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If dropping off locally (NYC)
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Email us and let us know when you’re dropping off, and if you’d like to pick up more bags.
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Drop off times are available Wednesdays between 12pm-2pm
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Located at Essex Market (NYC)
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To find us at Essex Market, enter on Broome Street between Essex St & Norfolk St. Take the elevator or stairs up to the mezzanine floor
If mailing in
Please mail bags to:
Yin Chang and Moonlynn Tsai
130 Lafayette Street #32
New York, NY 10013
BLACK SEED BAGELS - BUSHWICK
Address: 379 Suydam Street, Brooklyn
Bag Drive Hours: Everyday 8AM-3PM
LAND TO SEA - EAST WILLIAMSBURG
402 Graham Ave Brooklyn, NY 11211
Bag Drive Hours: Everyday 8AM-5:30PM
*Bags available to decorate in-store
MAISON DU TSURU- EAST WILLIAMSBURG
428 Humboldt St Front, Brooklyn, NY 11211-2419
Bag Drive Hours: Everyday 9AM-2PM
MISSION NYC- BUSHWICK
599 Johnson Ave, Brooklyn
Bag Drive Hours:
12/15-12/31 Wed- Sun 5:00-10:00pm
MANHATTAN
MAIL-IN INSTRUCTIONS:
Heart of Dinner
31 Howard Street
#404
New York, NY 10013
DROPOFF AT PARTYBUS BAKESHOP:
PARTYBUS BAKESHOP @ 31 Essex Street, NY, NY 10002
Check their Instagram for most updated open hours by clicking here. There is no need to schedule your pickup so please just walk into Partybus Bakeshop during their open hours and say hello to the incredible Partybus Bakeshop team, let them know you’re there to dropoff completed Heart of Dinner bag decorations.
A warm welcome to Heart of Dinner's Decorated Bag Project! Decorated bags are needed on an ongoing basis.
INDIVIDUAL VOLUNTEERS
interested in accessing our step-by-step instructions for self-guided bag decorations? Click here. The instructions manual will also list where to gather art materials.
COMPANIES & CORPORATIONS & BUSINESSES
Interested in self-hosting a bag decorating event at your company? Access this toolkit here for instructions that were designed to meet our requirements for corporate/business set ups.
DO's:
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We encourage everyone to participate in our bag decorating volunteer activity, regardless of artistic skill. It is not necessary to know how to illustrate or draw professionally, we just ask that each bag is decorated with care, love, and careful attention to detail. We believe that showing up with our integrity, time, and efforts is a meaningful way of sharing love and making our Elderly recipients feel cherished, like the valued members of society that they are.
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Be sure to follow the instructions in the toolkit.
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On each bag, we ask that volunteers write Heart of Dinner and its Chinese translation. At the bottom of this email, you can copy the Chinese translation.
DON'Ts:
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We kindly ask that you do not add branding, logos, or taglines to the handwritten notes. These care packages are not for marketing purposes and should only serve one purpose: to bring warmth and joy to our recipients.
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Please do not include political messages or affiliation on your decorated bag. We appreciate your contributions in making a difference in our communities and bringing smiles to the faces of our Elderly beneficiaries. Thank you for your kindness and generosity.
FINISHED?
Now that you've completed your decorated bags, submit them to us via mail-in or dropoff. Thank you for volunteering your time to participate in our Decorated Bag Project and making a difference in our communities.
To write the Chinese translation of "Heart of Dinner", copy the characters below:
What happens after the Holiday Bag Drive ends?
Need more time to complete your bags and drop them off after February 15, 2022? Take your time! Or if you had a wonderful time completing your decorated bags during our Lunar New Year Bag Drive and would love to decorate our bags again? Please stop by our ongoing brown bag outpost at Partybus Bakeshop. We are always in need of ongoing decorated brown bags to pack our meals with!
PARTYBUS BAKESHOP
Address: 31 Essex Street, NY, NY 10002
Hours open: Tue - Sun from 9AM-4PM
Closed Mondays
PICKUP INSTRUCTIONS
Our need for thoughtfully decorated bags are on an ONGOING basis. There is no need to schedule your pickup so please just walk into Partybus Bakeshop ANY TIME during their open hours and say hello to the incredible Partybus Bakeshop team, let them know you’re there to pick up Heart of Dinner bags to decorate. The pickup at this location works a little differently. The team will pass you a batch of 50 brown bags + a stack of 50 handwritten notes to bring home with you. When you're home and ready to decorate, first staple a note to the front of the brown bag (refer to the illustration at the very top of this page). Then follow the step-by-step decoration instructions above.
If you're not local to NYC but would still love to contribute, please click here to read directions on writing & decorating notes instead. We are ALWAYS in need of handwritten notes to attach to the decorated bags!
If you are local to NYC and would love to help us pack our care packages and/or deliver them directly to our Elderly, visit this page and fill out our volunteer application.
A tremendous thank you for your generosity and your time. We deeply appreciate you, and can't wait to see what you'll create!
