Teleflora recently announced plans for the 2009 Make Someone Smile Week program. Thousands of Teleflora member florists and community volunteers will help to deliver bouquets in the company’s keepsake Be Happy® Mugs to those most in need of a smile – such as hospital patients, senior citizens living in nursing homes and assisted living homes and recipients of Meals-on-Wheels programs. This year’s program will run from Sunday, July 19 through Saturday, July 25.
Teleflora will donate more than 40,000 of their keepsake Be Happy® Mugs to its member florists, who will work with local wholesalers and growers to secure donated flowers. With these donations, local Teleflora florists will design cheerful Be Happy® Bouquets full of roses and daisies and deliver them to recipients in their local communities.
Since its launch by Teleflora in 2000, Make Someone Smile® Week has become the floral industry’s most successful charitable program. Last year’s program spanned 144 cities throughout the United States and Canada, over 2,000 florists donated their time. Teleflora’s program delivered over 35,000 bouquets to those most in need of a smile.
“Every year it warms my heart to see the overwhelming response from our florists who sign up for Make Someone Smile® Week. The fact that they will take time out of their work week to deliver bouquets of flowers to those in need is simply wonderful,” said Rich Salvaggio, vice president of industry relations and publications, Teleflora.
For more information on Teleflora’s Make Someone Smile® Week, and how you can get involved, please visit http://www.teleflora.com/makesomeonesmile or call 905.948.0110.
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