This week we celebrated the holidays with our all staff holiday event! We had great food by Maggie's Catering, a dynamic team building (and build up) segment with Gabriel Giron from Speak it Forward Inc - complete with a rock, paper, scissors competition, and holiday decorating offerings.

Our team works so hard all year; it is such an honor to give them a few hours to re-connect and play! Thank you to all of our staff who took the time to come and made it such a fun event!

*Thank you especially to Heather Videto and Penny Dapser from the Development team who decorated and organized the event!

Courtenay VanderMolen, Director of Development, and Heather Videto, Resource Development Coordinator, recently attended a meeting of the Kalamazoo Log Cabin Quilters (KLQC) where they ate delicious food and accepted donations of the lovies that members had made for our clients.

We are in awe of their talent and their ability to harness that talent for such good! Thank you so much, KLQC members for reminding our clients that they are so loved this season!

This Wednesday, we hosted our annual Friendsgiving for staff. If there are two things that are true of the staff at Family & Children’s Services they are this; they are the hardest working people out there, and they are extraordinary chefs!

Thank you so much to all who took the time to join us and to those who brought an item to share.

With Thanksgiving just around the corner, we want to share a bit of gratitude for our staff who continue to serve our community in truly profound ways. Thank you, thank you for all you do!

(Interested in joining our team? Click here to learn more: https://fcsource.org/careers/

Our good friends at Western Michigan’s chapter of Alpha Xi Delta spent another Saturday preparing for our Holiday Giving program!

While half the women decorated the gym into the winter wonderland it will be for clients and donors alike, the other half wrapped gifts for a few of our larger families that were sponsored by cash donations!

We continue to be so humbled by the generosity of spirit in these women who make volunteering fun and impactful. Thank you so much, ladies!

If you would like to become a little elf yourself and volunteer your time and talents this holiday season, contact Heather Videto at heather.videto@fcsource.org. If you would like to purchase items for one of our client families, donate money to help sponsor a family, or donate new items to our holiday store, contact Tesi Klipsch at tesi.klipsch@fcsource.org.

Learn more about our Holiday Giving program here: https://fcsource.org/support-us/holiday-giving-program/