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Chris and TracyMeats
12-24-2013, 12:48 PM
Happy Holidays from your CDH family at CHERUBS!

2013 has been an incredible year at our charity. We held CDH Awareness parades and events in 12 major cities. We gathered proclamations declaring April 19th a day for Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Awareness from 32 governors and 18 mayors. Buildings around the world were lit up for CDH Awareness including the CN Tower in Toronto, Miami Tower and Dublin City Hall. The United States Senate unanimously passed a resolution to make April Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Awareness Month. We marched on Capitol Hill. We held a very successful joint medical and family conference in Boston and participated in 4 other medical events and conferences. We held 11 state get-togethers for families and several overseas. We awarded 2 college scholarships. We assisted many families financially. We brought on dozens of new volunteers and installed a new CHERUBS Parent Advisory Board. We again broke our fundraising record for the 5th year in a row. We gave over $40,000 in CDH Research Grants. We won the EmeriCon Giving Campaign. Over 50 fundraisers and events were held by families and friends that raised CDH awareness including participation in the NYC and Baltimore marathons. We've been involved in or mentioned in dozens of newspaper articles and television news reports. Our average daily social media posts raise awareness to over 25,000 people. Our web site was revamped and a new logo was created. We hosted medical experts as guest speakers on our forums. We entered the government's Combined Federal Campaign for the first time. We are founding partners in the new Alliance of Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Organizations. For the 3rd straight year we are listed as a 5-Star Top Non-Profit by Guidestar and GreatNonprofits.

We accomplished all of this and much more thanks to the combined efforts of you - our members, donors, volunteers and supporters! Thank you for your continued support and generosity to our charity and helping families affected by Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia.

We look forward to continuing to serve the CDH community and reaching new and higher goals in 2014. Happy Holidays from our CHERUBS family to yours!

Sincerely,
CHERUBS Board of Directors
CHERUBS Parent Advisory Board

AmandaPlakholm
12-24-2013, 06:23 PM
Amazing accomplishments! Thanks to all the amazing volunteers for all that you do!

freedom
12-25-2013, 09:19 AM
Many, many thanks to each and everyone of our members for all your help this year. It takes everyone's help to get it all done. You all did awesome. Thank you!

KarlaHolt
12-25-2013, 01:32 PM
Happy Holidays everyone! Enjoy!

ShellyMoore
12-26-2013, 03:58 PM
It has been a FANTASTIC year made even more impressive by some additional challenges we have overcome with the strength of some INCREDIBLE volunteers & staff! Well done folks!

Excited to see what 2014 will bring!!!

Shelly

FeleciaWoodruff
12-26-2013, 07:21 PM
Happy Holidays everyone! Can't wait to see what 2014 brings. :D

joshoshensley
12-28-2013, 07:15 AM
For as great as 2013 was, 2014 will be better!! There is no stopping us!

PatriciaH
12-29-2013, 06:18 PM
It's exciting to see what 2014 will bring!

LaurenWard
01-03-2014, 10:30 PM
2013 was great! That's the year i got engaged and the year Emmalyn was born! It's a bit depressing knowing that she wasn't born this year, I feel like she's not a little baby anymore! **sigh**, maybe 2014 will bring us a new blessing :)