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News Flash!!
BCP Fund @ Fairview!
Dear Friends,
We are proud to announce our partnership with the Fairview Foundation in establishing a dedicated, on-going fund to launch our mission at the University of Minnesota Children's Hospital, Fairview.
These services will include paid parking, comfort kits, and life administration services.
Starting April 1, 2008, The Brain Candy Project and the Fairview Foundation will begin a drive to raise the $20,000 necessary to establish this important fund.
This small goal is easily attainable with your help.
Click here to support this important fund:
If you prefer to send a check, please write "Fairview" on the memo line.
We appreciate your generous support of this project. Over time, we will add more hospitals to our Circle of Collaborators.
To learn more about The Fairview Foundation, please visit their website: www.fairview.org/Foundation
News Flash!!
Brain Candy!
BREAK THROUGH A CHILD'S ISOLATION
Our vision includes Brain Candy!,
a free magazine by kids, for kids living with brain cancer. This
magazine will bridge children all over the world, create community, and
will reassure these children that they are not alone in their
courageous fight.
Click here to support this important magazine:
Featured on the first edition cover is Brain Candy! editor, Cameron David Allen, age 13. Visit his weekly blog by clicking this photo.
News Flash!!
Marta Gerrity Joins the BCP Circle of Collaborators!
Marta Gerrity started Patchwork Prayers in memory of her mother, Charlotte, who lived with brain cancer in her golden years. Patchwork Prayers is a simple idea with powerful results. Volunteers from across the country join forces with Marta to create customized quilts for children fighting brain cancer.
Warmth comes not only from the quilts themselves, but from the prayers tied into each knot on the
quilt. As the quilt is constructed and the knots are tied, prayers are
said for the child. When the child receives their special quilt, family and friends, doctors, nurses and others can
tie a knot on the quilt and say a prayer as well. Each of these special children is then wrapped in love and prayers within a quilt designed just for them. We hope that the prayer quilts will offer love, hope, comfort and warmth
to each child and family we support.
Marta will also be coordinating other special projects for BCP such as gourmet food orders, Memory Bears (for siblings of a child with brain cancer), Memory Scrapbooks & Memory Quilts which she creates for families through her group, Charlotte's Garden.
It is with great honor that we welcome Marta to our circle!
 
Alexa's Prayer Quilt, courtesy of Charlotte's Garden
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OUR MISSION
The Brain Candy Project
We will collaborate with and support existing non-profit
organizations who are focused on charitable and educational activities,
raising awareness about pediatric brain cancer and trauma and the
support needs of these families.
THE NEED IS REAL
This very night, there are parents sleeping on the chairs and floors of
their children's hospital rooms--alone. This isolation is brutal as
they stay at the bedside of their child who is recovering from brain
cancer or other brain trauma.
It's
no mystery that most hospitals are unable to provide comfort or support
services to parents who find themselves in this situation. And it's no
wonder--the hospitals' job is to care for the children.
It is for this reason The Brain Candy Project was founded...to hold parents so parents can hold their children.
PLAN TO GIVE
Plan
your philanthropic activities as you would any other financial
obligation. On the CDP donation pages, you will have the option to make
automatic weekly, monthly, quarterly or annual payments. Does your
employer offer a matching gift program? Make your donation dollars go
even farther!
KNOW WHERE YOUR MONEY GOES
Choose which project within the BCP that you would like to support, make a memorial donation in honor or memory of a loved one, or make a general donation to support the whole project! Just click on the donation button that corresponds to each project.
It is important for you to know that 96.5% of your donations will go directly to The Brain Candy Project! Only 3.5% will go to the CDP administrative function. That's something you can feel good about!
The Brain Candy Project is monitored by The
National Heritage Foundation (NHF) to assure our donors that their
donations are being used according to our chartered mission purpose.
NHF has had an outstanding reputation in the field since 1968, and has
earned a distinguished FOUR STAR RATING by the Charity Navigator! Click
the button below for more info!
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PARENT SURVEY
If you are a parent/guardian currently living in the hospital with your child, or if you have in the past, we need your feedback.
Please take a few moments, as you are able, to complete our short survey. It will help us determine which services are the most pressing.
Click here
to take the survey.
Thank you!
Secure online giving
is now available!
Make a general donation to The Brain Candy Project by clicking the button below.
This will take you to the secure CDP donation page.
We need your help.
One click can make all the difference in the journey of a family.
Please give generously.
Mail donation checks to:
THE BRAIN CANDY PROJECT
2614 Clinton Ave S.
Minneapolis, MN 55408
This makes good CENTS!
Another easy way to help. Click to find out more.
GOOD THINGS COME IN BOXES
Parents are a vital part of a child's recovery. The mental and physical health of the parents is our primary concern. Upon arrival at the hospital, each family will receive The Candy Box. The Candy Box is a beautiful comfort kit for the parents’ hospital stay, including an air mattress & bedding, groceries, "feel-goodies," toiletries, mp3 player, and more!
SUPPORTING PARENTS
The Brain Candy Project support will also include life administration services, such as financial management, nanny services, laundry, house/pet sitting, free parking at the hospital, as well as specialized workshops in arts, meditation, nutrition, cancer research, and more. There will also be a 24/7 Hotline for general support and research assistance. We will serve in local/regional hospitals, and then expand our work nationally/internationally. All goods and services provided through The Brain Candy Project will be AT NO COST to the families we serve.
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Can you imagine sleeping here for months? Many parents do. You can help change that.
The Brain Candy Project will partner with other non-profits, private businesses, individuals
and corporations to provide support at no cost to our families.
The Brain Candy Project strives to be a green company, using products and practices that are earth-friendly.
For more information, or to make a tax deductible gift please contact:
Lizzie Holzapfel
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