Please consider Anna's Wish when filling out your Rochester Area United Way Campaign donation form.  Anna's Wish is Donor Option #2554 and can be selected from Monroe, Genesee, Livingston, Ontario, Wayne, and Wyoming Counties!!!  Thank you to all who donated on last year and for the United Way to offer this opportunity to Anna's Wish.  Don't forget that we will also take part of the Annual Day of Giving on 12/12/12!!!!

Check this out… the amazing folks over at Stageworks (a local theater group that performs and raises money for local charities) have chosen to support Anna’s Wish with all the proceeds from the show this year!  The production on Aug 3 & 4 will be amazing and we would like to fill the seats each and every night!  You can read about the event on Facebook or at their Stageworks website.  We would like to sincerely thank this group and everyone that supports our cause to help families dealing with cancer!

When Anna was an inpatient at the Golisano's Children's Hospital, one of her favorite things to do was to wake up in the morning, go outside to the playdeck and read a book or sit on mommy or daddy's lap and look around.  It was an escape from the endless beeping of machines, poking, and prodding.  She used to borrow my belt, wrap it around her IV pole and pull it down the hallway, LOVING the fact that the staff was not used to seeing  4 year old pull their…

SUNY Geneseo held the 2nd annual Anna's Ball on March 4, 2012.  The event was a huge success and was a wonderful time for everyone in attendance.  We would sincerely like to thank the organizers, the students and staff that attended, the students that performed, and the organizations and businesses that contributed to its success. Here is a little bit more information about ICG and Anna's Ball..... "In the Spring of 2010, the Inter Greek Council adopted Anna's Wish as their official philanthropy after hearing Anna’s story from her father, Jeff McKinney (Geneseo alumnus) at Relay for Life.  Throughout the year, IGC hosts various fundraising…

Anna's Wish recently partnered with Chance To Dance to create goody bags for pediatric cancer patients attending a Valentine's Day Party on Long Island.  The bags were put together by the Chance To Dance team and delivered to the hospital and hopefully brought smiles to the faces of these little warriors. [gallery link="file" columns="5" orderby="title"]

Thank you to all our wonderful donors and volunteers for making today's Shopping & Wrapping day a huge success!  We successfully gathered and packaged all of the gifts for our amazing families today.  There were so many volunteers that the wrapping went quicker than expected!  I guess next year we will have to expand across New York State so we have even more gifts to wrap! Thank you to everyone that has participated in this adventure since its inception in 2010.  Anna was proud of this concept and I am…