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Welcome to Operation Gratitude
Care packages sent to date:
    
Support Our Troops--Operation Gratitude Makes A Difference!
".....I am with 3-1 Special Troops Bn currently serving in Afghanistan. I just wanted to write to you and thank you for everything you do. I don’t receive too much mail around here, so when I received a box from you it made me very happy! Thank you so much! Thank you for all you do! Truly, SGT C. B....." |
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» 400,000th Package Delivered! |
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STAY TUNED FOR MORE DETAILS!
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» Holiday Drive |
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THE 400,000th PACKAGE HAS BEEN SENT!
Ben Affleck, Kathy Ireland and Days of Our Lives
Stars Join 1000 Volunteers
 
Video Coverage: Click Here
Story: Click Here
Stay tuned for Delivery Details
At this time, our most urgent need is for personal letters and financial donations to pay the postage on our care packages. As we have been blessed by our very generous Corporate product donors, we respectfully encourage supporters to collect funds rather than items now to ensure that we can ship all 70,000 Holiday packages this year.
We always need LETTERS to the Troops
Click here for Details
Click Here for Volunteer and Donation Information
Exciting News this week for Operation Gratitude!
WPIX 11 (New York) news reporters Marvin Scott and Jill Nicolini, embedded in Iraq this week with a National Guard unit from New York, will be handing out our Operation Gratitude care packages to each Soldier. They will be broadcasting twice a day from Al Asad Air base, northwest of Baghdad.
You can watch their reports online at: PIX Christmas in Iraq.
For those in the New York area, you can see the broadcasts on TV:
Monday through Friday 12/22-12/26 at 8am-9am and 10pm-11pm
Saturday 12/27 at 10:30pm-11pm: Marvin's Iraq Xmas Special
Check your local listings for channel (WPIX)
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» DONATION INFORMATION |
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WE NEED FINANCIAL DONATIONS TO COVER THE COSTS OF
SHIPPING AND COMMUNICATION: $10 per package
Operation Gratitude is a 501(c)(3) organization.
All donations are tax deductible as provided by law.
FINANCIAL DONATIONS CAN BE MADE ONLINE OR BY CHECK.
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» Financial Information |
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Operation Gratitude is a California corporation, granted 501(c)(3) exempt status by the IRS, and recognized as a charitable organization by the California Franchise Tax Board. Tax returns are available online at www.guidestar.org . Donated funds are used to pay for production and shipping expenses (postage, labels, tape, equipment rental, insurance,etc) and communications (website upkeep and email system). We do not expend funds on fundraising campaigns (eg. direct mail or staging events). All contents of the packages are donated by individuals and groups through collection drives, or by companies that donate their own products. Our budget for 2008, to ship 120,000 packages, is $1.2 Million, of which $1.1 Million is postage. As each of our care packages is addressed to a specific service member, the only means of transport is through the Military Postal system via the USPS; only an Act of Congress can provide a discount or elimination of that cost ($9.30 per package). Our overall cost per package is $10; the donated contents of each package are worth ~$100. For more information, please email: cblashek@aol.com |
» Letters |
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To Operation Gratitude:
My husband was feeling very down yesterday when I spoke to him. Today when he called me on the computer, his whole attitude had changed. He was smiling ear to ear. He had received a box from Operation Gratitude. He had to show me everything that was sent to him. He loved everything. He had decorations hanging up in his room for the Fourth of July and he had a teddy bear sitting on his bed. You turned his whole day around. Just a few little things that reminded him of home and let him know that there were people who cared brought him great joy. I am so grateful for your support.
Army Wife, C.P.
Dear Operation Gratitude,
I'm the wife of a deployed soldier. When I spoke to him today he said his entire unit each individually received a package from your organization. I wanted to thank you for supporting my husband and his unit. You definitely brought cheer and a morale boost to each of them. This unit is a transportation unit and therefore are doing convoys on the dangerous roads of Iraq on a daily basis. They have encountered many imminent threats and my husband's vehicle alone has taken 4 direct hits. This kind of ongoing stress and fatigue can be a huge drain on our troops' morale. However, it is people like your volunteers who reach out to them and remind them that they are not forgotten. Your support gives them a taste of home and comfort that is priceless. Although we back here can't bring them home safe in body, that's their buddies' job, we can assist them in arriving home healthy in mind and spirit. You and your volunteers have contributed greatly to that mission through the packages you sent. I know you may not hear back from most of them, so I thought I would give you a little personal insight into what your efforts have accomplished. You have touched the lives of Heroes who are willing to place themselves in harms way and leave their families behind because they know that this country is full of good people who embrace and treasure the freedom they fight for. May God bless your efforts. Thank you for not only thinking of our troops but going that extra step to let them know you do. From a grateful and touched heart.
R.U., Proud Wife of a US Soldier. |
» 250,000th Care Package |
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Soldier Who Received 250,000th
Care Package and Jeep Keys...
Returns Home and Visits Operation Gratitude!
SPC Alfonso Sanchez received the
250,000th Operation Gratitude Care Package
on July 24 while deployed in Iraq.
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» How You Can Help |
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» Recycle to Support Our Troops! |
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» Cars4Causes |
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SUPPORT OUR TROOPS BY DONATING YOUR OLD VEHICLES!
TAX-DEDUCTIBLE DONATION RAISES FUNDS TO
SEND MORE CARE PACKAGES! |
» Operation Gratitude On-Line Store |
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SHOW YOUR SUPPORT FOR OUR TROOPS
WITH OPERATION GRATITUDE PRODUCTS!
for Apparel and Accessories
$5 from every item purchased will be donated to
Operation Gratitude
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» Good Search |
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Support Our Troops Every Time You Search Online!
GoodSearch.com is a Yahoo-powered search engine that will donate a penny per search to Operation Gratitude. Use it just as you would any search engine, get quality search results and help us send more care packages to the troops!
Just go to www.goodsearch.com and be sure to enter Operation Gratitude, Inc. as the charity you want to support. Then add that page to your Favorites and use it every time you do an internet search.
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» 200,000th Care Package Received! |
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OPERATION GRATITUDE AND CHECKERS-RALLYS PRESENT CAR TO
LCPL JORDAN RICHARDS & FIANCE
ON MAY 30, 2007 in St. LOUIS!!
 MARINE RECEIVES GIFT OF A LIFETIME!!
Operation Gratitude and Checkers Drive-In Restaurants, Inc., presented 20-year-old Marine Lance Corporal Jordan Richards with the keys to a new Dodge® Caliber in celebration of Operation Gratitude's 200,000th Care Package sent in December.
Click here for Details
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» 150,000th Care Package |
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150,000th Package Received!
A Marine Private deployed in Iraq receives the 150,000th Operation Gratitude Care Package, filled with assorted goodies plus a DVD Player, a large collection of DVDs and a Hotel-Casino vacation.
Read More....
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» Donation Meter |
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HELP US GET TO $1,200,000
Operation Gratitude is a 501(c)(3) organization.
All donations are tax deductible as provided by law.
To donate online, click the Donation Button:
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» Your support is greatly appreciated! |
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Thanks for the many care packages you sent to our company! The soldiers really enjoyed all the various goodies you sent. Snacks are always a hit as we get tired of Army chow. Your support is greatly appreciated! We know we are not forgotten over here when we are so far from our families and friends. Thanks! J.B.
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