The 2024 Riverside County Bar Association Elves Program wants more volunteers to deliver more gifts.
The elves, as volunteers for the program are called, raise money to purchase gifts, then wrap and deliver them to families identified by the county’s Social Services Department. The gifts are chosen from the family’s own wish lists.
All money raised will be used to pay for the gifts. This year, the elves will descend upon the Walmart Supercenter at 1800 N. Perris Blvd, Perris, on Dec. 9, from 2 to 7:30 p.m. This is a new location—last year, the elves bought from a Riverside Walmart Supercenter.
More elves will wrap the gifts at the Riverside County Bar Association building at 4129 Main St., Riverside, on Dec. 11 and 12, starting at 3:30 p.m.
Delivery elves will drop off the gifts at the recipients’ houses.
A volunteer may be a money elf—through a donation—a shopping elf, a wrapping elf or a delivery elf. To join, email your name and elf designation to RCBA Executive Director Charlene Nelson, Lisa Yang, attorney and Head Elf Brian Pearcy, or Pearcy’s assistants Anna Gherity and Lucy Velez-Garcia.
Donations may be made to the RCBA online, or with a check to the Riverside County Bar Association with “Elves” as the memo.
Pearcy started the program 23 years ago, and broke records for the families served last year. The program was able to help 113 families, he told Follow Our Courts, compared to 74 the previous year.
