Move With Balance® Fundraiser Concert

Jun 27, 2016

65 nonprofits, who work with people over 65, have been selected for a 65-hour fundraiser sponsored by Home Instead Foundation. 65 hours = Monday July 11, 7PM—Thursday July 14 12:00PM HST.

Giving Back, our nonprofit organization on Maui since 2000, has created an award-winning program Move With Balance® for elders 65+. We have been selected as one of the 65 nonprofits.

Home Instead will give $10,000 to the nonprofit who has the most donors, and $10,000 to the nonprofit who receives the most donations. We are going after the “most donors” prize!

Simultaneously, during the Home Instead 65 hours, Giving Back is holding a Fundraiser/Concert at the Makawao Union Church Sanctuary on Tuesday July 12 from 5:30—8PM. Bill Fuller is the musician, singer, songwriter, entertainer for the evening. We have all heard his beautiful, heartfelt music over the years. Come and support us while enjoying Bill’s amazing music.

Bill and I have teamed up to create Move With Balance® with Music for Alzheimer’s/Dementia. We have successfully completed 2 programs with great results. www.MoveWithBalance.org

Here’s how you can help:
1. Please blast out the attached flyer to your email list. It would be great to fill the sanctuary for this fundraiser/concert. It will be a fun evening!

2. Admission to Concert:
Please make a tax deductible donation to Move With Balance® on the www.give65.org/givingback site. You can either donate on your computer at the GIVE65 site beforehand, and bring your receipt to the concert; OR on our computers as you enter the sanctuary the evening of the concert. $10–20+ suggested donation. You don’t have to be present to donate.

Move With Balance® Fundraiser and Concert
Tuesday July 12, 5:30—8:00PM
Makawao Union Church Sanctuary
1445 Baldwin Avenue

Thank you! Karen “Freesia” Peterson and Bill Fuller

Alzheimer’s Client Remembers Us After a Year!

Jun 12, 2016

Last week Bill Fuller, our musician, and I were in Costco. All of the sudden a women gave us a huge smile, and then a huge hug, and then another huge hug. My mind was sorting through the various elders I have worked with over the years, and then I remembered her from a Move With Balance® with Music for Alzheimer’s/Dementia that we taught a year ago, June 2015. We remembered her, but the amazing thing is that she REMEMBERED us. We were warned that our clients would not remember us from week to week. But we knew they did, as each week they came into class and sang and responded to Bill’s original songs. What a truly amazing and lovely surprise that she remembered us a year later! Maybe not who we were exactly, but she remembered our deep, and loving connection.
—Karen Peterson