2011 Coming To A Close!

Dear Donors, Friends, and Volunteers,

2011 is coming to an end which is really a new beginning with 2012 picking up where it left off. We had such a successful year donating over 840 cases with your help in donating not only funds, but your time. This is no small feat! CFC would be nowhere without the generosity of our donors and volunteers.

2012 is exciting as there are great changes on the horizon! We will be getting a face lift on our website very soon. We will be having fundraising and donation opportunities as we work towards the goal of adding a second cancer center to our donation list. We want to make sure we do it when the time is right and we can adequately serve them.

What do we need to expand? Funding first and foremost. We need to be able to fund the fabric that we put into ready to sew kits. Whether you can help us with funds or donate actual fabric (fabric specifications are available under our donation tab) we appreciate it! Volunteers are our second but equally important part of the equation. We need to increase our pool of volunteers so that we can make the additional cases to supply the new location. We need people willing to help staff events for new sewing volunteers and help us fundraise.

If you feel called to help in anyway, please email us at casesforcheer@gmail.com.

We thank everyone involved in making 2011 a great donation year. We know in our hearts that we are bringing cheer to those who need a little extra love. And we hear our Christmas themed cases are a hit with the kids this year! We are so excited!

Wine Tour Fundraiser... Success!!!!

We just hosted our first wine tour fundraiser and what a success it was! We had a beautiful day in Amador County visiting 3 Plymouth Wineries, which were so gracious to host our large group! A special thank you to Dobra Zemlja , Sobon Family Winery, and Montevina Terra D'Oro. These wonderful wineries allowed our limo bus from Neumann Limosine ,who gave us a great rate, to come in and slightly invade their tasting rooms. We had a wonderful picnic lunch at Dobra, which was sponsored by Raleys and Nugget Markets. Thank you to both markets for helping us make this a tasty and successful day!

We are so thankful to all the wonderful participants who made the day so fun!!! We will be planning another wine tour in spring, so if you are interested please email us at casesforcheer@gmail.com We would love to have you join us!

Exciting News!!!

Here at Cases For Cheer, Inc. we feel so truly blessed by those we have met, come into contact with, and have been helped by. Our latest blessing comes in the form of a Public Relations firm in Sacramento, California by the name of Mering Carson.

Mering Carson held a create-a-thon, where they accept applications from non-profits and then do a pro-bono 24-hour miracle in terms of helping these non-profits with marketing in every kind of medium. The miracle for Cases For Cheer, is they have helped us Re-Vamp our website. If you can't tell, I am a plug and play kind of girl, and they have taken that into consideration and found us a new format, a new brand and marketing plan!

The staff at Mering Carson were so genuine, warm and talented. We are so excited and grateful for their time, their sleepless night, and sharing their expertise and talents with us. When we walked in and saw this place, it was so fascinating! Madison's eyes were huge and she is so excited for this experience!!!

Madison started Cases to help others, it never dawned on us, that she would in anyway benefit, but these life experiences she is gaining are priceless. We thank the whole design team, production team, I cannot remember all the titles, but EVERYONE at Mering Carson.

Please keep checking back, after all is completed casesforcheer.org will have a new look and more ways to help us, help others!

CFC Has a New Sponsor!!!

CFC is so blessed to have a new sponsor!!! Wendy Hoag and Moms In Motion are sponsoring us this fall/winter season!!! Woo Hoo!!! Moms in Motion is generously offering to help us with fabric, volunteers and whatever else we may need to keep CFC growing and flourishing!!! Thank you Moms In Motion!!!

As always when we have a locally run business that is helping us, we like to do what we can to help them in return, so I urge you to think of Moms In Motion when you think fitness. If you are looking for a women's fitness group, please check them out! They have groups from walking and running to triathalons and core fitness strength training!!! Curious? Go check out their meet and greet October 5th at the Running Zone in Elk Grove at:

8470 Elk Grove Blvd., Elk Grove, CA. 95758 at 7pm

Summer is Fading, but Cases is Just Getting Started!

