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| 2017: A Year in Review Here is what YOU made possible in 2017!
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Thanks to YOU, Lucy's Love Bus: - Provided 77 new children with individual grants for integrative therapies, and continued to fund the therapies of over 100 LLB kids, including: 4 nutrition consultations, 4 pieces of special equipment, 4 wigs, 10 reiki sessions, 14 fertility preservation appointments, 14 sign language lessons, 16 cheerleading practices, 21 aromatherapy/essential oil sessions, 25 art therapy sessions, 36 days of camp, 40 acupuncture sessions, 45 yoga lessons, 50 naturopathy units, 50 weeks of adaptive or recreational sports, 61 personal training sessions, 83 gymnastics classes, 102 therapeutic horseback riding lessons, 131 massages, 166 dance classes, 272 weeks of gym membership, 285 music therapy sessions, and 296 swimming lessons, ... for a total of 1810 units of service from January through December!
- Brought music, yoga, and massage to 563 patients, plus over 400 family and staff members at partner hospitals through The Healing Room™ - and that number continues to grow!
- Visited 13 schools and engaged over 1250 students in activism and philanthropy through the Lucy's KidCorps™ and Lucy's LoveSquad™ program.
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A lemonade and bake sale accepting donations for Love Bus! | |  |
Sparhawk students delivering origami cranes they folded, included in our annual appeal letters! | |  |
Danvers High School students spreading the word about LLB! | |
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And of course, we have a new home in Amesbury, Massachusetts! Our new space includes 2 offices, a massage room, a group meeting room, and The Sajni Center-- the main room, filled with natural light, that will house our programs and workshops for children with cancer or life-threatening illnesses and their families. Psst... mark your calendars: we're having an open house on January 27th!
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- Patrice Baker joined the staff of Lucy's Love Bus as our 3rd full-time employee, serving in the role of Director of Development! We also welcome our new Donor Relations Assistant, Lisa Guthro!
- Maggie Bornstein, a lifelong volunteer for Lucy's Love Bus, was selected as a Myra Kraft Community MVP through the New England Patriots Charitable Foundation; she attended an award ceremony at Gillette Stadium, and Lucy's Love Bus received a $5,000 donation!
- Our dear friend and Board Chair, Jerry Murphy, completed his 6-year term limit and has passed the baton to nonprofit expert and Amesbury native Jodi DeLibertis. Jerry, co-owner of Old Court Pub in Lowell, guided our organization with passion and that renowned Irish moxy throughout his term, and will continue to be an invaluable resource as a member of our Advisory Council. See you on the links, Jerry!
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Patrice talks with new members of Lucy's LoveSquad™! | |  |
Executive Director Beecher Grogan poses with former Board Chair Jerry Murphy after his final board meeting. | |  |
Maggie poses with Robert Kraft and Andre Tippett at Gillette Stadium. | |
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Huge thanks as well to the charitable foundations that invested so generously in Lucy's Love Bus in 2017: The Ludcke Foundation, Forest Foundation, The Nellie Mae Foundation, The Cara Duinn Fund, Lockheed Martin's Charitable Giving Committee, Foundation for MetroWest, Kids for Kids Foundation, Kaia & Jonathan Goldstein Foundation, Hard Rock Heals Foundation TJX Foundation, The BMS Foundation, The Bessie Pappas Charitable Foundation, The Provident Bank Foundation and the New England Patriots Foundation.
- So many wonderful folks organized fundraisers throughout the year to support Lucy's Love Bus: thank you!!! Here is a list of the fun we took part in this year... Lobster Anywhere's "January Sucks" Celebration, 3rd Annual Tuckerman's Ravine Event,
Superflow Boston, VASA's Share the Love, Valentine's Day at Whole Foods Lynnfield, Mother's Day Jewelry Raffle by Kaya Jewelers, our inaugural Leap for Lucy Skydive Fundraiser, annual Devri's Irish Music Cruise, Employee Sample Sale at Timberland, Rob Tourville's 7.2 Mile Swim, Team Thiago's Lemonade Stand, Amesbury Harvest Fair and Country Music Festival, all our Prana for Love™ restorative yoga workshop fundraisers, an
d golf tournaments held by Siemens, The Old Court Pub and Portsmouth Knights of Columbus!! Whew, so many generous folks! - And a very special shout-out to our extraordinary friends at Boston Solar, who donated $24,000 in 2017 to provide bedside massage therapy to children at Tufts Floating Hospital for Children.
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Colm O'Brien feeling festive on the Irish Music Cruise! | |  |
Feeling restored at a Prana for Love™ event. | |  |
The bartending team ready to give butterfly kisses at the VASA Share the Love event! | |
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And YOU helped us raise $39,575 during our year-end fundraising campaign for 2017.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
This funding will help us continue to make a difference in the lives of sick children, well children, and community members in Amesbury, New England, and beyond in 2018.
We can't wait to see what 2018 brings. Wishing you a happy and healthy year!
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