Mac’s Gift: Children’s Cancer Foundation
Mac’s Gift was created to help families of children who have the unfortunate battle with cancer. The main focus of the organization is to lift the burdens of these children and their families, and to do so especially around the Christmas season. This centers around an amazing evening in December. Parents and children with cancer come to connect with other families in similar situations. Not only is this night for the child with cancer, but for all of their children. This Christmas celebration features games, photo booths, the BYU Baseball team, dinner, a visit from Santa Clause and to the North Pole and the opportunity to shop “Santa’s Workshop” for Christmas presents!
A Volunteer Organization
Mac’s Gift is unique in the fact that it is an entirely volunteer organization. None of the money donated is used to pay the volunteers, committee, or board for their time. This allows the families to be the sole recipients of the donations so graciously given to the organization each year. At Christmas time, tens of thousands of dollars are spent to provide a free of charge shopping experience for the parents in “Santa’s Workshop”. A Christmas meal, BYU Basketball tickets, an eventful party, and other wonderful gifts are also provided to the families with the donations.
The Christmas Spirit
Each Christmas season Mr. and Mrs. Clause make a special visit to the Mac’s Gift event. This is helpful to the families who want to see Santa, but can’t go sit in line at the mall. Between visiting with Santa, and doing most of their Christmas shopping at the Mac’s Gift event, there is so much less to worry about for the families during the Christmas season. Which is just another feature intended to accomplish our goal of lifting the burdens of these families around Christmas time.
