{"id":35720,"date":"2018-12-12T05:00:24","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T05:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ae.com?p=35720&preview=true&preview_id=35720"},"modified":"2022-11-21T18:41:12","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T18:41:12","slug":"making-realwishes-come-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ae.com\/aerie-real-life\/2018\/12\/12\/making-realwishes-come-true\/","title":{"rendered":"Making #RealWishes come true"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This holiday and always, it’s so important to us to give back to our communities and make #RealWishes<\/a> come true. Read on to see how we’ve been doing our part, and get inspired to give back on your own. Share your story with #RealWishes<\/a> @Aerie!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Giving Tuesday<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u200bIn celebration of #GivingTuesday<\/a>, we partnered with The Girls’ Circle<\/a> to host a private shopping party for 25 young women from the Bronx. The Girls’ Circle provides a safe space to help young women develop their voices and tackle challenges faced during their teen years, and also creates a sisterhood with their peers. We held a special party for these amazing ladies at our Times Square Aerie store, where each girl got to hang with an Aerie designer to talk everything from shopping to career to life advice, and got a $250 gift card to treat themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We also made Giving Tuesday all about giving cozy! From 11.27 to 12.6, Aerie and AE partnered with Delivering Good<\/a> to give back and donate a warm winter hat to someone in need for every winter accessory purchased online and in stores. We were so proud to donate 70,000 hats!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sharing the love at school <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To spread the giving spirit at schools across the country, we asked our #AerieREAL Ambassadors to to tell us how they wanted to give back for Giving Tuesday. From volunteering at local food banks and collecting feminine product donations for homeless women to writing letters to breast cancer patients and survivors\u2014they accepted the challenge with open minds (and hearts!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AEO makes #RealWishes come true <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At our home office, we were so excited to bring back our Holiday Giving Trees. This year, we partnered with several local charities\u2014including KidsVoice<\/a>, Mars Home for Youth<\/a>, and Beverly\u2019s Birthdays<\/a>\u2014that support underprivileged, at-risk youth. Home office employees picked a gift wish tag from the tree and purchased a gift for a special young person. Together, we were able to make more than 125 holiday wishes come true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more fun around the office, AEO held their 5th<\/sup> Annual Turkey Bowl on 11.20. Employee players and spectators embraced the Thanksgiving spirit and raised a record $15,000 through raffle tickets and donations for several special charities and organizations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n