April 22nd, 2014

    St. Jude’s Ranch for Children is a non- profit agency with a 40 year history of caring for abused, abandoned and neglected children. Programs include high quality therapeutic foster care designed to address the social, emotional and behavioral issues typically present in children who have been abused, abandoned, neglected and homeless. 
        You can help out too-- at no cost to you! 

           * Picture from St. Jude's Ranch

From St. Jude's Website...
“Individual treatment plans, a homelike environment and highly trained staff all help each child gain success. Many ... come to us after multiple foster home placements – sometimes after as many as eight to twelve – and some arrive two years behind academically because their caregivers simply forgot to send them to school… staff and on-campus tutoring programs help them catch up with their classmates.  Religious participation is voluntary and spiritual guidance and support is always available. Children receive individual therapy and participate in family therapy with their siblings.

      “One of the distinct features of the program is the ability to care for sibling groups- brothers and sisters who often have never lived together. Many times all the brothers and sisters have left is each other. While residents of the Ranch, they see each other every day.  They go to school together.  They play together.  Just like other kids. Just like brothers and sisters. 


  You can help by shopping at AmazonSmile -- It costs you nothing!
 This is a simple and automatic way for you to support St. Jude’s Ranch for Children every time you shop, at no cost to you. It has the exact same low prices, selection and convenient shopping experience as Amazon.com, with the added bonus that Amazon will donate 0.5% of the purchase price* to St. Jude’s Ranch. On your first visit go to smile.amazon.com and search for St. Jude’s Ranch for Children or tax ID 88-6006790, to select us as your charitable organization to receive donations from eligible purchases before you begin shopping. AmazonSmile will remember your selection, and then every eligible purchase you make on AmazonSmile will result in a donation to our children!!

Everything else about the Amazon online shopping experience stays the same, including the shopping cart, wish lists and shipping options. The prices are also the same. You use the same account on Amazon.com and AmazonSmile. Your shopping cart, Wish List, wedding or baby registry, and other account settings are also the same. The only difference is: when you start your visit at smile.amazon.com, Amazon donates 0.5% of the purchase price to St. Jude’s Ranch for Children. You will see eligible products marked “Eligible for AmazonSmile donation” on their product detail pages.

- See more at: https://stjudesranch.org/shop-amazon-smile/#sthash.MzJiglAL.dpuf