December 2015 Updates
Happy New Year! Here are our December 2015 Updates! Our 2015 Holiday Care Package Campaign was an amazing success! Over the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays we were able to provide 440 care packages to inpatient families at Sparrow Hospital. Our care packages provided soups and pastas, cookies, muffins, bars, treats and more to ensure families did not need to miss a meal while their child was inpatient. Handmade prayer shawls, slippers and coffee kozees were generously donated to help make their stay more comfortable. THANK YOU to our amazing holiday sponsors and crafters for helping us bring the holidays to the hospital. Please stay tuned for information on how you can be a […]
PRESS RELEASE: Princess Alli Foundation to deliver 160 care packages to Sparrow Hospital this Thanksgiving
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Princess Alli Foundation to deliver 160 care packages to Sparrow Hospital this Thanksgiving Lansing, MI – Princess Alli Foundation will be providing care packages to 160 pediatric families at Sparrow Hospital in Lansing, MI this Thanksgiving weekend. Each care package will provide much-needed food and toiletry items to caregivers, which typically includes one or both of the parents of the patient, to ensure their basic nutrition and hygiene needs are met. Says Melanie Russcher, Founder and CEO of Princess Alli Foundation: “It is not uncommon for caregivers to remain at the bedside of their child for the duration of their hospital stay, more often than not missing […]
November 2015 Updates
Hello friends! Here are our November 2015 Updates. We delivered our 1000th care package to Sparrow Hospital on October 21! We were so excited to hit this milestone, and so very thankful for your help <3 Here’s to the next 1000! Holiday Care Package Campaign Update! We are excited to have 11 days sponsored – four days over Thanksgiving weekend and 7 days leading up to Christmas week! We have been busy shopping to get everything ready for Thanksgiving! Thank you soo much for your help! We will be wrapping up our Yankee Candle fundraiser at the end of November! The Yankee Candle Company will give the Princess Alli Foundation 40% of all sales […]
Six Months in Heaven
Today is a very emotional day for us – as of today our beautiful Allison Ruth has spent six months in Heaven. It has been a hard six months, and compared to the ten short months we had her with us it seems to have been unusually long. We miss her. We miss her sweet smile, her beautiful eyes, and her giggles. We miss her cuddles and her kisses. We miss how much she loved and cared for people. We are so heartbroken to have lost her. But we are soo proud! Proud of who she was and who she taught us to be. Proud of how she inspired us to begin […]
2015 Olivet Fireman’s Festival
The Princess Alli Foundation had an amazing time at the 2015 Olivet Fireman’s Festival! Our goal for participating in this year’s festival was to raise awareness of our mission to support the families of children with illnesses in memory of Allison Ruth Russcher. We were able to do so much more than that! We are excited to announce that the generous people of Olivet helped us raise enough money to sponsor another day for our Holiday Care Package Campaign! We are ecstatic to be one day closer to our goal of providing ELEVEN DAYS of extra-special holiday care packages to the families with inpatient children over the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays! THANK YOU […]
July Updates
We have had a busy few weeks here at the Princess Alli Foundation! Here are our July Updates! We applied for, and received, our 501(c)(3) public charity status at the end of June. With our determination letter in-hand we have been able to begin working on grants for different projects on our dream list! We will continue looking for new funding opportunities this summer. We have been busy preparing for the Olivet Firefighters Association’s Annual Fireman’s Festival, which is Friday July 24 and Saturday, July 25. We will have a booth set up (our first!) downtown on Saturday with snacks and a few fundraiser items for sale. We will also […]
Vendors are Needed for our Holiday Care Package Campaign
VENDORS ARE NEEDED FOR OUR HOLIDAY CARE PACKAGE CAMPAIGN The Princess Alli Foundation is a 501(c)(3) public charity based out of Olivet, MI. We bring care packages with food and toiletry items to the families of inpatient children at Sparrow Hospital in memory of Allison Ruth Russcher. Being inpatient during the holidays can be very hard on families. This year, the Princess Alli Foundation would like to make sure pediatric families at Sparrow receive extra special care packages with food, toiletries, and small treats to help brighten their spirits. We are looking for local organizations, Artisans, and business owners that can help us bring the holidays to the hospital for […]
Progress! The First Two Months
The Princess Alli Foundation has made great progress in the first two months since it was formed! Here’s an recap of what we’ve been up to: On May 26, 2015 our Articles of Incorporation were accepted and filed by the State of Michigan, making the Princess Alli Foundation a registered nonprofit corporation. In June we held our first official Board Meeting as a corporation and adopted our Bylaws and put our operational procedures in place. This was a HUGE step towards our 501(c)(3) public charity classification. We’ve spent countless hours DREAMING BIG – there are so many things we want to do to help the families of children with illnesses in […]
Help Us Bring the Holidays to the Hospital
This year, the Princess Alli Foundation wants to bring the holidays to the hospital through a Holiday Care Package Campaign! {Click Here for a printable flyer} Having an inpatient child is very hard. Being inpatient over the holidays is even harder. This year, we would like to provide care packages to Sparrow Hospital families for the entire Thanksgiving weekend and all of Christmas Week – ELEVEN DAYS TOTAL! We’d like these care packages to be extra special to help bring the holidays to the hospital for these families. We will be providing warm food choices, festive treats, and small gifts in all care packages. We are looking for families, groups, […]
Supporting Families: The First Two Weeks
It’s been two weeks since the Princess Alli Foundation began supporting families at Sparrow Hospital in Lansing, MI. What an amazing experience these first two weeks have been! On May 6 we delivered our first 40 care packages. Our RNICU families received water bottles, granola bars, peanuts, a pack of gum, and gel window clings to decorate the cribs and isolettes. We also provided a basket full of toiletries for the moms that spend their days in the unit with their newborns. PEDS and PICU families received granola bars, peanuts and gum in their bags. Why the difference? PEDS and PICU families have access to “pantries” that Sparrow Hospital generously stocks for them. These […]
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