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George's Secret Elves George's Secret Elves come together to help spread some cheer to the people within our community throughout the year. It is in memory of George Johnson Sr.

Dear Secret Elves,
In 2011 my family founded a community project called George's Secret Elves to honor my father (George Johnson Sr. ) who passed away from cancer. George Sr. was a prolific volunteer to a variety of causes, but rarely drew attention to his part in his many good deeds. The Secret Elves group was a way for our family and all big hearted souls to create a tradition to help within our community while adding laughter mixed with fun positive memories. Pretty much the recipe for chicken soup to your soul! George's Secret Elves do all sorts of things throughout the year (sometimes as many as 16 - 20 projects), including several huge projects during the Christmas season (which was one of George Sr's favorite holidays). We originally were a grass roots project and became a local nonprofit in 2019. You become a Secret Elf either by donating towards a wish list and/or helping put together one of the projects. Please consider being a wish list donor. The elves food drive collection helps to sprinkle magic, love, and cheer by helping to feed hundreds of students in our community over the holiday. The wish lists are on the elves page as the projects are needed. If you are able to donate in bulk, please let me know. Even if you do not help with the Elves projects, I encourage you to help within your community. Thank you for your support of George's Secret Elves! Hugs and God bless you all. Yours Truly,
Kathleen Johnson
Founder & Executive Director of George's Secret Elves

Last year, George's Secret Elves once again sponsored parts of Multiple meals for our local Veterans that gathered at o...
04/29/2026

Last year, George's Secret Elves once again sponsored parts of Multiple meals for our local Veterans that gathered at of veterans issues cvi at the St. Mary of the Angels location. Many thanks to those that volunteered and or donated some of the items for the meals. We are blessed to work together with Theresa who runs that program and who also is an amazing Elf for our projects as well. The last meal of the year we were able to sponsor them with plates, napkins, ice cream, pie, holiday candy, silverware, and a million elftastic smiles of support and love. Thank you to our very jolly elf Melissa Tacy for volunteering to help with the meal as well as Alanna Jacinda and our smallest and adorable toddler elf Arora Hernandez for helping in the Elves office upstairs during the event. Special thanks to Jose Ibanez of Ames Cleaning for helping to deliver gifts of food to one of the shelters that night.

Thank you to Blair Alexandra for the donation of candy land cups, plates, and misc birthday decorations that was used to create a special themed private birthday party for a family who needed some love shown to them in February. The childs eyes lit up with so much joy and we were able to use supplies and donated items in our office to help make their day special. Thank you to green bay Create with SAGE for the donations of art supplies and stuffed animals as well as Sandra Stubenvoll Van Beaver of T & M Inspirations for the beautiful sewn and crafted items donated that were used as part of the gift / celebration.

Thank you to the following elves for their love and support in the background and their encouragement to keep things going ibanez, Stephanie Drall, Jade Rayne, Sylvia Garrido, Garrido, , tacey, Eileen Johnson, Ashraf M Rak, ahmed, George Semenak, Nick Mortensen, bain, , Jenna Marie Stevens, Kristina Marie Gormley, Sheri Konitzer, EJ Johnson Thank you for the many talks, support, gifts of kindness, care, and continued belief in making a difference in our community together. Thank you to All of the Elves that continue to donate their time, share their creative hearts, donate towards projects, and help make the magic happen. It is because of you that we are on year 16 of helping our community. We collect monetary donations all year long and 100% of the donations are put back into the community projects and to help pay for our office space. Please consider helping with a donation to keep our North Pole going strong https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/9PT85X7D2C5EC (the link will take donations from credit, debit, venmo, paypal, apple pay). Many blessings and much love to all of you, .

“At George’s Secret Elves, we unite community members in joyful service projects that address real needs, teach youth le...
04/11/2026

“At George’s Secret Elves, we unite community members in joyful service projects that address real needs, teach youth leadership skills, and remind everyone that giving is a gift in itself.”

Our 15th Annual Elf Palooza was done a lot different this year, over a course of many days with some dedicated volunteers coming in with their jolly energy sprinkling holiday magic all over the place. It was a big success thanks to the helping hearts of some Elf-tastic Volunteers, those fingers that colored elf sheets until they had crayon blisters, the fingers that helped create some of the art projects that went into the gifts, those that shopped and or made donations to purchase items needed in bulk, those that walked up and down the 2 flights of steps a million zillion times carrying bins filled with gift bags of food & hygiene to their winter sleighs to help get them delivered into our community...in the snow...in the middle of the night, those that spent many hours with me in a North Pole from the crack of dawn into the wee hours of the night depending on all of our work schedules to help put things together sharing laughs, sharing stories, and brainstorming together on new projects and fundraisers to do this year. Through all of this hustle and bustle of movement and project making, a huge shout out to Jose Ibanez from Ames Cleaning as well as EJ Johnson for spending time to help me do major office cleaning and organizing so our office was able to utilize all of the space and tables again for these project needs and give it a fresh look.

