CURRENT HELP
We have started our capital campaign "Wings of Hope" to acquire our own dedicated aircraft. We need to raise $1,000,000 to purchase a Beechcraft "King Air" aircraft, and prepare it for our mission. We will need an additional $400,000 for fuel, aircraft insurance, and maintenance each year for our flights of Hope and Healing to help 100+ children and 200+ family members. We are also interested in increasing our endowment fund to support our year to year operating expenses.
With a "King Air" twin-engine aircraft we will be able to offer families in need;
- Space for both parents to travel with the child.
- Room for a wheelchair.
- A Pressurized aircraft for children with heart defects or on strong medications.
- A quiet and comfortable flight.
- Provide an ice protected all weather aircraft.
- Will be able to fit a stretcher for those unable to sit up, such as a child with burns.
- Provide a faster aircraft which reduces flight times, and also allows us to cover longer distances.
We are looking for individuals, businesses, and foundations that would like to participate in helping Hope Flight Foundation continue to grow and help those in desperate need.
If you can make a one-time or recurring donation, all the children that will experience a flight of hope and healing will be eternally grateful. Please see our donate page.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Masquerade Ball - October 23, 2010
We are currently planning for this event which will be held in San Francisco. We are looking for more sponsors for this event. Please call David Davis-Event Chairman at (510)427-6965. Click on the "Masquerade" tab above for more info.
UPDATES
View a video about our mission at:
To hear a radio interview about us, click the link below, then scroll down to find Hope Flight Foundation, about 3/4 of the way down the list.
News article in the Daily Review. Go to:
The Daily Review, in the search box at top center, enter "Hope Flight Foundation".
Our current needs: In addition to our own dedicated twin-engine aircraft, are help in Marketing, Grant writing, Fundraising, and Donations to support flights for ill children.
Family comments:
Thank you for your compassion and time. Thank you for your encouragement. Thank you for the training you have had, and the thousands of hours you have flown before you ever flew us. Thank you for helping us get treatment from a specialist that we could not have gotten here at home. You have helped to give us the life and future of our child.
In 2007 we donated money to help a four year old that needed a kidney transplant, and gave away over 1,000 stuffed animals to bring joy to children at our events, and to organizations throughout the San Francisco Bay Area that also work with children. We assisted in a flight for a woman with breast cancer, and accomplished a Wish flight for two brothers that wanted to spend a day of fun at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk with their uncle.
In 2008 we donated money to help support "Day in The Sky" and the "Kids Take Flight" events at Watsonville and San Jose. A donation was made to a child in Oakland that was paralyzed by a stray bullet. Four free flights have been flown for Jose,a Leukemia patient from Crescent City to Oakland, CA. We have given away 160 Beanie Babies to children which brings them much joy and excitement.
In 2009 we have flown ten flights for children with cancer and other life threatening conditions. Two of the flights were for 9 year-old Jonathan and his mom from Redding, CA to Palo Alto to be seen at the Lucille Packard Children's Hospital for Langer Hans Cell Histiocytosis, a blood disorder similiar to Leukemia (see photo at left).
In May, we flew one and a half year old Sergio who was seeing a geneticist at Lucille Packard, back home to Gasquet, CA. Ivana, a two year old visiting UCSF for intestinal transplant was flown home from Oakland to Crescent City, CA. Two year-old Elizabeth was flown from Stockton to Lucille Packard for intestinal illness (no photo).
In August we flew Four year-old Jasmin and her mom from Reno, NV, to Palo Alto, CA to be seen at Lucille Packard for bone marrow transplant follow-up, then back home to Reno a few days later.
In 2010
Our first flight in 2010 was flown in January for Jose and his mom Teresa to return home, from Oakland airport to Crescent City. Jose completed another round of Chemotherapy, and will return to UCSF for bone marrow transplant soon. We flew Jose and Teresa a second time from Crescent City airport to Oakland in February, to be seen at UCSF.
