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Our Vision
The Family Giving Tree envisions a world where every child is made to feel like a valuable part of their community through a shared belief in the power of giving.
Our Mission
The Family Giving Tree fulfills the exact holiday wish and provides backpacks filled with school supplies to those children in the most need in our communities while inspiring the values of kindness, philanthropy and volunteerism.
Our History
The Family Giving Tree began in 1990 as a San Jose State University MBA class project. Jennifer Cullenbine and Todd Yoshida were asked to "create a program that adds value to someone else's life." They created the Family Giving Tree with the hope of providing holiday gifts to 300 children in East Palo Alto. Encouraged by the success of the first year, Jennifer decided to continue and expand the organization. In the 20th year of the program's existence, the total number of gifts and backpacks donated had grown to over 700,000, making the Family Giving Tree the largest gift and backpack donation program in California.
Additional Information
Meet the Board of Directors and FGT Elves.
Information about current job opportunities.
Financials
Busy Elves, piles of gifts and rows of backpacks. New!
Check out our efforts to reduce waste and modify our warehouse and office practices.
Our calendar of events will tell you when our warehouse is open, and which activities will be taking place.
See how we've grown.
Our office wishlist throughout the year.
Have a question? Check out our FAQ's.
This recently rennovated page contains years of press for the Family Giving Tree.
Check out our reviews on Yelp.com!