Happy New Year to everyone! We hope you and your family had a
wonderful and healthy Holiday Season! It's hard to believe it's
2009!
Aubrey's
Foundation ended the year on a fantastic note with having our Annual
Holiday Party and we were able to do a "12
Days of Christmas" that
is so special it makes our families Christmas just by being able
to give someone the gift of love, hope and joy!
We have some very
exciting things planned for this year starting with our American
Girl Fashion Show auditions at all of the Toyota dealers in Cincinnati
and Northern Kentucky. After those we have our Ronald McDonald "Blue's
Brother's Party" that will be a great relief from the hospital
blues that sometimes happen!
We are always looking for new volunteers to help us
with our mission and there are many ways to help. It could be you donating
your time
and/or your talents or it could be involving your generosity with funds.
Please send an email to us and we'd be happy to welcome you to the
Aubrey Rose
Foundation so that you can help us with with helping families
with a child who has a life-threatening medical condition.
Thank you to all of you for
your love and continuing support of the Aubrey Rose Foundation!
Love to
you and your family!
Jerry,
Nancy, Carly, Spencer and Saint Aubrey Hollenkamp
George and Nancy Frondorf,
(Aubrey's Grandparents)
The
Search is on for 2009 American Girl Fashion Show Models
WHAT: The
American Girl Fashion Show Model Auditions, over
300 little girls are needed to present historical and contemporary
fashions. We need girls ages 4-12 years of age to be models for us
in The American Girl Fashion Show.
WHO: Little
girls between the ages of 4-13 of all ethnic backgrounds who would
like to model historical and contemporary American Girl Doll fashions
at the American Girl Fashion Show. Girls only need to model in one
of six shows the weekend of March 27th – 29th, 2009 at Music
Hall, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Please schedule your FREE audition by
going HERE. You
must "Register" your daughter first and then you will be
able to schedule an audition. Below is the schedule of where
we will be. So SCHEDULE an audition now!
Below and attached,
please find an electronic flyer announcing the January model auditions. YOU
CAN HELP us by forwarding this to as many friends as possible.
WHEN/WHERE: AUDITIONS
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Kings
Toyota, 4700 Fields Ertel Rd. Sat., January 10th, 9am– noon
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Joseph
Toyota, 9101 Colerain Ave. Sun., January 11th, 1pm – 4pm
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Beechmont
Toyota, 8667 Beechmont Ave. Sat., January 17th, 9am – noon
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Kerry
Toyota, I-75 Exit 181, Florence, KY Sun., January 18th, 1pm – 4pm
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Performance
Toyota, 5675 Dixie Hwy., Fairfield Sat., January 24th, 9am – noon
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Dry
Ridge Toyota, 18 Taft Hwy., Dry Ridge, KY Sun., January 25th,
1pm – 3pm
WHY: Proceeds
from the American Girl Fashion Show go to the Aubrey Rose Foundation
a 501 (c)(3) assisting families caring for children with life-threatening
illnesses.
COST: Model Auditions: FREE; Audition
Parking: FREE
Fashion Show (March) Tickets- $35/person; Show Parking: Garage rates apply
INFO: Purchase show tickets
at www.aubreyrose.org.
FASHION SHOW DATES: March
27th – 29th, 2009
Friday, March 27th at 7pm
Saturday, March 28th at 9:30am, 1:30pm & 5:30pm
Sunday, March 29th at 11am & 3pm
Please
join us again this year at the American Girl Fashion Show!
On behalf of the Aubrey Rose Foundation and American Girl Fashion
Show we would like to thank you for your continued support.
Margo Jokovich, (513) 205-9957 and Nancy Hollenkamp (513)
287-3794
ps...wondering how you can get your picture on the poster and/or website?
Help us by sponsoring this year's event and put your favorite model
on the poster.
You can also purchase chances at any of the auditions and photo shoots.
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American Girl Fashion
Show on WXIX TV
On
Thursday, January 8, Channel 19 News welcomed Nancy Hollenkamp
and five American Girl Fashion Show models to their morning show.
Anchor Rob Williams hosted the segment which talked about the upcoming
American Girl Fashion Show auditions and what it takes to becoming
a model for these shows. Click
here for the pictures.
