Goodfellow Fund

Bud Kennedy: Every $5 counts in Exchange Club’s record Goodfellows gift A joking $5 gift pushed the total gift at the 80th annual benefit to a record $150,005.

Meeting each year, the day after Thanksgiving at Angelo's Barbecue, a group of high school athletes and coaches from the 1940's and 50's reminisce, tell jokes and gather donations for the Goodfellow Fund. The retirees' contributions year after year of passing the 'donation jug' around is appreciated!

Over 100 volunteers process and interview over 8,000 families each season for the Goodfellow Fund. We celebrated these special indiviuals for their contributions at an appreciation luncheon last Thursday at Joe T Garcia's. THANKS FOR ALL YOU DO!

“My kids love Christmas, and I know they’re going to be real happy on Christmas Day.”

Mom who can’t work gets help in providing holiday cheer Mother who needs surgery and can’t work turns to Goodfellows to step in for Santa.

‘We are Goodfellows’

In 1914, a lyric-writing contest for a Goodfellows Club song included this one from a Re*****on typewriter saleswoman named Alice Haliburton.

Oh, we are Goodfellows,
For we take good cheer
To the little kiddies
Santa Claus holds dear.
See our banner’s waving
O’er a faithful band
And we say unto you
‘Lend a helping hand.’

Be part of the “jolly crew” by sending a contribution to Goodfellows, P.O. Box 1870, Fort Worth, TX 76101. Or go online to goodfellowfund.com and make a credit-card donation.

Donors have helped make Christmas real for over 100 years In the days following a November 1912 front-page invitation for Star-Telegram readers to “be Santa Claus” to needy children, appeals in a column of Twitter-length notices called Little Locals urged “men & boys” to join The Goodfellows Club.

FLASHBACK FRIDAY: Goodfellow Fund recipients in 1938.

Have you gotten your tickets to the Indulge TEN Party benefiting the Goodfellow Fund yet? Josh Weathers is performing an exclusive acoustic performance for party guests - plus lots of great food, drink and more! Tickets here indulgeDFW.com/TEN

Cheers to Indulge magazine for ten years in publication! To celebrate, they are having an anniversary party at River Ranch Stockyards on November 11. The festivities include great food, cocktails, a fashion show and concert by Josh Weathers! Tickets are only $25 with proceeds benefiting the Goodfellow Fund. To purchase, visit: indulgeDFW.com/TEN

Lockheed Martin employees generously donate to the Goodfellow Fund and other local chairities. We and the community are grateful for their continued support each year!

WOW - thank you Community Foundation of North Texas!

The Goodfellow Fund is our final $1,000 winner for . Congrats!

The Goodfellow Fund provides clothing and shoes for underprivileged Tarrant County school-age children during the holiday season.

Santa and the Jolly Goodfellow Elves had a blast this morning at News 8 Daybreak's kick off for North Texas Giving Day. Be sure to donate today http://bit.ly/1gnjFpq

Watch for us on News 8 Daybreak at the crack of dawn! Fort Worth Star-Telegram's Santa and the Jolly Goodfellows will be in Victory Plaza for the kick-off celebration of North Texas Giving Day! Get the warm fuzzies, donate today to the Goodfellow Fund, visit http://bit.ly/1gnjFpq