Can You Donate Any Of These Items To CDH Families?

[Dawn Torrence Ireland]

Posted on our blog:

Our charity needs the following items for a project that we are putting together. Perhaps you or your company have some items that you can donate for a good cause.

We are collecting items for families of babies born with Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia, a severe and often deadly birth defect. You can visit our site, http://www.cdhsupport.org for more information about CDH. The items we are collecting will be used in care package for these families, to help ease their hospital stays. All donations are tax-deductible. We can come pick up local items in the Raleigh / Durham area. Because of the delicate health of these babies, we must ask that donations be new and from smoke-free and pet-free locations.

ANY donation at all, greatly appreciated!!!

Items Needed:

- Disposable Cameras
- Baby Blankets (any material but wool)
- Travel packs of tissues
- Chapsticks
- Plaster Handprint and Footprint Kits
- Baby Booties
- Baby Hats
- Journals
- Small bottles of hand santizer
- Small bottles of lotion
- Small picture frames (for the baby's hospital bed)
- Small teddy bears
- Gas Cards
- Restaurant gift certificates (national chains please)
- White 1.5" 3 ring binders (for information on CDH, journaling, photos of their babies, medical notes, etc)
- Page dividers for the binders
- Pages pages for binder
- White computer paper to print (if we can't find a printing company)
- Ink for an HP 4600n Printer (if we can't find a printing company)

Sponsorships / Services Needed:

- $250 sponsor for cotton totebags (this will cover 250 bags, we are getting free shipping)
- $150 Sponsor for CDH Awareness Ribbon Pins
- $200 Sponsor for CDH Awareness Bracelets
- Printing services for the tote bags / transfer paper
- Printing services for the CDH information

Hospitals and businesses are welcome to sponsor ads in the baby book to help cover costs of this project (we do reserve the right to deny inappropriate sponsorships). You can sponsor a 1/4 page add for $150, a full page add for $500. Your ad will be included in 150 books. Ad sponsorships will go to cover postage of the packages to the families and items needed that aren't donated. If you would like to sponsor an ad, please make sure to include your logo / photo and other information on a print ready ad.

All donations are tax-deductible and sponsors and donors will be listed in the Baby Books (the binders with all the info!)

Items and donations can be sent to:

CHERUBS
3650 Rodgers Rd #290
Wake Forest, NC 27587

Please make sure to include your name, if you are donating in honor or memory of somewhere and your address to send your receipt.

[Dawn Torrence Ireland]

Hi Everyone,

Well we thought we'd only have 25 or so bags to send out at the end of the month:

Expectant cherubs:

Edyn Grace Allinson
Ireland Rose B.
Alex Jayden Baker
Sunshine Boyd
Christan L Brownfield
Baby Clarkson
Baby DePape
Matthew Frank Doerscheln
Floyd Edward Dubois
Robert Lee Dumford
Andrew Hobbs
Gabriel Aden Xavier Jackson
Findlay Lucas Jordan
Chase Leroy Kelly
Grady Thomas King
Leslie Nicole Lafon
Joshua Alonzo Lozano
Dawson Gabriel Martie
Mia James Mccabe
Jonathan Louis Moehl
Baby Reynolds
Baby Richard
Baby Serna
Scarlette Jayden Skrove
Nevaeh Nicole Weaver Johnson
Zoey Anne Wood
Noah William Workman

+ 10 more whose parents chose not to publish their names
+ 23 more born in the past 2 months

This is almost TWICE as many totebags than we expected to fill this month!

Soooooo...

WE NEED HELP!!!!! We need a lot of stuff in just a few weeks!!! Especially blankets, cameras, plaster molds, hats and booties and binders. I will go by the little stuff myself out my own pocket if needed. We have A LOT of families to help!!!

In the past month or so since we switched over the project name and have bought it in house we have received NO donations! No blankets, no booties, no nothing. We lost most of our donors. So to you... I'm asking... begging... remember the Cause of why this project was started almost 2 years ago - to help CDH families. Not one person, not a popularity contest. But CDH families. They still need this project and since we took it over in house last month, we are trying really, really, really hard to get finally get these totebags out but we still need a lot of stuff!

These families don't care about the behind the scenes details of this project - they just need these items and the support. They are the ones who are important in this and they should have always been the focus with this project! Let's please work together to help them.... wouldn't we all have loved to have had that when we had our cherubs?

We did receive Caleb's Coloring Pages (thank you Caleb's family!)... bless you!!!! :)

[KarlaHolt]

I will buy some binders. I need to go school shopping soon anyway. In fact, I'm going to try to buy them online so I can ship them directly. If I have to ship them they will sit in my house forever!

