Spirit of Giving deadlines approaching

The El Paso Community Foundation’s 30th annual Spirit of Giving campaign is in full swing, and there are some deadlines coming up that we wanted to remind you about.

Spirit of Giving trees are located at Cielo Vista Mall, Sunland Park Mall, and five GECU/GECU Investment & Trust Services locations — Viscount and Airway; Rojas and Zaragoza; Vista del Sol and Yarbrough; Dyer and Diana; and Resler and Helen of Troy.

The trees are adorned with snowflake tags that represent the stories of people — children, elderly, and disabled — in need. Pick a tag, buy a gift, wrap it with the tag, and return it to the Spirit of Giving location where you purchased it.

The drop-off deadlines are:

• GECU/GECU Investment & Trust Services locations — Friday, December 7

• Cielo Vista Mall — Wednesday, December 19

• Sunland Park Mall — Thursday, December 20

You also can go to our virtual tree at spiritofgiving.epcf.org, click the tag of the story that moves you and pay for the gift. The El Paso Community Foundation will ensure that it is delivered.

Or print the tag, purchase the gift, wrap it and deliver it, with the tag, to our office at 333 N. Oregon St. on the 2nd Floor.

Our office hours are 9 a.m.–5 p.m. Mondays through Fridays. The deadline to drop off gifts to our office is Monday, December 17.

More than 57,000 gifts have been given through this uniquely El Paso effort, which started in 1989.

The El Paso Community Foundation’s Spirit of Giving is sponsored by Cielo Vista Mall/Simon Malls, Sunland Park Mall, GECU/GECU Investment & Trust Services, KTSM 9 and iHeartRadio of El Paso.