Downey Side

On the side of FOSTER KIDS

                                                seeking FOREVER FAMILIES

March 2018

Dear Friends:

Downey Side… Families for Youth will be holding its 15^th Anniversary Gala on Thursday, June 28, 2018.  This year we will celebrate 51 years as a successful adoption agency founded by the Rev. Paul Engel, in 1967 in Springfield, Massachusetts.

We would like to thank you in advance for your support.  As most of you know, Downey Side is devoted to finding families for children who are without parents and living within a foster care system.  Downey Side, named after Margaret Downing, the first parent opening her home to a lonely teenager.  Since then, the agency has grown into an adoption organization that has found loving families for over 8,000 “waiting children.”  Downey Side is dedicated to the conviction that every child has the right, a desire and a need for a permanent family.

Gala proceeds help us continue our efforts to help children and families come together.  Please support us.  You may donate an itemized gift/gift basket (unwrapped) or a gift certificate that reflects products or services you offer, or you may choose to make a monetary contribution to help us and buy prizes for the silent auction.

If you would like to make a donation, you may mail it to:  Downey Side c/o St. Uriel’s Church, 219 Philadelphia Blvd., Sea Girt, NJ  08750.  Attention:  Sr. Elizabeth.  If you have any questions or would like to arrange for gift pickup, please call 732-359-8434.  Thank you for your support!  We are confident that our children and families will be grateful for your donation and will enthusiastically patronize your business/enterprise.

Thanking you in advance for your support which will be recognized on the evening of June 28, 2018 being held at the Crystal Point Yacht Club in Point Pleasant, NJ  from 6 – 10:30 pm.  Downey Side expects 250 persons to attend this event.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact any one of our committee members Sr. Elizabeth Engel, Mark Schmidt, Beverly Badami or Diane Pistor.

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God Bless You.

Sr. ELIZABETH ENGEL, OP,MS                                                                                    Federal Tax ID #042441463

Assistant Executive Director                                                              

Serving New Jersey Families

c/o St. Uriel’s Church, 219 Philadelphia Blvd., Sea Girt, NJ  08750

 732-359-8434 (phone) *** 732-359-8435 (fax) *** www.DowneySide.org