New Fundraising & Awareness Ideas?

[Dawn Torrence Ireland]

Hi Everyone,

Let's keep the ideas flowing so that everyone who wants to participate will have tons of options of things to do! And if anyone has anything else to add to the Awareness or Events pages, please let me know!

http://www.cdhsupport.org/events

http://www.cdhsupport.org/awareness

Dawn

[kgalli]

Dawn, hi.
I want to do something for cdh, but being disabled it is hard for me to do, plus being on a tight budget, that makes it harder. I emailed someone regarding card volunteer, but no one got back to me. I want to get the word out about cdh, but I have no idea how to do it, do you have any suggestions or does anyone have suggestions? Also, please let me know how I can help and volunteer for this website. I am always home and get bored very easily. lol
Aunt Nancy
my email address is nwischnewski@aol.com
thank you.

[Dawn Torrence Ireland]

Hi Nancy! We'd love any help at all!!!!

Shelly is our Volunteer Committee Coordinator. Please e-mail her at sevans@cherubs-cdh.org and she will get you all started on the cards.

Actually, we don't mail out cards anymore and anyone here can help do this..... we just make sure to PM members on their cherubs' birthdates or memorial dates (from the calendar above - click on the name to see their profile and see if they are survivors or non-survivors and just send them Birthday or Thinking of you messages). That's it.

As much as I wish we could, we can't afford sending out over 2000 cards a year to all the members now so we're using PM instead.

[Dawn Torrence Ireland]

Ok, everyone let's get creative and think of ways we can help raise awareness and funds for free from home!!! Here's what I came up with from what's been posted here already or things we've tried, etc:

- Writing the media. E-mailing. Calling. Anything to bring attention to CDH.

- Contacting your local town hall to get a CDH Street Sign put up to raise awareness.

- Search the internet for research articles to add to our library here (in the Links section)

- Post our ribbons and info about CDH anywhere and everywhere you can on the internet to help educate the public

- Create a video or help others to create videos

- Kate and Jeanne might need help putting together jewelry?

- Random Acts of Kindness Cards (ok, those cost a bit to print - but the acts are free!)

- Use the CDH Awareness Ribbon on e-mails, posts, blogs, etc. Or the Adopt a Cherub graphics or any of the CDH Awareness Logos.

- Search the internet for new CDH families and make them aware that CHERUBS is here for them. Blogs, Myspace, Facebook, MSN, personal sites... just google CDH and millions of pages pop up.

ok, ideas anyone else?

[kgalli]

Thanks Dawn. I am going to think of things here in my brain, when it is working. lol And get out there and do something. I am going to contact my local hospital and see if they can get something going here in the asheville area about cdh. I know this year I am going to make holiday cards with CDH on them and this website, so my friends and famly know about it. I know I heard about this website, believe it or not, from a friend of yours, he came and fixed my computer from The Geek Sqad, I can't remember his name, but he saw pictures of Elijah when he was born and in the hospital and asked me about it and I mentioned CDH and was surprised he knew what it was, and he mentioned you and your family that he is friends of yours and went right away to the website, even before fixing my computer. I just can't remember his name. Old age. lmao
Aunt Nancy

[Dawn Torrence Ireland]

Jason? Wow, that's great! I'll have to thank him. We used to work together and have been friends for about 7 years now. He's one of the nices, most genuine people I've ever met.

[kgalli]

yes he is, it was funny he spent like almost 5 hours here. lol we were surfing the web and just talking about cdh and you guys. I had alot of fun with him, and am so happy that he gave me this website.
Nancy

[Kristin Morrow]

I just wanted everyone to know that for CDH "Public" Awareness Day coming up on March 31st, I have ordered a pack of 100 mini ribbon buttons to pass out around work and to my family for them all to wear! I have also printed out a bunch of our brochures (in color) and I'm going to drop them off at our ped office, the NICU where Landen was and also the NICU in the hospital I work at to help spread awareness. I'm very excited and the girls I work with are so supportive of me in this project!

I've been also writing our local news stations hoping to get something going for awareness day! haven't heard anything yet but I'm gonna keep bugging them until someone answers me.

One other thing... last weekend my husband had his CDH shirt on when we went out to breakfast and someone asked him what it meant!! Very exciting. we are spreading awareness out here in AZ one person at a time!

[Dawn Torrence Ireland]

Kristin, that's great that you're doing all that to raise awareness!!!

[StephanieOlivarez]

Kristin--you ROCK for spreading CDH Awareness!!!