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Families with Children From China, Northern California

Fundraising!
 

• Sunday, December 9, 1-5 pm                                             Barnes and Nobles, Oakland
  Fundraising for orphanage support.  The G2-China Care Teen Club @ Cal and FCC N. Calif. cordially invites all families in the Bay Area to join them at  Barnes & Noble Books in Jack London Square, 98 Broadway, Oakland, CA Sunday Dec. 9, 1-5pm.  The Oakland B&N Will donate a portion of sales to FCC for orphanage support that day IF the customer asks for it.  The coupon is posted, but you do not need the coupon - it is just a handy reminder.
  
  FCC teens and their mentors from UC Berkeley will be gift wrapping books that day to raise money for orphanage support and other adoption support orgs. TELL YOUR FRIENDS! Say "adoption" or "FCC" at the cash register.  Offer is good for this store only, this day only. We will be there 1-5pm.
  
   
• Adoptive Families magazine   Subscribe and help your FCC!
  Use this form to subscribe to "Adoptive Families" magazine and we will receive a $5 contribution.  Check out the table of contents.
  
   
• Button 'I dressed myself today,  My mommy had nothing to do with it"
  2-inch diameter, $5.00 each, all profits to benefit FCC & Half The Sky
  
  
   

  One day, I let my 3 1/2 year old daughter, Ilana, adopted from Guiping, China, go out in downtown Mill Valley, California, wearing her pink princess outfit over her lime green sweat suit, and her red hair band that has hearts coming off of springs from her head and of course, her high heals, which she promptly took off and walked around bare footed in the winter.  She also ended up collecting newspapers in her stroller, and looked like a bag lady (which we don't have in Mill Valley).  I thought she looked so cute, I took a picture, sent it to my family, and my mom was appalled that I let Ilana go out in public looking that way.  Now my mom lives here (probably to control what Ilana wears) and struggles each day to put matching berets on my daughter. 
  
  To make a long story longer, to give Ilana the freedom to dress the way she wants, but give me and my mom a disclaimer, I decided to create a button that says "I dressed myself today, My mommy had nothing to do with it."  The button was such a big hit (we gave so many away) that I ordered 1000 and decided to sell them for $5.00 each and donate all the profits to FCC and to Half the
  Sky. 
  
  If you want a button or five (for a good cause--they make great gifts), please send me an e-mail at SLHolland @ aol. com [remove spaces!!] to get payment and mailing instructions.  Come on, make a donation and give your child the freedom to chose whatever she wants to wear without taking any responsibility for the color combinations or pink princess crown! 

  
   

• Tapestry Books   Coming soon - purchase books and your FCC chapter will receive a percentage of the purchase price!
  

updated 4 May, 2008