Dolls for Daughters and Kenzi’s Kidz needs your vote! We hope to be one of the top 200 nonprofits who will win money from Chase Community Giving. The only way for us to win is to have the votes. Voting is easy as long as you have a Facebook page. Click our link – Dolls for Daughters and Kenzi’s Kidz, like Chase Community Giving and then vote for us. Make sure you post to your wall and encourage all of your friends to vote for us as well. We could end up winning $20,000.
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As Dolls for Daughters approaches its first year as a nonprofit, I am looking back over the past year and could not be more pleased with what Dolls for Daughters has been able to do in one year as a nonprofit. We were able to grow our donations to more than double 2008′s donations; we were able to grow our community support by at least 90%. Community support is not only the people in our community that are supporting us with donations but the business in our community that have stepped up to show their support.
Community support is key to the success of Dolls for Daughters. Community and business support allow us to give back to the community more than ever. As we move forward into the second half of 2010, we want to thank everyone who has supported us in the past and look forward to your continued support and spreading the word about Dolls for Daughters. We look forward to a wonderful rest of 2010 and hope we are able to collect and donate more than 3,000 new toys to boys and girls in our community on December 11, 2010.
If you are interested in donating to Dolls for Daughters or volunteering, please contact us.
Dolls for Daughters raised $3682 and had 115 new toys donated for our Dolls for Daughters and Toys for Boys toy drive. These toys will be given away along with at least 3000 new toys to boys and girls in our community on December 11, 2010.
Dolls for Daughters held its 2nd Annual Bowl a Thon on May 22, 2010. This event was sold out and we had to turn bowlers away before the event. Eltich Lanes was kind enough to allow us to host this event at their bowling alley again this year. Our event had a ton of lane sponsors this year and we’d like to thank them for their support: Bachus & Schanker Cares Foundation, Hillyard, Wahlberg, Kudla & Sloane LLP, Injury Finance, LLC, Kelly Ramsdale & Associates, Inc., Myers Legal Video Services, LLC, NorthWestern Electrical, Roberts Levin Rosenberg PC, Apex Electric, Inc., Sanitas Skincare, Spine One and Masterguard Fire Safety.
Not only did we have community support from these amazing business, we had community support from tons of other businessess. Continue reading Bowl a Thon a HUGE Success
Dolls for Daughters is pleased to announce Mici Handcrafted Italian is sponsoring our food for our 2nd Annual Bowl a Thon on May 22, 2010. Mici Handcrafted Italian is a locally owned company with locations in Cherry Creek North and Downtown Denver. Dolls for Daughters and Mici will also be partnering for other events, check back for more details.
Thank you Mici Handcrafted Italian for your support!
On May 15, 2010, Dolls for Daughters founder Jessica Bachus was honored as an Outstanding Young Coloradoan at the Colorado Junior Chamber’s OYawards hosted by The Colorado JCI Senate and . Jessica was nominated by Tonya Bradshaw and the Cherry Creek Jaycees.
Jessica was given this honor for creating Dolls for Daughters and her work over the past three years since creating Dolls for Daughters in Kenzi’s memory. Jessica could not have been more pleased to accept this honor. Here is Jessica’s acceptance speech:
I want to begin with thanking Tonya and the Cherry Creek Jaycees for nominating me for this amazing honor. I would also like to thank the Colorado Jaycees for honoring me and my work with Dolls for Daughters.
I need to thank a few people who are not here with me today. First my husband who has supported all of my hard work and dedication to Dolls for Daughters and for helping me honor Kenzi. My children who have taught me there is life after loss. My daughter Bailey who made me smile each day after I lost Kenzi. My sons Kamden and Karson who were born in 2008 and 2009 after I lost Kenzi have shown me that I can be a mother after a loss.
I would also like to thank my Mom who is here with me tonight. My Mom has been my best friend for as long as I can remember. I cannot remember an event in my life that my Mom has not been a part of. She has always supported me and was there with me when I lost Kenzi. She helped me grieve, she took my anger and let it go, and she supported me in my deepest, darkest hour. She loved me when I couldn’t love myself because I lost Kenzi. She too has supported me every step of the way with Dolls for Daughters.
Finally I need to thank my sweet angel Kenzi. Kenzi who taught me during my pregnancy what faith and strength were. She taught me that you can never judge someone Continue reading Jessica Bachus Honored as an Outstanding Young Coloradoan
