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Volunteer Opportunities

ON-SITE OPPORTUNITIES

Direct Mail Volunteers 
Direct mail volunteers assist in packaging customer orders from the catalog and the web site.
Volunteers pull items for an order, check to ensure the correct items have been pulled and package merchandise to ship to customers.  Last year, volunteers packaged more than 16,000 orders! To learn more about becoming a direct mail volunteer please call 713-745-2575 and ask to speak with a volunteer coordinator.

Computer Volunteer
Computer volunteers are a vital part of the Children’s Art Project. Volunteers take on the responsibility of entering names & addresses of potential customers into our database, along with taking and/or entering customer orders into the database. Volunteers also update lists of grocery store chains that sell our products & track packages to verify status. To learn more about becoming a computer volunteer, please call 713-745-2575 and ask to speak with a volunteer coordinator.

Office Volunteers
Office volunteers do a myriad of tasks to support the daily operations of the Children’s Art Project office. They help prepare press kits, enter customer information in the database, assist with mail-outs, help with filing, write thank-you notes, address catalogues, or complete other administrative jobs that help us meet our objectives and serve our customers. To learn more about becoming an office volunteer, please call 713-745-2575 and ask to speak with a volunteer coordinator.

Seasonal Volunteers

Although the Children’s Art Project has volunteers working year round there are special needs during certain months.  Please see below.

Seasonal Volunteer Calendar
SEASON	VOLUNTEER NEEDS
Fall/Holiday June - Aug.	Group and individual volunteers assist in putting together the annual Collector’s Assortment of cards sold during the Holidays. In addition, a variety of new holiday products (i.e. ornaments, contribution cards, silk ties and scarves, ceramics etc.) are assembled during these months.
Christmas Sept. - Dec.	Groups and individuals are needed to help fill customer orders, prepare materials for sale at off-site events, take inventory of materials received from off-site events and check card displays at retail locations.

OFF-SITE OPPORTUNITIES

Uptown Park Boutique; Houston, Texas
The Children’s Art Project has a retail store in Uptown Park.  generously made available by Houston-based AmREIT.  Volunteers help us year round at the boutique.  Volunteers assist in greeting customers, re-stocking the boutique and customer sales.  The store is open Monday through Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.  For more information or to schedule a date to volunteer, please call 713-599-0349 and ask to speak with the boutique manager.

Adopt-a-Display

If you are unable to volunteer onsite, make your own schedule as an Adopt-a-Display volunteer.  Adopt-a-Display volunteers check fixtures in retail outlets to assure that displays are well stocked and in a prominent location and then report back to the Children's Art Project retail operations.  This can take as little as 10 minutes each week, but it is a tremendous help!  To find a retailer near you in need of adoption, please call 713-745-2575 and ask to speak with the Adopt-a-Display coordinator. For locations outside the Houston area, please call 800-231-1580.  See available dates below:  

Off-Site Shows

If you enjoy retail sales, volunteer to work at an off-site show within the Houston area.  Volunteers man booths to help sell Children’s Art Project products, which to raise funds for programs that benefit patients from the Children's Cancer Hospital at MD Anderson Cancer Center. For more information about the off-site show schedule please call 713-745-2575 and ask to speak with our art volunteer coordinator.
 

2012 Off Site Show Schedule

OTHER WAYS TO HELP

Donations

The Children's Art Project gives you the opportunity to make a donation in memory of or in honor of a loved one, friend or business associate. We also offer the opportunity to remember a family on the anniversary of that person's passing. Individual donations are appreciated. Your financial support helps provide the experiences that young cancer patients need to give their lives a degree of normalcy. In this way, you help make life better for children with cancer. When you make a memorial donation, a card is sent to the designated family member or friend to inform them that a gift has been made by you in memory of their loved one. You are sent an acknowledgement as a receipt of your donation. Visit us online to make a secure donation on our server today. To make a donation by phone, call 800-231-1580.

Contribution Cards

If you would like to make a donation in honor of a loved one, friend or business associate but would like to mail the card with your own personal message, our Contribution Cards are the perfect solution.  The cards are mailed to your home inscribed with the message; “A Special Gift has been made on your behalf to The Children’s Art Project at MD Anderson Cancer Center.”  No sales tax is charged on contribution cards. 

Underwriting
Underwrite a Card

Multiple underwriting opportunities at the Children’s Art Project at MD Anderson Cancer Center offer a wide range of benefits and avenues to meet your community outreach and corporate giving goals, including:

• Associate with the premier cancer center in the country.  Research, patient care and prevention are hallmarks of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. 

• The Children’s Art Project (CAP) mails 900,000 catalogs covering three selling seasons every year, blanketing every state in the US and many foreign countries.

• CAP products are sold in more than 2,000 major grocery and other retail chains in Texas, Florida, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and other states.

• Touch the lives of pediatric patients from the Children’s Cancer Hospital at MD Anderson Cancer Center. Programs funded by the Children’s Art Project ease, enrich and enliven their days during treatment and prepare young patients for survival — for life after cancer.

We can tailor an opportunity for your company that will meet your corporate goals and ours! We offer an array of special sponsorship opportunities for organizations. Sponsorships dramatically increase our ability to enhance patient services, while meeting your community outreach giving goals and advertising your company logo.

If you are interested in more details on how these underwriting opportunities can be beneficial to your company, please click on the link below.

Underwriting Opportunities

To speak with a Print Partner representative at The Children’s Art Project please e-mail Anna Holton at aholton@mdanderson.org or call 713-745-2247 between 8:00a.m. - 4:00p.m. CST.