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

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!

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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:)