
CFCA sponsor and awareness trip traveler, Tom Weir, right, shows photos on his smartphone to his sponsored child, Purity, and her mother, Monica, in Kenya.

CFCA sponsor and awareness trip traveler, Tom Weir, right, shows photos on his smartphone to his sponsored child, Purity, and her mother, Monica, in Kenya.
By Veronica Batton, CFCA writer/editor
Friends! I have returned, and I’m eagerly anticipating the season for crafting.
The fall and winter seasons are jam-packed with craft-crazy holidays, and I’m a junkie when it comes to hot glue and felt.
I spent some quality time with my enabler, Pinterest, to help me reinvent the classic Christmas-photo-ball ornament.
By Shanxi Omoniyi, CFCA online content manager
We keep hearing wonderful stories from those of you who have logged into your online sponsorship account and used our eLetter feature to send an online letter to your sponsored friend.
One of the most frequently asked questions we have received since launching the eLetters in 2011 is “When can we send a photo with these?”
The answer is: Right now!
Here’s a step-by-step guide to sending your next eLetter with a photo attached:
If this is your first time logging in, you’ll need to register your account first. See our step-by-step guide here.
Your†screen should look something like this (I’ve grayed out my sponsored child Victor’s middle and last names for privacy reasons):
If you have more than one sponsored child, you can use our dropdown menu to select the one you’ll write to first. Read more
By Veronica Batton, CFCA writer/editor
What’s one thing sponsored friends like to receive more than letters from their sponsors? Photos from their sponsors, of course!
Photos are a great way to show you care. Sponsored friends can look at a photo of their sponsor and know that someone, somewhere, is rooting for them to succeed.
My friend, Thilothammal in Chennai, India, has been asking me for a photo. Instead of sending her a regular photo of my husband and me, I decided to take my craft skills to the next level.
Get ready to love this.
D.I.Y.: Collage photo frame
(Difficulty level: super easy)
Materials needed: Read more
CFCA†received the Best of Show honor at the sixth annual Philly Awards for our Walk with the Poor brochure.
The awards are presented by Nonprofit Connect, recognizing excellence in Kansas City nonprofit communications. CFCA also won first place for the Walk with the Poor brochure in the informational brochure category and second-place honors for the CFCA sponsorship brochure in the membership appeal category.
The Walk with the Poor brochure was created to encourage young people to go to the Walk with the Poor section on our website and learn how they can impact global poverty by helping a student finish school.
The Best of Show Award is selected from the first-place winners in 11 categories.
We created a video of the multi-fold Walk with the Poor brochure. Watch it unfold as it connects the dots…