The Preemie Project Group Blog

‘Tis the Season!

We had so much fun delivering the holiday donation to the NICU and PICU at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics (UIHC) earlier this week.  This donation included holiday hats, booties and blankets.  The items will be passed out to all of the babies in time for Christmas.  The families get to use these items during the holidays and take them home as keepsakes.  We had fabulous numbers this year.  So, we donated 10 sets of Santa hats and booties to Labor and Delivery for the little bundles of joy born Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. 

(Items donated by Barb Goode, Gail Madden and Cindy Anderson)

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Bakers Needed

Bakers are needed for our last bake sale of 2009!

When?
Monday 12/7/2009
8am-4pm

Where?
Old Capitol Mall, Iowa City IA.

How can I help?
Bake items for the sale, price the night before, work the day of the sale.  Pricing will begin at 6pm on Sunday 12/6.  Contact to sign-up to bake, price or work the sale.

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Happy Holidays!

The Preemie Project started out this holiday season with our annual Holiday Craft Sale at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.  This year our goal was to raise $4,150 in our two day sale.  The items from this sale were made and donated by TPP volunteers.  You can view pictures from our sale here. 

Thank you to the Gamma Chapter, Sigma Theta Tau International for donating cashmere scarves to sell at our sale.  They raised ~$1,000 for our sleeper sack program.  We appreciate the support!

We also wish to thank Earth Home Candles for bringing a display of candles and donating 25% of the proceeds to TPP.  They also donated a gift basket for silent auction with a retail value of $30.  Their soy candles are locally poured and smell heavenly!  They will also be donating 25% of online purchases to The Preemie Project this holiday season.  Just put “The Preemie Project” in the comments section.  We hope you will visit Earth Home Candles for your Christmas gifts!

As you can already tell, this was a busy sale.  Here is a look at the shoppers on the morning of day one.
 

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Shop for Babies This Holiday Season- It’s Free!

This holiday season, you can raise money for TPP by purchasing your gifts from GoodShop. GoodShop is a new online shopping mall which will donate up to 30% of your purchase to TPP!  Hundreds of great stores including Amazon, Target, Gap, Best Buy, ebay, Macy’s and Barnes & Noble have teamed up with GoodShop and every time you place an order, you’ll be supporting TPP.

GoodShop is FUN and EASY to use!  TPP supporters have already raised $75 from July through October.  We need YOUR help to make this fundraising campaign a success.  Please join us and track our earnings here. 

How does it work?!  Here’s the scoop:

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