Holiday Wish List

Each year, volunteers selflessly give their time to help generous community donors provide a better holiday for hundreds of families in Saginaw County. If you would like to help open hearts this holiday season, please feel free to search through our Holiday Wish List database.

This search will help you locate an individual or family needing assistance with personal care items, toys and/or clothing. You can search by category, (families, individuals, kinship care families, assisted living families or out-county families) wish number, number of individuals needing assistance, or by the general description. Please note, the general description is to help give you an idea of what the family needs and what the children are interested in. You do not have to purchase everything listed in the description.

How to use the search:

1.) Search by keyword - if you are looking to help someone based on a particular keyword, you can search using this method. For example, if you wanted to help a family who has recently been laid-off, you could use the search to show you all families matching that criteria.

2.) Search by details - the more information you ask this search to find, the more specific results you will receive. 

• Search for open wishes using the status search. 
• If you have a wish number already in mind, you can use the wish # search to track that wish and see if it has been filled or if it is still open
• Description search is a little harder to navigate through, and not a search we suggest using to find a family or individual
• Looking to help a family, individual, kinship care family, assisted living family or an out-county family - use category to find the perfect match
• Have a number in mind of how many people you would like to help - search by family size to find the available options

3.) It is important that you define your search method - the default automatically goes to keyword search only, if searching with detailed information, you will need to make sure all search methods are selected.

If you have any questions or concerns using the search, please contact Kelly at (989) 755-0505, ext. 211.

Once you find the wish number you would like to help, please send us an email and answer the following questions:

• Wish Number(s):
• Donor Name:
• Contact Person:
• Phone Number:
• Mailing Address:
• City:
• State:
• Zip:
• Will you deliver directly to the family or to the United Way warehouse?
• Approximate value/amount of donated items?
• Will you be providing personal care items? toys? clothing? other?

Once, we have received your email - a United Way representative or volunteer will contact you regarding your wish, as well as send you more detailed information regarding the wish.

If you would rather speak directly to a person, you can contact our Holiday Wish List phone bank at (989) 755-8855 starting at 10 a.m. on November 30, 2009. The phone bank will be open Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., starting Monday, November 30 and going through Friday, December 18.

A complete list of wishes will be published in the November 24th edition of The Township Times.

The Holiday Wish List program is made possible through United Way of Saginaw County and the Department of Human Services. Together we have been able to help individuals and families have a brighter holiday season throughout the past 24 years.