Dear Dr. Piazza,

Thank you very much for your contribution to Children’s Fund. Your support helps us continue developing partnerships to provide services to those who need our help. Children’s Fund was set up to encourage projects that provide direct services to children, and those that indirectly benefit children by improving the lives of their families.

Children’s Fund was established seven years ago on February 14, 1997. Since that time, we have made hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants and have helped improve the lives of thousands of children, youth, and families in the U.S. and internationally. For example, we have supported afterschool classes for young teens living in low-income areas of Maryland after funding for recreation centers was cut. In California, we supported a project for teens in a high school to help promote involvement in community service. In India, we have helped street children and child laborers over the last seven years, providing food, clothing and an opportunity to attend school. We have also supported job training for young adults, work with lepers and their families and AIDS patients,. In the Bansoa area of French-speaking Cameroon, and in the English-speaking areas as well, we are helping to improve schools. In Pakistan, we are helping Afghan-refugees, providing relief supplies and supporting an orphanage. In Costa Rica, we are supporting a school for children with disabilities and work with street children.

Thank you for your help as we work to improve the lives of children in need both in our local neighborhoods and around the world. Please keep Children’s Fund in mind in the future when you are looking to make investments in children. These investments change lives.

Sincerely yours,

Sherlie Scribner, Ed.D
Chief Executive Director