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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.
In This Newsletter
Thank you to all of you for your love and continuing support of the Aubrey Rose Foundation!
In Aubrey's short life, everything to her was a party whether it was going to church or to the doctors and so whatever we do, we try to make our events (whether fundraisers or friendraisers) the kind of events that you'll be hard pressed to forget! It's so important for people to cherish life and enjoy themselves whether they have a sick child or their life is perfect. Aubrey taught us a valuable lesson - to live life to the fullest and most of all to smile while you're doing it! We know Aubrey would want us to live and so living is what our family is doing.
So with this being said, the biggest party we have coming up is the "Let's Dance for the Heart of It!" We have been working so hard on this special night that celebrates Aubrey's birth date on November 12 and and three short years later, her death date on November 10. We have a wonderful committee of kind, caring and very giving people headed up by Diane Schneider - our good friend who epitomizes the word "giving"! She is leading our charge to raise much needed funds so that we can continue with our Healing the World's Hearts Program, our Holiday Party for the CICU at Cincinnati Children's Hospital and for our continually growing Scholarship Program.
We do have a favor to ask of you. With your continued support, ...we want you to keep Aubrey's Foundation in the back of your mind whenever you come across a family with a medically fragile child who could use the help of the Aubrey Rose Foundation. Even though Aubrey will be gone eight years now, she is still touching people and making them smile through the work of her Foundation.
We would like to thank you from the bottom of our hearts and double lungs for your time and support for wanting to help make the Aubrey Rose Foundation the answer to many families prayers. Always remember to pray more, play more, and concentrate your time, talents and love to those that you hold near and dear to your heart!Love to you and your family!
Jerry, Nancy, Carly, Spencer and Saint Aubrey Hollenkamp
George and Nancy Frondorf, (Aubrey's Grandparents)
The Aubrey Rose Foundation will be hosting a Halloween Dinner Party on Saturday,
October 18 at the Ronald McDonald House. We'll have crafts for the children,
a delicious home cooked meal and then our famous, indoor trick-or-treating!
This "spook-tacular" Halloween Party will be for Mom, Dad and the kids staying at the Ronald McDonald House so get your Halloween costumes ready! We are always looking for families who would like to join us in these special dinners so if you are interested, please send Nancy an email,
Let's Dance for the Heart
of It!
This year's special event will be held Friday, November 14th, at the Newport
Syndicate. Your evening will include appetizers, a scrumptious meal provided
by the Sy
ndicate, dessert and coffee bars, beer, wine, silent and live
auctions, a jewelry auction and live music.
We're really excited to have Hagit Limor from Channel 9 news as our emcee.
This year's entertainment comes from the Las Vegas Legends Series Performer
Garth Brooks and his band (Since Garth couldn't make it we're using a
sound-alike Garth)!!! Also, back by popular demand is Matt Snow - The
Sinatra Song Stylist. who will sing for us during dinner.
Help us make this a special night of celebration by reserving your tickets
online, via mail or phone. Reserved seating is available for groups of
10 or more when purchased together.
2008 marks the 8th year of Aubrey’s death and her 11th birthday
so please mark you calender for November 14 and come celebrate with us
- all to help families caring for children with life threatening illnesses.
To purchase tickets on line, please click here.
See you there
The
Rusty Ball 
The Rusty Griswolds, one of Cincinnati’s most popular party bands,
is hosting the first-ever Rusty Ball on November 22, 2008. from 8 p.m.
to 1 a.m. at the Northern Kentucky Convention Center in Covington, Kentucky.
The Rusty Ball will benefit over 40 organizations in our community and
the Aubrey Rose Foundation is blessed to be one of the beneficiaries of
this fun event.
Each charitable organization has the opportunity to sell tickets for The
Rusty Ball in support of their specific cause so PLEASE choose the Aubrey
Rose Foundation when purchasing your tickets so that the proceeds from
your purchase will benefit our organization.
Included in the price of the ticket is Open Bar from 8:00 p.m. to 10:00
p.m.; cash concessions, performance by The Rusty Griswolds
and other local celebrities, as well as silent/live auctions and celebrity
bartenders. This is going to be a fun filled night of entertainment and
fundraising! Tickets are $50 each and are on sale at www.therustyball.com.
