Sponsor a Tree for
Intermountain Children’s Home Festival of Trees
at the Helena Civic Center!

We need your help to sponsor a tree for the Festival of Trees!

Proceeds from Festival week benefit Intermountain Children’s Home in Helena, MT.
(TIN 81-0231775)

Donations are Tax Deductible!

A short story about Intermountain and the Festival of Trees:

Intermountain has been helping kids, teens, and families struggling with emotional issues, mental health issues, or substance abuse in Montana for more than 100 years.

The Festival of Trees holiday celebration and fund-raising event hosted by Intermountain is the official kick off of the Christmas season!  Over 10,000 people from the local community join in on the festivities.  Events include Tea in the Trees, Evening in the Trees, Special Needs Day, Starlight Dinner & Auction, Jingle Bell Jam Dance, and Family days where the whole community is invited to see the trees.  There is something for everyone during Festival week:  Christmas entertainment fit for the whole family, Children’s craft activities, strolling amongst the spectacular large trees, and silent auctions displaying handcrafted Christmas décor.

This Helena-area tradition is highlighted by the live auction large trees that decorate the Helena Civic Center.  The whole mood of the Festival is enhanced by the splendor of the sparkling ballroom showcasing the exquisitely decorated Christmas trees.  And this is where you can help!

Help Sponsor A Tree!

Our design group is one of almost 30 groups that design and put together a Large Tree for the Festival of Trees event along with designers of Table Top Trees, Wreaths, Arts, and Crafts.  Some members of our group have been designing trees since the first Festival of Trees event 30 years ago!  We are an award winning group – in past years our group has received:  2x Best in Show, 1 Children’s Choice Award, 1 Merit Award, 1 Mayor’s Choice Award.  Others in our group have won design contests outside of the Festival of Trees.  Here is a Helena Independent Record article showcasing our Best In Show Tree 2015:  Festival of Trees brings Christmas in the high country to Helena

Our placement sponsors are Bill Bahny & Associates and John Smith, DMD.  But that placement sponsorship only gets us a space on the Helena Civic Center Ballroom floor to place our tree.  We need assistance gathering donations to put together the tree decorations and to create the gift package that is then auctioned off with the tree at the Starlight Dinner & Auction on the Friday of Festival week.

How Donations to a Design Team Work

Donations help us create a large tree package that is then auction off at the Starlight Dinner and Auction.  Any remaining donations that are not used to create our tree package go to Intermountain.  Tree package donors are sent Tax Donation Receipts by Intermountain to be used on the Donor’s taxes.

When we create our tree package we keep track of the cost of all items – from decorations to travel packages.  This final Fair Market Value is sent to Intermountain.  During the Starlight Dinner and Auction, members of the community bid on trees.  Bids usually come in at 2 to 3 times the Fair Market Value of each tree.  When the winning bidder pays for the tree, the Fair Market Value is deducted from their bid amount and they are given a Tax Receipt for the remaining bid amount.  Intermountain thus receives money from ALL donations – from tree package donors to the Starlight Dinner and Auction bidders.  Last year Intermountain raised about $250,000 during the Starlight Dinner and Auction alone!

How to Donate

If you can donate to our tree and to help raise funds for the Children and Families of Intermountain please:

Donate Items

If you can donate any of the following items please reach out to a member of our design team.  Items that are crossed off have already been donated – thank you donors!!!

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Donate via PayPal

Click the Donate button below to go to our secure PayPal donation page.  If you would like to receive a Tax Donation Receipt please make sure to Check the Box “Share my mailing address with” (otherwise we won’t have an address to send your Tax Donation Receipt).  Your address and donation amount will be provided to Intermountain only (we will not give out your contact information to anyone else).  Intermountain will mail you a Tax Donation Receipt in February of next year.  Also be sure to print out your receipt when completing PayPal checkout.

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Thank you very much for your support of Intermountain, the Festival of Trees, our Tree and Design Team!!

More Information

For more information about Intermountain’s Festival of Trees and the Festival Week Schedule please visit their FOT webpage:  http://www.intermountain.org/fot/

For more information about how to help Intermountain and their cause please visit their Get Involved webpage:  http://www.intermountain.org/get-involved/
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