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Our Mission is to help families caring for children with life-threatening illnesses with our focus being on the family unity.
We Strive to lift families from life's complexities during this difficult time by providing emotional and financial support.
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Thank you to all of you for your love and continuing support of the Aubrey Rose Foundation this year! With your help we’re growing and keeping busy this Spring carrying on Aubrey's mission.
The March snow is behind us but we certainly experienced April showers during the Red’s Opening Day Parade. Even wet, that was a fun, exciting day, seeing all those floats, marching bands and just plain happy people. Special thanks to George Wilson and Larry Smith (with his puppets) and all our volunteer helpers.
This week we’re really busy working on our annual American Girl Fashion Show coming up this weekend on April 11, 12, 13. With help from so many people including the kids from Genesis Center this will be our best ever. Then next weekend, on April 19th, we have the "Abracadabra Magic Party at the Ronald McDonald House”. There will be crafts for the kids, a tasty home cooked dinner and a professional magic show featuring the Amazing Phil Dalton. We have enough volunteers for April 19th, but we do this 4 times each year. It’s a lot of fun and very much appreciated by the families living there. If you’d like to help, please contact me. We’ll certainly be ready to enjoy May’s flowers when Aubrey's 8th Annual Golf Outing comes around on May 18th. There are still tee times available. And be sure to read about Hannah, a beautiful little girl, who's life we're about to change.
Thank you for believing in Aubrey's Foundation and for always being so supportive. Whether you’re able to sponsor or volunteer for our events or participate in them, we’re grateful to you.
Love to you and your family!
Jerry, Nancy, Carly, Spencer and Saint Aubrey Hollenkamp
George and Nancy Frondorf, (Aubrey's Grandparents)
On April 11, 12 & 13th, the Oscar Center at Route 4 in Fairfield will be transformed into an enchanting tea party where you and that special little girl in your life can experience the true traditions of The American Girl Doll. Sit back for a fashion show highlighting outfits and accessories for children and dolls while enjoying a tea party fit for a princess! After the show you can peruse the American Girl Doll merchandise before you leave laden with goodies and souvenirs from your walk through history with American Girl Doll. Dads and brothers are encouraged to tag along as well.
Can't make it but want to bid on the Auction, click here
To View Raffle Items & to Purchase Raffle Tickets, click here.
To Purchase Show Tickets, click here.
Mark Your Calendars: Aubrey's 8th Annual Open Golf Outing
Date: Sunday, May 18, 2008
Tee Time: 1:30PM
Location: Aston Oaks Golf Course, 1 Aston Oaks
Drive, North Bend, OH 45052
You are invited
to a fun-filled outing with golf, friends and good food all in an effort
to make a difference in a child's life. Your participation will assure
that Aubrey's Foundation remains strong in 
its
efforts to provide funding for those children facing life-threatening
medical conditions.
Your $100 entry fee includes 18 holes of golf, GPS Equipped Golf Cart, Raffle ticket for a set of golf clubs, mulligan and competition prizes for certain holes, door prizes, gifts on the cart, logo'd golf shirt, lunch, dinner and many surprises.
We are very pleased
to announce that
will be doing our dinner for Aubrey's Foundation Golf Outing this year.
This dinner is included in the golfers package but if you would like to
join us just for just the dinner, we would love to have you.
For more details on our golf outing and dinner, please click here.
If you cannot attend our golf outing but still want to participate, you can make a donation to help us put smiles on the faces of many children and their families
Genesis Center
It’s
always wonderful to see the effect the story of Aubrey Rose
has on children.
Lisa Cropp is one of our volunteers and a teache
r at Genesis
Center where she works with students with behavior disabilities.
This
year Genesis began a curriculum that includes service learning
projects.
Lisa began the project by sharing with the students her involvement
with the Aubrey Rose Foundation, talked about what it means to
be a volunteer and how giving your time to others who need
help makes
you feel better about yourself. She talked about Aubrey and how
her parents wanted to honor her life and make others smile.
One of the
students said, "I want to help, too." So she told them
how they could do just that.
