Feeding frontline workers of the COVID-19 pandemic

******TO ALL DONORS: After you donate, send an email with your shirt size and mailing address to [email redacted]

Pretty amazing day today.....

-May 12th is the final day of National Nurse's Week.

-May 12th is Florence Nightingale's 200th birthday.
I'm not pretending I knew any of this before but Nightingale came from a wealthy family and could have done anything she wanted but she chose to be a nurse and many credit her with being the mother of modern nursing.

-And the irony of all ironies, 2020 is the year of the nurse

-May 12th is also the day we hope to hit our goal of raising enough money to give every nurse at all three Cone Health Hospitals in Greensboro a Hero Behind The Mask t-shirt. Donate if you can @ https://bit.ly/everynurse

We are more than halfway there with the help of so many who have donated anywhere from $10 to $500 and we have had some major support from area sponsors such as:

Maaco of Greensboro sponsored the truck and now they have sponsored 200 more shirts.

Michael Glick-Nationwide Insurance sponsored 200 t-shirts

1st Choice Home Care, Inc. sponsored 200 t-shirts

Other sponsors or individuals helped a ton:
The Autotrends
TITLE Boxing Club Greensboro Battleground
Buckhead Betties
Relocation Guide
Jenna Rice of Jenna Rice Art
Jennifer Dunn of Triad Pawprints
Marty Kotis of Kotis Street Art
Triad Guide
Laketography Citytography Socialtography
Jennifer Barrington Youngwood the literal hero behind the mask
Taheshah Claire Moise of WFMY News 2

And many more...but there is no way I can skip mentioning Jill Moore. Jill quietly walked up the day we were unveiling the truck and she said to the guy with the cameras "someone should tell Maury and Julia Kennedy that next week is Nurses Week". The guy with the cameras thought the campaign was ending with the unveiling of the truck. Little did he know the impact Jill would have on himself and the campaign. So Jill Moore, in honor of Nurse's Week, Florence Nightingale's 200th birthday and your tireless effort in the sacred space of nursing, the guy with the cameras wants to say thanks and share with the world something I captured with those very cameras this week.  

https://youtu.be/VJ61ag9jf1w 

Thank you!!!!!!



Okay sooooo...if I am allowed to have any more of your attention, this is when I am asking for it lol.

I literally had ten people text, message and call me yesterday within a two hour period asking me how we can just get a t-shirt for every nurse at Cone Health Hospital.

I don't have a clue how but....

....when doing the video we rolled out yesterday, https://youtu.be/ndlpcXIV69Y    I asked all five nurses to speak directly to Julia to give them someone off camera to focus on while I operated both cameras. So for an hour, we had four rockstar veteran nurses and a young nurse still in school who hasn't seen her kids this entire pandemic spilling their soul to my young college freshman daughter Julia Kennedy who is in school working her rear end off at The ECU College of Nursing because she thought she wanted to do this for a living.

Julia left before me and when she got home, Carey Hamill Kennedy texted me and said Julia walked in the door and started balling because of the experience.

Prior to the video she thought she wanted to be a nurse. I set up the video interviews this way intentionally thinking well this will either scare her or inspire her and I was okay with it either way if it meant helping her find her true north.

She no longer thinks she wants to be a nurse. She no longer even wants to be a nurse. She actually BECAME a nurse before our very eyes. She still has to finish her education but she became a nurse while we watched.

So nurses are no longer allowed to order a shirt because I am going to find a way to get them one. And I am going to have Julia pull up to the hospital in the mural truck loaded with tshirts and we are going to thank every one of them.

Help if you can, donate, share and if you know of a company that would want to sponsor some of the shirts we can add their logo to the sleeve of however many shirts they can sponsor. Click here https://bit.ly/everynurse

Thank you!

Thanks to Maaco of Greensboro for helping us sponsor the truck painting by Jenna Rice of Jenna Rice Art and thanks again to Marty Kotis of Kotis Street Art for loaning us the truck and his art studio. Thanks to Jennifer Dunn of Triad Pawprints who doesn't even know about this until this post lol.

Thanks to Jill Moore for turning Nurses Week into an epic week. Thanks to Tina Waddell Herndon Trink Schafstall Keener and Christy Osborne Crumpler for ruining my sleep last night by asking how we could make this happen lol

I don't know how we will make this happen but we will make this happen. Hopefully by May 12th :)


Also some have asked about using Venmo so here is the Venmo 




See all videos https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMJPh0OZO2i0dgCVE3HoRCTTNj0Xdki6B


5/4/2020 We are now adding names to the truck.  All donors' name will be inscribed on the back of the truck to make this a mobile thank you card from all of us to all frontline workers.  Thanks again to Maaco of Greensboro for helping make it happen. 

5/2/2020 - we now have a mobile thank you card to show nurses :) 


4/26/2020 - So we started raising money for lunches for nurses two weeks ago. It grew! Then Triad Pawprints created a t-shirt using art designed from a mural painted by Jenna Rice Art. All Donors are now receiving a t-shirt.Thank you so much for the donation.

******TO ALL DONORS: After you donate, send an email with your shirt size and mailing address to [email redacted]

That was cool enough as it is but now.....

Marty Kotis has loaned us a large 20' box truck and thru a joint sponsorship between Kotis Street Art and Maaco of Greensboro, we have commissioned Jenna Rice to paint the mural on the side of the truck. She started working on it a few hours ago because of how fast Marty and his team got the truck prepped for painting.

So starting this week, after it's finished at Maaco, we will be delivering meals to nurses in a delivery truck and the same mural that is on the t-shirt will be painted on the entire side of the truck....

