Wednesday, May 15, 2013

InStyle Magazine Event at Longchamp Boutique benefits Festival of Children Foundation







InStyle Magazine and Longchamp recently partnered for an exclusive shopping night at South Coast Plaza.  The event was co-hosted by Sandy Segerstrom Daniels, founder of Festival of Children Foundation, and Jennifer Grace, founder of the Native Fox blog.   Guests enjoyed complimentary mini-manicures inspired by Longchamp's LM Cuir collection of colorful spring bags.

And the great takeaway? 

Longchamp and InStyle Magazine generously donated a portion of proceeds from the event to Festival of Children Foundation!



Thursday, May 2, 2013

Kids of all ages turn out to write 507 letters to U.S. troops in one afternoon!


Festival of Children Foundation and Team Kids collaborated on "Letters from Home" on Saturday, April 27th.  The afternoon was designed to recognize Global Youth Service Day with a goal to set the record for the most cards written to U.S. troops in one afternoon. 

Kids of all ages were invited to South Coast Plaza's Carousel Court where they were given art supplies and paper to create their letters.  507 letters were written in a four hour window of time.

"I know first hand how incredible it is to receive mail from when I was deployed in Iraq," said Team Kids Program Director Jamie "Doc" Havig.  "Nothing raises the spirits of our troops like a hand written letter from a child!"

"This project mobilized children from California to Virginia to send much deserved messages of appreciation to our troops serving abroad," said Team Kids Founder and CEO Julie Hudash.  "Our collaboration with Team Kids resulted in a record setting afternoon that benefits our troops.  That's very exciting!" added Sandy Segerstrom Daniels, Founder and Executive Director of Festival of Children Foundation.