
Good ideas ,ndo (Public Board)
Yes, Thanksgiving is observed in the US on the fourth Thursday of every November as specified in the 1940s by congress and FDR.
About your ideas: I project myself into my younger self of age 18-30 or so. If I had been asked at those ages to step up I probably would have blown off the challenge out of laziness and a feeling of entitlement, like "it's the old people's job to make this happen."
I would probably have done this for one year, and by the next Thanksgiving I would remember how lonely it was to not have anywhere to go, and I would have probably tried to reboot things.
Unless her younger relatives are downright autistic I bet this happens - they will value the holiday when it is not observed as it has always been.