Sunday, October 7: “Change is good” and when it comes to the Community Partners of Dallas (CPDTX), it’s positively great. Not only does it allow kids to help raise funds, it helps kids in need of help. The event taking place at Brook Hollow Golf Club is strictly G-rated including bungee-trampoline, bounce houses, face painting, flip books, a video-game truck, Brook Hollow good and more. Kids bring change that they’ve collected. In return they get chance tickets for prizes.
The timing is also perfect. It takes place on a Sunday afternoon. So you can attend church, grab a bite to eat and head on over from 3 to 6 p.m. And you Cowboy fans don’t have to worry about missing a game. The Boys have the weekend off. According to the CPD team of Paige McDaniel and Joanna Clarke,
“We are simply thrilled to have Kim, Justin and JR Whitman as our honorary chair family. And we have three amazing chair families this year: Carolyn and Paul Goelzer with daughters, Sophie and Elizabeth; Kimber and Michael Hartmann with sons, Beau, Brice and Brooks; and Angie and Kevin Kadesky with children Elizabeth, Stephen, Alexander, Marie, Keith and Erin. In addition, more than 120 great families have joined the event Host Committee.”
Last year’s take included 103,00 coins totaling more than $15,000. Do you know how much good that CPDTX folks can squeeze out of $15,000?
How did they get their coins? According to organizers,
- “I had a dog wash in my neighborhood”
- “In my mom’s car”
- “Under the sofa cushions”
- “I knocked on my neighbors’ doors and asked them to help kids who didn’t have all the things that I do”
- “In my piggy bank”
- “I had a lemonade stand. Everyone gave me a lot of money when they found out I was doing it to help other kids!”
- “Our grandmother’s purse”
Look, it’s summertime and the kids have seen all the movies, survived camp and are driving you nuts with “What are we gonna do now?” So, tell your favorite kiddos to start scratching their brains to come up with ideas to collect coins. And if your children are online friendly, CPDTX has arranged “to set up online pages so that they can ask for fundraising support from friend who live too far away to share their change.” Translation: Grandparents, be prepared to be hit up.
Photos provided by Community Partners of Dallas