Check out "Roo's wish" to see how this campaign has spread to Virginia!
DECEMBER 19th was a magical day of surprises for Konner's family! To read about how it unfolded, please click on this link -- and be sure to check out the slide show with your sound turned up!!! If you'd like to help the girls with their NATIONAL campaign inspired by what they did for Konner, please scroll down....
The growing list of participating Des Moines, IA Metro Area Businesses and Schools includes:
Both Hy-Vees on Euclid 
Dahls on Euclid
Palazzo’s Java House
Pamala Gilmore Salon
Family Video on Easton
Loffredos
Advanced Lighting
Grounds for Celebration (all 5 locations)
Central Business Forms
Church of the Cross
Fair Play Trans Lux
Campbell’s Concession
The Latin King
C’est La Vie
Iowa Work Development
Iowa Beef Steakhouse
Blaine's screen printing
Rusty's Lounge
May Goodrell Junior High
Hoyt Middle School
| Brubaker Elementary |
Moos Craft Store |
Bella Italia |
| East High School |
Toad's |
Park Avenue Cleaners |
| Now and Later |
BP Gas Station |
Iowa Digestive Disease Center |
| Jai Dubois Salon |
Evangelical Covenant Church |
Java Joes |
| Victoria Cleaners on 156th and Hickman |
Victoria Cleaners on 60th and Ashworth |
Carmike Windsong Theater |
| Carmike Cobblestone Theater |
Carmike Southridge Theater |
Max Shott and Associates Law Firm |
| Debra Allen Salon |
Prairie Life |
Robert Davis at Expressions |
| Starbucks at Jordan Creek Mall |
Aspen Athletic Club |
Adventureland Inn |
| Mark Schultz with the Paper Corp. |
The Club Car in Waukee |
Jerry's Homes / Angel & Ron Grubb |
| Lemar Industries |
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Their lives will be busy over the next three weeks, but these girls already have their game-face on, and are up for the challenge. Remarked 14 year-old Vancy, "I want to do something different for once and help someone else out. It makes me happier to know that I'm giving and making someone else's life easier."
If you'd like to help:
Make a check out to RandomKid
There are four ways to help these girls help kids with cancer:
1. Put "Christmas for Konner" in the memo (details on how it's distributed below).
2. Put "Roo's Wish" in the memo in memory of a boy who died of cancer just before his 12th birthday (details on how it's distributed here).
3. Put "Stuff the Stocking" in the memo to help these girls in Iowa and Virginia start their national campaign to help kids with cancer. The girls are discussing how to distribute the funds, but they will all go to well known, 501C3 charities.
4. Leave the memo blank and all of your donation will go to RandomKid, a 501C3 nonprofit organization to help more kids like these help others in all sorts of ways.
Mail the check to:
RandomKid
P.O. Box 2064
McKinney, TX 75070
The money the girls raised is being distributed as follows:
- 70% to a fund for Konner and his family
- 20% to Blank Children's Hospital (Child Life Center)
- 10% to RandomKid to help more kids like these help others.
If you'd like to help more kids help others,
*Please check out our RandomStore for great gift-giving items designed by kids, with proceeds benefiting their charities of choice.
*Encourage other random kids to join us!
*Share your time and talent in some other way, by subscribing to our volunteer newsletter to see what kids are up to and how they might be able to use your help.
*Email a link to our site (www.randomkid.org) to another child or grown-up who may be interested in making the world a better place through children.
Click here for more on this story on Des Moines' NBC Affiliate, WHO-TV's website.
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