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Total Packages Sent Since 2005:
36,166
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This is our new Care Package Project drive poster for use if you're going to hold a drive for us. To sign up and get a Donor ID, call (573) 449-2003 or click here.
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Want to Contribute to the Care Package Project? There are endless ways you can show your support: - Hand writing "Thank You" cards and letters
- Donating needed care package items
- Holding an item drive
- Holding a fundraiser
- Donating shipping funds
- Volunteering before pack day to prepare
- Volunteering on pack day
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Get Fit and Support Our Troops with Team Marine Parents!
Team Marine Parents™ is a group of people who participate in walks, runs, marathons, bicycling, triathlons, swimming, motorcycle rides and other events nationwide. The goal of Team Marine Parents™ is to raise funds for, and awareness of, MarineParents.com and its various outreach programs.
Click here to join the team...
Team Marine Parents
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2013 Saturday
Packing Dates
- January 19, 2013
- April 20, 2013
- July 27, 2013
- November 2, 2013
 Want our new logo on a T-shirt? Get yours now before our next pack day on April 20, and we'll see you here!
Click here to order...
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A Care Package for Your Loved One
If you have a friend or loved one deployed to Afghanistan, we want to send them a care package! Use the link below to request a care package. Please sign up your Marine at least 10 days before the packing day. You only need to enter your Marine's name once per deployment.
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If you have questions or need additional information, call our Outreach Programs Secretary, Pam Eime, at (573) 449-2003 ext. 305 or email her at CPP@MarineParents.com
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Greetings!
We're so glad you joined us for this issue of The Care Package Project News! Thank you to everyone who came out and helped us with our most recent pack day on Saturday, April 20th. With 82 volunteers from 7 different states showing up to help, it was a major success. We packed up and sent 617 boxes of essentials to our troops serving overseas. Each box contained 2 boxes of Girl Scout cookies, as well as various other items. Now, we are in the process of restocking our warehouse for our next pack day on July 27, as well as preparing for a miniature pack day of sorts on June 6. Learn how you can help in this issue. We'd also like to remind everyone about the Cpl. Leon B. Deraps Memorial Scholarship Fund 5th Annual 5 Mile Walk/Run/Ride, May 4, in Jamestown, MO.
If you have a friend or family member deployed to a combat zone, you can request we send them a care package. It's free, easy to request, and open to all branches of the military.
If you're unable to join us in person for a pack day, but still want to contribute in some way, for just $22, you can sponsor a care package. Sponsoring a care package is a quick, easy way to show your support for our troops.
Thank you for joining us for this issue and for your continued support of our brave men and women in uniform.
Semper Fi, Marine Families!
Babs Blackmon
Chief Operations Officer
The Care Package Project
MarineParents.com, Inc.
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Pack Day Recap
Care Packages Sent, Volunteers Recognized
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In a break from some heavy spring showers, Saturday, April 20th was warm and sunny, giving volunteers a comfortable atmosphere in which to package more than 600 boxes for our troops in Afghanistan. 82 volunteers from 7 states across the Midwest converged on our facility in Columbia, Missouri and made quick work of packing, sealing, and putting postage on the 617 care packages to be shipped.
Since April was National Volunteers Month, we took some time in between packing the boxes and eating lunch to recognize, honor, celebrate, and thank the many, many Marine Parents volunteers for all of the hard work that they've done over the last 12 months.
To read more about pack day, click here...
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Girl Scout Cookie Campaign
Send a Taste of Home 
While our next official pack day may not be until late July, the Care Package Project has decided to hold an additional fundraising campaign for the month of May that will allow us to send Girl Scout Cookies to our troops deployed overseas.
On June 6, local Girl Scouts will be coming to our facility from around the Columbia, MO area to help us pack 8,400 boxes of cookies into 840 care packages to be sent to troops in Afghanistan and Africa. We have the cookies. We have the manpower (or girl power in this case). Now all we need are donations from you. All the cookies and volunteers in the world won't do us any good if we don't have a way to ship the packages overseas. To make this dream a reality, our goal is to raise the full amount it's going to cost for us to ship the cookies, about $12,000, by May 31.These cookies are not only a special treat for our troops, but they are also a comforting reminder of home. We appreciate your support! To read more about our Girl Scout cookie campaign, click here...To donate to our Girl Scout cookie campaign, click here...
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Leon B. Deraps Scholarship Fund Raffle and 5 Mile Memorial Run/Walk
Sign Up to Support the Memory of an American Hero
On May 6, 2006, Lance Corporal Leon B. Deraps of Jamestown, Missouri made the ultimate sacrifice for his country while conducting combat operations in Al Anbar province, Iraq.
To honor Leon, his family, along with the Moniteau County C-1, Jamestown-area high school FFA, set up a scholarship fund in his name in late 2006. Since its formation, the fund has awarded $1,000 scholarships to approximately 20 Jamestown high school graduates, with more being handed out every year.
Money for the scholarship is raised through an annual 5 mile walk/run/ride held in early May. First held in 2009, this year marks the event's fifth anniversary. This year, the walk/run/ride will be held this Saturday, May 4, at 9:00 am in Jamestown, Missouri.
We STRONGLY encourage people in the Mid-Missouri area to register for the event, whether or not they plan on attending it, as a way to honor Leon's sacrifice and support his memory. His mother, Sandy, is one of our longest-serving pack day volunteers, and this truly is a wonderful cause.
For more information on registering for the L.Cpl. Leon B. Deraps Memorial Scholarship Fund 5th Annual 5 Mile Walk/Run/Ride, please visit http://www.leonderaps.net/index.html
We also encourage those not in the area who would still like to donate to the fund to visit http://leonderapsscholarship.org/donations.html
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Request a Care Package
Show Your Support, All Branches Welcome
If you have a loved one deployed overseas, then this is for you. If you are the family member or friend of a combat deployed serviceman/woman, you can request a package to be sent to your loved one. There is no charge; this is a FREE service for deployed service members and their families. To request a care package for your service member, click here and complete the form. Your service member's overseas mailing address will never be given to a third party. Your name and contact information will never be given to a third party. If we have questions about the address you have provided that we are not able to resolve, a representative will contact you.
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Sponsoring Care Packages
$22 Sends a Personalized Care Package Overseas
When you sponsor a Care Package, 
you've made the decision to fund the sending of various comfort items to an American serving in the military in a combat zone far from home. These packages include such items as handwritten cards, hard candies, clothing, easily prepared meals, books, and personal care items. The packages send a personal message to troops overseas: that their efforts are appreciated, that they are not forgotten.
Sponsor a Care Package today, and we will include your name inside a package to be mailed out on our next pack day, July 27, 2013.
Click here to learn more...
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