Friends of CW, if you plan to attend Arts & Apples in Rochester on Sunday, 9/12, please consider parking at 704 Woodward Ave (across from Dillman & Upton). CW Youth Council will be collecting $10 for parking to benefit CW. Support CW and enjoy a quick walk to the festival.
CW mourns the passing of our dear friend & supporter, Jamie Samuelsen. Jamie and his wife, Christy McDonald, emceed our annual gala for years. Our community lost a great man, husband, father & friend. Please keep Christy & their children in your prayers.
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Thank you to Rochester High School Falcons Key Club for tagging books for CW ready for hospital delivery! We appreciate you and all of your hard work!!
We are so excited for our 12th Annual Benefit on 11/9. We are actively seeking donations for our silent auction-we are looking for Tigers, Red Wings, college basketball or football tickets If anyone knows of an individual or business who can help, please let us know. Thank you!
Today we passed an amazing milestone....over 110,000 books now donated since we started this journey! Incredible! Thanks to all of you for helping us get there!! Let's see where the next 110,000 takes us....! :)
Over 180 books ($2300 worth) sent to Bronson Methodist Hospital Pediatric Hematology and Oncology to support families who have a child with cancer. ❤️❤️❤️
$1000 worth of books shipped to Anchors Programs for Children - part of Hospice of Michigan - in Ada, MI. All of the books are used to help children cope with illness or death of a love one. ❤️❤️
100 books sent to Arbor Hospice today - all of them books were to help explain death to children. We hope they help a little in this very difficult situation.
The Invisible String.
VERY exciting news! As of today we have now officially donated our 100,000th book!!!! Back when we started this in Spring 2008 with a couple boxes of books and a handful of hospital/hospice partners, these numbers were beyond our wildest dreams...and we still can't believe it!
Thank you to my friends at Charlotte's Wings for gifting Ronald McDonald House Charities Detroit with 800 new children’s books for our free little libraries at Children's Hospital of Michigan!
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Thank you to our incredible CW Youth Leadership Council who spent their afternoon tagging, organizing & boxing up 3000 holiday books ready to send to our partners this holiday season!This team is the absolute best and we appreciate their time, energy & commitment to our cause!❤️
$1000 worth of books sent to Children's Hospital!Some titles were "Taking Diabetes to School", "The Great Katie Kate Explains Epilepsy "&”The ABC of Asthma ". We hope these books offer support,education&comfort to help children&their families coming to grips with a new diagnosis.
2000 Halloween Books are currently winging their way to 25 partners all across the state. Thank you to the armies of volunteers who put CW stickers in all of the books, sorted them to fulfill requests from each partner hospital/hospice & helped with deliveries. We appreciate you!
25 books sent to SandCastles Grief Support Program for Children and Families in Detroit today. This donation is for a new program for children who have a loved one dealing with a cancer diagnosis. We are honored to support this wonderful work. ❤️❤️❤️