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News and Events – March/April 2023
Celebrate with us at the Summer Benefit 2023 | Honoring Maude Askin | The Hollister Confidence Project
The Journey to Good Health
If you’ve ever had the unenviable duty of readying and transporting a child to soccer practice, music lessons or a school play, you don’t need anyone to tell you how onerous such a task can seem.
When Vegetables Were Unhealthy
Before the late nineteenth century, most Americans believed a healthy diet was rich in fat, starches, and salt. Many avoided fresh produce, assuming that fruits and vegetables would worsen their health and make them vulnerable to cholera and dysentery.
Bank of America finds a healthy partner in The Floating Hospital
If you’ve ever had the unenviable duty of readying and transporting a child to soccer practice, music lessons, or a school play, you don’t need anyone to tell you how onerous such a task can seem. Getting out of the door with a young child or an infant can require a Herculean effort. And that’s in the best of circumstances.
News and Events – January/February 2023
Welcome our new board members, new life skills curriculum, an interview with president, Sean Granahan and we honor the commitment of 39 long-tenured staffers.
Where Salty Breezes Blow
Excerpted from an article about The Floating Hospital, then operated by St. John’s Guild, in Harper’s Young People magazine, September 10, 1889
The Gift of Candy Cane Lane
For five days in our new community outreach center (Dec. 12-16), Candy Cane Lane, the Floating Hospital’s annual holiday event, hosted 770 family members, providing hundreds of gifts each day, including toys, games, gift-cards, pajamas and desperately needed winter clothing.
Celebrating Endings
In the spirit of celebrating endings, for they precede new beginnings, we look back at the highlights of 2022.
Tribute to Carol Campbell
Carol Campbell, our former Foundation Board Chair, who passed away last month, was all in on The Floating Hospital’s mission. After hearing one of our patients speak at the hospital’s 2015 summer benefit, she implored a friend, a Floating Hospital employee, saying, “Tell me what I can do, how I can help — I’ll do anything."
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