News from Angel Flight Southeast

For over 29 years, we've been coordinating free air transportation for
children and adults with medical or compelling humanitarian needs

Weekly Update September 21, 2012

Quick Links

Adopt a flight today and watch it fly tomorrow!

Previous issues

Upcoming Events

See all events

Health Care Champions

Thursday September 27, 2012 from 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM EDT

The 3rd annual Health Care Champions award luncheon celebrates various organizations, health care professionals and volunteers that have exceptionally served the Treasure Coast area. Presented to you by Seacoast National Bank and Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers, the event highlights and promotes excellent health care service and awareness

Port St. Lucie Civic Center

Unity in the Community Fest

Saturday October 6, 2012 from 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM EDT

The Unity in the Community Fest is a one-day family extravaganza. Central Florida is rich in cultural diversity. The purpose of this event is to celebrate community unity and raise awareness of the diversity of the various cultures in Central Florida area. There will be entertainment, various exhibitors & vendors, and food vendors.

Clermont's Waterfront Park

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

3rd Annual Case Management Symposium

Friday October 12, 2012 at 4:30 PM EDT -to- Saturday October 13, 2012 at 5:00 PM EDT

The 3rd Annual Case Management Symposium sponsored by the Leesburg Regional Medical Center Foundation is an educational program consisting of nationally-recognized speakers for case managers from all over Central Florida.

Mission Inn Resort & Club, Howey-in-the-Hills

Salute America Airshow Event Paulding Northwest Atlanta (PUJ)

Saturday October 20, 2012 from 9:00 AM to 3:30 PM EDT

Salute America 2012 Salute America 2012 is a historical celebration of aviation history and heritage. You can expect a day full of excitement and high flying family fun! Air Show acts and performances begin at 10:00 am and last until 3:30 pm

Paulding Northwest Atlanta (PUJ)

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 October 9

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

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.

Amelia is getting a "face-lift"

Thanks to Dale Salamacha, President of Media 1 and Wrap This Ink. (www.wrapthisink.com)! He has offered to professionally wrap the windows of our famous parade float "Amelia."

Large version here

Needed: Pilot Awards sponsors

Aviation-related or non-aviation businesses:

Please help us make our volunteer pilots feel special when we recognize them at our Pilot Awards Gala on November 11th at Mission Inn, Howey-in-the-Hills, FL. We still sponsorships available for:

Dinner

Cocktail hour

Pilot door prizes and incentives

For more information, go to www.angelflightse.org, and click "events"

November Leesburg Golf Tourney update

Helicopter Ball Drop

Even if you're not attending that day, take a chance and support our cause! Angel Flight Southeast is having a Helicopter Ball Drop chance to raise money for our charity! A helicopter will be flying over the Arlington Ridge Golf course and dropping hundreds of golf balls on the chipping green. The closest ball to the pin wins 25% of the proceeds raised through this raffle!

Get your chance(s) now here !

One ball = $5
6 balls = $20
40 balls = $100

A special thanks to Air Orlando for donating their Robinson R44 helicopter for our cause and to pilot Chris Moffatt for donating his time to fly it.

Just a quick update on the progress this week for the golf tournament.

As of this afternoon:

We have all 4 par-3's sponsored and are up to 19 major sponsors
We are now up to 20 teams and 80 players
We have 17 VIP's confirmed with another 14 waiting for final confirmation;

Bobby Bonilla MLB / NY Mets

Bob Stinson MLB / Cardinals-Astros-Mariners

Joe West MLB / Active Umpire (35th year / Crew Chief)

Sam McDowell MLB / Indians-Yankees-Giants-Pirates

Matt Robinson NFL / Jets-Broncos

Bob Kroll NFL / Packers

Felix Millan MLB / Braves-Mets

Ricky Shaw NFL / Giants-Eagles

Hal Groves PGA / European Tour

Beau Jarrell NFL / Buccaneers

Gary Knafelc NFL / Packers

Rod Seiling NHL / Rangers-Maple Leafs

Mike Reilly NFL / Rams

Steve Pisarkiewicz NFL / Cardinals-Packer

Crystal Louthan WOW / Wrestling

The Mayor of Eustis, FL

The Sherriff of Lake County, FL

The ad in Style magazine is going to print, so check for the October issue;
The Daily Commercial will shortly begin the advertising, and will include ads not only in the Daily Commercial, but the South Lake Press and the Commercial Press

We are well ahead of where we need to be, but still have a lot to do in the next 6 weeks. Help is requested for sponsors, players, prizes and gifts.

