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2010 Events

Save the Date!!
Cookbook Release Party:

Saturday
June 5, 2010
7 to 10PM

Celebrating Memories in Old World Tuscan Style!

Summer Dressy Casual
Valet Parking
$60 per person
$100 per couple
(tax deductible)
includes appetizers, beer, & wine
Live entertainment
Wine auction and raffle

MISSing Ingredients:
A Re-member-ing Cookbook

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MISS has created a
re-member-ing cookbook, sharing some 200 recipes and memories from MISS families, celebrity contributors, and other MISS friends.

Thanks to all who made this a great event!

Cookbooks will be available for purchase at this Tuscan Style, release party.

You can also order copies of the cookbook now! $15 + $5 s/h

Visit MISS Store

Click here to read excerpt (PDF)

funds raised go to support 2010 MISS Conference events

The 4th Annual Shining STAR Golf Classic to benefit the MISS Foundation

July 12, 2010

Make your Sponsership today!

This is an opportunity to have remembering our precious children help us spread the word about stillbirth. Parents are invited to sponsor tees and we put a beautiful sign on the tee box with your child’s name. The impact those signs have is very powerful and there are so many lining the golf course.

Please help us help MISS…

Please check out our Facebook page to see some of the pics from past events!

Prime Sponsorship is your child’s own tee sign and their name on the Shining STAR Memorial:
A $50 donation

CO-Sponsorship is your child’s name as one of 5 on a tee sign and their name on the Shining STAR Memorial:
A $30 donation

Or your child’s name on the Shining STAR Memorial:
A $15 donation

You can make your donation online at www.DanielsSTAR.org

Last Texas Hold 'em event for this year!!

Saturday, July 31, 2010

Time: 4:00pm - 10:00pm

Location:
Landscape Mart /Peoria
8026 W Thunderbird
Peoria, AZ

Please come join us, or pass the word on to friends and family!! The more players..the better!! This will be our last fundraiser to help raise money to sponsor families in MISS (foundation for helping families who have suffrered the death of a child)..to be able to go to this years conference in September!

Thanks to all you who have helped out with past ones, and also those who have come to previous events!!((THANK YOU ))..and remember this is last Texas Hold 'em, so we want to make it a blowout!! See you all there!!

We'll be supplying dinner and drinks(byob)...

$30 dollars buy in (half of pot goes straight to MISS)..will be playing for 1st ,2nd ,and 3rd!

If anyone wants to help with making and donating food, it would be greatly appreciated (Contact John!) This month's dinner will be mexican food!

MISS Foundation 2010 Conference
SAVE THE DATE

September 2, 3, & 4, 2010

*Sunday, September 5 – MISS Facilitator Training (restricted to MISS Foundation Facilitators only)

 

Click here for Conference Agenda!

 

Click here for Conference Presenters' Bios and Abstracts!

 

Click here for Exhibitor and Vendor Invitation and Info!

 

Click here for Sponsor Invitation and Info!

 

Click here for Advertising Invitation and Info!

“Exploring Mindful Grief: A Journey for Families and Professionals”


MISS Foundation Families and Professionals, please mark your calendars for Labor Day Weekend, 2010.

* Online Early Bird Conference Registration – VISIT the Conference Website, by clicking here!

Early Bird Registration Fees: (through August 1, 2010)
* Bereaved Parent -
$150 per person
* Children Grief Camp -
$60 per person
* Professionals -
$375 per person

Regular Registration Fees: (After August 1, 2010)
* Bereaved Parent -
$225 per person
* Children Grief Camp-
$100 per person
* Professionals -
$450 per person

Conference Registration fees cover conference, breakfast and lunch meals, and morning and afternoon snack

*For full information, please visits the Conference Website!

Fiesta Resort
2100 S. Priest Drive
Tempe, Arizona 85282

*Hotel Accomodations: $69/night room rate for single and double occupancy, includes complimentary shuttle within a 5 mile radius which includes Sky Harbor Airport

Past Events (2010)

  • March 23, 2010 - Power of Compassion Series: When Birth and Death Merge: Working with Perinatal Hospice Families, Center for Loss and Trauma - Click here for full flyer!
  • May 27, 2010 - Special reception in support of the MISS Foundation with special guest THE HONORABLE DEAN MARTIN, Sheraton, Phoenix, AZ.

