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Mark it in your cal­en­dars! The 6th Annual Ben­e­fit is set for Fri­day, May 17, 2013, at the Royal Park Hotel. We will have live music from LoveSick, din­ner, danc­ing and local media per­son­al­i­ties Jamie Samuelsen and Christy McDon­ald return­ing as our Mas­ter and Mis­tress of Cer­e­monies. Tick­ets cost $60 each and can be obtained by email­ing charlotteswings@gmail.com. Thank you so much to our com­mit­tee, donors and spon­sors for help­ing us make this event a success!

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Apr24

The Charlotte’s Wings 6th Annual Benefit is Sold Out!

Dear Sup­port­ers,

We are delighted to announce that our 6th Annual Ben­e­fit on Fri­day, May 17th, at the Royal Park Hotel in Rochester, is entirely sold out.

We are absolutely blown away by the speed at which we have sold over 500 tick­ets to the event. The extent to which our won­der­ful com­mu­nity has embraced and cham­pi­oned this cause con­tin­ues to amaze us. We feel so blessed to be part of this great orga­ni­za­tion and part of a com­mu­nity that is so proac­tive in sup­port­ing every­thing we are doing.

We are sorry that the only down­side of our unex­pect­edly swift sell-out means that we are unable to accom­mo­date some of our sup­port­ers who would have liked to attend this year. We are hope­ful that you will con­tinue to watch our progress through 2013 and that you will be able to join us on May 2nd, 2014, for our 7th Annual Ben­e­fit. Mark those cal­en­dars now!

We rec­og­nize that some of your replies were mailed before this announce­ment. Please be assured that we will con­tact you either way — either to con­firm your atten­dance or to let you know that unfor­tu­nately we were already sold out at that time. We are so appre­cia­tive for your patience and under­stand­ing while we take the time to notify everyone.

Again, thank you to every­one who made this sell out sit­u­a­tion pos­si­ble — it’s an incred­i­ble and mov­ing vote in acknowl­edge­ment of all we are doing and we are so grate­ful for your support.

With Grat­i­tude,

Charlotte’s Wings

Apr19

PRESS RELEASECHARLOTTE’S WINGS ANNOUNCES THEIR 6TH ANNUAL BENEFIT

Charlotte’s Wings Board Members (L to R) Jennifer Buck, Joanne Tarling and Karen Holt at the Charlotte’s Wings 5th Annual Benefit in 2012.

Charlotte’s Wings Board Mem­bers (L to R) Jen­nifer Buck, Joanne Tar­ling and Karen Holt at the Charlotte’s Wings 5th Annual Ben­e­fit in 2012.

Charlotte’s Wings is delighted to announce its 6th Annual Ben­e­fit, to be held at the Royal Park Hotel in Rochester on Fri­day, May 17th, 2013 at 6PM.

Charlotte’s Wings is a non-profit orga­ni­za­tion based in Rochester Hills, which was founded in March 2008. It was founded 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. Charlotte’s Wings was founded to con­tinue and expand this ini­tia­tive – donat­ing books to chil­dren in hos­pi­tal and hos­pice care in Michi­gan. To date they have donated over 20,000 to Michi­gan hos­pi­tals and hos­pices. Through this endeavor, they aim to pro­vide hope and smiles dur­ing trau­matic times.

Join Charlotte’s Wings at their 6th Annual Ben­e­fit for a fab­u­lous evening of din­ing, enter­tain­ment, an amaz­ing silent auc­tion and a fun pho­to­booth. Plus, live music from local band, LoveSick, and the return of Charlotte’s Wings sig­na­ture cock­tail, the Booka­tini! All this to ben­e­fit their mis­sion of donat­ing books to chil­dren in hos­pi­tal and hos­pice care in Michi­gan. Tick­ets are $60 each. For more infor­ma­tion visit www.charlottes-wings.com. To attend the event, email charlotteswings@gmail.com.

Mar27

Yacks Elementary in Harrison Township donates books to Charlotte’s Wings!

Thank you to the won­der­ful com­mu­nity at Yacks Ele­men­tary in Har­ri­son Town­ship — we picked up a fab­u­lous dona­tion from them today! Thank you so much to every­one at the school — we will put these great books to excel­lent use! Thank you!!!

Yacks Elementary students and the books they are donating to CW!

Yacks Ele­men­tary stu­dents and the books they are donat­ing to CW!

Mar13

PHOTOS: Royal Oak Beaumont

We love this pic­ture of sweet Cecylia, who we met at Beau­mont Hos­pi­tal, Royal Oak yes­ter­day. Here she is enjoy­ing some of the books donated to the hos­pi­tal by Charlotte’s Wings. We hope you get bet­ter really, really soon, Cecylia! And we hope that our books bring you a lit­tle com­fort dur­ing your stay in the hospital.

