Posts by Kim Whitehouse

What an amazing day! Thanks to your generosity, so many people facing cancer will know they are never alone and that others are thinking of them. Congratulations to all of the winners from our prize drawings. Thank you for a wonderful NWA Gives Day.  With gratitude, Kim Whitehouse Founder & President, Send A Smile Today

Pausing Incoming Greeting Card Donations on June 1, 2026 Resuming on August 1, 2026   We are grateful for the beautiful, thoughtful handmade greeting cards we receive from so many of you. We have decided to take a summer pause with accepting greeting cards.   We will be pausing accepting greeting cards from June 1…

We are excited to participate in our 3rd annual NWA Gives fundraising campaign for Send A Smile Today. Our 2026 NWA Gives Goal is to Raise $7,500. Will you help us reach our goal? Give from Thursday, April 2, 2026 at 8:00 AM CST until Thursday, April 9, 2026 at 7:59 PM CST DONATE HERE…

In February 2026, we mailed our 60,000th uplifting greeting card! Send A Smile Today mailed our first greeting card in 2014 and since then we have regularly supported nearly 6,000 people across all 50 states who have faced cancer. Our cards provide hope, love and support to those with cancer. We mail greeting cards monthly…

For the 4th February in a row, NBCUniversal sponsored the postage for our February mailings. We mailed greeting cards to 813 people facing cancer across the nation. NBCUniversal also participated in making Valentine greeting cards for our organization to send to our card recipients. We are grateful for their continued support of our mission that…

Our 2025 Year in Review – We mailed 5% more greeting cards in 2025 than we mailed in 2024. We mailed a total of 10,434 greeting cards to those with cancer in 2025. – 813 new card recipients signed up to receive monthly greeting cards in 2025. – For the 2nd year in a row,…

Our September 2025 Stamp Drive has officially wrapped up — and thanks to your incredible generosity, we collected 6,304 postage stamps, reaching 63% of our 10,000-stamp goal! Every single stamp will help us send hope, love and support to cancer patients across the country. Your kindness made this possible, and we are so grateful for…

Pausing Incoming Greeting Card Donations on June 15, 2025 Resuming on August 15, 2025 We are grateful for the beautiful, thoughtful handmade greeting cards we receive from so many of you. We have decided to take a summer pause with accepting greeting cards. We will be pausing accepting greeting cards from June 15 – August 15, 2025. If…

Thank you to everyone for a successful fundraiser. Here are our results: – 3rd place winner for most number of unique donors in the small organization category (out of 41 non-profits) – Won $250 in prize money for placing 3rd with unique donors – Exceeded our fundraising goal by 16% – Raised $5,806 from 86…

We are thrilled to celebrate our incredible milestone of sending our 50,000th greeting card today! Since 2014, we have served over 5,000 people in all 50 states by mailing monthly uplifting greeting cards straight to their home mailbox. Our service is free because of so many amazing donors who support our operation. We are grateful…