Since 2015, Vermont State University at Castleton students under the guidance Communications professor David Blow, have raised more than $13,000 during the Christmas holiday season to provide necessities and toys for area children in need. The students raise the money, shop with Blow to buy the gifts that the children's parents said they need or want, then wrap the gifts and deliver them. Recipients have included individual families in Castleton, a food pantry (during COVID), children of at-risk teen mothers, children and women in a domestic violence shelter and children in need at the Vermont Achievement Center, where for the past four years Castleton students and Blow have hosted holiday parties for them and handed out the gifts and snacks. The 2025 campaign will again benefit kids at VAC, chosen by staff there. Please help if you can!

(Photos are from the 2024 event)

Help Us Help Them 2025

By Castleton Spartan student newspaper holiday fundraiser

Help Us Help Them 2025