All Travelers: Hotel Toiletries Needed

If you are someone who travels a lot we could use your help. Many local homeless, children's and women's shelters are in need of toiletries for their residents. Before you leave your hotel, toss all those lotions, shampoos, etc. in your bag and bring them back to the office. Ivie Cares will collect them and get them to local shelters in need.

Here is one organization we have heard about recently:
Cumberland Children's Home
http://www.cpch.org/index.html
Thank you!

Thank You for Magazines

Hi Kim,
I wanted to let you know again how much I appreciated all the recycled magazines that you brought by my house from you and your co-workers at Ivie and Associates. Every week I was able to ship a care box to my son LCPL Timothy D. Keele, which included the magazines for him to share with his fellow Marines. Instead of throwing them away, you and your co-workers took the time to gather the magazines, bring them to work and then you Kim, made sure I had a slew of them to mail out each week.

I'm very excited to pass on the good news that the 1/3 B Co 1st Platoon will be leaving Iraq soon and be back to their base in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii in about a month.Thank you again, so much, Ivie and Associates employees for donating to my son and OUR countries soldiers. The reading materials helped to pass away some of their down time. Their reading table was just as popular as waiting in the long line to use the phone to call home !!!
Sincerely,
Laura Keele-Kelson

Handmade Greeting Cards

I recently joined a nationwide group that makes handmade greeting cards and sends them to our soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. They can be of any design on the front (holidays, anniversary, birthday, miss you, love you, etc.) but the inside should be blank so that the soldiers can write their own personal greeting. An envelope for each card is also needed. The cards can be all the same or all different and any number is appreciated. For those who aren’t able to make cards, monetary donations are appreciated to help with shipping costs.

Anyone who would like to participate can contact me if they have questions and cards can be shipped to me at the Iowa Call Center.

Thank you.
Cindy Horvath
563-386-5886 x.3137
cindy.horvath@ivieinc.com

Did you know that over 23 Million Americans have diabetes?

On October 11th, I will be running a 5k as a fundraiser for Diabetes research for the American Diabetes Association. The mission of the ADA is to prevent and cure diabetes and to improve the lives of all people affected by diabetes. This includes people living with type 1, type 2, gestational, pre-diabetes or anyone who may be at risk.

I will be running with a team of friends, one of whom has a younger sister named Anna with type 1 diabetes. In honor of her, our team name is Anna's Bananas (her sister's nickname).

If you would like to make a donation towards this cause, you can use the following link: http://www.active.com/donate/nwatour/nwatourLCuster.
Thank you for supporting me in this cause.

Lindsay Custer

Keep the Magazines Coming!

This is a message we received from the woman who is sending the magazines overseas for us ...

PLEASE tell your co-workers thank you again for the mags. Tim's unit started receiving mail over 2 weeks ago and there are 180 men and women Marines in his platoon/unit with about 36 to a tent and those magazines ARE getting passed around.