Make Donations to Aubrey Rose at NO Cost to You
The Aubrey Rose Foundation has teamed-up with GoodShop.com so that each time you shop or search the web, they donate money to our foundation. More than 700 of the top Internet retailers and travel sites including Amazon, eBay, Target, Apple, Expedia and more have joined forces with GoodShop.com to donate part of every purchase to your favorite charity or school at no additional cost to you (more than 64,000 nonprofits are now on-board)!
GoodShop.com is a new online shopping mall which donates up to 37 percent of each purchase to your favorite cause! Every time you place an order with any one of the hundreds of stores.
GoodSearch.com is a new Yahoo-powered search engine that donates half its advertising revenue, about a penny per search, to the charities its users designate. Use it just as you would any search engine, get quality search results from Yahoo, and know that a donation is going to The Aubrey Rose foundation.
Click here for more information about how you can give at no cost.
Shivers Holiday Fest Parade at the Beach Waterpark
Aubrey's Foundation, along with the Michael Angelo Auction Company, will
be part of The Beach Waterpark's Shivers Holiday Fest Parade on Friday,
November 28. The Parade will start at 4:30pm and will kick-off this years
Holiday Fest. If anyone would like to join us, please email Nancy to let
her know. We will have to take families on a first come first served basis.
If you have never been to the the Holiday Fest at The Beach, this year
the event is going to be bigger and better than ever! Millions of festive
lights and over 25 fabulous holiday attractions for the whole family to
enjoy including Ice Skating, the Cool Runnings Toboggan Slide, Winterset
Carriage Rides, North Pole Petting Corral, and a Live Nativity. Holiday
Fest is Real Spirit, Real Tradition, and Real Fun.
We Welcome Anthony Buford to our Board
Anthony Buford attended the University of Cincinnati on
a basketball scholarship where he earned a Bachelors Degree in Economics.
During his stint with the Bearcats he captained a team which participated
in the 1992 Final Four held in Minneapolis, MN. 
He
got his start in mortgage lending with Winton Savings & Loan. After
3 years in the Banking environment Anthony jumped into the world of Mortgage
Brokering by creating Brookstone Financial . Anthony is now working for
Northwestern Mutual Financial Network and is also a TV analyst.
Anthony agreed to speak at our 2008 Scholarship Reception and became enthralled
with the Aubrey Rose Foundation. He has since joined our board and will
head up a new exciting venture for Aubrey's Foundation which will revolve
around our Scholarship Program. Please look for more details next month
where we will highlight our new program.
Healing the World's Hearts - Hannah Update
Hannah and Pacita left in the early morning hours of September 14 way before Hurricane Ike's sustained windgusts hit Cincinnati in the afternoon. Hannah went back home a changed child.
She
arrived here with little to no energy, never smiling, never participating
in anything and left here a vivacious, happy and most of all, smiling little
girl who was was learning to love life! Sandra Ali, Channel 5 News, did an
interview with us on that Thursday that showcased the healthy Hannah! The
before and after pictures are amazing as you can see on our website. After
the interview, Pacita just sat there shaking her head in disbelief as Hannah
was running and playing with other children who were living at the Ronald
McDonald House as well. We warned Pacita before Hannah's surgery, that she
will have so much energy afterwards, you won't be able to keep up with her!
It was a rough couple of months with a complicated surgery and a complicated
recovery, but in the end her life was saved. Thanks to the superb skills of
Dr. Eghtesady and his talented staff at Cincinnati Children's Hospital and
to all of you - who without your support and belief in the Aubrey Rose Foundation
- this operation would not have been possible.
We are looking for our next patient for our Healing the World's Hearts Program.
He/She can be from the United States or from around the world. So if you know
of someone who needs open-heart surgery and who does not have the means to
fund such an operation, send us a letter of inquiry at the Aubrey Rose Foundation.
Please tell us about your family and specifically the heart child and what
their diagnosis is and why you would like the Aubrey Rose Foundation to help
you.
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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Cincinnati, OH 45211
