North Texas Youth Connection

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Wish List

Scroll down to read our normal wish list and school supply wish list

Wish List - ongoing needs

Our needs change constantly, so check back often.  Also, if you have an item or service not listed, please contact us!  We may be in need of that exact thing, but not have added it to our list yet.

• Unrestricted cash contributions

• Volunteers

• Copy paper, white, 8.5”x11” (large quantities)

• Office supplies, misc.

• Hygiene products (shampoo, soap, Kleenex, toilet paper) etc.

• Deodorant - boys & girls, solid only (no aerosol)

• Makeup, hair & nail products – including for African Americans

• Tennis shoes, boys & girls, all sizes; dress shoes for special occasions

• White t-shirts, socks, underwear, bras – both male and female, all teen sizes, NEW only

• Sheets (twin), pillowcases, pillows, towels, washcloths - NEW only

• Groceries and staples for shelter

• Clothing, boys & girls ages 10-17, all sizes but mostly older teens

• Long distance phone calling cards for shelter youth to call their family

• Board games – chess, checkers, Battleship, Monopoly, dominoes, Sorry, puzzles, card games

• Magazine subscriptions – sports, cars, teen girls, metal edge, Seventeen, etc.

• Appropriate books, videos/DVDs, CDs, Playstation 2 games (PG-13 or below)

• Crafts & etc.:  journals, paints, watercolors, canvas, stuffing for pillow making, fabric, needles & thread, stain glass windows to paint, sand bottles

• Gift / good behavior reward items:  personal CD players, headphones & batteries; watches, jewelry

• Gift cards, movie cards, etc., for birthday gifts/good behavior rewards – WalMart, Target, Best Buy, Old Navy, Hastings, Game Stop

• Tickets/gift certificates to sporting events, museums, skating, putt putt, movies etc. for shelter youth group trips during Discovery program

• Restaurant gift certificates – McDonald's, Cici’s, others

• Printing (brochures, business cards, newsletter, etc.)

• Outdoor equipment; outdoor makeover (flowers, plants, etc.)

• Professional mural painted on side of building

• Updated copy of extensive bilingual dictionary – book and computer CD

• Pretty, live potted plants for office and shelter décor

• Central heat & air vents installed in director's office

• Little Tyke red wagon, plastic & deep – to cart groceries

School Supply Wish List

• Wide-ruled lined paper
• Plain white copy paper
• Spiral notebooks – some single subject, some 3-subject
• #2 pencils
• Erasers – “pink pearl” and eraser caps
• Pencil sharpeners – hand held or battery operated
• Pens – black, blue and red; plus some erasable pens
• Zipped binders / Trapper keepers
• Pencil bags with holes for use in Trapper keepers
• Pencil grips
• Map colors / colored pencils
• Highlighters
• Binders
• Dividers
• 2-pocket folders with fasteners, all colors
• Backpacks
• Graph paper
• Rulers
• Compasses and protracters
• Markers
• Kleenex
• Index cards
• Fabric stretchy book covers
• TI-83 calculators (will be kept locked in shelter staff office)
• Gift cards (to purchase clothing / shoes) – stores such as WalMart, Target, Old Navy, etc.
• Tennis shoes – boys & girls, all teen sizes, popular brands appreciated
• Blue jeans – boys & girls, all teen sizes, popular brands appreciated
• Gym shorts / uniform for SHS, girls & boys, teen sizes
• Shirts, t-shirts, Polos, etc. – boys & girls, all teen sizes
• Socks, underwear & bras – NEW only, all teen sizes
• For winter:  coats, sweaters, long sleeve shirts, gloves, hats

Wish List - Christmas

For shelter / all kids’ use

• Board games

• Books – preteen & teen appropriate

• DVDs (no mature) – requested titles:  Click; Fast & Furious Tokyo Drift; The Breakup; The Ringer; Gridiron Gang; Pirates of the Caribbean 2

• Gift cards – WalMart, Old Navy, Best Buy, Hastings, Target, etc.

• Long distance phone calling cards – small minutes each

• Craft kits & scrapbook items

• Gift certificates to activities such as skating, movies, etc.

• Gift certificates to restaurants, such as McDonald’s, etc.

• PS2 games (no mature) – requested titles:  NFL Street 3; Need for Speed Carbon; NCAA 07; Need for Speed Underground 2

General gift ideas for teens

• Watches – boy and girl

• Jewelry – boy and girl

• Personal CD players

• Selection of music CDs (no mature)

• Video games, PS2, no mature

• Nintendo Game Boys or other personal game system and games

• Perfume & cologne – boy & girl

• Digital camera

• Almost all asking for IPod – one versios is approx. $99

• Almost all asking for laptop computers!

• Hair, makeup, personal hygiene products (boy & girl), including specifically for African Americans, bath products & froufrou stuff, lip gloss & chapstick

• House shoes / slippers – new

• Sweat shirts/pants, flannel PJ bottoms

• Hoodies, boy & girl, various sizes

• Journals, small scrapbooks

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