Elfaituri Foundation

12/30/2025

✨ From the bottom of our hearts—thank you. ✨
Our Second Annual Elfaituri Foundation Toy Drive was a beautiful success because of our incredible sponsors, donors, and community. Your generosity brought joy, hope, and holiday magic to children right here in Ellijay. We are beyond grateful for every contribution that helped make so many smiles possible. ❤️🎁

💚 Mountain Powersports
❤️ Bernhardt Funeral Home
💚 North Georgia Metals
❤️ 515 Lumber
💚 Dynamic Walls & Landscaping
❤️ Beau-tiful Creations

12/24/2025

✨ Merry Christmas from the Elfaituri Foundation ✨

As this year comes to a close, our hearts are full of gratitude. Because of the generosity, kindness, and support of our community, 2025 was a year of impact, hope, and meaningful change. Every donation, every volunteer hour, and every shared moment helped us reach families and children who needed it most.

We are incredibly thankful for each and every person who contributed—your compassion made a real difference, and we could not do this work without you. 💙

As we look ahead, we are excited and hopeful for what 2026 has in store for the Elfaituri Foundation. We’re dreaming bigger, planning more outreach, and continuing our mission to serve and uplift our community in even greater ways.

From all of us at the Elfaituri Foundation, we wish you and your loved ones a season filled with peace, joy, and love. Thank you for being part of our journey—here’s to an amazing year ahead! 🎄✨

12/23/2025

🎄✨ Gratitude Beyond Words This Christmas Season ✨🎄 The grinch even had a giving heart and came to help wrap!

Because of the incredible generosity of our sponsors, Christmas was made possible for children who otherwise may not have had anything to open on Christmas morning. Your support didn’t just provide gifts — it provided joy, hope, and the reminder that these kiddos are deeply loved and remembered. We truly could not do this work without each and every one of you.

A heartfelt thank you as well to the amazing volunteers who took time out of their busy lives to wrap each gift with care and love. Because of you, parents were able to pick up beautifully wrapped presents and experience the joy of providing a magical Christmas morning for their children.

This is what community looks like. This is what compassion in action feels like. From all of us at Elfaituri Foundation, thank you for being part of something so special and for showing up for our local families in such a meaningful way. ❤️🎁✨

More pictures to come. ✨

12/16/2025

🎄✨ Silver Sponsor Spotlight ✨🎄

We are incredibly thankful for our Silver Sponsor, Bernhardt Funeral Home, for their generous support of our 2nd Annual Toy Drive. Their compassion and commitment to our community help bring comfort, joy, and Christmas magic to local children and families.

We truly appreciate Bernhardt Funeral Home for standing with us and helping make a meaningful difference this holiday season. ❤️🎁

12/15/2025

We want to send a huge thank you to everyone who came out on Saturday to support our Toy Ride. The turnout, the generosity, and the community support truly meant the world to us. ❤️

Special thanks to Lowe’s Home Improvement for allowing us to host this event on your property—we are incredibly grateful for your support of our community.

Thank you to Darrell Burnett of Burnett’s Handyman Service for always being a great friend and for being such a big part of every event we put together. We couldn’t do this without you.

Thank you to Santa 🎅 and all of the riders who showed up and supported the cause. Your time, effort, and generosity helped make this event a huge success.

This community continues to amaze us, and we are so thankful for each and every one of you. We can’t wait to do it all again next year! 🎄🏍️✨
Elfaituri Foundation
Ellijay life
Ellijay Business Directory


Shelby Nealey
Gina Burnett
Darrell B Burnett
Georgia Mountain Life

12/09/2025

🌟 SHARE • SHARE • SHARE 🌟
Help us reach families who could use a little extra Christmas cheer this year! 🎁💕

✨🎄 The holidays should feel magical, not stressful — and if you or someone you know could use some support this season, our Toy Drive Assistance Application is now open! 🎅💖 Whether it’s for your own family, a neighbor, a friend, or anyone who could benefit from a helping hand, we’d love for you to apply or share this link.

