media kit mdc asrl 2011
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For over 11 years, moms, dads, brothers, sisters, students and community members from around the country have given their gifts of time, money and talent to the Andre Sobel River of Life Foundation...
For This Mom
For This Mom
For This Mom
Since 2000, the Andre Sobel River of Life Foundation has provided more than $4 million in urgent financial assistance to 11,300 family members of children with catastrophic illness. Your contributions go directly to family support while the ASRL endowment covers administrative costs.
This year’s Mother’s Day campaign, For This Mom, focuses on Linda and Dylan. Their family is representative of the hundreds of families that ASRL provides aid to each year.
The Mom & Our Mission
The Andre Sobel River of Life Foundation was created in the wake of founder Valerie Sobel’s loss of her teenage son Andre from an inoperable brain tumor. She realized that it had been a blessing that she was able to care for her son and not worry about finances and other resources. Upon discovering that many single parents with critically-‐ill children are forced to chose between working to provide basic needs and staying with their terminally ill child, she created the foundation to relieve this financial and emotional burden.
From These Moms
Watch our series of moms sharing their stories on YouTube
Support Our Moms
Buy Groceries for a Family $100
By buying groceries for a sick child’s family for a week, your gift will soften a family's burden and let mom or dad focus on caring for the child with a life threatening illness. Just knowing that children back home are well fed can help a parent cope better during an extremely stressful time.
Pay a Families Utilities for a Month $45
Your gift will pay a month of utilities -- electric, gas, water, phone, cable, cellphone -- for a family whose lives are shattered by the dual tragedies of their child's catastrophic illness and severe financial distress. Your gift gives a family the "breathing room" not to be overwhelmed by unpaid bills, but to focus on treating the sick child and caring for the siblings back home.
Pay Rent for a Family in Need $500
Your generous gift will help a single parent family stay stable and in their home while their child is in treatment for a catastrophic illness. By paying a month's rent, you relieve a family's immediate financial burden and give mom or dad breathing room. Now they can focus on helping their child heal.
When a child is diagnosed with a terminal or catastrophic illness, life changes in an instant. Dad might quit his job to be at the child's hospital bedside in a far away city, while Mom stays at home to care for the patient's young siblings.
The family's finances can quickly shatter, making the most routine household activities -- like paying monthly bills -- increasingly difficult. Within months, the power is threatened to be shut off...and soon enough, the family may face an eviction notice.
Donate
Online:
andreriveroflife.org
Via mail:
Andre Sobel River of Life FoundationP.O. Box 361460, Los Angeles, CA 90036
(310) 276-7111
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