Past Events (2009)

  • December 13, 2009 - National Children's Memorial Day
    Candlelighting Service, University of Phoenix
  • August 14, 15, 16, 2009 - MISS Regional Conference: Taking a Hero's Journey. Facilitator & Mentor training for WA & ID chapters. St. Joseph's Retreat Cener, Spokane, WA.

Past Events (2008)

  • September 25 - 28, 2008 - Body, Mind and Soul: Trauma and Mourning after a Child's Death, Bi-Annual MISS Conference
  • December 14, 2008 - National Children's Memorial Day Candlelighting Service, Phoenix

Past Events (2007)

  • April 20-2, 2007 - “Be-ing in Grief” A Weekend Retreat for
    Bereaved Parents
  • June 30, 2007 - Daniel's STAR 1st Annual Golf Outing
    • The Daniel Ian Tieger Fund for Stillbirth Awareness and Research
      (proceeds benefit the MISS Foundation)
  • September 22, 2007 - Infant and Child Death Prevention and Safety Day

Past Events (2006)

  • December 10, 2006 - National Children's Memorial Day. Candlelight Memorial Service.

  • November 6, 2006 - 6th Annual Children's Memorial Golf Tournament

  • October 25, 2006 - Infant and Child Death Prevention and Awareness Day. Phoenix, AZ. Seminar with Joanne Cacciatore and Todd Hochberg (bereavement photographer).

  • May 31 - June 4, 2006 - Passage 2006 and Kids Kamp. Bereaved Families and Professional Bereavement. Gathering and Retreat. More Info>>

  • March 8, 2006 - Lecture at Arizona State University West with Dr. John DeFrain. Free public lecture on community responsiveness when a child dies.

Past Events (2005)

  • November 9, 2005 - 5th Annual Children's Memorial Golf Tournament at the beautiful Karsten Golf Course in Tempe, Arizona. More Info>>, ASU Karsten Golf Course.

  • September 19, 2005 - A Symposium featuring Dr. Peter Barr with Dr. Suzanne Bushfield and Joanne Cacciatore, MSW, FT, ASU West Campus Phoenix, AZ

  • May 26 - 29 , 2005 - Passages 2005 MISS Conference, Phoenix, Arizona

Past Events (2004)

Past Events (2003)

  • December 14, 2003 - National Children's Memorial Day with candle lighting ceremonies at many locations across the nation.

  • October 25, 2003 - 1st Annual Skylar Bowl- A- Thon- Glendale, AZ

  • October 19, 2003 - Glendale 20/30 Club and Sands Chevrolet presents "PARTY 2003" Charity Benefit with partial proceeds going to MISS Foundation. - Glendale, AZ

  • September 20, 2003 - MISS Children's Memorial Blood Drive, City of Hope Medical Center, Blood Donor Center, 1500 East Duarte Road, Duarte, CA. This is an annual event to honor the memory of our children.

  • September 7 to Nov 6, 2003 - Indiana MISS had their 1st Annual Teddy Bear Drive. Teddy Bears were collected and will be given to bereaved parents in memory of their children along with other support material from the Indiana chapter. In Loving Memory of :Charles Nickolas Hall & Charles Christopher Irby. Info: Katie Irby or Crissy or their website

  • September 7, 2003 - 2003 Golf Tournament - , at ASU Karsten Golf Course. See our "Field of Butterflies" pictures.

  • July 2003 - Give Life In Memory of Life Annual Memorial National Blood Drive

  • May 22-24, 2003 - The 2003 MISS Conference "Passages"

  • View photos from many of our events in our Photo Gallery

Past Events (2001-2002)


Speakers and Presenters of the MISS Foundation


For additional information on any of these events contact us at info@missfoundation.org

   
 

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