With everyone's help coming together like hot coco and marshmallows, their muscles, their energy, and the amazing spirit of caring for our community, over a course of months, we were able to create 650 gifts of food & hygiene from October to January. We even had some new Elves join in the fun as well as some new places we were able to send the gift bags to creating even more of an outreach. Our North Pole Giving tree roots are growing every year on where we send our love too as Elves. The gifts went out to St. John's Ministries, New Community Shelter, . johns ministries well spring women's shelter, gifted to local families & Students in need through various organizations, we had 5 days scheduled during winter that those in need could come and grab a gift of food as well as having gifts of food dropped off in the parks downtown during winter storms, we gifted to local veterans, head start, services, , hearts big minds.

Sitting in the office with these beautiful souls, talking about how long we have done projects together, how long we have helped our community, and hearing what these moments of doing projects together over the years meant for them, really meant so much to me in so many ways. Many times I was sitting there with a heart full of love and tears in my eyes realizing how amazing of an impact we have made on so many different levels emotionally, physically, financially, and even teaching children that grew up doing these projects creative leadership skills and empathy towards the needs of our community. The children or students don't always realize the bigger picture of the projects they help with, but they have memories of helping and having fun while doing it...and many of them continue helping as they become adults and have their own families now. In 16 years, we have a few generations of people now as elves in our community working on projects. Together over the years we have created gifts of food and hygiene for over 10,000 people. To be blessed to sit and listen to the stories from the volunteers that came out to pull this project together with me gave me renewed hope and energy that we really have and are making a difference not just for the people we help, but also for the volunteers that get to come together and work on the projects. It is chicken noodle soup for our souls and we get to meet some pretty amazing elf-tastic people along the way. I can lead this Elf train, but it is ran off the heartbeats and passion of the elves that ride along with me.

HUGE THANK YOU to the ones that spent time volunteering, to those that gave us donations (art supplies, gloves, party favors, hygiene products, women hygiene products for the shelters, those that hand knitted gloves and hats, new children's books, hand sew stuffed animals, clothing, blankets, and more...so much more) that were used from our shelves for many projects including this one, for those that supported my goal and vision of getting the gifts put together, and delivered to those in need. St. Mary of the Angels, Ames Cleaning, Eileen Johnson Al Alekat Goetz, Jose Ibanez, Jade Rayne, Stephanie Drall and our amazing new Elf, her son, drall, Leopold School, EJ Johnson, Lupe Gómez, Alanna Jacinda and toddler Elf Arora Hernandez, center for veterans, Melissa Tacy, Julie Bredael Kirk, Erin Headley, Sandra Stubenvoll Van Beaver, Sylvia Garrido, Ashraf M Rak, George Semenak, Nick Mortensen, Rhonda Sitnikau, at CVI, Zachary Pate, green bay, T & M Inspirations, Kristina Marie Gormley, tlachac, Noreen Scruton, Lions Clubs International, congregational church

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04/10/2026

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Elf powered projects, Community driven change

Help us grow on our Social Media by liking our Tik Tok page. Can you believe we are in year 16 of helping our community as George's Secret Elves??? Please post in the comments some of your favorite things about us and or some throw back pictures of you helping with projects. It is amazing to have been a part of this and meeting so many beautiful souls along the way. We now also have a link on Pay Pal to accept year-round donations to help us with the cost of the projects we work on in our North Pole office. I have added that link to our page here as well. Here are some of the pictures from us working on the baskets that were going to go to some Teens in Foster Care in our community. Thank you to everyone that donated items, gifts of money to help buy things in bulk, and the blessing of your volunteer time. I would like to thank the following people for their help with this project: Stephanie Drall (and her amazing son), EJ Johnson, Jose Ibanez, Jade Rayne, Alanna Jacinda, gomez, Ames Cleaning, Eileen Johnson, kirk, Walgreens, St. Mary of the Angels, m rak, Sylvia Garrido, Kats Hugs R Sweet, Melissa Tacy, bay rockers baseball, of veterans,

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