Hoping you had a nice Thanksgiving! It’s almost December, but we have big things happening this week and next, and we couldn’t wait to share them with you! Here are a few opportunities to celebrate the season, win, give, and share!
Scott Blades
Executive Director
Quick Links to This Month’s Articles
- #GivingTuesday is Tomorrow!
- Reveille Men’s Chorus Offers Free Concert Tickets to TIHAN Volunteers and CarePartners!
- Holiday Cookie Exchange Outdoors at Reid Park – Join Us!
- Raffle Deadline Approaching – Win a New Truck, First Class Air Tickets, or $5,000 Cash!
- Target Date This Week! Tis the Season to Share Warmth and Joy Through Your Gifts
#GivingTuesday is Tomorrow!
#GivingTuesday is an annual day of contributing online to support nonprofits helping build a better world. Taking place on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, this year #GivingTuesday falls on November 29. Please consider making a gift in support of TIHAN’s programs and services that help people with HIV to live well.
In addition to making an online donation (www.tihan.org), you could also consider making a difference by reaching out to friends living with HIV and tell them you are thinking of them for World AIDS Day, or contacting friends who have lost a loved one and re-connecting with them.
Another way to make a difference is by looking at TIHAN’s wish list to see if you might donate an item we need. We are collecting holiday gifts for our CarePartners (clients living with HIV), toiletry items for our CarePackages, and we have many other items on our wishlist, which you can see at https://tihan.org/donate/#wishlist
Reveille Men’s Chorus Offers Free Concert Tickets to TIHAN Volunteers and CarePartners!
Reveille’s holiday concert The Gift is just around the corner and they are generously offering complimentary admission to TIHAN volunteers and our CarePartners (and their guests) for the opening night, Friday, December 2nd 7:30pm performance at Leo Rich Theater (260 S Church Ave).
If you are a TIHAN volunteer and would like complimentary tickets (you and a guest), contact Jackson at OperationsManager@tihan.org. If you are a TIHAN CarePartner and would like complimentary tickets, contact a TIHAN Link Specialist at LinkVolunteer@tihan.org.
Thank you, Reveille!
Holiday Cookie Exchange Outdoors at Reid Park – Join Us!
Join us in celebrating each other and the season at our annual Holiday Cookie Exchange Party for volunteers, CarePartners, donors, and friends. On Thursday, December 8th, stop by anytime between 4:00pm-6:00mpm at Reid Park, Ramada 20, in the northwest area of park, off Country Club – see map. We’d love to see you – even if you can only stay for a brief time!
Feel free to bring your favorite cookies to share. One or two dozen is plenty! Everyone will be able to take some cookies home with them! Please provide information if the cookies contain nuts or if cookies are gluten-free, as some people have allergies. Open to all – feel free to bring friends and family (kids welcome). Masks are encouraged but not required.
RSVPs encouraged—please let Jackson Mileur, Operations Manager, know if you’re planning to attend – (520) 299-6647 ext 204 or OperationsManager@tihan.org
Raffle Deadline Approaching – Win a New Truck, First Class Air Tickets, or $5,000 Cash!
The 2022 “Millions for Tucson” raffle features three amazing prizes! The grand prize is a 2022 Ford Maverick Lariat Hybrid; second prize is two roundtrip first-class airline tickets to anywhere in the world; and third prize is $5,000 cash. Tickets are only $25 each, or 5 tickets for $100. Need not be present to win.
TIHAN gets to utilize the money from all the raffle tickets we sell to support our programs and services, and you get a chance to win these great prizes! Tickets available now online here (https://tihan.ejoinme.org/win), or you can get them from the TIHAN office (520-299-6647). The public drawing takes place in December, and you don’t have to be present to win. Your odds are much better than the lottery—no more than 100,000 tickets will be sold.
Target Date This Week! Tis the Season to Share Warmth and Joy Through Your Gifts
A gift can mean so much more than the actual item. Every December, we distribute your donated holiday gifts and gift cards to CarePartners living with HIV, reminding them that someone is thinking about them and wants to share with them the warmth of the season. CarePartners often tell us that the gift they receive from TIHAN is the one gift that they know they will get to enjoy each year. Can you help us make this a reality in 2022? As you shop and help spread the word, please remember:
• Gifts must be new, unused, and unwrapped.
• Because CarePartners belong to a variety of faith traditions, or may not identify with any faith, we ask that holiday gifts do not portray any religious images or messages.
• It’s important for us to be able to keep gifts equitable, so please look for gifts with a value between $15 and $25. The most popular gift items include blankets, crockpots, toaster ovens, electric grills and sandwich makers, and pillows.
• We are also hoping to give a $25 gift card to stores like Target or Walmart to every CarePartner, so we also need donations of $25 gift cards.
• The greatest need is for gifts that would be appropriate for adult males.
• Please bring all donations to the TIHAN office this week (anytime Mon-Fri 8:30am-4:30pm).
Thank you for helping TIHAN make this holiday season more special for Tucsonans living with HIV.
