About the
Greater New Orleans Angel Tree

Help this Christmas by selecting a local boy or girl from our Angel Tree! Call 504-891-8635 to volunteer!

Purchase 2-3 toys and an outfit of clothing for your special Angel's Christmas!

No wrapping needed! Deliver toys and clothes to 4500 S. Claiborne Ave. M-F 8am-5pm Nov. 1st-Nov. 28th.

Making a difference in your community…

The Salvation Army has served New Orleans since 1888.

The Salvation Army Angel Tree of New Orleans is serving over 1,000 children and seniors in 2025.

Angel Trees are in local Wal-Mart locations, churches, businesses and organizations all across GNO.

You can be a part of Salvation Army Angel Tree joining hundreds of volunteers each Christmas!


	Volunteers are needed to help us serve children in our community! Call 504-891-8635 to volunteer or receive an angel's toy wishes and special needs.

How Angel Tree Works

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Social service agencies and schools often refer families to The Salvation Army for help with Christmas. Participant applications are verified to prove need.

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We obtain the name of each child or special needs adult in the family and a list of desired Christmas gifts, toy wishes and clothing sizes.

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Angel tags are printed for each individual and placed on Salvation Army Angel Trees at area Wal-Marts and in local companies and organizations.

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Generous Donors select Angels, purchase gifts, and return them to the Angel Tree by the given deadline on each tag.

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Upon their return, the gifts are taken to a Salvation Army Christmas Distribution Center for pickup by the Angel families.

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During the seven days prior to Christmas Eve, families pick up their gifts.

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Angel tags are printed for each individual and placed on Salvation Army Angel Trees at area Wal-Marts and in local companies and organizations.

4

Generous Donors select Angels, purchase gifts, and return them to the Angel Tree by the given deadline on each tag.

5

Upon their return, the gifts are taken to a Salvation Army Christmas Distribution Center for pickup by the Angel families.

6

During the seven days prior to Christmas Eve, families pick up their gifts.

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Upon their return, the gifts are taken to a Salvation Army Christmas Distribution Center for pickup by the Angel families.

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During the seven days prior to Christmas Eve, families pick up their gifts.

A History Of Community Involvement

Along with the familiar Red Kettles, the Angel Tree program is one of The Salvation Army's highest profile Christmas efforts. Angel Tree was created by The Salvation Army in 1979 by Majors Charles and Shirley White when they worked with a Lynchburg, Virginia shopping mall to provide clothing and toys for children at Christmas time.

The program got its name because the Whites identified the wishes of local children by writing their gift needs on Hallmark greeting cards that featured pictures of angels. They placed the cards on a Christmas tree at the mall to allow shoppers to select children to help. Thanks to the Whites, who were assigned by The Army to the Lynchburg area at the time, more than 700 children had a brighter Christmas that first year.

Three years later, when the Whites were transferred to Nashville, Tennessee, Angel Tree was launched in the Music City. WSM radio, which airs the Grand Ol' Opry, came on board that year as the first Angel Tree co-sponsor in the U.S.

Because of the on-air promotion on WSM in Nashville, as well as national publicity on CNN and the Larry King Show, news of Angel Tree spread across the country like wildfire.

Here in the greater New Orleans area we partner with dozens of corporations, churches and organizations to help us fill the needs and toy wishes of local children and seniors. Call 504-891-8635 for more information about how to receive an Angel or pick up an Angel Tree tag a local Wal-Mart.