CHERUBS New CDH Family Support Fund

CDH Family Support Fund – this fund covers all support services, including our web sites, newsletters, conferences, New Member Packets, get-togethers and other general operating costs. CHERUBS does a lot for CDH families and the CDH community and we incur quite a few costs during so. Just 1 newsletter mailing is now over $3000 for printing and posting with so many members. Our conferences are also expensive. Our monthly expenses are several hundred dollars for ink, postage, web site hosting fees, fax number, etc. It takes a lot to fund an organization with almost 3000 members. Remember, no one at CHERUBS gets paid and we have no office so every penny directly helps CDH families. And all of our services are FREE so we do charge membership fees. Only 2% of our members donate annually so we depend on public donations quite a bit. And the occasional grant as well.

• $1 will cover 1 2-pocket folder
• $1 will cover 1 copy of our Parent Reference Guide
• $5 will cover 1 newsletter printing and US postage
• $10 will cover 1 New Member Packet
• $50 will cover our annual non-profit state registration fee
• $50 will cover envelope costs for 1 year
• $50 will cover our volunteer software for 1 month
• $100 will cover staples, paper clips, glue, etc for 1 year
• $100 will sponsor 1 hospital with CDH info for 1 year
• $125 will cover web site hosting fees for 1 month
• $300 will cover 1 local get-together
• $400 will cover printing 5000 brochures
• $500 will cover outside programming fees
• $2000 will cover non-newsletter postage fees for 1 year
• $3000 will cover 1 newsletter printing and mailing
• $5000 will cover 1 international member conference

CHERUBS Valentine's Day Fundraisers

This year, several of our members convinced their local stores to sell Valentine's Day posters in honor / memory of their cherubs to raise money for CHERUBS. Below are photos from just a few of these fundraisers! The photos below are fundraisers in memory of Caleb Cox and in honor of Logan Wagner.

The best thing about this fundraiser is they raised TONS of Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Awareness!!!! Along with the "valentines" displayed were posters explaining what CDH is! Thank you to all the families, friends and establishments that made our first annual CHERUBS Valentine's Day Fundraiser a success!!!

Jeremiah's Car Show

Above are photos from Jeremiah's car show for CDH. Saturday September 20th 2008 in Ashley, Ohio.

We raised $830 total through open donations to register cars and several raffles. The main raffle being a fully restored 1940 pedal car, compliments of Jeremiah's Uncle Bryon and family friend Bud Lemley. The parts to the car were donated to us by Tom and Sindy Kohler of Cardington. We also had birthday cake for Jeremiah and a balloon launch. Proceeds were split between CHERUBS and Nationwide Children's Hospital's J4 NICU.

Sarah Deskins - sdeskins@cherubs-cdh.org
Ohio State Representative & Jeremiah’s Mom