First of All, we need to thank those that make our success possible!!! We have been so blessed an honored to be supported by, literally the best label company in the world!!! Widby Labels has once again donated the labels we need for inside each of our cases!!! This company has been a generous supporter of CFC since the beginning!!! We know many of you out there sew and place labels on your creations, and we ask that you support those that support us! Please contact Widby Labels for your next order! We can say you will get good quality labels, great turn around time, and the best service ever! Check out their Site !!!

Summer is fading, but Cases is gearing up for the holiday season!!! We will have kits, kits, and more kits for our volunteers!!! We hope to get some seasonal prints in, and already have a few Christmas kits ready to go! We are currently still donating 70 cases a month so we still need you to volunteer to sew, and we are always in need of funding, so please think of Cases when you think about your charitable donations for the year. If you have Paypal, you can donate easily by clicking the button at the top right hand corner of our page!!!

We also have some FUNdraisers that we are planning, and we hope you are a part of!!! Details will be sent in our newsletter, on Facebook, and right here as soon as they are pinned down!!!

Sign up for our newsletter by emailing us at casesforcheer@gmail.com and put newsletter in the subject line! We look forward to hearing from you!!!

Dear 16 Year Old Me

We strongly encourage Adults to watch this video and if you feel it is appropriate to share it with your children to fight Melanoma.

http://http://www.thatvideosite.com/video/dear_16yearold_me

Time is flying!!!

Time is flying and I cannot believe the year is half way finished!!! My oh my how busy we have been! We have held a couple of sewing classes at the Elk Grove Country Sewing Center! They have been so generous in donating their time to our organization!!! If you are interested in attending a sewing event, we will be holding one late summer and then again in fall.

We have had continued support from our regular volunteers which has been the life's blood of Cases For Cheer. Without them we would be still at 15 cases a month, but due to our donors, and our volunteers who have been so loyal we have been able to continuously provide the patients of UC Davis Cancer center with 70 cases a month!!!

We are also going to be holding a garage sale, in July to help raise funds to keep us running so if you have any thing you have been wanting to clean out that is of saleable condition, please contact Jenn at casesforcheer@gmail.com

April Sewing Circle!!!

Come Join us at the Country Sewing Center in Elk Grove!!! We thank the Country Sewing Center for the continued support in allowing us to use their facility for expanding our sewing circle and completing cases!!!

As you know we now donate 70 cases a month!!! We are in need of fabric, sewing volunteers, and more!!! If you are interested in helping Cases please do not hesitate to contact us!

Sewing Circle Date: April 10th
Time: 1-4pm
Location: 9414 Elk Grove Florin Road, Elk Grove, CA 95624
RSVP: casesforcheer@gmail.com

What to bring: Sewing Volunteers, please bring your machines, sewing kits, and enthusiasm! Fabric kits, instructions, and ironing boards and irons will be provided!

Catching up!!!

Whew! I had no idea it had been so long since I have posted! Idle posting however, does not mean we have not been working hard!!! Cases has officially increased our monthly donation to 70 cases a month! We have begun splitting them between the Pediatric and Adult infusion centers and have added the radiation department as well! We are so excited by the support we are receiving from our volunteers and donors to keep us going strong!!! I think back to July 2009, when we took our first delivery of 15 cases, and I am amazed by how we have grown. It is so exciting, and fulfilling. We are hearing from patients occasionally, and that really keeps our focus, we ARE making a difference!!!

While our cases are making a difference for the patients in a tangible way, we also wanted to help in a way we can reach many more. Cases for Cheer, Inc, has a team for the Elk Grove Relay For Life. We ask you to join our team, or to sponsor us!!! We definitely need to grow our team in order to be able to make the 24 hour requirement for the Relay! Please Join us!!! Click on the link below and choose Join a Team! Choose Cases For Cheer, Inc!!!

http://main.acsevents.org/site/TRsid=33294&type=fr_informational&pg=informational&fr_id=31465

If you have trouble with the link, please google Relay For Life Elk Grove, CA and the event site will come up.

70 Case Milestone

Cases For Cheer, Inc., is excited to announce that we are now up to donating 70 cases a month! We donated 70 in December and again this month!!! Just think a year and a half ago we started this with only 15 a month going to the infusion center!

Madison was able to hand them out today! She went in and met some girls approximately her age and some younger, and even a little boy. Our latest fabrics with peace signs are going over like hotcakes! We hope to find more of that fabric! We are still really low on boy fabrics, so if anyone wants to make any donations of boy fabrics or money towards boy fabrics, please contact us!