They began by labeling catalogs for the American Girl Fashion
Show. As Lisa said,” I could not believe the teamwork,
efficiency and attention to detail that I saw during the
project! Students
worked
together, organized their work areas, followed directions, and
were very proud of their work, it was amazing!!”
The first project was so successful that they are now working on
another project, stuffing pillows made from extra t-shirts to be
sold at the merchandise table at the fashion show. When other teachers
heard about the success of the elementary students' service project
they wanted to help as well. Now students from the high school
classrooms are busy tie dyeing t-shirts for the merchandise table.
They put together a hallway display about the project for their
annual Spring Open House and parent teacher conferences. When the
superintendent
saw the display, a slide show was put together for the monthly
administration meeting. The mission of the Aubrey Rose Foundation
is clearly displayed
for many to see!
Abracadabra Party
Four
times each year we bring crafts, entertainment, home cooked meals
and hope to the
families living at Ronald McDonald House.
RMH, as we call it, is a wonderful home 
for families to stay while
their children are being treated at Children’s Hospital.
But as wonderful as RMH is, nothing can replace the warmth of volunteers
giving their time and talents to make everyone feel more at home.
On April 19th we will bring crafts for the kids, a tasty home cooked
dinner and a professional magic show featuring the Amazing Phil
Dalton. As I said above, we have enough volunteers for this April,
but contact Nancy nancy@aubreyrose.org if
you’d like to help in the future.
Red's Opening Day Parade - A Wet Success
nearly two hundred
entrants:
with drill teams, marching bands, classic cars, local dignitaries
and dozens of floats.
Along
with our wonderful volunteers, George Wilson (UC Bearcat, Olympic
Gold Medalist, NBA Hall of Fame) was with us and Cincinnati
great Larry Smith brought back childhood memories with his famous
buddies Rudy, Snarfy and Hattie the Witch.
These parades are so much fun for adults and children…and
a little bit of work. If
you're interested in being in the parade and a part of our float,
please email Nancy at nancy@aubreyrose.org.If you'd like to see the rest of the parade pictures click here.
Healing
the World's Hearts - Hannah
Hannah
will be the next child to benefit from our "Healing the World's Hearts" program.
She is a 
beautiful
4 yr. old girl from the Philippians who is suffering from Tetralogy of
Fallot (TOF), a cardiac anomaly that refers to a combination of four related
heart defects that commonly occur together. The four defects include Pulmonary
stenosis, Ventricular septal defect / VSD, Overriding aorta, and Right
ventricular hypertrophy. TOF affects about 5 out of every 10,000 births.
It is very treatable and about 95% of babies are repaired within the first
year of life instead of the 4th year of life.
Hannah has suffered through years of not being able to run and play like a normal child because of low oxygen. This is the same defect that Carly, our oldest, was born with. She was repaired 20 years ago on February 11 and is doing very well but could eventually need a valve replacement. 10 years previous to Carly’s repair, TOF kids did die from that defect, but in this day and age, it’s unacceptable that Hannah would die from this defect. We need to help her and get her fixed. I know it is just one child we are helping but it’s one child’s life we are saving!!!
The "Healing the World's Hearts" program was developed by Aubrey's Foundation with help from Cincinnati Children's Hospital doctors, surgeons and corporate support to provide "simple" heart procedures to sick children in the U.S. and developing countries around the world. We say "simple" heart procedures because these are surgeries which can be performed in the U.S. that can SAVE A CHILD'S LIFE letting them go back home to live a healthy and productive life without follow-up cardiac procedures.
VOLUNTEER
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about volunteering for one of our many different events.
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to donate to The Aubrey Rose Hollenkamp Foundation and put smiles on the
faces of families and siblings caring for seriously ill children.
DONATE BY PHONE
Call Nancy or Jerry Hollenkamp, Foundation Founders:
(513) 265-5801
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Send your contribution to:
Aubrey Rose Hollenkamp Foundation
c/o 4480 Oakville Drive
Cincinnati, OH 45211
