[Bookstoprisoners] Re: alternative holiday gift & library ID received

[Jay Schubert]

Mary,

(copying list)

Thanks, I really like this idea! We have a number of volunteers who are
artists that may be interested making some custom designs for our cards and
some people like the idea of having them printed with pictures of us /our
space in them etc. But the idea of being able to send them to our inmates is
great!

What do others think of sending out some of these [free] Holiday cards to
the inmates? I think, especially in the case of Pontiac, if we can get 30 or
40 of them in a shoe box delivered all at once, or inside one of our big
packages - there's no reason not to do something like this as these may be
the only Christmas card most of these inmates get and it would take SO
little effort on our part.

- Jay

On 11/18/05, Mary Winters-Meyer <mjwmeyer at ncsa.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi Jay,
>
> I just received my library ID today, so thought I'd send a quick
> message to let you know. I'm going to join the listserv, but was
> glancing through the archives this morning and noticed the discussion
> on the alternative holiday gift idea.
>
> You were all talking about making cards - would you like some donated
> holiday cards? My mom is a lead coordinator for the fund raising
> efforts of UNICEF, where they sell holiday cards, and every year she
> always has some cards that don't sell. She usually buys them, and
> then I end up getting a bunch as gifts. I have quite a few packages
> of cards floating around the house, and have never quite known what
> to do with them, since I never seem to get organized enough to send
> out Christmas cards. I've thought of donating them to someone, but
> wasn't sure who. The alternative holiday gift project seems like a
> perfect place to donate these cards. There would be a bunch of
> different designs, some religious, some not. If you would like these,
> let me know and I'll dig around and find them all. I could also
> possibly raid my mom's "stash" when I go up north over Thanksgiving.
> I bet that even if these aren't used for the fund raiser, they could
> be used when sending out letters to prisoners. One of the things I
> like about the UNICEF cards is that the greetings are always written
> in several languages - english, spanish, french, and I think 2
> others, so they're very multicultural.
>
> Let me know what you think!
> Mary
>
> _____________________________________________________________
> Mary J. Winters-Meyer mjwmeyer at uiuc.edu (217) 244-1769
> Research Programmer, NCSA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
> _______________________
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>
>


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Jay
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