Owen, age 5
Owen, age 5
Mar08

Marquette General Hospital Children’s Grief Camp

More CW news today…Marquette Gen­eral Hos­pi­tal sent us this pic­ture of their children’s grief camp from last August. As part of this camp they used grief activ­ity books donated by CW. We hope the camp made a big dif­fer­ence to these brave chil­dren and are proud that we played our part to help.

Marquette General Hospital Children's Grief Camp

Mar­quette Gen­eral Hos­pi­tal Children’s Grief Camp

Mar05

ANNOUNCEMENT: Charlotte’s Wings 6th Annual Benefit will be held on Friday, May 17, 2013, at the Royal Park Hotel in Rochester, Michigan

Dear Sup­port­ers,

Charlotte’s Wings is excited to announce that our 6th Annual Ben­e­fit will be held on Fri­day, May 17, 2013, at the Royal Park Hotel in Rochester, Michi­gan. Like past years, there will be cock­tails, a sit-down din­ner, and hun­dreds of excit­ing silent auc­tion items. We are excited to announce that pop­u­lar local band LoveSick will be pro­vid­ing live enter­tain­ment fol­low­ing the din­ner pro­gram. Also, we are grate­ful that Christy McDon­ald and Jamie Samuelsen have agreed to serve as our emcees again.

We look for­ward to shar­ing this won­der­ful evening with you and are count­ing on your con­tin­ued sup­port for our mis­sion of com­fort­ing chil­dren in hos­pi­tals and hos­pice care across Michigan.

Please save this date. We will be send­ing infor­ma­tion regard­ing ticket sales very soon.

For all of the lat­est news on Charlotte’s Wings, includ­ing recent book dona­tions and infor­ma­tion regard­ing our upcom­ing Annual Ben­e­fit, “LIKE” us on Face­book or check out our web­site at www.charlottes-wings.com.

Warm regards,

Charlotte’s Wings

Jan10

PRESS RELEASE: CHARLOTTE’S WINGS VISITS ST PAUL’S UMC ROCHESTER, MI

Jen­nifer Buck and Joanne Tar­ling, of Rochester-based non-profit, Charlotte’s Wings, vis­ited the United Methodist Women’s group of St. Paul’s United Methodist Church in Rochester this week. The pair shared the story of Charlotte’s Wings and grate­fully received gen­er­ous dona­tions from the UMC Women in sup­port of Charlotte’s Wings’ work.

Charlotte’s Wings is a non-profit orga­ni­za­tion based in Rochester, MI which was founded in March 2008. They were founded 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 through­out Michi­gan. To date they have donated almost 20,000 books to Michi­gan hos­pi­tals and hos­pices. Through this endeavor, they aim to pro­vide hope and smiles dur­ing trau­matic times.

To find out more about the work of Charlotte’s Wings, you can visit their web­site at www.charlottes-wings.com.

Joanne Tarling (second from left) and Jennifer Buck (third from left) alongside members of the St. Paul’s United Methodist Women, holding some of the books donated to Charlotte’s Wings by the group.

Joanne Tar­ling (sec­ond from left) and Jen­nifer Buck (third from left) along­side mem­bers of the St. Paul’s United Methodist Women, hold­ing some of the books donated to Charlotte’s Wings by the group.

Jan03

75 Copies of “The Polar Express” donated to the Wish Children at the Rainbow Connection

Charlotte’s Wings donated 75 copies of “The Polar Express” to the Wish Chil­dren at Rain­bow Con­nec­tion.  This was part of their Hol­i­day party hosted in Decem­ber for all of their Wish Children.

Nov17

PRESS RELEASENORTH HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL GIRL SCOUTS SUPPORT CHARLOTTE’S WINGS

Third and fourth grade Girl Scouts from North Hill Ele­men­tary School manned their school book fair this week to col­lect dona­tions on behalf of Rochester non-profit, Charlotte’s Wings.

The stu­dents col­lected dona­tions of books pur­chased in the book fair, which ran at the school dur­ing con­fer­ences, as well as cash dona­tions. 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.

Alyssa, Mia, Olivia, PJ and Lena of the North Hill Ele­men­tary School Girl Scouts, with some of the donated books.

Nov15

Over 500 Books (and 6 Nooks!) donated to Beaumont!

From Jen Buck:

I had the plea­sure of meet­ing Natalie today at Beau­mont.  She was read­ing one of our donated books “Diary of a Wimpy Kid”.  She kindly allowed me to take her pic­ture.  She resisted a smile but finally gave in:)  She was very sweet.  Her grand­par­ents expressed their grat­i­tude and I just noticed they posted on our FB page.  Here are some pics from my visit today.  We donated over 500 books to Beau­mont today and 6 nooks!  We also donated 322 books to Children’s Hos­pi­tal.  It was a good day:)

 

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