Blair's Tree of Hope Foundation http://blairstreeofhope.org Blair's Tree of Hope: Helping Other People Every Day Fri, 20 Jan 2012 05:19:17 +0000 en hourly 1 BTOH 5K Run/Walk http://blairstreeofhope.org/btoh-5k-runwalk/ http://blairstreeofhope.org/btoh-5k-runwalk/#comments Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:41:55 +0000 Katie Crelly http://blairstreeofhope.org/?p=306 Hello Everyone
We now officially have a date and place set for our first annual Blair’s Tree of Hope 5k Run/Walk! We hope you can join us for this wonderful event. Breakfast and lunch will be available both pre- and post- race (cash donations are appreciated). All participants will receive a race T-shirt, Bib number, and goodie bag with coupons and freebies. Parking is free as well as park admission. All proceeds go to benefit the families of terminally ill children that we strive to help every day.
  • Date: Saturday, May 19
  • Venue: Lake Rebecca Park Reserve
  • Location: Rockford, Minnesota
  • Question can be directed to Grace Rasmussen    grace.rasmussen@gmail.com
More information on the event can be found here (BTOH 5k run/walk) including the basic schedule for the day and registration cost. SuNu Wellness Center in Minnetonka is offering 50% off initial treatments to the first 100 people to register, so make sure to sign up quick!
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We are also accepting donations of postage stamps and envelopes for families to mail their cards. Most of these families are putting all their resources towards their child’s medical care and do not have the funds to mail these cards.

Donations can be sent to:

Blair’s Tree of Hope

3324 Hopkins Crossroads

Minnetonka, MN 55305

Thank you for helping make the little things a bit easier for a family in need!

]]> http://blairstreeofhope.org/cards-needed/feed/ 0 KSTP News Story http://blairstreeofhope.org/kstp-news-story/ http://blairstreeofhope.org/kstp-news-story/#comments Wed, 07 Dec 2011 19:40:20 +0000 Katie Crelly http://blairstreeofhope.org/?p=291 KSTP covered Blair’s Tree of Hope and our efforts in a 5:00 news story on Tuesday, December 5, 2011. We are all very thankful that we had such a wonderful opportunity. Below is a link for the KSTP website containing the video clip from the newscast along with the story they have posted on their website.

View the BTOH news story HERE

 

Minnetonka Couple Honors Daughter’s Memory through Nonprofit for Cancer Patients

A couple from Minnetonka is honoring their daughter’s memory by helping other families with kids who have cancer.

Tom and Kim Anderson startes Blair’s Tree of Hope, “a non profit that delivers comfort items to families whose kids have cancer. Tom, who has an extensive photography background, takes family photos which in some cases, capture final moments.

This year, the Anderson’s are helping more than forty families across Minnesota. They say their inspiration is their daughter Blair, who died of leukemia in 2007 at age 16.

 

 

 

 

]]> http://blairstreeofhope.org/kstp-news-story/feed/ 0 Photos from Thanksgiving http://blairstreeofhope.org/photos-from-thanksgiving/ http://blairstreeofhope.org/photos-from-thanksgiving/#comments Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:31:53 +0000 Katie Crelly http://blairstreeofhope.org/?p=264 Below are some of the photos of our wonderful volunteers who helped to serve meals to between 150 and 175 families on Thanksgiving Day.

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We want to extend a special thank you to the following people who donated this meal: Jim Wagner, Wagner’s Drive Inns, Lampson & Tews, Inc., Sysco Foods of MN, Baker Sales, St. Louis Park Lions Club. We wish to help brighten the day for these individuals and provide them with more reasons to give thanks!

]]> http://blairstreeofhope.org/thanksgiving-day/feed/ 0 Free and Easy way to raise funds for Blair’s Tree of Hope http://blairstreeofhope.org/free-and-easy-way-to-raise-funds-for-blair%e2%80%99s-tree-of-hope/ http://blairstreeofhope.org/free-and-easy-way-to-raise-funds-for-blair%e2%80%99s-tree-of-hope/#comments Mon, 07 Nov 2011 18:55:42 +0000 Katie Crelly http://blairstreeofhope.org/?p=242 This is going to be the easiest thing we’ve ever asked you to do!

Blair’s Tree of Hope is signed up with GoodSearch.com and now every time you shop online or search the internet, a donation will be made to our charity.

Here’s how:

GoodSearch.com works with more than 2,500 stores (including Target, Apple, Petsmart etc…) and every time you purchase something, a percentage will be donated to us! And, even more exciting, GoodSearch also offers over 100,000 of the most up-to-date coupons and free shipping offers so you can save money at the same time. It’s win-win!

GoodSearch is a Yahoo powered search engine which makes a donation to us each time you do a search.

Join the rest of our community in using these sites to help us easily raise money for our mission. Get started by going to GoodSearch.com/BTOH, click on Support Us, and start shopping!

Also, be sure to tell all your friends!

]]> http://blairstreeofhope.org/free-and-easy-way-to-raise-funds-for-blair%e2%80%99s-tree-of-hope/feed/ 0 United Way Campaign http://blairstreeofhope.org/united-way-campaign/ http://blairstreeofhope.org/united-way-campaign/#comments Tue, 13 Sep 2011 21:26:59 +0000 Katie Crelly http://blairstreeofhope.org/?p=220 When you are working with your employer on the United Way Campaign did you know that you can select Blair’s Tree of Hope Non-Profit – EIN#26-0584185 to be your Charity of choice.  When completing the form just write our name in with our ID # 26-0584185!

It’s as easy as that! Share this information with your co-workers as well. Thank you for helping us to Help Other People Everyday!

For your convenience:

Click here for a link to the United Way Workplace Campaign website…

And here for a link to find a local United Way organization…

And here for a link to the Greater Twin Cities United Way page!

(there is a button for the Campaign along the top and bottom of the Greater Twin Cities United Way webpage)

]]> http://blairstreeofhope.org/united-way-campaign/feed/ 0 Inspiration http://blairstreeofhope.org/157/ http://blairstreeofhope.org/157/#comments Sat, 06 Aug 2011 04:26:58 +0000 Kim Anderson http://blairstreeofhope.org/?p=157 “Anticipate good things will happen, keep your mind positive and it will amaze you.” C Pulsifer

]]> http://blairstreeofhope.org/157/feed/ 0 Change of Address http://blairstreeofhope.org/change-of-address/ http://blairstreeofhope.org/change-of-address/#comments Wed, 03 Aug 2011 02:31:36 +0000 Kim Anderson http://blairstreeofhope.org/?p=137 Blair’s Tree of Hope’s mailing address has changed.  Our new address is 3324 Hopkins Crossroads, Minnetonka, MN 55305.

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