It's been crazy busy around here with Kids 4 Kures and that's a great thing. I am so thankful! I think we live in the best place ever! People in our community are so supportive. Everybody's been affected by cancer in someway and it's not fair and we are all working hard to fight cancer. I am so lucky to be able to meet some really amazing people. Oh yeah! This is part of my staff - my Holly dog.
Kids 4 Kures will be at the Central Coast Cancer Challenge on Saturday, August 7, 2011 to support the fight for cancer. Proceeds of our card sales will go to Jack's Helping Hand and Cancer Well Fit. For more information about the event visit http://centralcoastcancerchallenge.com/. I challenge my mom and her friends to form a team and enter the event. Hopefully, she'll read this post and get to work!
Wow! This weekend I’m in Santa Cruz with Mia. It’s really cool here, but that’s another story. I got a phone call really (too) early this morning from my mom. She woke me up because the interview I did with the San Luis Obispo Tribune is in the SUNDAY paper. Here's the post. http://tinyurl.com/6eaku2a Pretty cool, right! Woot, woot!
Kids 4 Kures will be at Farmers Market (if it doesn’t rain) on Thursday, March 31st at The Blade Runner Salon’s booth selling Kids 4 Kures cards. Stop by and get info about their upcoming Gear Your Heart To Give Cut-A-Thon. They are supporting a local family’s courageous fight against breast cancer. Please send your love and support to the Gear Your Heart To Give Cut-A-Thon. For more info go to http://tinyurl.com/4ntbhx8
Kids 4 Kures donated $2000 to the Hearst Cancer Resource Center. I got to meet with Alan Iftiniuk, the CEO of French Hospital, Bev Kirkhart, the director of The Hearst Cancer Resource Center and Megan Maloney, media relations and communications specialist of French Hospital today when we presented our check.
Kids 4 Kures will be at the benefit BBQ/Silent Auction at St. Patricks School in Arroyo Grande this Saturday, March 12th from 2 to 5 p.m. Buy a pack of Kids 4 Kures greeting cards to support Laney. She is currently undergoing treatment for kidney cancer at UCSF Children’s Medical Center. For more information visit www.letssupportlaney.com.
Hey there! it’s me, Emily. I thought it'd be fun to write about the fun and funny stuff that happens to me. To bring you up to speed, I am a businesswoman and I am 12 years old! No, really. I really am!
I am also in the 7th grade at Laguna Middle School in San Luis Obispo and I am an acrobatic gymnast and I train at Central Coast Gymnastics.
Back to the businesswoman part! I started this business when I was 10. It wasn’t my plan, but my 5th grade project kinda grew wings. My grandma had recently lost her battle with pancreatic cancer (after she had breast cancer and leukemia) and I know a lot of people who have been affected by this yucky disease, so I wanted to do something about it!
So, with the help of my dad, who’s really creative and my mom, who knows about public relations stuff, and a really good friend who is an artist and a cancer survivor, Kids 4 Kures was created (and yes, I spelled cures wrong and it kinda stuck).
We design and sell greeting cards and raise money to support charities. My original plan was to sell a few boxes of cards to friends and family members so that I could raise a few hundred dollars, and get a good grade on my project. Next thing you know I was talking to attorneys about turning Kids 4 Kures into a nonprofit 501 c 3 organization. For those of you who think my parents called the shots, or did the project for me, think again.
Ask anyone in my family and they’ll tell you, “It’s Emily’s world and we all just live in it.” So, let’s get that straight!
It's been great to learn about business and raise money to support cancer charities.
So, Kids 4 Kures has a Board of Directors - great huh! Too bad I can't be on it. I am the CEO of my company (creative enthusiastic organizer - that was my idea), but can't be on the Board of Directors (or BoD). What's that all about? I know I sound tweaked about it, but It's not that big of a deal, it just is kinda funny to me! So for now, I'm gonna find out about Board of Directors and what they do. More later!
