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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…

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…