Written by PCD Smiles on 09 January 2024. Posted in General.

Founder's Fundraiser

We are excited to announce that PCD Smiles is now no longer just a Minnesota nonprofit charity, we achieved our 501(c)(3) status in the Fall of 2023. Our goal is to ensure that our mission of sending smiles to all PCD patients can continue into the future with confidence. To make this happen we need you! Please consider donating in honor of your PCD loved one or in honor of our Founder Reneé Dale’s fiftieth birthday this month.

Reneé is the driving force behind PCD Smiles’s mission of sending smiles and providing her PCD peers an outlet during stressful moments, procedures, and treatment during hospitalizations to help ease any trauma or discomfort. Activities, crafts, and stuffies where a big part of helping Reneé through her hospitalizations over the years. She still enjoys many of these same activities to this day, especially when hospitalized. Although her primary focus is on her love quilting and sewing; her passion is on her fine art pieces where she specializes in pen and ink. She credits her art and quilting to having PCD. For without PCD she may never have needed to slow down at times, which gave her the chance to master her art.

As we move forward we look to ensure a lasting legacy of patient smiles, support, and advocacy for PCD patients worldwide. Please help us continue our mission today by considering donating to our Founder’s Birthday Fundraiser. Won’t you consider donating $5.00 so we can continue to send cheer packages to hospitalized PCD, no matter their age, today? Or how about committing to a monthly reoccurring donation? Any amount will help and your donation is greatly appreciated. Thank you!

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Written by PCD Smiles on 17 September 2016. Posted in General.

A word from the Founder

Hello,

Thank you for your interest and support of PCD Smiles. Since starting this program with my husband's support, the outporing of support from the PCD community has been astounding. As I have spoken with recipients, parents' of recipients, and donors alike; the one question that seems to be on everyone's mind is, where did the idea for PCD Smiles come from? So here is my answer to that question.

I was inspired to start PCD Smiles because, as a child, I was a frequent recipient of the Ruth Lyons Children's Fund (originally known as the Ruth Lyons Christmas Fund); growing up in the Dayton, Ohio area. Upon checking in for my hospitalizations for PCD (Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia), I got to select one free toy from the toy cart in the admission's office at the Dayton Children's Hospital. To this day I still own most of the stuffed animals that I had chosen. The free toy was a big part of each of my hospital stays. The toy helped me create my own little world where I could escape and cope with my medical treatment.

With PCD Smiles, I hope to bring that same opportunity to other PCD patients; no matter their age!

Founder

Renee Dale

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Written by PCD Smiles on 17 September 2016. Posted in General.

Donations

Now Shipping Smiles to the United States & Canada

PCD Smiles

PCD Smiles is a 501(c)(3) charity , funded primarily through donations.

Our mission is to bring Smiles to hospitalized PCD patients and or those PCD patients who have recently returned home from a hospitalization through the gift of Cheer Packages no matter their age. We are currently only in the United States & Canada.

To request a Cheer Package for you or your hospitalized PCDer, please visit our "Request Cheer Package" page and fill out our secure form.

If you would like to donate items to PCD Smiles's Cheer Packages, please visit our "Donations" page.

Join our Facebook group Turtle Talk Café today, click here.

We have several ways that you can donate to PCD Smiles;

- Visit Smile E. Turtle's Amazon Wishlist

- For more information on how you can donate, please visit our "Donation" page to check out our "Do & Don't policies.

- Or sponsor a PCD Smiles cheer package today!

- To shop for your “Official” turtle care ribbon gear today, visit PCD Style or Smile E. Cove

Thank you for your consideration!