jim Parrish
Santa's Heart.

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