Who is Send A Smile Today and what service do we provide? Thank you to Hannah Frison for creating this video for our organization.

https://youtu.be/h3Tj9-WMjOQ

Send A Smile Today continues to grow and reach more cancer patients than ever. We are sending out 51% more cards this year as compared to the previous year. To support this growth, we are in need of more postage stamps. Our goal is to collect 5,000 postage stamps during the month of March. If you are willing to donate, here is how to donate:

1. Make a monetary donation online on our secure website.

2. Buy stamps and mail them to us. Our address is:

3. Purchase stamps online at USPS.com, Amazon, or another favorite store and enter our address for the shipping address. See above for our address.

Do you wish to volunteer with Send A Smile Today™ to earn community service hours? Here are the guidelines for earning volunteer hours:

10 quality greeting cards = 1 service hour

20 postage stamps = 1 service hour

What is a quality greeting card?

·      Cards must be on folded cardstock (not printer paper or construction paper)

·      Messages are uplifting and are signed by you (first name only is fine)

·      Cards do not contain the words “get well soon” or “feel better soon”

·      Cards do not contain religious messages as we do not know the religion preferences of our card recipients.

·      Cards are not holiday specific – only exception is Valentine’s Day – since this holiday of love connects with our mission to provide hope, love and support to those with cancer. No Christmas cards, no Easter cards, etc.

Do you have a service hour form that needs to be signed by someone at Send A Smile Today? Send your service form to us along with your donations and we will sign and email it back to you.

All service hour donations will receive a donation certificate from Send A Smile Today. The donation certificate will state your name, our organization name, the received donation date, what you have donated and the total number of earned service hours. We will email you this form so please provide your email address. When you send us your donation, please let us know you are submitting donations for service hours and that you need a donation certificate.

Mail donations to:

Send A Smile Today
9462 Brownsboro Road #381
Louisville, KY 40241 

Can I donate matching sized envelopes too? Yes, we greatly appreciate envelope donations too. If you are also donating envelopes, keep the envelopes separate from the cards (do not stuff cards inside the envelopes). Also, if you are donating postage stamps, please do not add the stamp to the outside of the envelope – send us the stamps on the sheet they came on.

Click here for our card making guidelines.

Have further questions? Contact us. Our email address is info@sendasmiletoday.org.

Thank you!

Thanks to your generous donation in 2020, we have been able to continue supporting those with cancer.  To date, we have mailed 13,861 greeting cards to 1,643 cancer patients from 49 states.  Here are some of our accomplishments from 2020 as compared to the previous year:

Increased the number of new card sign ups by 31%.

Increased total cards mailed by 51%.

Increased donations of handmade/store-bought cards by 139%.

Increased donations of envelopes by 114%.

Increased donations of postage stamps by 64%.

Increased our social media presence with 9% growth with our followers in Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest and LinkedIn.  Like us!  Follow us!

We are announcing our 3rd annual postage stamp drive! Did you know that we are currently mailing cards to over 450 cancer patients per month? We need postage stamps! Won’t you help us reach our goal of 5,000 stamps by September 30, 2020?

Since 2014, we have mailed over 10,000 greeting cards to nearly 1,200 cancer patients in 49 states.

THANK YOU 

We are excited to announce that thanks to YOU we exceeded our goal and raised a total of $1,275 yesterday during #GivingTuesdayNow!

We truly cannot provide smiles and support to those with cancer without you.

You are making a difference and you continue to do so with your thoughtful contributions.

A personal thank you card and tax receipt will be mailed to those who donated within the next two weeks.

We wish you all a safe and healthy month and year ahead. And please, if you know someone with cancer who can would benefit from receiving monthly greetings, please sign them up to receive cards on our website sendasmiletoday.org.

During the COVID-19 outbreak, we are still accepting donations of greeting cards, envelopes, postage stamps and monetary donations. Those with cancer need our support now more than ever. If you know of anyone with cancer, or if you have cancer, please sign up to receive free monthly cards of encouragement from Send A Smile Today.

What are we doing to prevent the spread of COVID-19?

1. We are checking our Send A Smile Today mailbox once a week.
2. All donation packages received will sit untouched for at least 5 days at Send A Smile Today. Please expect a 2-3 week acknowledgement of your donation. We are continuing to mail thank yous and tax receipts for all donations. We can email you these if you prefer. Pictures of donations will continue to be posted to our social media channels – Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn.
3. The cards mailed out each month to our card recipients will be mailed around the 15th. We will be mailing cards from our card inventory greater than 30 days old. Only one person at Send A Smile Today will handle the cards mailed.