Speak Up For Children’s 2024 Holiday Tour of Homes will be held Friday, December 13, 2024 from 4:00 until 9:00 pm. The tour will offer a rare opportunity to enter some of Lincolnton’s finest private homes and a historic church. Visitors will be able to experience the architecture, furnishings and holiday decorations that make these treasured sites unique.
The proceeds of this event will benefit the foster children of Lincoln County. Join us and enhance your Christmas spirit by helping to provide for the unmet needs of our Lincoln County foster children.

SHADOW LAWN

THE DOCTORS’ HOUSE

HOYLE-ANDERSON HOUSE

ARROWOOD HOME

EMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH

Tickets will be on sale beginning November 15th. Physical locations will be posted soon.

HOW TO HELP US:

You can help us get the word out about our event by telling your friends and neighbors and sharing it on social media. Your help and support are greatly appreciated!

Speak Up For Children’s 2024 Holiday Tour of Homes will be held Friday, December 13, 2024 from 4:00 until 9:00 pm. The tour will offer a rare opportunity to enter some of Lincolnton’s finest private homes and a historic church. Visitors will be able to experience the architecture, furnishings and holiday decorations that make these treasured sites unique.
The proceeds of this event will benefit the foster children of Lincoln County. Join us and enhance your Christmas spirit by helping to provide for the unmet needs of our Lincoln County foster children.
Please visit our FB page for additional information.

HOW YOU CAN HELP!

You can help us get the word out about our event by telling your friends and neighbors and sharing it on social media. Your help and support are greatly appreciated!

Through the persistence of our officers, board of directors and colleagues, Speak Up For Children, Inc. has been fortunate to receive contributions to finance scholarships/grants since our inception in 2012.  Times Oil and other Lincoln County companies, churches, families, memberships, grants from The Lincoln County Community Foundation, and fundraisers like the Holiday Tour of Homes have allowed our organization to “fill the gaps” that exist in funding resources for foster children.  Our continuing goal is to provide hope and a sense of normalcy in the disrupted lives of these children.  

2022 Grants awarded:

20 for camp
12 for clothing
7 for Carowinds tickets
2 for Universal Studios tickets
2 prom expenses
2 yearbooks
1 martial arts camp
1 monster truck show
1 pair of glasses
1 guitar
1 pair of basketball shoes
1 tutor
1 swim lessons
1 set of home school books
1 set of home school packets
1 diapers and wipes
2 specialty baby formula (twins)
1 phone card for calls with mother

Pictured are two of the bookcases that were placed in the Lincoln County DSS visitation rooms.  The new books were gifted from Lisa’s Library.  They supplied an assortment of books for all ages. Additional books, previously purchased by SUFC, added to the collection. 

 The children are encouraged to keep a book if they so desire. A lot of these children have never owned a book of their own😢

Thanks to Charlie & Norma Bohlen for securing the donation and such an awesome display of the books!

👟🧦👟Shoe Campaign👟🧦👟

This year Speak Up for Children is purchasing athletic shoes for all the Lincoln County Foster children. We currently have an unprecedented number of children in our local foster care system. Our goal is to purchase shoes and socks for at least 110 children (this number increases as children are taken into custody). We estimate that the total cost will be around $5,000.00.
This project is in addition to our normal grants for the children’s unmet needs such as tutoring, clothing, summer camps, and other miscellaneous needs.
Thank you in advance for your contribution of any amount to help us continue to “Make a Difference” in a Lincoln County foster child’s life.

You can contribute by mailing a check to:
SUFC
2817 E Hwy 27
Lincolnton, NC 28092

Or by calling (704)735-8786 to make a contribution by phone

www.speakupforchildren.us

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#help #donate #nonprofit #childrenscharity

Speak Up continues to help provide for our LIncoln County foster children by purchasing some of the more expensive Angel Tree gifts for the LIncoln County Department of Social Services. This year, because of generous donations, the budget was increased to $2,000.00. Many thanks to Charlie & Norma Bohlen who shopped for all the gifts and advocated for discounts to stretch the budget even further. Thanks to everyone who helped to make this years “Angel Tree” project a success.
Hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving!
Help us continue to make a difference in the life of a LIncoln County child by making a tax deductible contribution!

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This is the second year our board voted to buy our Lincoln County foster children name brand tennis shoes. Thank you so much to Kohls whose “Kohl’s cash days” allowed us to also buy socks for all the children. I also want to thank my amazing staff for always jumping in and helping with whatever is needed to make every project a success!!! The results were amazing! Thank you to Store Supply Warehouse for the awesome bags and so generously “gifting” us the updated version of our logo! Thanks to all the foster care social workers for their assistance with the delivery. Many thanks to all those who contributed to help make this possible!!! There are 106 happy children!!!
Making a difference in the lives of our Lincoln County Foster Children

Happy Non-Profit Day! Celebrating all non-profits across the country, especially our fellow National CASA/GAL programs who are serving the abused and neglected children in their state. Together we are one collective ‘Voice’ for children! #BeAVoice #NCGAL