Make a Splash - 2014

The Mary Moon Foundation is proud to announce our third annual event to be held at the Water Park of America! Please join us for our fundraising event to support children at the University of Minnesota Amplatz Children’s Hospital.

What: Water Park Attractions and Online and Silent Auctions!

Where: Water Park of America, Bloomington, MN

When: Sunday, March 9th, 2014, 4:00pm to 10:00pm - extended 2 hours! Mary Moon activities conclude at 8:00pm, but this year the Water Park stays open for you 2 more hours!

Pricing: $12.00/person. Under 18 months free!

How: Online Registration is Now Open! Register Here

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Tickets only $5.00, purchase as many as you'd like! Raffle drawing will be conducted the night of the event at the Water Park! You do not need to be present to win!

News Updates:

Great Start to our 3rd Annual Event:

January 21st, 2014

Thank you all for the early registrations and your donations. Your volunteer offerings to support our efforts have also been greatly appreciated.

We are a small organization of volunteers and our success is reflective of the assistance we get from our community. Your efforts promoting the event and our upcoming auctions can be very impactful. As we did last year, we will have both an online auction (eBay/Mission Fish) that is available to everyone, and a silent auction at the event.

For those of you interested; here’s a list of the various ways you may choose to support or organization:

• Donate Baskets: Do you have left over baskets from the auction last year or from some other occasion? We go through a lot of baskets for our silent auction and appreciate basket-donations so we don’t have to purchase them. Large baskets are preferred; they enable us to make themed arrangements of multiple items. You can drop off baskets at Peter’s office in Edina, our home, or a home or other location of one of our volunteers.
• Promote the Event: There are many way to promote our event:
  • Sharing www.marymoonfoundation.org with others via email or social media
  • Sharing our posts from our public Facebook page: www.facebook.com/marymoonfoundation share page weekly
  • Download and post our flyer at your place of employment and other locations; church, schools, coffee shops, etc.
  • Distribute flyers; Peter and Christine can provide with you 10, 30, 80, whatever you think you can distribute. Just email us; info@marymoonfoundation.org
• Share our Etsy Store: https://www.etsy.com/shop/MaryMoonFoundation
• Provide items for the Auctions: Perhaps you, your employer, or someone you know has a product or services they can provide, or provide a gift card to? You can download our donation letter to provide to any businesses you frequent.
• Sponsor the Event: We still have sponsorship opportunities open to help support our expenses. Our sponsorships range from $500 to $1500. Sponsors are acknowledged on our website and on signage at the event. Details for donations and sponsorships are listed on our donate page.

Later in February our website will announce online auction details and have the waiver form available for download. This waiver form must be completed by all attendees. It helps speed up entrance to the water park by having them completed in advance.

If you have any comments, questions, or ideas, please contact us at info@marymoonfoundation.org

Thank you for your support, Peter and Christine

Announcing our 3rd Annual Event!

December 18th, 2013

Greetings! The Mary Moon Foundation is proud to announce our third annual event to be held at the Water Park of America on Sunday, March 9th 2014! Our fundraising event will support the financing of art supplies, toys, games, and more for Children at the University of Minnesota Amplatz Children’s Hospital. Please visit our foundation page to learn more!

Thank you very much for supporting our event last year! We couldn’t have been more thrilled with the result and the support we received from all of you. With the great success from our first two years we were able to establish an endowment fund in Mary’s name this past summer! This perpetual fund will provide annual funding to help hospitalized children at Amplatz Children’s hospital, it will live forever!

We reached our first milestone of $25,000! Our next milestone is to grow the fund to $100,000. By that achievement we will have our own plaque in the lobby of Amplatz Hospital, highlighting the significant funding provided by the Mary Moon Foundation. By growing the size of our endowment fund each year, we will also increase the amount of funding provided to the children annually.

Our second event had over 1200 attendees, about the same as our first year. We expanded our online and silent auctions from 110 items to over 180! As a 501c3 tax exempt organization we hope to continue to expand our opportunities to receive donations or financial sponsorships. Please sign up for our newsletter to be kept informed of further details for the upcoming event on March 9th, 2014!

We were very grateful for the support from our friends last year. We hope to have support from many of them again and from anyone else interested in assisting. If you are interested in helping this year please contact us at peterpokeefe@yahoo.com

Mary "Moon" Jacqueline O'Keefe died at the age of 3 on July 30th, 2009 after a yearlong battle with neuroblastoma, a cancer that is most common in infancy. Mary loved the attention and activities Child Family Life Services provided her at the University of Minnesota Children’s Hospital, this allowed her to be distracted during painful treatments and to be engaged in learning activities while in the hospital.

Please visit Our Foundation to learn more about Mary and her parents' goals with our new foundation.