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Our latest press releases are on our Press Releases page with no contact info.

Journalists may contact us using our Journalist contact form, for media only. Messages from the public sent there will be ignored.

If you are not a journalist, please use our Public contact form. Although we cannot reply to every message we get, be assured we do read them. 

 

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Photos of children and moms receiving gifts, volunteers reading letters

Photos of letters to Santa adopted by Be An Elf

Photos of our Chief Elf with letters to Santa

Be An Elf’s YouTube channel

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Sample of past broadcast coverage

MSNBC TV interview with Patrick Reynolds, 2011

Westwood One Radio News, Two 40-second national radio segments, December 10, 2015 (Click here for video)

A sample of images available:

Guess who wrote to Santa! There are gifts here for everyone in the family.

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BeAnElf.org’s Real Letters to Santa page offers images like the one above of actual Santa letters from children and struggling parents.

Be An Elf recommends teaming up with your friends, adopting one family, and sharing the cost, the work, and the fun.
Reading letters to Santa at a USPS® branch when the Postal Service® still offered the traditional walk-in program. These photos were taken at Los Angeles’ South Central Avenue branch. The program went online in 2020, and now volunteers may mail their gifts from any of 19,000 USPS® branches that offer “label scanning” — the ability to print address labels from the barcoded shipping labels that volunteers print out with each letter to Santa they adopt online.
Be An Elf’s Chief Elf Patrick Reynolds adopted this letter to Santa.
Donations make it possible for BeAnElf to adopt more letters. Patrick Reynolds, Chief Elf at BeAnElf.org, holds letters to Santa adopted by the charity. Chief Elf Patrick holds up letters  Be An Elf adopted. The charity use a portion of its donations to send $100 Target gift cards to families whose letters it adopts online at the USPS® website every Christmas.
Many holiday volunteers find joy and comfort volunteering for this program. Be An Elf has let  thousands of people know about it over the years.
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Help us bring smiles to needy kids on Christmas morning.

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Only volunteers sending gifts should contact us. Santa will not see your message here! If you’re seeking gifts, contact Santa’s Christmas volunteers through our seeking gifts page. If you want to give gifts, click below.

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Be An Elf is a tax-exempt 501c3 children’s Christmas charity. Contributions are tax-deductible. We are not affiliated with USPS Operation Santa® but we support it by creating public awareness of the program online and in social media, by recruiting and orienting new volunteers to the program, and by offering tips to needy families writing to Santa. Be An Elf also uses donations to adopt letters to Santa and send gifts to the kids who wrote them. We will never share your info with third parties; see Be An Elf’s privacy policy.

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