December 2024

2024 Save-A-Christmas Shopping Day

Past event

December 2024

2024 Save-A-Christmas Foster Kids campaign →

2024 ran on the relocated model: volunteers gathered at Desert Ridge Marketplace, accompanied staff to pick up foster children from homes across the greater Phoenix area, then proceeded to the shopping center as a group. Foster-home locations remain unpublished to protect the children and families.

Day-of schedule

What happens, when

These times are estimates — the schedule shifts with the bus pickup time each year. Volunteers receive the confirmed start time via the BAND group ahead of the event.

10:00 AM

Volunteers arrive at Desert Ridge (behind the AMC) for bus pickup
10:15 AM

Load volunteers onto the bus and head out
10:45 AM

Bus arrives to pick up foster children and pair them with their volunteers
11:15 AM

Arrive at the shopping center — shopping experience begins
12:00 PM

Checkout; load children and volunteers back onto the bus
12:15 PM

Bus returns to the foster homes for a closing prayer and gift delivery
12:30 PM

Group photo; volunteers load back onto the bus
1:00 PM

Bus returns to Desert Ridge — dropoff and farewell

Where

Desert Ridge Marketplace (volunteer rendezvous)

Desert Ridge Marketplace, behind the AMC — Phoenix, AZ

Open in Google Maps

This event has passed. See the events index for upcoming events, or support the foundation directly.