[KarlaHolt]

Binders should be arriving soon! I found a good deal online with free shipping!

[Dawn Torrence Ireland]

Thank you, Karla!!!! Can you e-mail me a link to that deal? Thanks!

We had a donation yesterday to pay for the cameras, 1 to pay for totebags and a company has offered us printing on the totebags for just 50 cents each! YEAH!!!!!

Thank you all for helping!!! We made a big dent in our list yesterday!!! : )

Does anyone know how to make plaster molds for hand prints / foot prints? Would it be cheaper than buying kits?

[KarlaHolt]

http://crafts.kaboose.com/dough-handprints.html


http://officediscountclub.com/

[Chris and TracyMeats]

Just want to make sure on the binders, we need 1.5" size? Our Wal-Mart had a great sale on the 1" inch binders. Going to go check out some more stores tomorrow and check prices.

[Dawn Torrence Ireland]

Thank you Karla!!!! : )

I think we can try to make the 1" work. Thanks, Tracy!!! : )

[Chris and TracyMeats]

Will keep looking for the 1.5" binders. Has anyone contacted any of the office supply companies and see if they will donate them to CHERUBS? If you don't mind, I will send a couple of letters this week to the office supply companies in my area and see what they say. (This was Chris' idea)

[Dawn Torrence Ireland]

I sent a letter to our local store, waiting on response. Please do send letters, Tracy, that would be great!!!! Good idea, Chris!!! : )

[Chris and TracyMeats]

Have sent some letters...hope to hear something! I was looking at Wal-Mart and you can contact your local stores for donations, but I was looking more in detail on their website at the state giving and national giving grants. I think we definitely fall in the health/wellness area. Has anybody on the grant committee submitted anything to them? Here is the national giving link, http://walmartstores.com/CommunityGiving/8781.aspx and here is the state link, http://walmartstores.com/CommunityGiving/8168.aspx I know the state giving, the funds are to be spent within the state. I definitely think on the national level, somebody on the grant committee should submit a letter of inquiry and see what happens.

[Dawn Torrence Ireland]

I submitted to our local Wal-Mart, waiting to hear back.

Our grant committee is non-functional... the grant committee is well, me. :) And I have always been so busy with everything else that grant applications have fallen to to the side. We REALLY need volunteers on this committee.... there is so much more we could be doing! If anyone wants to volunteer, please let me or Barb know!!!

We have the totebags printing (thank you Nicolle!!!!), a bunch of binders (thank you Karla!!!!) and the bracelets arrived yesterday!

I'm finishing off the baby books and printing them today. I'm going to try to post photos of each quilt so we can label who donated them before they go in the bags.

I am going to try to get to Claire's today for cameras.

Barb found some on ebay too I think? Barb?

I know a bunch of you have boxes headed our way. THANK YOU!!!!!!!!

Every time a new cherub is born I hate that we can't send them a bag yet - but SOON we will!!!! By next week or the week after we should hopefully have enough to send out the first 50 bags! :)

[Chris and TracyMeats]

I am sending a box of goodies tonight, by UPS, for the tote bags!

[SCURTIS]

Is this still the address to send the donations to?

CHERUBS
3650 Rodgers Rd #290
Wake Forest, NC 27587

Thanks.

[NicolleColvin]

Shauna that is where I sent my stuff last month and Dawn received it

[SCURTIS]

Thanks Nicolle!

[KarlaHolt]

I am asking members who come to my state get together (PA, NJ, DE picnic in April) to bring an item for the tote bag project if they are able. Hopefully, we will get lots of donations!

[KarlaHolt]

A PA member sent me 30 disposable cameras! I'll be sending them with the other stuff from the picnic next week sometime!

[KarlaHolt]

The stuff from the picnic was mailed yesterday! I will send a note with what was donated and in honor of whom. Very excited that we were able to collect items!

[Dawn Torrence Ireland]

I got the boxes today, WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU everyone who donated items!!!!!! These will help fill a lot of totebags!! :)

Karla, did you send a note in the box? Can't find one. Or e-mail? Or am I totally confused as usual? :)

[KarlaHolt]

The cameras were donated by Ursula Koons in honor of her cherub Alexcia Lindsey.

All of the beautiful knit hats and booties were donated by Sophia Tucker in honor of her cherub Jess Tucker. I believe they were made by members of her church.

The photo albums and hand kits were donated by cherub Ashley McGee.

The clothing and onesies were donated by the Higgins family in honor of Becky.

The gift card and tissues and probably some other things were donated by Joanna in honor of her cherub Gabriella Monteiro.

I took pictures of everything grouped together so I will post them or email them tonight.