Welcome to the Grandma's Gifts News Blog!
Here you can read the most recent and up-to-date news.

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• August 1, 2010: Trick-or-Teeth!™ Registration has started! - visit: www.TRTSignup.com to join us!
• July 25, 2010: Emily was just awarded the Ohio State University Alumni Association Robert M. Duncan Award for Service!
• July 12, 2010: Founder Emily Douglas's Omaha Mutual Aha Moment taped in Dayton, Ohio.
  To see the video, click HERE! 
• July 2, 2010: Emily was recognized as an Everyday Hero by NBC Channel 4 Columbus, Ohio. The station also made a $500 donation to Grandma's Gifts. Thank you NBC 4!
  To see the video, click HERE!
• June 1, 2010: The Rainbow Project is underway! Kelsey McIntire is busy raising money and Columbus Area Churches are also helping out!
• May 14, 2010: American's Helping American's Donated over $22,474.89 in diapers, shoes, hygiene kits, and socks to Grandma's Gifts! THANK YOU AHA!!
• May 13, 2010: A Women's Club from Columbus donated books, hats, coats, gloves, and scarves to Grandma's Gifts. THANK YOU! ($650)
  
• May 1, 2010: Today we stood in the rain for ARMA Shred Day! People could bring documents to be shreded in exchange for a canned food. It poured cats and dogs, chasing away donors, but we still ended up with 17 cans - ($17 - HEY! IT ALL HELPS - NO LAUGHING!)
  
• April 24, 2010: Emily spoke at the District Altura Conference to over 200 women about service and Appalachia. Then at a break out session volunteers created 123 bags FULL of dental hygiene products - (123 bags @ $20 = $2460) THANK YOU ALTRUSA!
  
• March - April 2010: The Ohio State University Alumni Magazine Article - A Grandmother's Gift
• February18, 2010: Grandma's Gifts made a donation to the Lawrence County Ohio Educational Service Center so they were able to hold the county science fair this year! Superintendent Payne was very excited that Grandma's Gifts lent a hand so children could show their projects and grow excitement and involvement around (STEM) science, technology, engineering, and math. ($1250)
• February 2, 2010: Grandma's Gifts paid for Chesapeake Elementary School in Lawrence County to have  COSI on Wheels come visit for the day, teaching 500 children about science, technology, engineering, math, and conservation! (Worth: $1030)
• January 8, 2010: Through a referral from a Grandma’s Gifts donor, Grandma’s Gifts made a connection with Eastern Elementary school in Pike County, Ohio. Grandma’s Gifts will be granting them a partial scholarship ($500) to have the COSI on Wheels unit “It’s Simply Chemistry” visit to teacher 500 kids about science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM)!
  
• December 2009: Over 600 children were helped through Grandma's Gifts through the generosity of donors from all over the world! Grandma's Gifts was also able to help over 2000 other children through a donation of1520 frozen turkeys, 200 blankets, 200 coats, and 200 toys. (Total value: $41,688) Thank you to Emerson Network Power in Ironton, Ohio for letting us use your parking lot to unload our GIANT truck!
• December 2009: $200 was donated to the Big Creek People in Action organization in War, West Virginia to purchase books books for children for Christmas.
  
• November 2009: Donation of canned goods to the food pantry at the First United Methodist Church of Ironton Ohio - ($350)
  
• October 2009: What can we say... Trick-or-Teeth was mint-tastic and smilie-licious this year! Over $57,199 in dental hygiene items were donated to Grandma's Gifts and then sent to health departments, free dental clinics, schools, and more in Appalachia Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, New York, Tennessee, and Virginia!
• September 16, 2009: Grandma's Gifts paid for Lawrence Elementary School in Marietta to have  COSIon Wheels come visit for the day, teaching 500 children about science, technology, engineering, math, and conservation! (Worth: $1030)
• August 2009: 

  Rainbow Project: School Supply Project
  

  After the floods that literally washed Appalachian towns down mountainsides in 2002 and the damage was surveyed, it became more apparent that everyone needed help.  In years past Grandmas Gifts had worked to provide book bags and school supplies to Appalachian children, yet it seemed that more people needed help.  Thus the Rainbow Project was born. Everyone needs markers, pencils, paper, a ruler, and a book bag to go back to school in the fall, yet these much needed supplies are expensive and not every family can afford such items.  Originally a Make-A-Difference Day project, Gifts collects school supplies to send to schools and children for their return to school in the fall. These donations were to be the light at the end of the storm.
  
  248 book bags were donated worth over $12,400
  
  This year's collection partners:
  Kelsey McIntire, Family, & Friends
  Jack Ayers, Family, & Friends present at his Birthday Party!
  DeAscentis Family & Friends
  Lifestyle Community Homes Staff
  Worthingway Middle School
  All Shephards Lutheran Church
  Lansing, Michigan Girl Scout Council
  American's Helping Americans