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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 like the beautiful Spring flowers and keeping as busy as the proverbial bees carrying on Aubrey's mission.
Spring is an exciting time of year for the Aubrey Rose Foundation. We're just wrapping up the American Girl Fashion Show and last week's magical Abracadabra Show at the Ronald McDonald House was another giving success. In less than 2 weeks we'll be hosting "Aubrey's Open" Golf Outing. And right after that we will be awarding the 2008 Scholarships at Cincinnati area grade school graduations.
Last month was "Donate Life Month". We're proud to be a part of the Workplace Partnership for Life because so many children benefit from organ\tissue donations and you can help.
We have also added new board members to help us achieve our goal of continually growing Aubrey's Foundation so that we can help many more families and children. Our goal is to become a million dollar plus charity by 2012. This will allow us to help more families and children and continue to grow the Healing the World's Hearts program.
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. Don't forget to use our Message Board on the Aubrey Rose web site. We really look forward to hearing about your experiences.
Love to you and your family!
Jerry, Nancy, Carly, Spencer and Saint Aubrey Hollenkamp
George and Nancy Frondorf, (Aubrey's Grandparents)
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
All
foursomes are filled for golf but
you are more than welcome to show your support by joining us for dinner.
This will be a fun-filled
outing with golf, friends and plenty of great 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 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. If you're interested in playing please give Jerry a call ASAP at (513) 520-8731 to see if there are any last minute cancellations.
We
are very pleased to announce that
will be doing our dinner for our Golf Outing this year.
Texas Roadhouse will be serving up their mouth watering ribs and chicken
as well as their many side dishes all for $15. You can't beat the price
and knowing that the proceeds are for such a wonderful cause will remove
any caloric guilt from your plate. This
dinner is included in the golfers package but if can only join us for
dinner, we would love to have you.
And before I forget, we have great auction items including tickets for Walt Disney World, a Helicopter ride, a limited edition signed and numbered picture by Jean Vance of the Cincinnati Reds 1990 World Series and some fantastic gift certificates for restaurants, hotels and different events.
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
American Girl Fashion Show Recap
The
Aubrey Rose Foundation hosted its 5th annual American Girl Fashion
Show, presented by Toyota, last month (April 11-13) at the Oscar
Event
Center. 450 little girls from around the tri-state rocked the catwalk
in American Girl clothing with matching dolls to represent generations
of American Girls. The fashion show provided an educational lo
ok
at how
clothing and women's roles have changed over the years. Over 2,500
guests attended the six fashion shows over the weekend. The entire
show
was performed by children to help the Aubrey Rose Foundation raise
money
for families caring for sick children in our community and around
the world.
Guests enjoyed a tea party during the fashion show and all of the young girls took home a souvenir American Girl Fashion Show purse filled with lots of goodies. After the show, many guests stayed to bid on the silent auction, and visit vendor booths including an American Girl photo station!
As much fun as it was, the American Girl Fashion Show also helps to instill leadership qualities in young girls and encourages them to be active volunteers in their community.
All
of the girls who modeled in the fashion show raised a minimum of
$100 for the Aubrey Rose Foundation. Many girls went way
above that
by soliciting auction items, selling raffle tickets and even
asking for donations instead of presents at their birthday parties!!
8-year old Caroline Waddell was the top fundraiser, bringing in over $7,000 and winning a trip to the American Girl Store in Chicago. The 2nd place fundraiser was Katelynn Smith who with the help of her step-dad raised over $7,000 as well. We had a tie for 3rd place with Emma Brockwell and Alexa Burke each bringing in $5000! These girls and the many, many others, all understood that they were taking part in this major event in hopes of helping many children who are very sick.
We were overwhelmed by the generosity and kindness of our families. This event is not only our biggest fundraiser but it is also a tremendous friend-raiser! We're so proud of all of our models and their families for truly believing in the work of the Aubrey Rose Foundation.
Abracadabra Party Magic Recap.
Four
times each year we bring crafts, entertainment, home cooked meals
and hope to the
families living at Ronald McDonald House.
And this April we had another wonderful 
time.
There was a packed House on April 19 at the "Abracadabra
Party" at
the
RMH. We had crafts for the children first and then a delicious
dinner was served to the families living at the House. After dinner,
we were all amazed by the wonderful magic (and live snake) of Phil
Dalton. He entertained everyone and included House members as part
of his
show. We were
blessed with the help of many wonderful volunteers including Debbie
Phipps and her Girl Scout troop from St. Jude Parish. These girls
made the creative table decorations that included things for the
children
to play with.
If you’d like to help in the future, contact Nancy nancy@aubreyrose.org
Donate Life
The Aubrey Rose Foundation is a partner in a national initiative called the Workplace Partnership for Life and we also volunteer for LifeCenter Organ donor network, the organ procurement agency in Cincinnati. You may already have decided to become an organ and tissue donor, or you may have signed up as a marrow/blood stem cell donor. Or, you may still be making a decision about being a donor. Whatever stage of involvement you are in concerning donation, please take a moment to read the comments below, provided by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Learn what donation can mean to those whose lives it touches.
-“I will be forever grateful for my second chance at life.” - Chris, transplant recipient
-“Sight plays such a wonderful and enriching part in our lives that the transplant has affected just about every facet of my life… Thanks to the transplant I could be awestruck when I picked her up for our first date and saw how stunning she looked…And thanks to the transplant, I could see the tears in my mom’s eyes when I hugged her on graduation day…My eyes have seen things that have shaped who I am and what I want to accomplish, and all I can do in return is say thank you. I say thank you and try to use my sight and my life to touch the lives of others and change the world for the better…” - Patrick, transplant recipient
-“Nothing hurts anymore. It feels good just to feel good.” - Grace, transplant recipient
-“My son’s heart valves were transplanted to 3 different children…That alone demonstrated to me that Yes! That was the right decision... I’ve come to believe there’s a purpose on life and Michael’s purpose was not only to save 3 lives but to guide me to learn, educate myself to educate others and to bring happiness to others…My journey of grief has been alleviated thanks to that and somehow my heart is healing. I thought I was left on my own after he left but I know somehow he’s still around!!! - Margarita, donor mother
-“…as fate would have it, some NY City mother had decided to do what very few moms were doing 10 years ago. She consented to donate her newborn daughter’s cord blood to one of the very few public cord blood banking programs in the country. That single donation proved to be my one…my only…stem cell match - Stephen, cord blood recipient
Nearly 100,000 people are on the national waiting list for an organ transplant.
Please consider signing
up to be an organ, tissue, and marrow/blood
stem cell donor.
Healing
the World's Hearts - Hannah Update
We
have been working with Delta Airlines and the Children's Miracle Network
to set
a date for Hannah and her family to arrive in Cincinnati for her open-heart
surgery. We're working very hard getting passports for Hannah and her
family so she can have her surgery as soon as possible. We have everything
on hold until they get their passports. Congressman Steve Chabot's office
and the US Embassy are helping us on
this but
we haven't finalized details yet... keep us in your prayers.
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 Philippines 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. Thanks to everyone's help she will not! 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.
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faces of families and siblings caring for seriously ill children.
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(513) 265-5801
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Aubrey Rose Hollenkamp Foundation
c/o 4480 Oakville Drive
Cincinnati, OH 45211
