Victory Junction Gang
Total Amount Donated: $14,909.50
For summer, our hearts go out to a special place called the Victory Junction Gang Camp, a special camp being built in North Carolina that was founded by actor Paul Newman and NASCAR's Kyle and Pattie Petty. Victory Junction will be a medial camp designed especially for children and their families living with chronic and/or life threatening illnesses.
Spring, 2004
Bhojay Foundation of Kutch, India
Total Amount Donated: $11,200.00
We received a letter from the Bhojay Foundation. Kutch had been devastated by an earthquake in 2001. Its citizens were working hard to rebuild their infrastructure, and they wrote asking for funds to buy an ambulance that would be used to transport children from remote villages to the medical facilities in the area. We are grateful to be in a position to contribute fifty cents for every order placed to a charity like the Bhojay Foundation.
Winter, 2003
Toledo Symphony
Total Amount Donated: $40,175.00
It
seemed entirely appropriate that this season's contribution
would be the gift of music. We're supporting the Toledo
Symphony's Education Department, reaching over 60,000
children and adults a year through community concerts, music
lessons and classes. Music makes a difference: not just
for children, but for all of us. In a time when arts funding
is being significantly reduced and even cut, I think it's
important that we keep the music playing and inspire our
children the way music inspired us.
Fall, 2003
Meadow Montessori School
Total Amount Donated: $48,044.00
Meadow Montessori School is right here in Monroe, Michigan:
home of Sensational Beginnings. A year ago, we selected
Meadow Montessori School as our charity of choice. Thanks
to you, we made a sizable contribution to the school's building
project, and construction is close to completion. To help
them open their doors for the 2003 school year, I'm reconfirming
my support with this Fall issue. Join us in monitoring their
progress by clicking on the link above.
Summer, 2003
Mercy Memorial Foundation Children's Services Project
Total Amount Donated: $14,014.50
Our charity of choice this season is the Children's Services Project of the Mercy Memorial Foundation – the charitable foundation of Mercy Memorial Health System. Mercy Memorial Hospital serves the Monroe County community here in Southeast Michigan. This wonderful project works to improve the hospital environment for pediatric patients.
Spring, 2003
St. Mary's Home for Disabled Children
Total Amount Donated: $12,761.00
A non-profit organization in Virginia that provides shelter, care, education, and hope for nearly 100 children who are profoundly disabled. These children are non-verbal, non-ambulatory, and often require special medical needs. Thanks to St. Mary's, they're receiving the care, therapy, education, and love they need. These kids work so hard! It's up to us to lend a hand.
Winter, 2002
CASA of Monroe County, Michigan
Total Amount Donated: $35,431.00
CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping abused and neglected children in the courts. Over 50,000 trained community volunteers across the country donate their time to help ensure these children have safe, permanent, nurturing homes.
Fall, 2002
Meadow Montessori School
Total Amount Donated: $40,902.00
Meadow Montessori School is right here in Monroe, Michigan: home of Sensational Beginnings. For nearly 20 years, this amazing school has provided an extraordinary education to children throughout southeast Michigan. A new complex of its own on a parcel of land will ensure the continued growth of this vital community resource!
Summer, 2002
Chances
for Children
Total Amount Donated: $14,079.00
Chances for Children, founded by The Duchess of York in
1994 to provide education and health care for "forgotten
children" in the United States, Afghanistan, and other
parts of the world.
Spring, 2002
The
Twin Towers Orphan Fund
Total Amount Donated: $13,596.50
This is a grassroots organization dedicated to providing educational assistance and health care to surviving children of parents who perished in the Twin Towers, Pentagon or Somerset, Pennsylvania air disasters on September 11th. It's important that these children have a new beginning. New hope. And it's a reminder that we, as parents, need to instill the same hope in our children.
Winter, 2001
The
Dove Fund™
Total Amount Donated: $34,580.00
Even its namesake suggests peace, so we can think of no
better organization to support this holiday season. Barely
two years old, the Dove Fund has already built a nursery
school, an elementary school and a clinic in one of the
most impoverished provinces of Vietnam, with more nursery
schools and water purification projects currently in the
works. It’s an amazing program driven 100% by volunteers,
many of whom are vets returning to Vietnam for the first
time to make peace with the past and build a better future
for its children.
Fall, 2001
All
Kinds of Minds™
Total Amount Donated: $38,897.50
This non-profit organization develops teacher training
programs and parent resources for children with learning
differences, helping school children become better learners.
Summer, 2001
Consortium
on Children’s Asthma Camps
Total Amount Donated: $12,851.00
This organization does something we really love: IT FUNDS
FUN! Specifically, the Consortium helps send high-risk children
to one of more than 130 children’s asthma camps nationwide.
Spring, 2001
MAX
Foundation
Total Amount Donated: $14,225.00
This non-profit group promotes and funds special education
services, research centers and schools that provide for
children with special needs.
Winter, 2000
Click here for more information
on:
Operation
Smile
Total Amount Donated: $34,998.00
This not-for-profit volunteer medical services organization
provides reconstructive surgery and related health care
to indigent children and young adults in developing countries
and the United States.
What better way to spread joy around the world than through
a child’s smile.
Fall, 2000
Click here for more information on:
Make-A-Wish
Foundation
Total Amount Donated: $34,381.50
In a year in which magic (from children’s literature
to the new Fantasia) seems to be on everyone’s mind,
we couldn’t think of any organization more appropriate
than the Make-A-Wish Foundation. This organization works
magic every day granting wishes for children with life-threatening
illnesses. Please visit their Web site for more information
on how you can help.
Summer, 2000
Click here for more information on:
Consortium on
Children’s Asthma Camps
Total Amount Donated: $12,782.50
The Consortium helps send high-risk children to one of
more than 130 children’s asthma camps nationwide.
Spring, 2000
Click here for more information on:
St. Jude Children’s
Research Hospital
Total Amount Donated: $14,384.00
St. Jude’s is one of the world’s premier centers
for research and treatment of cancer and other catastrophic
diseases in children.
