Give Love Feel Good 5.0 Quickstart guide

Here’s your guide to getting involved in Give Love Feel Good 5.0 - the pandemic version!

There are two ways to get involved (in a socially-distant manner) in this year’s campaign:

IPADS IN SCHOOLS:

Join Emera New Brunswick and make a tax-deductible donation by cheque to the Government of New Brunswick’s Department of Finance, indicating the name of the school to which you’d like to direct the funds, and the purpose: for the purchase of iPads for in-school use.

Donations to schools, with tax receipt from the Department of Finance

• Make your cheque out to: Minister of Finance

• Include in the note area: School Name, and purpose (for the purchase of iPads)  

• Elementary schools in the Saint John area include: Saint John the Baptist/King Edward, Seaside Park Elementary, Hazen White/St. Francis, Prince Charles, Princess Elizabeth, Glen Falls, and Centennial.

• Mail to: 
  ASD – South
  Attn: Zoe Watson 
  490 Woodward Ave
  Saint John NB 
  E2K 5N3

IPADS IN COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS:

Make an online purchase of a new or refurbished iPad at the store of your choice, and have it shipped to one of the five neighbourhood organizations listed below, so children and families without devices can still get online.

Donations to neighbourhood organizations

• The ONE Change 
  C.E. Nick Nicolle Community Centre
  85 Durham St., Saint John, NB  E2K 1V6
  Contact: Tamara Kelly
  (506) 658-2980

• People United in the Lower South End
  251 Wentworth St., Saint John, NB  E2L 0B7
  Contact: Mary LeSage
  (506) 632-6807

• Crescent Valley Resource Centre
  130 MacLaren Blvd., Saint John, NB  E2K 3G3
  Contact: Anne Driscoll
  (506) 693-8513

• Carleton Community Centre
  120 Market Place, Saint John NB  E2M 0E1
  Contact: Dustin LeClerc
  (506) 658-2920

• Waterloo Village Neighbourhood Association
  139 Prince Edward St., Saint John NB  E2L 3S3
  Contact: Penni Eisenhauer
  (506) 648-0202

Don’t forget to tell us about your donation by sending us a photo of your receipt of cheque with private information redacted, to be entered to win a GLFG basket from The Feel Good Store!

What does the research say?

Research is showing that iPads can be an important part of building digital literacy - and literacy overall - at a young age.
More reading: iPad and computer devices in preschool: A tool for literacy development among teachers and children in preschool, by Olayemi Kemi Oladunjoye.

About the Give Love Feel Good campaign:
Give Love Feel Good is an annual charitable campaign organized by Duke Creative Collective in partnership with The Feel Good Store and other businesses in Saint John, New Brunswick.

The campaign changes from year to year, but consistently taps into the idea that doing something small for someone else can have a big positive impact. Past campaigns have asked Saint Johners to recognize people or organizations working to make Saint John a better place; encouraged Saint Johners to send a Valentine message to the newcomers in the YMCA’s English language classes; collected mitten donations for the Romero House; and collected children’s books to build the home libraries of kids attending priority neighbourhood elementary schools.