Winter 2009 - Arkansas Children's Hospital

CHILDREN’S MIRACLE NETWORKWalmart executives (from left) CeliaSwanson, Greg Johnston, JohnnieDobbs and Pat Curran, along withKathy Cox and Regan Eaton from theWal-Mart Foundation treated the associatesat Walmart Return Center #8098in Bentonville to a steak lunch for theiroutstanding efforts during a specialfundraising campaign in May.Walmart and Sam’s Clubs, Log A Load For Kids and Credit Unions for KidsTop 3 Sponsors Finish Big in 2008Each year, for the past 20 years, national sponsors for Children’sMiracle Network (CMN) raise money at the local level with fundraisingactivities led by employees and supported by members of the community.While the total amount of 2008 fundraising efforts for all Children’sMiracle Network national sponsors will not be final until a later date,we can highlight the efforts of the top three fundraising groups for2008: Walmart and Sam’s Clubs, Log A Load For Kids and CreditUnions for Kids.The 2008 fundraising total for Walmart and Sam’s Clubs, representing140 locations in the ACH market, topped $1 million. A good portionof those funds are raised one dollar at a time, through cardstocksales and other activities, demonstrating the compounding power ofmany, many small gifts.Walmart is designating its money to fund an endowed chair inneonatology.Log A Load of Arkansasfinished 2008 with a total of$373,000 raised through sixevents. The group is currentlyraising funds toward amulti-year pledge to supportthe new trauma center in theSouth Wing expansion currentlybeing built at ACH.Log A Load is a national giving program that brings togetherloggers and other people involved in forestry products businessesto raise funds for local children’s hospitals associated with CMN.Credit Unions for Kids, consisting of 28 credit unions inArkansas, Shreveport, La., and Texarkana, Texas, donated$136,019 in 2008. The funds were raised through golf tournaments,cardstock sales, bake sales, Wii game console drawings andholiday card sales.The total fundraising efforts of all CMN sponsors will be featuredin the next issue of ACHiever.Children’s Miracle Network is a non-profit organization dedicatedto helping kids by raising funds for 170 children’s hospitalsacross North America. Children’s Miracle Network funds raisedin Arkansas, north Louisiana, east Texas and east Oklahoma benefitACH.16This “Hug a Logger”drawing was made byACH patient, KarliKellum, who hasattended several Log ALoad events with herfamily.Associates at Telcoe Federal Credit Union, one of the 28credit unions raising money for ACH, raised more than$22,000 in 2008 from various fundraising activities andrecently presented a check to ACH Foundation representativeKim DuPas (second from left). Those attending thepresentation were (from left): Holly Lehman, KarlaBaker, Kristy Vest and Pam Hendrick.