Save the Date for this great event from Rochester’s own The Funky Frog, Children’s Resale Bou­tique. Pizza, bowl­ing and lots of fun for the whole fam­ily — not to men­tion a 50/50 Raf­fle and book dona­tions to ben­e­fit CW! Thanks so much to The Frog for all their support!

Click on the below link for more information:

https://www.facebook.com/funkyfrogresale/posts/136969409760059

Over 500 peo­ple gath­ered Sat­ur­day night at the Royal Park Hotel in Rochester for Charlotte’s Wings’ 5^thAnnual Ben­e­fit.

Raised $50,000!

The event fea­tured an amaz­ing array of silent auc­tion prizes – every­thing from trips to the Caribbean to a back­yard tram­po­line to a day rac­ing a Cadil­lac at the Mon­ti­cello Motor Club near New York. Guests also enjoyed the Royal Park Hotel’s deli­cious din­ner menu, had their pic­tures taken in the event pho­to­booth and danced the night away to the evening’s DJ. An espe­cially pop­u­lar choice at the bar was the Charlotte’s Wings sig­na­ture cock­tail, the ‘Booka­tini’, which returned for its sec­ond year at the event. Local media per­son­al­i­ties Jamie Samuelsen and Christy McDon­ald per­formed as Mas­ter and Mis­tress of Cer­e­monies for the evening.

This is the 5th Annual Ben­e­fit for Charlotte’s Wings and the third to be held at the Royal Park Hotel. The non-profit was founded in March of 2008, in mem­ory of a local infant girl, Char­lotte, who died at just 5 months old of a rare degen­er­a­tive brain dis­ease. In lieu of bap­tism gifts, her par­ents made a large dona­tion of books to the pedi­atric unit at Beau­mont Hos­pi­tal, Royal Oak, MI. Charlotte’s Wings was founded to con­tinue and expand this ini­tia­tive – donat­ing books to chil­dren in hos­pi­tal and hos­pice care across the whole of Michi­gan. To date they have donated over 15,000 to pedi­atric units in hos­pi­tals and hos­pices and founded 4 pedi­atric ref­er­ence libraries across the state.

The 5^th Annual Ben­e­fit on Sat­ur­day night raised $50,000 to fur­ther their mis­sion – a hugely suc­cess­ful result for the Charlotte’s Wings team. Says Jen­nifer Buck, Charlotte’s Wings founder and chair, “The ongo­ing gen­eros­ity of our sup­port­ers will allow us to con­tinue to expand the scope and quan­tity of the projects that we are able to take on. We are so grate­ful for the gen­eros­ity of our sup­port­ers and so excited to think of all of the young lives through­out Michi­gan that we are able to pos­i­tively impact as a result”.

To find out more about Charlotte’s Wings and the work they do go to www.charlottes-wings.com or look them up on Facebook.

Our 5th Annual Ben­e­fit Spon­sor, Hour Detroit Mag­a­zine, will be fea­tur­ing pho­tographs from the ben­e­fitin an upcom­ing issue. But before it hits new­stands, here’s a sneak pre­view! If you were at the ben­e­fit, check out the link to see if your face might be in print soon!

Hour Detroit Coverage

Charlotte’s Wings For More Info Video from Jump­ing With My Fin­gers Crossed on Vimeo.

Thanks to a gen­er­ous dona­tion from Charlotte’s Wings, a non‐profit orga­ni­za­tion that pro­vides books dona­tions to chil­dren in hos­pi­tal and hos­pice care, the Pedi­atrics depart­ment at SJH&MC has more than 50 books for fam­i­lies to use a resource while in the hos­pi­tal with their child.

With the fund­ing of the Charlotte’s Wings orga­ni­za­tion, the Par­ent Resource Library became a real­ity. The library includes books that help par­ents with the growth and devel­op­ment of their child, their child’s hos­pi­tal­iza­tion and/or their children’s diag­no­sis. The library will include top­ics rang­ing from can­cer, relax­ation, divorce, spe­cial needs, trauma, feelings/anxiety, self‐discovery, grief, hos­pi­tal stay/doctor office vis­its, inspi­ra­tion books, diagnosis‐based top­ics and other mis­cel­la­neous top­ics. Par­ents will be able to bor­row books dur­ing their child’s visit to the hospital.

Charlotte’s Wings also pro­vides other sup­port to SJH&MC’s Pedi­atric depart­ment. They:

• Donate many books that are given out to the chil­dren on the Pedi­atric unit through­out the year
• Sup­ply teach­ing mate­ri­als used to help chil­dren under­stand their dis­ease process.
• Devel­oped a packet in con­junc­tion with the Pedi­atric Bereave­ment group to give to fam­i­lies when a child dies – books for com­fort and support.

Thanks to this won­der­ful orga­ni­za­tion for their sup­port. More infor­ma­tion can be found at http://www.charlottes‐wings.com/.

Amy Fogler of Fogler’s Green­house and Joanne Tar­ling of Charlotte’s Wings cel­e­brate a suc­cess­ful night at Fogler’s Green­house this week. Shop­pers enjoyed dis­count shop­ping, appe­tiz­ers, deli­cious wines cour­tesy of Rochester’s own Cose di Lusso and sup­ported Charlotte’s Wings with their dona­tions of books. These books will go directly to sup­port Charlotte’s Wings mis­sion of donat­ing books to chil­dren in hos­pi­tal and hos­pice care.

Stu­dents from North Hill Ele­men­tary School handed over a huge dona­tion of books to Rochester non-profit, Charlotte’s Wings, this week. Stu­dents from the North Hill Helpers com­mu­nity ser­vice team handed over hun­dreds of books col­lected from school fam­i­lies through­out March, along with book­marks cre­ated and dec­o­rated by the stu­dents. Charlotte’s Wings will put these to excel­lent use in sup­port of their mis­sion to donate books to chil­dren in hos­pi­tal and hos­pice care through­out Michi­gan.

Fogler’s Green­house

We’re excited to let you know that Fogler’s Green­house will be host­ing an evening of appe­tiz­ers, wine and shop­ping on Thurs­day, April 26th. That night, Fogler’s cus­tomers will be invited to donate a new children’s book to Charlotte’s Wings. Come shop dur­ing this 10% off evening, enjoy a glass of wine from Rochester’s own Cose di Lusso and sup­port CW at the same time!

Over 1,000 books for CW!

Post­ing this awe­some pic­ture from the Stu­dent State Lead­er­ship Con­fer­ence of the Michi­gan Asso­ci­a­tion of Stu­dent Coun­cils and Honor Soci­eties, being held in Tra­verse City this week­end. Each del­e­gate at this weekend’s con­fer­ence has been asked to bring a book to donate to CW. 1,000 expected to fill this table by the end of the week­end! WOW! So thrilled to have the sup­port of this incred­i­ble group of young people.