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Holiday
Party was a Great Success
This was a very special Holiday Party held for the
children and their families in the Heart Center/CICU (Cardiac Intensive
Care
Unit) at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.
The December 16 Holiday Party was such a special night with 21
families participating 
as well as amazing Cyclones
Players who took time from
their busy schedule to attend. Nate Lawrie and Frostie
Rucker from the Bengals and David Fulcher,
a former Bengal were there as well. They were super as well,
taking pictures and
signing autographs.
We can't forget about our mascots who attended. We had Who
Dey from the Bengals, Twister from the Cyclones and from the Reds,
Gapper - who really was in rare form that night.
The families got to enjoy a scrumptious meal as well
as be entertained by Travis the Magician. The
Party ended by everyone opening up gifts. There was laughter, tears
of joy and for a few short hours, the families
forget they were in the hospital!
Click
here to enjoy the pictures from the Holiday
Party and see our youngest patients at the Party!
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Ronald
McDonald Dinner
On Saturday,
1/31, we’re going to be hosting
a “Blues
Brothers' Party” This should be really fun for the families
and a real Kodak moment when the families will get some fancy hats and
sunglasses
so that they can play the part of Jack and Elwood and we may even have
a surprise visit from Jake and Elwood!
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12
Days of Christmas
Aubrey's Foundation does a "12 Days of Christmas" where
we pick a family that has a child with a life-threatening medical condition
and do
a tower of gifts for the family. The idea behind this gift is to make this
family feel special. The tower is filled with practical items for each member
of the family including Grandma and Grandpa as well as family gifts too, including
a photography session for the entire family - how often do you get the chance
to make memories...and that's what this gift is all about! We wanted every 
one of this family of 7 to feel joy and happiness and I think we accomplished
this immensely.
It was a complete surprise to the family and we worked with
the Grandparents to make this happen. When we brought this tower over to Grandma,
she started
crying and she just knew how much her daughter and her family would appreciate
this.
On Christmas day we received a phone call from Mom and she was in tears telling
how much this meant to her family Here is a heartfelt thank you from this family:
"Thank you for bringing us joy, hope and
peace this Christmas season. We are so humbled and blessed by what you
have done for our family.
We look forward
to becoming part of the Aubrey Rose family and to paying it forward by
bringing joy to other families in need. Lots of love and hugs from the Molfetta
Family!"
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Annual Campaign
In difficult economic times like all of us are experiencing, Giving USA 2008
says that giving continues through good times and bad. Donors still have an
interest in supporting charities through their capital and endowment campaigns
and through various planned gifts. Donors have many options for giving such
as the use of non-cash gifts for donations. This can be done on a current or
a deferred basis which gives you flexibility and offers more options for giving.
The Aubrey Rose Foundation has kicked-off our first ever
Annual Campaign and
our goal with this is to help over 10,000 children and their families. The
Foundation looks forward to working with you on the various donations you can
give.
If you would like to participate in this Annual Campaign, you are welcome
to donate online at www.aubreyrose.org, or you can give gifts of appreciated
securities such as stocks, bonds and mutual funds. The gifts of appreciated
property generate two tax benefits, 1) a charitable deduction for its market
value and 2) avoidance of tax on the appreciation. So this could be a win-win
for you and for the Aubrey Rose Foundation.
Please consult with your financial planner or tax advisor to guide you on
how this can be accomplished so that you could help us help many more children
and their families.
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Aubrey Rose Jewelry
From artwork to beadwork to jewelry... MAYcreations has created a line of Aubrey
Rose Foundation jewelry that is all hand-made and designed to raise money and
awareness for the Foundation.
MAYcreations is proud to have been selected to produce a collection
of jewelry 
especially designed for the Aubrey Rose Foundation. This is a complete
line
of bracelets, necklaces, pendants and more. There are four styles of beads,
each in two combinations of colors.
We can't do justice to the beauty of this jewelry in this newsletter
so please visit our website at http://www.aubreyrose.org/jewelry.php to
see it at its best.
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VOLUNTEER
Click here to send Nancy a message
about volunteering for one of our many different events.
DONATE ONLINE
Click here
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
DONATE BY MAIL
Send your contribution to:
Aubrey Rose Hollenkamp Foundation
c/o 4480 Oakville Drive
Cincinnati, OH 45211
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