Special Kindness In Packages, Inc. ships personalized care packages and correspondence to deployed members of the U.S. military, and offers individually tailored support and guidance to military members and their families before, during, and after deployment.
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Board members, directors, and committees of Special Kindness In Packages, Inc. always follow OPSEC (Operations Security) and PERSEC (Personal Security) regulations and guidelines to protect the service members, their units, their family and friends, the American public, and the organization volunteers to the best of our ability. This includes, but is not limited to, safeguarding the complete name and rank, contact information, and exact location of each service member we support. We screen each submitted photograph and letter to and from the troops for sensitive and malicious material, and delete or edit questionable material before posting to the Internet, in printed publications, or any other media presented to the public. For a better understanding of what OPSEC or PERSEC regulations and guidelines include we invite you to follow any of the following links:
President - Tracy Stiers
Vice President - Skip Spoerke
Treasurer - Frank Spoerke
Assistant Treasurer - Heather Jones
Clerk - Nancy Spoerke
Assisant Clerk - Robin Bousquet
Marketing Advisor - Jennifer Witt
Corporate Consultant - Jeff Jones
Military Consultant - James Stiers
Military Liaison - Candy Boyle
Member at Large - Robert Bousquet
CA Edition Director - Jenae Welch
Special Kindness In Packages, Inc.
PO Box 132
Bryantville, MA 02327-0132
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View the Special Kindness In Packages, Inc. 501(c)(3) certificate (pdf)
Special Kindness in Packages, Inc. ("SKIP") was established as a Massachusetts non-profit corporation August 25, 2006 in order to provide care packages and correspondences to individuals serving in the United States Armed Forces (including the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard, Army Reserve, Air Force Reserve, Marine Reserve, Coast Guard Reserve, National Guard, Air National Guard, Army National Guard, and Merchant Marines). SKIP's officers, directors, and volunteers provide care packages and write letters and cards to show their support and appreciation of U.S. military personnel.
This organization's acronym is a tribute to Sergeant Frank "Skip" Spoerke II who served overseas in Iraq with the Army Reserves from 2004 until 2006.
SKIP anticipates that the items it distributes to military personnel will be donated to the organization directly by members of the general public or purchased with money contributed by members of the general public. The organization also anticipates receiving donations from businesses and establishments.
SKIP intends to distribute care packages enclosing the items described below to military personnel on a monthly basis. SKIP's officers, directors, and volunteers (such as friends and relatives of SKIP’s governing body; Girl Scout troops from Brockton, Massachusetts; local Massachusetts school staff, students, and their families; and parishioners of First Congregational Church, Hanson, Massachusetts) will sort and assemble the care packages, complete the address labels, affix the necessary postage, and deliver the packages to a U.S. Post Office branch located in or near Brockton, Massachusetts. From there, the packages will be forwarded to ports, such as New York and California, and then distributed to the military addresses of the military men and women. If the military personnel are stationed in the United States, the items will be shipped to their domestic military base address. If they are deployed overseas, the packages will be shipped to their respective Army Post Office or Fleet Post Office address.
SKIP anticipates that it will be provided with the addresses of military personnel for its mailings primarily by relatives or friends of the military member or from other military men and women. The addresses of military personnel will only be used for SKIP’s charitable purposes and will not be shared or made public.
The organization intends to follow all of the rules and special requirements set by the military for mail (for example, pornography, alcohol, and other restricted items will not be distributed to military personnel at any time and pork products will not be sent to military personnel serving in Islamic countries).
SKIP may engage in any other activity in furtherance of its charitable purposes that is consistent with its status as a Massachusetts non-profit corporation and as an organization that is exempt from tax under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
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