Let’s come together to spread joy, lift spirits, and make sure every child wakes up with a smile this Christmas. ❤️🎁✨

Apply here: 👉 https://www.ellijaylifedirectory.com/assistancefortoydrive 🎄✨

11/28/2025

It’s that time of year again, and we are super excited to announce our 2nd Annual Toy Drive!!🤩🎁🎁

Last year was a huge success and your support and generosity helped put smiles on so many faces. We cannot wait to see that happen again!!🥰

We will begin accepting donations (suitable for ages 0-14) on Monday (December 1st). The drop off locations this year are Rustic Roots, Beau-tiful Creations, and Mountain Powersports. Please make sure all donations are new and unwrapped so that we know what age and gender they apply to.😊😊

All donations will remain within Gilmer county, and we are so thankful for the opportunity to give back to our community that we all love so much!❤️💚❤️💚

Stay tuned for more updates!!🤩🤩🎄🎄

04/20/2025

Happy Easter Sunday 🐰 🐣 💓.
Shelby Nealey
Ciara Ila Horner
Sonija Renay Horner

01/02/2025

The last few weeks of 2024 were a whirlwind, but we couldn’t let the year end without shouting a MASSIVE THANK YOU to everyone involved with our Christmas toy drive!! This was our first year, and it was a big success!!🥳

Some important mentions are first of all, Rocco Solorzano at Mountain Powersports for donating the dirt bike to be given away! The bike was super nice, and we know that the recipient was overjoyed with it!🤗🤗

Our next shoutout goes to every business who volunteered to keep donation boxes at their locations for toy drops!
Mountain Powersports
Charlie's Italian Restaurant & Pizzeria
Buckley Vineyards
Mountain Aire

Along with that is every one of you who took the time to buy toys to donate!🤝🏼🤝🏼🤝🏼

Last but not least, thank you for those who helped us pick up, wrap, and deliver! That was a LOT of wrapping, but we all found so much joy in this whole process!!😊😊

TOGETHER, were able to help so many families to make Christmas a special one for their littles! We are blessed and honored to be a part of such a loving and giving community! We love you all, and SUPER appreciate all of your continued support!!🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼 We cannot wait to continue working with you guys in all that we are working on in 2025!!!🤩🤩🤩

🎉🎉🎊🎊HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!🎊🎊🎉🎉

12/28/2024

We want to give a huge shout out to our friends Jessica Mazursky and Douglas Mazursky at Climatrol Air, LLC for donating this brand new HVAC unit!!!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Douglas and his crew worked very diligently and went above and beyond to make sure the installation was completed just in time for Christmas!🎄🎁

This is the third year they have partnered with us to do a giveaway, and we cannot thank them enough for their big hearts and generosity!!!🤝🏼🤝🏼🤝🏼

It is always a pleasure to team up with them and we always look forward to being able to give back to our communities in such a big way!🫶🏼🫶🏼

This project was definitely a blessing for the recipient and all of us with the Elfaituri Foundation!!🙌

💥💥We are excited for all of our future endeavors, so if you or a business you know would like to collaborate with us on something similar, please reach out to us! We are always looking to maximize our efforts!!💥💥

Thank you all for your continued support!!🤝🏼
⚠️⚠️👀👀🤩STAY TUNED TO SEE WHAT WE ARE UP TO NEXT!!🤩👀👀⚠️⚠️

12/26/2024

12/22/2024

Toy donations for the kids will be accepted through tomorrow at Mountain Powersports ! 🎁

The outpouring of support from everyone is so appreciated. We are going to have lots of blessed kiddos this holiday season!⭐️

Many have asked what age ranges we need more toys for. We are in need of a few more donations for kids ages ranging from 13 to 18 (boys and girls).

Also, every toy donation earns you an entry to win this awesome dirt bike 🏍 🙌

You can also reach out to the Elfaituri Foundation directly by calling 706-889-3717.

Merry Christmas! The dirt bike will draw a winner on Christmas Eve!

Mountain Powersports
Buckley Vineyards
Awad Elfaituri
Shelby Nealey
Sonija Renay Horner
Ciara Ila Horner
Charlie's Italian Restaurant & Pizzeria