How You Can Help

Volunteering:
We are so grateful to all the wonderful friends, family, and strangers that have unselfishly given of their time, talent, and love to support us from the beginning of our journey. We know we could never do it alone and we greatly appreciate all the volunteers who have helped us get this far. If you would like to volunteer, please contact us and let us know what you would like to do or how you can help.

Thanks again!

iGive:
iGive is a great way to help Smiles For Sophie Forever by doing something that you already do – shopping online! iGive is a network of members, worthy causes, online merchants, and Web sites, brought together to enable shoppers to list and support their favorite worthy causes through online shopping. Right now, over 200,000 members are raising money for over 30,000 organizations in the U.S. and Canada - just by shopping at over 680 brand-name participating online stores! Up to 26% of each purchase is donated to the member's designated cause!

Please join iGive and help Smiles For Sophie Forever in its mission to find a cure for pediatric brain cancer and to help other families fighting this battle.

Cure Childhood Cancer – Raise Awareness and Funding:
People Against Childhood Cancer and CureSearch are sponsoring this petition to the news media to create a major media event and/or TV special to raise awareness and funding for childhood cancer. Their goal is 1 million signatures. Please take a moment to visit the site and sign the petition – it only takes a few minutes but could someday help millions of kids.

Barefoot Books:
Lori (Hawkins) Hachenski has so graciously volunteered to host an ongoing fundraiser through Barefoot Books. Lori currently resides in Riverview, MI but grew up in Trenton and graduated from high school with Emily’s sister, Sarah. After starting a family and coming across Barefoot Books, Lori decided to become a representative for their wonderful products and has offered to donate 15% of sales to Smiles For Sophie Forever.

In order for your purchase to qualify, you must purchase the books by following this link to Lori’s site. If you choose to purchase the books locally from Lori, please mention you are doing so to help support Smiles For Sophie Forever, as she will keep track of local sales as well.

To browse through available products, get information on events or contact Lori, please visit her site at: http://lorihachenski.barefootbooks.com.

Four-B Vending LLC:
Bobi and David Biederman and Aaron and Debbie Biederman, of Four-B Vending LLC, a newly established vending machine company, have also graciously volunteered to support Smiles For Sophie Forever. Bobi and David, and their two children, are from Avon Lake and learned about Sophie’s story through flyers at National City Bank in the Avon Lake Giant Eagle. Bobi was then again reminded of Sophie’s story at the Avon Lake Early Childhood PTA, as she signed up to bake for an event. Aaron is David’s brother, and he and his wife, Debbie, live in Bedford, Ohio with their three children. In creating their company, they “believe that any caring and successful business should give back to the community and to charitable organizations.” They chose Smiles For Sophie Forever as one of the charitable organizations to support and we are grateful for their generosity.

They are a new company and at this time have five vending machines in the local area:

Strongsville School of Music – opening in October 2008
Check back for location information

If you happen to be at any of these locations, please stop by for a drink or a snack, knowing that a percentage of sales will benefit Smiles For Sophie Forever.

Spoon Me:
Spoon Me, an all natural frozen yogurt and smoothie store, just opened on May 13 in the Promenade at Crocker Park in Westlake, OH. They participate in a program called Keep the Change, in which all donations and tips are donated to a charity of their choice. From their opening in May through the end of June, they have chosen to support Smiles For Sophie Forever. So, if you're looking for a something new to try and are in the area, please stop by for a yogurt or smoothie and make a donation or leave a tip!! You can also find Spoon Me on Facebook and if you become a fan, you will find a coupon on their page. Thanks so much to Spoon Me for supporting Smiles For Sophie Forever.