We are also pleased to announce that we will be working with our first Girl Scout group helping them with their sewing badge as they help us create cases! Thank you to Country Sewing Center for allowing us to use your facility!!!

Also We will be posting several classes coming up at the Running Zone on Elk Grove Blvd!!! Thank you Mimi and the Running Zone!

New Instructional Video!

New Video!!!

Woo Hoo!!! Thank you to the Bry family, we now have an instructional video to teach people how to make our cases!!! Do you live too far to attend a class? Would you like to make cases for us? This video will help!!! We will be posting the instructions and the video soon, if I can figure out the video part!!! The video will also be available on DVD's in the next couple of weeks!!! If you are interested, please email or call us, and we will get your address and mail it out, or once I figure out this video posting thing, you can watch it online and read the instructions there as well!

Thank you all so much!! We look forward to expanding our sewing Circle!!!

Sewing Opportunity

Dear friends,

I am so sorry for the late notice regarding this class! Our youngest daughter will be going in for surgery for a tethered spinal cord this week, and I have been a little preoccupied! I do apologize, Cases is still active, still going strong, in fact today we are donating 60 cases, a record for us!!!

Our next class is a special one. Country Sewing Center has allowed us to do an all day drop in class at their facility at 9414 Elk Grove Florin Rd Elk Grove, CA 95624. The class will be this Saturday, November 13th from 11am to 4pm. Come for all or stay for some! We will provide the fabric kits, and you bring the machine. If you cannot bring your machine, please don't let that stop you from joining us!!! We will be bringing a couple extras, so come on down!!!

Thank you all for your support!!! We are so blessed to have you all, Thank you!!!

Freda B. Runyon Foundation

We at Cases For Cheer, Inc. would like to thank the Freda B. Runyon Foundation, for a generous grant! They had heard about Cases from the Elk Grove Citizen article. We are so thankful that they then took their time and energies to contact us, and qualify us for their grant.

The Freda B. Runyon Foundation is out of El Dorado, CA. The foundation in honor of Ms. Runyon is carrying on her passion of helping non-profits, help others. We were so fortunate that they picked us! For more information on the Freda B. Runyon Foundation, please contact below:

6140 Quartz Drive
El Dorado, CA 95623
fbrfoundation@att.net

Thank you so much!!!

Many Thanks!!!

We have been so fortunate that people are seeing our cause and recognizing it's need and validity! We have so many to thank for the last few months. We are blessed to be the recipient of such generosity. It is astounding!

CFC would like to thank Kim Anderson and Fusion Fitness and Dance. They put on a wonderful fundraiser and donated 100% of the funds to CFC. Thank you to Fusion Fitness, Kim Anderson, Erica Higashi, and all of the wonderful and generous participants!

Also we are making cases and having to replenish our supplies, so Don Widby with Widby Labels has come to our rescue by donating 1ooo tags for the inside of our cases!!! We thank Mr. Widby for such a generous donation!!!

Our volunteers... we won't name them because most enjoy working under the radar and doing what they do for the cause without the external recognition. CFC would not be where we are today without the dedication of our volunteers, who get the word out, sew our cases, and help us raise the funds to keep CFC going!!! We are blessed to have such a wonderful group!!! Thank you!!!!!!

EG Mom's Club. Elk Grove Mom's Club, so generously made CFC their philanthropy for a dinner and fundraiser they held. Their members so generously made a donation, that will go on to make many cases, bringing smiles to many. Thank you so much!!!

Finally, To just remind everyone why we do this... We received a letter this week (with a donation) from a couple who are often at UC Davis Cancer Center for treatment. They wrote to tell us how much it meant to them that we make and donate these cases. They said we bring smiles to many, even if we do not hear from them. Remember, we do this to bring cheer and love to those who may be low on hope, low on love, and low on happiness. These people are courageously fighting for their lives, if we can bring but one smile, we have done much. Thank you everyone for helping us bring these smiles, and the love to these courageous people.

Got Ink??? CFC Can recycle it to save!!!

