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Special thanks to The Church of the Redeemer for adopting ALL missions to the Blind Veteran's Rehabiliation Center in Palm Beach!
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Upcoming Events
Angel Flight Southeast Q2 Board meeting July 14
Saturday July 14, 2012 from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM EDT
Our Q2 board meeting in Leesburg, held at our regional headquarters.
Leesburg Regional Headquarters
Angel Flight Southeast 3-way raffle!
Friday August 31, 2012 from 12:00 PM to 12:30 PM EDT
Angel Flight Southeast is holding a special raffle to help raise money for our life-saving mission of coordinating free air transportation for children and adults with medical or compelling humanitarian needs. The funds make sure the "lights stay on" to answer phone calls 24 hours, 7 days per week; even when calls come in the middle of the night!
Angel Flight Southeast Headquarters
Angel Flight Bahamas Fly-In & Dinner Cruise October 6 & 7, 2012
Saturday October 6, 2012 from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EDT
Angel Flight Fundraiser & Dinner Cruise Two nights Freeport Grand Bahama Buy your tickets with your credit card using our PayPal account
Freeport, Bahamas
Florida Institute of Technology - AVIATION DAY 2012
Saturday October 20, 2012 from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM EDT
Emil Buehler Center for Aviation Training & Research Melbourne International Airport www.FITAviationDay.com World War II WACO Biplane rides Discuss aviation history with the Tuskegee Airmen Kids Area, Food vendors and plenty more!
Melbourne International Airport
Angel Flight Annual Leesburg Golf Tournament & Pairing Party November 11, 12, 2012
Sunday November 11, 2012 at 7:30 PM EST -to- Monday November 12, 2012 at 4:00 PM EST
Join us at Beautiful Arlington Ridge Golf Club for a a dinner and "pairing party" the evening of Sunday November 11, then on Monday, November 12 (Veteran's Day) a great round of golf including a putting contest, full breakfast, lunch and more! Register soon for early-bird discounts. It's easy to pay with your credit card using PayPal
Arlington Hills Golf Club Leesburg, Florida
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Pilot tele-forum
For feedback, suggestions
and questions answered regarding missions
Moving to quarterly
Next to be announced
(712) 432-0080
949489# via join.me
These have been really well-received! Please send future agenda items to steve.purello@mercymail.org
Wings
Region-wide Wing meeting for Wing Leaders and interested parties:
2nd Tuesday of every month 7pm (712) 432-0080
Next one July 10
949489# via join.me
This will be for our wings to
be able to share best practices and learn how we can do a better job with local outreach and fundraising in our communities.
For more information on our monthly meetings, call the office at
(352) 326-0761
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| Angel Flight in the headlines | |
Channel 6 Orlando coverage
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| Last two days to help us win an award! |
Help us win an award!Children and Families Awards 2012. We can accept reviews from our passengers, volunteers and donors. Our reviews will be visible to over 2 million donors on GreatNonprofits.org, and syndicated to GuideStar, CharityNavigator, GlobalGiving, and JustGive.The Alliance for Children and Families has also partnered with us for the awards. The awards will identify top-rated nonprofits working to support children and families. If our nonprofit has at least 10 positive reviews (4 or 5 stars) by June 30, 2012, you will receive exposure to potential donors and supporters via the GreatNonprofits Top-Rated Children and Families Nonprofits List. http://greatnonprofits.org/reviews/write/angel-flight-southeast-inc_100791701
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| 3-way high-speed raffle! | It's raffle time! Angel Flight is putting out a great way to support your favorite charity and have some fun at the same time! Thanks to Mark Spurling, Board member, it includes round-trip airfare to and from your fun!
The winner will choose between:- Air-to-Air simulated combat
or - A bombardier-seat ride on FiFi, the historic B29 bomber
or - A day of Skip Barber Racing school!
Tickets are $20 each, or 6 for $100 For more information, or to buy tickets, click here
Would you like to help sell tickets for us? You can print out the brochures or post electronically from this files: | Brochure
Brochure with page-turner
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Vote for us! 20 seconds could equal $10,000!
This year we are listed as our National affiliation "Air Charity Network"
Your Vote Counts! Click to Vote. | |
| PLaneViz |
PlaneViz raising $5,000 for Angel Flight Southeast PlaneViz will donate $5,000 in listing fees to support Angel Flight Southeast in their mission to provide free air transportation for children and adults with medical or humanitarian needs. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PlaneViz - Angel Flight Southeast
Angel Flight Southeast, a provider of free air transportation to individuals with medical or humanitarian needs has been chosen byPlaneViz, an aircraft classifieds website and aviation blog, to raise $5,000 towards its charitable 24/7 operation. "We are very excited to be sponsored by PlaneViz," says Angel Flight Southeast CEO and Volunteer Pilot, Steve Purello. "Our organization depends entirely on the support of donors and volunteers. The funds raised through our partnership with PlaneViz will allow us to continue our critical mission"
Through the partnership, PlaneViz will donate the first month's listing fee of each classified ad to Angel Flight Southeast. The program will run for at least six months or until achieving the $5,000 goal.
"Fundraising is an ongoing challenge faced by smaller not-for-profit organizations" said Dave Goodwin, PlaneViz' founder. "We are pleased to support an organization that uses general aviation to help people in need."
For over 29 years, Angel Flight Southeast has been coordinating free air transportation for children and adults with medical or compelling humanitarian needs. The group averages 3,000 missions per year in the six southeast states with the support of 650 pilots and 300 volunteers.
