How do I go about starting a vacation giveaway project?

Question

This is my idea. Whether it will work or not is completely up in the air at this point. I'm thinking about starting a "project"-we'll call it that for now. Every year after Christmas, I start thinking about where we'd like to go for a family vacation (we usually go on 2 vacations every summer). This year I thought about doing something different though. I'm thinking about taking the money we'd spend one of our vacations and spending it on a "working poor" family. A family who is working and doing everything they can to keep a roof over their kids heads and food on the table, but they don't have much left after that for "luxuries" such as a vacation. Some of my greatest memories as a kid are our family vacations and I know some families just cannot afford to go anywhere. I just have no idea how to do this, or how to even pick a family. I'd want to be VERY picky in choosing a family b/c it would be my personal money spent on them. Does this even sound like a good idea?

Answer 1

If you feel it is good. It is good.

Answer 2

That would be wonderful, but why not call some places and see if they would donate a hotel room, call airlines see if they could donate tickets etc, call places that have local attractions and see if they could donate tickets to their attractions, etc?

Answer 3

this sounds like an amazing idea!  you might want to contact some shelters, united way, maybe post some posters at food banks, etc.  as for picking a family, maybe have the family submit in a reason as to why they should be the family that gets to go on the vacation.  hope that helps.