Pilot spotlight

These are the very special pilots that volunteered to take one or more of our many weekly missions.

Chris Ledenbach

Harvey Moore x2 - Lifeguard Mission

Steve High x2

Kevin Fleming

David Walker x2

Dr. Bryan

David Brinkman - Last Minute

Jimmy Walker

Lucas Worthen

Jim Jordan

Bob Aldinger

Kevin Mahoney

Charlie Gould

Dr. Hahn x2

Dr. Sparks

Erik Troan

Jim Jordan

70 mission legs were coordinated 9/8 - 9/14

Terry Carbonell

Dave Rivero x2

Stan Shaw

George Robbins

49 mission legs were coordinated 9/15 - 9/21

Thanks from the Moore's

Thanks from the Moore's

Rosemary Cahoon thank you letter to Harvey Moore

Rosemary Cahoon thank you letter to Harvey Moore

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.

May 2013 Golf Tournament- West Palm Beach

Mark your calendars for May 7,8 2013. We are going to have a golf tournament in West Palm Beach at the beautiful Madison Green Golf Club.

For this tournament, our Chairman of the event Mike Brady has partnered us with Jeff Conine. Jeff is a former Major League Baseball player, and an inaugural member of the Florida Marlins who was with the franchise for both of its World Series titles, in which he earned the title "Mr. Marlin." Jeff is raising funds for the Conine Clubhouse, which serves as a "home away from home" for children visiting the Joe DiMaggio Hospital.

Great Non-Profits

Great Nonprofits TopRated Rewards

We are looking for positive reviews from our passengers and supporters please so we are well-rated by the agencies that help donors decide which charities to give thier donations.

How it works:

We need reviews from volunteers, donors, passengers and board members until November 15th
Get 10 or more positive reviews (4 or 5 stars) by November 15th and be included in their 2012 Guide to Giving to be distributed this holiday season to media and thousands of corporate foundations.
We can use top-rated badge on your website, email newsletters, direct mail to donors.
Our top-rated status will be shown on your GreatNonprofits profile - visible to nearly 1.4M users each year

Write your review here:
http://www.greatnonprofits.org/reviews/write/mercy-flight-southeast-inc/campaign:top-rated-awards

You can also help by spreading the word:

Sample email

Dear Friend,
If you love our work then tell the world! You have an opportunity to help us make even more of a difference in our community. GreatNonprofits - a review site like TripAdvisor - is honoring highly reviewed nonprofits with their 2012 Top-Rated Awards. Won't you help us raise visibility for our work by posting a review of your experience with us? All reviews will be visible to potential donors and volunteers. It's easy and only takes 3 minutes! Go to http://www.greatnonprofits.org/reviews/write/mercy-flight-southeast-inc/campaign:top-rated-awards to get started!

Sample Social Media

Facebook

Hey Volunteers! Review us for the GreatNonprofits Top-Rated Awards!
http://www.greatnonprofits.org/reviews/write/mercy-flight-southeast-inc/campaign:top-rated-awards

Thanks!

Volunteer opportunities:

Sep 25 9:30-12:30pm Fort Walton Beach, FL CFC Event

(Thank you Mike Wagner!)

Oct 6 Clermont, FL Unity in the Community, Clermont's Waterfront Park (Thank you Michelle Pedde!)

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 (Thank you Greg Banfield! Have 3, need more)

Free training for generous (and lucky) Angel Flight pilots

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.

We now have a PR agency (at no cost to us)- help us tell our story!

Hi Volunteer Pilot. As you have already been told Barton Gilanelli would like to promote the charitable flying organization you volunteer for. We have found reporters and editors are more likely to do a story about a "person" than an "organization." For this reason we would like to put you forward to the press and have you tell the story of the organization you fly for.

We will provide you with talking points and, if it would make you more comfortable, we could do some coaching with you. Once you have answered the questions below the rest is a piece of cake.

Remember, the story is about the charitable organization and your story introduces the reporter to the wonderful things that the organization does through volunteer pilots like you.

Pilot info for media outreach

Question, comments or concerns?
Contact us at (352) 326-0761
or email us at info@mercymail.org