2024 Annual Spirit Gift Wrapping Event

Once again, our volunteers have prepared a very happy Christmas morning for many children in Illinois and South Carolina. None of these wonderful gifts could be purchased without our contributors’ generous donations and our hard-working volunteers who so graciously and cheerfully give of their time and energy. We are so grateful for all of our supporters, without whom we would be unable to serve the children in our communities. Our donors also allow us to support many other 501(c)(3) organizations, most of which are listed on our Recipients page. Many thanks again to all who have made our work possible.

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2023 Annual Spirit Gift Wrapping Event

The Renaissance Foundation’s 2023 Spirit Gift Wrapping event was, once again, very successful in Kane County, Illinois and in Aiken County, South Carolina. Due to all of our volunteer support and the generous donations made to The Renaissance Foundation over the past twelve months, we were given the opportunity to add to the happiness of many children on Christmas morning again this year. Special thanks to our individual donors – we hope they know that, without their support, we would be unable to continue our mission to serve the less fortunate children in our communities.

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The Renaissance Foundation Sponsors the Family Service Foundation of Greater Elgin

The Renaissance Foundation is proud to sponsor the Family Service Foundation of Greater Elgin!

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2022 Annual Spirit Gift Wrapping Event

Our 2022 Spirit Gift Wrapping event was a great success due to the efforts of our volunteers who graciously gave of their time again this year. Hundreds of children in our local communities and our Aiken, South Carolina, community benefitted from the generosity of our individual and corporate donors, particularly the St. Charles Meijer store. Each child’s gifts were individually chosen from that child’s “wish list” and then beautifully wrapped. Our immense thanks go out to all of our volunteers, as we could not make a difference without their support.

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2021 Annual Spirit Gift Wrapping Event

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Our Annual Spirit Gift Wrapping event was a great success due to the numerous volunteers who graciously gave from their hearts again in 2021. Our efforts to shop, tag and organize our gifts during October and November were made far easier by many new volunteers, as well as our returning volunteers, all of whom graciously shopped, wrapped and delivered the wonderful gifts for underprivileged children in our communities.

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2020 Annual Spirit Gift Wrapping Event – Covid Style

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We would like to extend our deepest gratitude to our volunteers and donors for their steadfast support throughout our most recent holiday event. Due to the Covid-19 restrictions, we were unable to hold our Annual Spirit Gift Wrapping Event which is typically scheduled during the first week of December. However, the needs of local children did not disappear with the event, and we were incredibly fortunate to have so many who were involved with our past events, together with many of our social worker contacts, step up to ensure that we were still able to make Christmas a special occasion for the homeless and needy children in Kane County. Due to the amount of assistance we were given, our Christmas gifts for these children were delivered on time. As in past years, all presents were individually chosen, respecting the wishes and/or needs of each child, and then beautifully wrapped by our volunteers. There are no words adequate to express our gratitude to our generous volunteers, without whom our 2020 Annual Spirit Gift Wrapping event could not have been accomplished.

We are so grateful that our volunteers, their families and friends have remained well during these challenging times, and we are hopeful that the coming new year will find us all with the ability to get together once again.

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The Renaissance Foundation’s Annual Spirit Gift Wrapping Event 2019

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Our 10th Spirit Gift Wrapping event was made incredibly successful due to the numerous volunteers who graciously gave of their time this past year. Our efforts to shop and organize our gifts for the children during October and November were made far easier due to the 3,000 sq. ft. storage space donated by Jace Murray and Ellen Gallagher of Murray Commercial in St. Charles, and by the large space donated again this year by the St. Charles Park District for our wrapping event.

Over 250 needy children in our local communities benefitted from the efforts of our volunteers and the generosity of our individual and corporate donors, particularly the St. Charles Meijer store. All gifts were individually chosen and then beautifully wrapped by one of our volunteers. It is impossible to adequately thank each of our volunteers, but we hope they all know how vital they are to helping us with our mission – to serve the less fortunate children in our communities.

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The Renaissance Foundation’s Annual Spirit Gift Wrapping Event 2018

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Our 9th Spirit Gift Wrapping event was made incredibly successful due to the numerous volunteers who graciously gave of their time this past year. Our efforts to shop and organize our gifts for the children during October and November were made far easier due to the 2,800 sq. ft. storage space donated by John and Jim Kunzer of MCC Technology in St. Charles.

Over 250 needy children in our local communities benefitted from the efforts of our volunteers and the generosity of our donors. All gifts were individually chosen and then beautifully wrapped by one of our volunteers. It is impossible to adequately thank each of our volunteers, but we hope they all know how vital they are to helping us with our mission – to serve the less fortunate children in our communities.

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The Renaissance Foundation’s Annual Spirit Gift Wrapping Event 2017

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2017 marked the 8th year for our Annual Spirit Gift Drive. Our volunteers were numerous and creative – all of the Christmas presents for our children were made very special by the efforts of our hard-working volunteers!

We were again able to serve over 250 homeless children this year, due to the generous support of our donors, both individual and corporate.

The thank you notes we receive from the children and their families make all the hard work very worthwhile. Special thanks to the Arcedium Coffee Shop in St. Charles and Panera Bread for their most appreciated donation of coffee and bagels to fuel our volunteers!

Some pictures of this year’s event:

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The Renaissance Foundation’s Annual Spirit Gift Wrapping Event 2016

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2016 – Another successful year, made all the more so by all of our wonderful volunteers.

We were able to serve over 250 homeless children this year, due to all of our volunteer support and the generous donations made to The Renaissance Foundation over the past twelve months.

We are very grateful for the opportunity to add to the happiness of these children on Christmas morning again this year.

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