Volunteerism is a built-in feature of Birthday Angels. Well, it's quite obvious when you think about what it takes to make a party. There's the Birthday Child and the Party Kit and the volunteer who uses it to celebrate the Birthday Party.
What's NOT so obvious, are the many volunteers who contribute their skills, time and energy to make it all happen.
Here are some amazing examples:
Original Music
Boaz Dekel, member of the board and our in-house musician, songwriter, singer and all around great guy, composed and recorded original music for the Birthday Angels Party Kit. It's the music that really gets the party jumpin'!
Data Processing Program
Yaron Guez, genius computer programmer, responded to a forum request for a computer program to administer the project. He designed our Access Data Processing program so we can keep track of what's going on here with all the donors, parties and all the kids! Not only wouldn't he take money, he has been on call since solving problems and constantly upgrading the system.
Birthday Angels Promo Film
When Haim Yablonka from Cinema Store converted my first homemade movie of the project to NTSC to take with me to a fundraising event in Toronto, he was so moved watching it that he offered to make us a professional movie which would really tell our story so donors would fully understand the project.
Haim availed his whole production company to the task and not only filmed several parties he fully edited a beautiful 5 minute film that has helped us tell the Birthday Angels story. It's a charm!
Holywood Feature Premiere
One of our angels, told A.D.Matalon film distributors, about our project. They decided to donate us the premiere screening in Israel of the Hollywood feature Zathura which Birthday Angels used for a major fundraising event in March last year. Hundreds of Perach children from all over the country and their mentors were guests at the festive event which was a HUGE success!
We raised over $22,000 that got us the funds necessary to print 5000 kits!
Brochure Printing
Amos Bahat at Reches Education Publishing printed 60,000 brochures for Birthday Angels which saved the project thousands of shekels.
Web Site Coaching
Elad and Tamar Shippony, successful SBI users have donated their precious knowledge of SBI and coaching services so that Birthday Angels be able to use the net to make our "Circle of Angels" really grow.
Translation
Miriam Erez, kindly translated and edited the English portion of the website and translated many of Birthday Angels' promotional materials.
Birthday Cakes
Numerous bakeries around the country have generously donated beautiful party cakes for parties that otherwise can't provide them. The Hagit Bakery in Givat Shmuel has given us the beautiful party cakes any time a Perach student asks!
Businessfor Social Responsibility
Geller Nessis Advertising and Public Relations chooses one non-profit organization a year to sponsor and advertise among their clients. As the reps of companies like Nike, Golan Globus and many other big ones, our cause gained by the exposure to these companies who have followed suit and donated us other gifts and donations.
Tsnobar Party Favors was the first of other businesses who offer extra value to their customer's purchase by donating a portion of their sales to Birthday Angels.
This little import company started by an ex-perach mentor donates a shekel from every purchase made at their online store to Birthday Angels and promotes our site on theirs.
Yomuledet.com and Bank Mesibot, the biggest portals for birthday information on the web in Hebrew, have dedicated a full page about our project on their sites.
Cagliostro, Israel's number 1 magician has given his celebrity name to our project which has given us not only a boost of public recognition but makes our events truly magical!
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