PlaneViz, with its distinctive, aviation pin-up art logo, classified ads, and aviation blog, was launched earlier this year. The site offers aircraft sellers a venue to showcase their aircraft to local buyers as well as to global aircraft shoppers.
"Our goal is to add 250 to 500 aircraft to the site to raise $5,000 for Angel Flight Southeast," Goodwin said. "By purchasing a $10 or $20 upgrade to the standard, free listing, aircraft sellers get exposure on our home page, help support people in need, and promote general aviation; everyone wins."
About PlaneViz™
PlaneViz is an aircraft classifieds website used by individuals and brokers to showcase aircraft for sale to aircraft shoppers worldwide. PlaneViz provides a clean, search-based interface and tools for easy listing and ad management. PlaneViz offers aircraft sellers both free and paid listings designed to match sellers' aircraft advertising needs.
For more information on PlaneViz please call (904) 419-8260 or visit http://www.planeviz.com
About Angel Flight™ Southeast Angel Flight Southeast, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit volunteer pilot organization involved in "public benefit flying." The organization provides a variety of services to the community, but mostly arranges free air transportation by private aircraft to distant medical facilities when commercial service is not available, impractical or simply not affordable. The organization has won the seal of approval from Independent Charities of America. This prestigious national organization recognizes Angel Flight Southeast as a good steward of the funds it generates from the public. Angel Flight™ Southeast is a member of Air Charity Network™.
For more information on Angel Flight Southeast please call (352) 326-0761 or visit http://www.angelflightse.org
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Pilot spotlight
These are the very special pilots that volunteered to take one or more of our many weekly missions
Charles George
Steve High
Scott Sowers
James Claypool
Dr. Kyle
David Walker x2
Jack Alexander
Dr. Cole
Kevin Fleming
52 mission legs were coordinated 6/23 - 6/29
6 year old Savannah is travelling for open heart surgery
Savannah & Mom
Rina and pilot Charles George
Rina and pilot Steve High at the FBO
Rina in-flight
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Note from the editor to our pilots: Please take more photos so I can put them up here!
Pilots: Please send your photos via your smart-phones to: info@mercymail.org. We'll get them posted on our social networks so we get some additional PR.
Thank you for all of your time and energy.
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| 6 Hours of free training! | |
Jim Hendricks of Naples Flight Simulator Center has a very special offer for Angel Flight pilots:
This will be limited to one pilot per month.
Jim would like to offer 6 hours of dual instruction in either a simulator or ground school!
Use those hours for your next IPC, BFR, towards a new rating, or any other skills training you'd like; no strings attached.
Thanks very much to Jim for this very generous offer!
To qualify, we'll be doing a drawing of any pilot who has volunteered for a mission in the month of June. The drawing will take place July 5, 2012 and be announced in the weekly update.
This is a brand-new program, and based upon feedback we receive, we may be expanding it. Please let us know what you think.
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| Try AeroCapital | |
We have a very special offer to help Angel Flight Southeast do some creative fundraising and save our pilot/aircraft owners some of the expense of flying. Johnny Pineyro, one of our board members, has participated and is saving over $600 per month as a result of this partnership with Aero Capital.
(This link makes the flyer full-size)
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| Volunteer opportunities: | |
Immediate need for PR gurus to help promote our 3-way high-speed raffle. If you are good at social networks, have connections into the media, or just want to help sell tickets on a one-on-one basis, please let us know to make this raffle a big success.
Immediate need for a Graphics Artist to create a new version of a tri-fold brochure for our mid-year fundraising campaign
A Tuesday in June or July at 12:00 at the Newnan Country Club Newnan, GA (Speaker needed)
July 13 6pm - Request from the director: Vacation Bible School is July 9-13th. We would love for you or some of your pilots to come and talk to our kids about what you do and why you do. We would also love to have a representative from your organization on our Family Night on Friday July 13th at 6:00 pm. That is when we find out our total offering. I think the kids would love to say thank you to you for all that your organization does. (Need a presenter)
Sep 8 - Jacksonville, FL. Jacksonville Executive at Craig Airport (CRG). Wings 'n' Wheels 2012 (Booth help)
Any Wednesday at 7am in August Zephyrhills Rotary First United Methodist Church. Breakfast included (Speaker needed)
Oct 20 - Melbourne, FL Florida Institute of Technology - AVIATION DAY 2012 9am-4pm (Booth help)
Nov 9 - 11 - Stuart Air Show, FL. Witham Field (KSUA). Stuart Air Show. Nov.9-11 (Booth help)
Oct 20 - Dallas (Atlanta), GA. Paulding Northwest Atlanta (PUJ) (Booth help, have one, need another!)
Nov 11, 12 - Leesburg, FL. Arlington Ridge Golf Course. (We have 8-12 so far, but need about 30!)
If you can help with any of these events, please email to info@mercymail.org, or call (352) 326-0761 x1500 (have nine, need more!)
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| We need some assistance! | |
The summer months tend to be especially lean for fundraising, and we are hard at work trying to find creative ways to raise much needed funds in this environment.
Here are some ways you can help, if you can't write a check yourself:
- Do you know any Foundations you can recommend to us?
- Do you know anyone who would be willing to put our org in their will?
- Do you work for a company that does planned giving, such as payroll deductions?
- Want to give monthly automatically? We can handle that!
- Want to donate a car, boat or airplane? We can handle that too!
Any leads are greatly appreciated! Please call the office at (352) 326-0761 x1500 | |
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