This volunteer Christmas Gift-giving program has been in serving children in foster care throughout Michigan since 1971! Through donor support, Operation Good Cheer provides a minimum of three gifts to children, youth and young adults in the Michigan foster care program and to adults with disabilities.

Donor groups and individuals purchase and wrap gifts from participant wish lists. At donor sites, the gifts are picked up, loaded and transported by volunteer trucking companies and drivers to the Oakland County Airport. Volunteers sort these gifts, and pilots and truckers transport the gifts to the various agencies and groups that will then distribute the gifts to the individual recipients.