A.C. Moore Presents The Crayon Initiative With Thousands Of Crayons And A Check For More Than $19K

A.C. Moore’s “Share Your Colors” event takes step towards helping patients in area children’s hospitals Berlin, NJ – August 24, 2017 – During yesterday’s “Share Your Colors” event at A.C. Moore’s headquarters in Berlin, NJ, hundreds of team members sorted through the more than 19,000 pounds of crayons collected for national nonprofit The Crayon Initiative. The pre-loved crayons will be … Read More

Love On Display: How Art Therapy Helped Avery Find Purpose & Healing

“Avery is standing near the checkout station with her little display and is asking everyone who comes up if they have heard of The Crayon Initiative,” writes Leah Paladino, mother of 11-year-old rising 6th grader Avery, in a recent email to TCI founder Bryan Ware. But Avery is used to standing up for things she believes in and standing alongside … Read More

Heavy Lifting: Why It’s Impossible To Weigh Every Box And Respond

Two of the most common questions we receive at The Crayon Initiative is “did you receive my crayons?” and “how much did they weigh?” And our best answer right now is, “yes and we’re not sure!” We have received an overwhelming response to our program, receiving roughly 500 individual packages of crayons each week. The good news is that a … Read More