http://www.dosomething.org/project/updates/feed/302758 The updates for a given project en http://www.dosomething.org/actnow/project/bear-hugs/updates/project-update-101508 <p>Two days before I got my Plum grant, my homeschool group hosted a charity yard sale to raise money for Bear Hugs. We stood on the corner with big signs and yelled "Charity Yard Sale!" at the passing cars. Whenever they turned the corner toward the sale we cheered at them. It was a lot of fun and we raised $829 in exactly 4 hours. A few more donations came trickling in after that. We were over our goal of $1600 and raised $2500! So 50 youth volunteers made 100 asthma friendly teddy bears on October 11th. We delivered the bears to the hospital on Monday, October 13th.</p> <p><a href="http://www.dosomething.org/actnow/project/bear-hugs/updates/project-update-101508">read more</a></p> Asthma Pollution Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:13:14 -0500 JacobA.Goldfeld 324806 at http://www.dosomething.org http://www.dosomething.org/actnow/project/bear-hugs/updates/project-update <p>The second Bear Hugs day on October 25th - Make A Difference Day - went great. We ended up with enough donations to make 100 instead of 75 bears so altogether we donated 325 asthma friendly teddy bears. A grand total of sixty youth volunteers made 200 of the bears at Build A Bear. 125 were donated by the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America who found out about my project online. 300 of the bears went to the Phoenix Children's Hospital and 25 were donated to the Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C.</p> <p><a href="http://www.dosomething.org/actnow/project/bear-hugs/updates/project-update">read more</a></p> Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:12:32 -0500 JacobA.Goldfeld 436970 at http://www.dosomething.org http://www.dosomething.org/actnow/project/bear-hugs/updates/project-update-0 <p>The Bear Hugs project went so well that I got two awards for it! I received </p> <p>the Governor’s Volunteer Service Award in the youth category: <a href="http://gocyf.az.gov/CYD/Documents/GVSA/8thAnnVSAWinners.pdf" title="http://gocyf.az.gov/CYD/Documents/GVSA/8thAnnVSAWinners.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://gocyf.az.gov/CYD/Documents/GVSA/8thAnnVSAWinners.pdf</a></p> <p>and the Kohl’s Kids Who Care Award (store and regional winner): <a href="http://www.kohlscorporation.com/CommunityRelations/scholarship/2009RegionalWinners.asp" title="http://www.kohlscorporation.com/CommunityRelations/scholarship/2009RegionalWinners.asp" rel="nofollow">http://www.kohlscorporation.com/CommunityRelations/scholarship/2009Regio...</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.dosomething.org/actnow/project/bear-hugs/updates/project-update-0">read more</a></p> Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:20:36 -0500 JacobA.Goldfeld 436980 at http://www.dosomething.org