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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
Vacation Bible School fundraiser for Angel Flight Southeast
Friday July 13, 2012 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM EDT
Stetson baptist Church has picked Angel Flight this year as a mission to raise money for. Since we are a local mission, many of their churchgoers have benefited from our services. Vacation Bible School is July 9-13th. Steve Purello, CEO & Volunteer Pilot will come and talk to our kids about what we do at Family Night on Friday July 13
Stetson Baptist Church
Mercy 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
Mercy Flight Southeast 3-way raffle!
Friday August 31, 2012 from 12:00 PM to 12:30 PM EDT
Mercy 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!
Mercy 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
Pilots
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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| Mid-year fundraising campaign |
Our new tri-folds will be going out shortly. Missions are up, recruitment is up, PR is up, but fundraising has been tough.
The average mission costs about $100 to coordinate, and with demand being so high, we as an organization could really use your help.
With enough help, we we could fly an additional 1,000 missions per year!
You can help transport people to doctors that can save their lives. How many flights would you like to help sponsor?
Please donate today, or monthly!
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| We have a winner! | |
Patrick Clyne of Neptune Beach, FL has won 6 hours of dual instruction in either a simulator or ground school!
Patrick has flown a number of missions this year, including the one posted last week with our very special heart patient, Savannah. Patrick was very excited and appreciative to win this generous offer from Jim and will be spending a couple of days in Naples to get his flight training.
Thanks very much to Jim Hendricks of the Naples Flight Simulator Center for this very generous offer!
To qualify for July, we'll be doing a drawing of any pilot who has volunteered for a mission in that month. The next drawing will take place August 2, 2012 and be announced in the weekly update. | |
Pilot Recruitment is up! | |
We have recruited 38 new pilots & co-pilots so far this year, vs. a total of 47 new pilots & co-pilots for the entire year of 2011; trending with a 61% increase!
Welcome new pilots & co-pilots: You're gonna love it! | |
Pilot spotlight
These are the very special pilots that volunteered to take one or more of our many weekly missions.
Patrick Clyne
Donald Short
Mark Spencer
Harvey Moore
Wiley Horton x2
David Trilling x2
27 mission legs were coordinated 6/30 - 7/6
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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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| 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. | |
| Nominations please | |
Please take a moment to nominate Angel Flight Southeast so we may receive a grant from J.P. Morgan Chase
Nominate us here
Our chances of being selected will improve if more people nominate us.
Thanks to all of those last week who put in good reviews for us on GreatNonprofits.org! | |
| 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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