2020 Gingerbread Festival Auction

The Family Place’s Gingerbread Festival Auction has moved online!

Even though we can’t be together this year, you can support Upper Valley families – and bid on a wide array of fabulous items including: gift certificates to local businesses, gift baskets, artwork, home and garden items, sporting goods, fitness classes, staycation options and so much more!

The generous support through our Fund-A-Need giving opportunity provides: direct assistance to families in need; supplies and equipment to support the work of our dedicated staff; tools and materials to keep our facilities safe and welcoming; and general support for our organization. We are grateful for the caring and generous community that sustains our work! Thank you for your support of The Family Place!

Thanks to the generous members of our Board of Directors and our Strategic Advisors, we have a MATCH for all Giving Tree Fund-a-Need donations! Any amount donated for “fund a need” items in our auction will have TWICE the impact! View all Giving Tree Fund-a-Need opportunities in our online auction: https://www.32auctions.com/organizations/72408/auctions/89533?t=category&v=Giving+Tree

Thank you to all the generous supporters of our 2020 auction! We are so grateful to our donors, sponsors, and YOU, for your support of The Family Place and our vital programs for young children and families in the Upper Valley.

Donate to The Family Place: Your support makes a difference! Your contributions help children and families through virtual and socially distanced support visits, financial assistance, remote parenting groups, and parenting support. Whether or not you bid on auction items, please consider making a year-end contribution at www.familyplacevt.org/give/

The Family Place is a private, non-profit organization and one of 15 legislatively-designated Parent Child Centers in Vermont. As such, we play a vital role in our community’s social safety net. Our work involves a whole-family approach to helping children thrive. We work with children and caregivers together, promoting positive parenting strategies and ensuring that children have the kinds of experiences that support their physical development, their social functioning, their ability to learn, and their long-term health. Through home visits, early intervention for infants and toddlers with developmental delays, nursing services, parenting classes and groups, treatment for families dealing with the trauma of sexual abuse, assistance with child care costs, intensive wrap-around supports for young families in poverty, community playgroups, and more, The Family Place partners with families to increase the presence of “protective factors”, things that all families need to be strong and thrive.