A Celebration of an American Tradition for Children and Their Families
by Debbie Fink
This interactive book was written to share America’s Thanksgiving history over the centuries, and to offer activities to its readers to connect history lessons to their lives today. Written in consultation with professors of American history and educators.
Impact of Book and Initiative(global): ~160K students and family members in the U.S. and abroad.
Operation Thanksgiving Eagle:
To drive this literacy-driven initiative, I:
Partnered with the USO, Association of the U.S. Army (AUSA), and United Through Reading to deliver this book to children of the military worldwide.
Secured funding from BAE Systems and Raytheon to see this project through to fruition.
Organized annual Employee Engagement events for these Fortune 500 company employees to roll up their sleeves and support military-connected children and their families through this literacy-driven initiative.
elivered its corresponding multi-modal, interactive, musical program on my premier USO tour throughout DoDEA-Europe schools in Germany. Students received their personal copies of this book prior to the Thanksgiving holiday.
Thanksgiving, after all, is all about GivingThanks. We gave an abundance of thanks to our military-connected children for the daily sacrifices they make on behalf of our freedoms.