Got Ink? Well.... Empty ink cartridges we should say? Donate them to us!!! We can take used ink cartridges off your hands and recycle them to save $$ on our office supplies such as ink, paper, etc! This is a great way to help CFC without having to spend any money!!!! Call us to pick them up, or mail them to our PO Box and help a great cause!!! (if we do say so ourselves!)

Catching Up!!!

With the start of school, and a baby turning one, we have been laying low for a bit! That is not to mean we haven't been sewing, delivering etc!!! Cases For Cheer, is still going strong, and stronger than ever before! When Cases first began we started by delivering about 20 cases a month to the adult infusion center. Since April of this year we have been going like gangbusters!!! First upping our deliveries to 30, then 40 and now 50! These 50 a month are being split between the adult and pediatric infusion centers now! We are so excited and thankful, and inspired! We cannot thank our supporters or volunteers enough!!!

We have some upcoming events we want to keep reminding everyone about!!! Please join us!!!

Friday, September 24th, Fusion Fitness and Dance is holding a Zumbathon! Come Zumba for a great cause!!! Cost is $15 and proceeds go to benefit, CFC!!! Check-in Time is 6pm and class starts at 630, ending at 8pm!!! Get Fit for a Cause!!! Fusion Fitness and Dance is located at 9660 Elk Grove-Florin Road next to Skips Music! Call or email to sign up today!!!


Mark your calendars now for this November 13th sewing event!!! Country Sewing Center is hosting an all day sewing event during it's preview sale!!! Come Sew with us, stay for some, or stay for all! It will be running from 10am till 4pm!!! Material kits will be provided, please bring your machines and sewing kits if possible!!!

Interested and not sure? Come to the sewing event, see the product we are putting out there, and remember, no cases ever get sold! These are solely for donation to Cancer Centers and Cancer patients.

Many Thanks

CFC has been blessed by many wonderful people and businesses. It is these people that make CFC's success possible!!!

First of all, Megan Watt and Scarlett Salon and Spa, hosted a very successful fundraiser! This fundraiser has made it possible to make many more cases and keep us going! Woo Hoo!!!

It's A Snap Photo Booth! Thank you Taran for a wonderful addition to our fundraiser by allowing us use of our photo booth! There were certain people we couldn't keep out of it, who shall remain nameless! LOL!!!

Thank you to all of our Vendors!!! Kathy Wend-Bell with Creative Memories, Teresa Crable with Tupperware, Becky Garrett with her Jewelry, Kim Allen with Gold Canyon Candles, and last but not least, Erin and Kirsten with You Bow Girl! All the contact information for these vendors will be listed on our, We Couldn't Do It Without page! Don't miss it!!!

Thank you to the Country Sewing Center for hosting a very successful Sewing Circle!!! We look forward to our next event in November!!!

Please keep checking back, more information will be coming soon on future events!!! Also if you would like to be on our monthly email newsletter list please send us at note at casesforcheer@gmail.com you can opt out at any time.

New Addition to The Scarlett Fundraiser!!!

You will not want to miss this event!!! It's A Snap Photo Booth will be donating the proceeds from your photo booth fun!!! Come get pics of your new do, bring the kids and take pics for fun!!!

Pastries will be donated by Raley's/Bel Air, we have great local businesses participating with great deals for this event only!!! Don't miss it!

Get the kids hair cut for school, get your hair cut, and pass this event on to your friends!!!

Call for your appointment today! (916) 686-8448!

Scarlett Fundraiser is Growing!!!

This is an event you don't want to miss!!! Scarlett Salon and Spa on August 14th (and other times as well!) is the place to be!!! Come out for a fresh look! Hair cuts cost only $20 (regularly $40!) and Brow Waxes only $10 (regularly $15)! Top end stylists at a bargain price is one thing, but Scarlett donating 100% of the proceeds, is an even sweeter deal!!!

But Wait!!! There is More!!! Come see our vendors, who will also be donating a portion of the day's proceeds:

Hand Crafted Jewelry by Rebecca Garrett, You Bow Girls, Creative Memories, Fusion Fitness and Dance, Tupperware and more!!!

Morning Pastries will be provided by Bel Air Markets!

Call 916-686-8448 to make your appointment today & mention Cases For Cheer Fundraiser!!!