NEW YORK (MONEY Magazine) – On Christmas Eve of 2004, the Bergquist kids (Courtney, Brittany and Robbie, now 19, 14 and 13, respectively) stayed up until 4 a.m. at their home in Norwell, Mass. But it wasn’t visions of sugarplums that kept them awake.

The siblings were answering e-mails and stamping hundreds of telephone calling cards with a logo for Cellphones for Soldiers, the charity their family had started earlier that year.

It was an early Christmas gift for their parents, public school teachers Gail and Bob, so the family could take the holiday off and just celebrate together.

For the past two years, the Bergquists have spent most holidays — not to mention weekends and even vacations — working for their charity. They collect used cell phones, sell them to recyclers, and then use the proceeds to purchase prepaid calling cards for soldiers stationed abroad.

So far they’ve raised more than $800,000 and distributed nearly 40,000 calling cards to soldiers in Iraq, Kuwait and Afghanistan.

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