IMPORTANT MESSAGES FROM THE CANTON GOODFELLOWS

  • Please check this page often, especially from August to December each year. 
  • We will post items such as: new or upcoming events, applications being available or closed, needing more or having enough Child Sponsors, and anything else we need to inform you about.
  • Posts will be dated, for ease of reference.

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10/30/2025   At this time, all of our 284 children in 111 families have been sponsored!  “Thank You” to all of our community members who volunteered to purchase gifts for a child. If you missed out on sponsoring a child this year and want to help out in another way, the Canton Leisure Services Toy Drive tabs will be posted soon on the Summit’s pool wall. Pick up a tab, shop for the toy, and drop it off at the Summit.

10/18/2025  The 2025 Canton Goodfellows Applications for Christmas Assistance are now CLOSED. 

  • If you have submitted a 2025 application, an “approved” or “denied” email will be sent to you in early November. If you have not received an email by the first week in November, please contact us
  • If you are looking for Christmas assistance, contact your local churches or call the Salvation Army (734-453-5464).

10/4/2025 We are now accepting 2025 Child Sponsor requests via our Sponsor Account:   cantongfsponsor@gmail.com .  What’s a Child Sponsor?

3/31/2025     IMPORTANT CHANGES TO OUR 2025 PROGRAM

  • OUR 2025 APPLICATIONS WILL ONLY BE AVAILABLE ONLINE. There will be no copies for printing or for picking up, as there were in past years.
  • The 2025 Canton Goodfellows Application will be available for submission earlier than in previous years, starting on August 25, 2025.
  • Applications must be submitted ONLINE by midnight on October 17, 2025.
  • Families will receive an Approved or Denied EMAIL, rather than a postcard as in previous years.

1/30/2025   Once again, the Canton Goodfellows would like to thank the Canton community for your tremendous support during our 2024 “No Child Without A Christmas” campaign! Thanks to everyone who helped in so many ways by

  • sending in monetary donations (which defrays the cost of our food gift cards for the families)
  • holding toy drives or donating during those drives
  • working at, or donating during our Holiday Market Food Drive
  • sorting the donated food drive items
  • sponsoring one or more of our children (223 kids in 89 families this year)
  • offering us toothbrushes and paste for each of our children
  • dropping off toys/gifts during our Work Week
  • volunteering during our Bag Drop off Days
  • packing our family food boxes
  • Canton Administration: allowing us to use the lower level of the Administration Building each year
  • Canton Maintenance staff: getting everything set up for us and helping out whenever we needed something

As we say year after year, “We would not be able to assist our families without the support of our wonderful Canton community”! Thanks to each and every one of you who helped out in any way.