AND

ALL DONORS' NAMES WILL BE PAINTED ON THE TRUCK.
We will now literally have a delivery truck branded with the Hero Behind the Mask logo on it and YOUR names painted as a thank you to the very nurses we are delivering food to.

So now if you donate @ https://bit.ly/FeedCone you feed a nurse, you get a t-shirt and your name will be painted on the delivery truck for the nurses to see who fed them.
Scroll thru the pics in order to see the progression over the last few hours.

A huge thanks to everyone listed above because all of this happened in one day and at zero cost. We now have a mobile thank you card that can also deliver food :)



4/23/2020 - Man this is a cool t-shirt. And now we are starting to give them to nurses as a thank you!

Donate $10 and feed a nurse and you get a t-shirt. Donate just $6 and a nurse gets a t-shirt. Donate $16 and they eat and you both get a t-shirt.

If you want to give multiple shirts to nurses just donate in increments of $6.   $12 for 2   or    $18 for 3      or    $24 for 4 etc

What I really want to find is someone wanting to give 100 for $600 :)

If you want to give a certain nurse a t-shirt you can request the shirt be sent to their address.



******TO ALL DONORS: After you donate, send an email with your shirt size and mailing address to [email redacted]

4/22/2020-live streaming concert with Cory Luetjen & the Traveling Blues Band at Double Oaks Bed & Breakfast 
4/19/2020  Okay so how cool is this?    Everyone who donates to our campaign to feed a frontline worker at Cone Health now also gets a FREE t-shirt thru a partnership with our friends at Triad Pawprints - art by Jenna Rice Art.

What if you already donated? They agreed to give you one also :) 

******TO ALL DONORS: After you donate, send an email with your shirt size and mailing address to [email redacted]


4/12/2010 Update - we have reached our original goal but we plan to continue until at least Friday of this coming week so keep the donations coming. As long as people are donating, we will be feeding frontline workers and helping local business.


FEED THE FRONTLINE WORKERS AT CONE HEALTH HOSPITALS 

While many of us are quarantined, many others are working hard every day.  The two groups we want to help are local restaurants and frontline healthcare workers at Cone Health.   As we all know, restaurants in the Triad are struggling and clearly we all know how incredibly hard our heroes in the hospitals are working.   

It's simple, donate $10 (or however much you can) and feed a Cone Health frontline employee.  We will take every dime we raise and buy meals from area restaurants and feed as many of them as possible.   We will send a list of donors just to let them know we are behind their efforts to end this pandemic.   

The frontline healthcare workers are the soldiers in the military of this war and we just want to remind them how important they are.

We will post updates here and on Triad Guide's Facebook page every day as well as pictures from the restaurants and nurses.   

COMPANY SPONSORSHIPS
Two companies just stepped up to sponsor a lunch: Title Boxing Greensboro Battleground    &   Buckhead Betties  &   Triad Relocation Services 
If your company wants to sponsor a lunch, send an email to [email redacted] and we will feature your company as the donor.   

TRIAD REAL ESTATE CHALLENGE 
Started by three Real Estate Agents at different companies Angie Wilkie,   Christy Crumpler  and Holli Sandberg  created the RE Challenge as an effort to get Agents from all over the Triad to collaborate and fund a lunch for the nurses one day this week.  We will dedicate a meal to the nurses this coming Thursday from all RE agents who donate.  We will include you in the video we post on Triad Guide . It's for a great cause but we also want to help promote small businesses in the area and see this as a win win for all of us. Feed a nurse, help feed a waiter and also help your local RE Agent out-all at once. It's open to anyone in the Real Estate industry.

Simply make a donation and in the comments in your GoFundMe donation, mention that the donation is for the Triad Real Estate Challenge and then email your business name and logo to [email redacted] and this Thursday, we can all help feed the frontline workers at Cone Health Hospital. Let's all show them how much we appreciate their efforts!  

We have almost 20 from the Real Estate Industry involved:
 
Angie Wilkie, Christy Crumpler, Holli Sandberg, Nancy Vaughan, Danielle White, Abbey Efird, Cindy Kee-MacPherson, Julie Olive, Amy Cook, Jan Epps-Dawson, Chris Pappalardo, Katrina Lazar, Jenna McKenzie, Tom Arevian, DJ McGarrigan, Stephanie Lomax, Lorrie Long, Nicole Rafferty, Jessica Spivey, Jeanne Blaisdell, Michelle Goodman.  

If you have donated to this challenge and your name is not listed, email [email redacted]  

Donate if you can.   100% goes straight to feeding the frontline healthcare workers.

DAILY UPDATE
4/8/2020 - we are feeding frontline workers with food paid for by YOU - from Stameys Barbecue 
4/9/2020 - we are feeding frontline workers with food paid for by YOU - from The Social on Friendly 
4/11/2020 - we are feeding frontline workers with food paid for by YOU - from Lindley Park Filling Station 
4/12/2020 - we are now offering businesses to sponsor a lunch, email [email redacted] for details
4/13/2020 - we are now hosting the Triad Real Estate Challenge for anyone in the Real Estate industry
4/16/2020 - we are feeding frontline workers with food paid for by those in the Real Estate industry - from Bites and Pints 
4/17/2020 - Scrambled Southern Diner  volunteered to donate the lunch without any donations so please go eat there (on the weekends only). US Foods and Chandler Foods  are donating food to help Scrambled with this lunch
4/18/2020 - we are feeding frontline workers with food paid for by YOU - from Taco Mama 
4/19/2020 - cool t-shirts to all donors
4/20/2020 - we are feeding frontline workers with food paid for by YOU - from Kiosko Mexican Grill 
4/22/2020-live streaming concert with Cory Luetjen & the Traveling Blues Band at Double Oaks Bed & Breakfast 
















See video from Stamey's efforts to feed the frontline