FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions for Marine Families at MarineParents.com Care Package Project™

These are the most frequently asked questions from people and organizations that make donations, contributions, or sponsor care packages for the MarineParents.com, Inc. Care Package Project. Please review this page to see if we have answered your question(s) here. Click a question to jump to the answer.

If after reading through this section, you still have more questions, please let us know! We'd love to hear from you. The easiest form of communcation is an online form you can use here: www.marineparentsinc.com/contact.asp, or you can also give us a call at 573-449-2003. You will often times get an answering machine, but please leave a message and one of our volunteers will get back with you as quickly as possible.

How do I become a Care Package Sponsor?
It's simple. We have a form you can use online to become a sponsor using PayPal and a major credit card. Click here for the online form. We also have a form you can print, then complete, and mail it with your check or money order directly to MarineParents.com, Inc. Click here for the printable form (the link will open in a new window).
My office or organization would like to sponsor several Marines. Is that possible?
Absolutely! We have a form that you can print and copy. You can give the form to each member of your organization for their personal contribution in the name of your organization, or your organization may opt to complete one form and send one check or money order. Sending in all of the completed forms with personal and/or organizational checks at the same time will assure proper recognition on the web site. Click here for the printable form (the link will open in a new window).
By selecting a monthly care package sponsor, would the same Marine get our sponsored package each month?
Not necessarily, but it could happen on an off-chance. Administratively, because we are limited with man-power resources per our all-volunteer staff, we can't track which Marine's care package(s) your name goes into, and it will likely be different each month. Our database of names changes frequently as the Marine units rotate in and out of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Will the Marine receiving our package also receive our name and address?
Yes. If you sponsor one care package, then your name and address will go inside one care package which is sent to one Marine. If you sponsor one care package for 6 months, your name will go inside one care package each month for 6 months (it likely will not be the same Marine that receives each of those packages). If you sponsor 5, 10, 25 (or more) care packages, your name goes into 5, 10 or 25 care packages. If you sponsor multiple care packages for 6 months, then each month your name will go into that number of care packages for 6 months. For example, if you sponsor 5 care packages for 6 months, your name would go into 30 different care packages over the course of the 6 months.
Note: We do have people that make contributions as a care package sponsor but choose NOT to include their name and address. That's up to you.
Can we choose a Marine from our hometown?
This answer has a couple of different layers.
- If you've got the name and overseas mailing address for a Marine (or soldier) in your home town, then certainly you can independently send care packages to that Marine and we don't have to be involved at all.
- If you have a Marine in your home town and you have his mailing address overseas, you can add his/her name to our database using "Request a Care Package for Your Marine". We'll ship a care package to the Marine each month for the duration of his/her deployment.
- We may or may not have the Marine from your hometown in our database. If we did, it's not possible (administratively) to assure that your packages go to that Marine each month.
Note: We have a father of a Marine that is physically home bound and shopping for items to send to his son is almost impossible for him to do. He sent us his son's overseas mailing address using the "Request a Package" link, PLUS he sent in a donation. We also have Marines that send us special requests, and we do everything in our power to try to accomodate their request. We had a Marine that asked for crayons to give to the Iraqi children. A local company donated a case, and off they went. Another Marine asked for a pair of Mechanics Gloves and we had the resources to take care of that request. Little things come up all the time that we need to make exception for.
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