Siblings Day is a day designated to recognizing and celebrating siblings. Siblings Day on April 10 was created by Claudia Evart, a native New Yorker of Estonian descent.
The Siblings Day Foundation (SDF) is a non-profit volunteer organization founded to promote an understanding of the value of siblings in our lives; to foster recognition of the contributions of our siblings to each other; to promote the establishment of a national “Siblings Day” on a state and federal level. It seeks to unite and reunite siblings who may have been separated by distance, by circumstance, by birth and adoption, or interpersonal familial issues. The SDF was founded in 1995 and became a nonprofit in 1997.
Evart created the Siblings Day Foundation and established National Siblings Day after the untimely passing of her brother and sister, Alan and Lisette. Based in the Northeast, the Siblings Day Foundation (SDF), a 501c.3 nonprofit organization, follows in the spirit of Mother’s Day and Father’s Day to honor and memorialize all brothers and sisters. Ms. Evart has dedicated herself to ensuring that the bond of brother and sister is forever acknowledged as the special gift it is. Her tireless efforts have paved the way for forty-nine governors to recognize Siblings Day and the last three presidents – Obama, Bush and Clinton – have also recognized the day by issuing a Presidential Message during their term in office.
SDF is looking to raise funds to support its work to create a lost sibling registry, fund sibling-to-sibling support groups, the adopt-a-sibling program, siblings rights projects and work on a UN resolution for Worldwide Siblings Day.
Claudia Evart
Founder & President
Siblings Day Foundation
www.siblingday.org
