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!

Be a SFSF Ambassador:
SFSF is well known in NE Ohio and SE Michigan, and although we help children and their families throughout the U.S., we need your help in spreading awareness of SFSF and our mission. You can be a SFSF Ambassador in your city and state simply by helping make our name well-known and well-supported within your community and within your circle of friends and family.

Each year, SFSF sends out an annual appeal to the 1200+ in our mailing database. However, we would like to make our annual appeal even more of a success by sharing The Foundation with those who have not yet heard of SFSF. And that's where you come in! If you would like to help us increase our supporter and donor base, we will provide you with 5-10 (or how many ever you would like) annual appeal mailers that you can then mail out to your friends and family. In it, you may choose to add a personal note on how you know of SFSF and why you support us.
 
Through this Ambassador program, we are hoping that your work on our behalf will help SFSF continue to meet its mission of helping families, spreading awareness and supporting St. Jude and other organizations who are researching for a cure.

If you are interested in becoming an Ambassador, please contact Emily Quayle.

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.

Silpada:
Amy Cashman, an independent representative for Silpada Designs Jewelry, is offering 50% of the proceeds of Silpada Jewelry sales, ordered through her, to Smiles For Sophie Forever. Anyone who schedules a catalog or home show through Amy will also be helping Smiles For Sophie Forever, plus be earning some jewelry for herself. See the jewelry catalog or contact Amy by visiting her website.

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
13500 Pearl Rd #137
Strongsville, OH 44136

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.