Posts by Kim Whitehouse

Join us for 12 epic hours on April 3, 2025 as we participate in NWA Gives day of giving! Send A Smile Today has a goal to raise $5,000 on this day of giving. Donations to Send A Smile Today should be made on the NWA Gives campaign page for Send A Smile Today starting…

In February 2025, we mailed a greeting card to our 5,000th card recipient facing cancer across all 50 states! Thank you to all supporters who make this possible. We are all making a difference one smile at a time.

In 2024, we mailed 15% more greeting cards than we mailed in 2023. We mailed a total of 9,934 uplifting greeting cards to those with cancer during 2024. In 2024, 843 new people signed up to receive monthly greeting cards from Send A Smile Today. This is a 9% increase from 2023. In 2024, we…

We received 9,291 Forever Postage Stamps – 93% of our goal of collecting 10,000 stamps.  We would like to thank everyone who helped make our September Postage Stamp Drive a success in honor of Pediatric Cancer Awareness Month. We are grateful for your love and support of our mission that those with cancer know they…

We are announcing our September Postage Stamp Drive in honor of Pediatric Cancer Awareness! Our goal is to collect 10,000 Forever postage stamps.   Our very own Send A Smile Today Director, Joy Macdonald, knows first hand the impact cancer can have on a family as her 11 year old daughter, Hannah, is currently undergoing…

We are grateful for the overabundance of beautiful, thoughtful greeting cards we receive from so many of you. We have decided to take a pause with accepting greeting cards as we currently have enough in our inventory to cover us for the remainder of 2024. We will be pausing accepting greeting cards from July 1…

As a new member of the NW Arkansas community, we were so excited to participate in our 1st annual NWA Gives campaign presented by the Walton Family Foundation. It was held on April 4, 2024 from 8 am – 8 pm. Our goal was to raise $1,650 to help cover postage costs for the months…

We have changed our policy and are now only using one size envelope in our monthly mailings to help simplify our monthly mailing process. We mail over 800 cards per month and the number of people with cancer that we support continues to grow daily. We now only accept size A9 self-sealing envelopes. The size…

We just mailed our 40,000th card since we started sending smiles in 2013. Sending 40,000 smiles through the mail is amazing and we are grateful for the support of our Send A Smile Today community for helping us encourage those with cancer. Because of donations of greeting cards, envelopes, postage stamps and monetary donations, we…

Today is mail day! – Cards were mailed to those facing cancer in all 50 states!- The most number of card recipients – 801 people! We would like to personally thank NBC Universal. NBC Universal sponsored our outgoing February cards by paying for postage. They also held multiple card making events for the second year…