Congratulations to our April 2012 Novice Clown Class graduates! Way to go!
To date, we have responsibly given away more than $187,000 to numerous other non-profits helping children in need with custom wheelchairs, prosthetic limbs, dental and surgical equipment, food, books, disaster relief and life changing surgeries. We have entertained thousands of children and adults in 21 countries and across the U.S.
This is such a special milestone that we have minted a 10th Anniversary coin to celebrate this milestone.
Here is your opportunity to obtain this once in a life time piece of CCI clown memorabilia for yourself, and as a gift to others.
Click on the images of each side of the coin to view full size images.
This is an exquisitely crafted 1 ¾” brass with enamel coin which comes in an attractive hard plastic protective case.
Each coin is $15. (includes shipping and handling).
Your donation for the coins will be used to provide funds for projects helping children in need.
Please make your donation here through Amazon.com, or send a check to
CCI
P.O. Box 75
Suquamish, WA 98392
(The cost to produce the coins was not taken out of CCI funds, but was donated by the CCI Board members and others.)
POSTED April 29, 2012 at 10:30 pm by cciadmin This post currently has no responses | Leave a Comment
Two new things have been added to the CCI website – ENJOY!
1. Balloon Twisting Class Gallery : On June 25th we had a Balloon Twisting Class! Check out pics from the event here!!
2. Annual Report : 2010 Annual Report has been posted.
From time to time, we would like to provide you, our friends and supporters, a quick and easy to read snapshot of our recent and significant activities. Here is the first of these.
CCI Support to Prosthetics Outreach Foundation (POF)
POF is an example of where CCI has provided help.
CCI has been supporting POF with financial assistance for nine years for their marvelous work to provide prosthetics to amputees and corrective measures for children with foot deformities in Asia and Africa. During this time, we have provided POF $21,500 for prosthetic limbs for thirty six children in Vietnam, and to help fund POF’s expanding club foot education and emergency surgery programs in Vietnam and Sierra Leon.
On March 21, at POF’s annual dinner- auction fundraiser, where our clowns played with guests during the silent and live auctions and dinner, we presented Winfried Danke, POF’s Executive Director, our latest contribution of $4,500.
Mr. Winfried Danke, Executive Director of Prosthetics Outreach Foundation, accepts CCI’s $4,500 check
from Dave “Alfredo dona Cooka “Nichols, CCI’s Secretary. “Banjo,” “LaLa” and “Duffy,” also CCI board members, assist
To give you an idea of the impact of your support to us, here is the letter Mr. Danke provided back to us after the event.
Check in periodically to “Whaz Up! – News at a Glance” for the latest news about our goings-on!
THANK YOU for all your continuing support!
You may continue to contribute through our donate button on the site, or via mail- Caring Clowns International, P.O. Box 75, Suquamish, WA 98392.
All Our Best to each of you!
For all us clowns,
Jed “Duffy” Selter
President and Executive Director (Volunteer)
Caring Clowns International
Nice radio interview by our clown leader
http://serviceaboveselfradio.org/2011/03/18/010-serviceaboveselfradio-caring-clowns-international/
Saturday night four clowns from Caring Clowns International (CCI) descended on the Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue Wa for the Prosthetics Outreach Foundation annual fund raising auction and dinner. We clowned, juggled, made balloons… for adults.
We provided entertainment while the silent auction was going on and and carrying cakes for auction during dinner.
What most of the guest didn’t know was our most important mission that evening was to present the foundation with a check for $4,500. This completed a commitment we made to raise $10,000 for club foot education and emergency surgery program in Vietnam.
Since our first donation of $250 in 2003, CCI has donated $21,500 to POF.
This is what we do, won’t you join us?
A nice article on our founder (Duffy) and Caring Clowns International. I am proud to be a part of this organization.
Alfredo
Please Continue to Support Us
December 14, 2010
Hi There, Clown Friends!!!
It has been a great year for us! With your support we have raised and donated almost $20,000 to several organizations helping children in need:
- Haitian relief through the American Red Cross
- Vine Maple Place in Maple Valley, Washington assisting former street moms and their kids with apartment living and family services
- The North Kitsap Fishline food bank in Poulsbo, Washington helping families in need
- The Lexi Kazian Foundation in suburban Chicago, providing unique home equipment and services for low income families with special needs children
- Prosthetics Outreach Foundation for their club foot emergency surgery and education program in Vietnam
- Mobility Builders for custom wheel chairs for paraplegic and quadriplegic children of poor families in Peru
- Komedyplast to support full facial reconstructions for needy children on Peru
Since our inception in 2002, we have responsibly given almost $175,000 to help children in the U.S. and in developing countries.
At this time of year, many Americans are looking at their taxes and deciding how they can finish helping for 2010. This is our appeal to you to make us your choice for end of year giving.
As you know, we are an all-volunteer tax exempt charitable nonprofit that spends 85-90% of all donations on the people we support. (Noses and balloons don’t cost much: 0).
So give to Caring Clowns International and allow us to continue to help needy children to be able to live healthier lives.
Thank you so much for your past support and for what you will do today.
You can give through the mail or use our new online giving through Amazon.com via our web site www.caringclownsinternational.org
(Please fell free to pass this note along to your friends and families, as well)
For all of us…a giggle of clowns who care
Jed “Duffy” Selter
President & Executive Director »» Read More
An Open Letter
to the Students, Student Council,
Faculty and Principal of
Caruso Middle School
Deerfield, Illinois
The Back Story….
In mid October 2010, I received an email inquiry from Ms Julie Witczak, teacher and Student Council advisor at Caruso Middle School in Deerfield, Illinois.
Ms Witczak wrote:
Hi
I am the Student Council advisor for Caruso Middle School in Deerfield IL. Over the summer I volunteered at a Hole in the Wall Gang camp in Connecticut where I met two clowns who were also volunteers from Big Apple Circus’s clown care program.
I was very interested in learning more about clown care and came upon your website.
Each year my students hold a fundraiser, raising between $5000-10,000 for non-profits. Would you be able to help us find a “clown care” type non-profit in the Chicago area that would like to benefit from this type of fundraiser? Otherwise where are you located and if we decided to use your organization, would you be able to suggest something near the mid-west for the money to be spent on?
As a result of Ms Witczak’s email, we began a dialogue resulting in how Caring Clowns International (CCI) could assist her and the Student Council use clowning as a theme for their fundraiser. We were also able to find and select Helping from Heaven- the Lexi Kazian Foundation as the recipient of the student’s fundraiser.
In the course of our discussions, Ms Witczak invited me to come to their school and kick off the fundraiser in a school wide assembly. I did so on December 2, and also spoke to classes about care clowning, CCI, volunteerism and giving back to others.
Duffy »» Read More
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