Posted by The Web Master under In the Community on August 12th, 2009
Thursday, Aug. 13, 2009 is Miracle Treat Day, and if you haven’t read any of our other posts regarding Miracle Treat Day, or haven’t been motivated to head out to a particpating Dairy Queen® location yet, here’s a little more information for your regarding this amazing day.
Since 1984, the DQ® system has raised over $77 million to help make miracles happen for children at Children’s Miracle Network hospitals throughout North America. On Miracle Treat Day 2008, DQ raised $5.7 million for Children’s Miracle Network hospitals, and we hope to raise as much, if not more, this summer.
Buy a Blizzard® Treat at a participating DQ® location tomorrow and $1 or more per Blizzard will benefit the Children’s Miracle Network hospital in your area. The funds raised stay local, so you’ll be helping to save and improve the lives of children in your community!
Remember to buy a Blizzard Treat on Aug. 13 and SAVE A LIFE!
Six Blizzard Treats in Ten hours – the “Occupational Hazard” of having Miracle Treat Day in your job description!
Yep, you read that right! I ate six Blizzard Flavor Treats in ten hours – the delicious (and heartwarming and emotional and goose-bump creating) “occupational hazard” of having Miracle Treat Day as part of my job here at the DQ® corporate headquarters.
Last year was my first Miracle Treat Day, the one-day fundraising event where participating Dairy Queen locations raise money for their local Children’s Miracle Network hospitals by doing the most delicious thing possible – selling Blizzard treats! Together with my Miracle Treat Day coworker, Sara Will, and our president and CEO John Gainor, my “six Blizzard Treats in ten hours” marathon last year began by delivering 200 Blizzard treats to the patients and staff at Gillette Children’s Hospital in the Twin Cities. Wow, what an amazing and moving experience it was to deliver those treats and see the HUGE smiles, knowing how much hurt and heartache those children were facing! I honestly can’t describe how proud I felt knowing that generous DQ franchisees all over the country that day were selling Blizzard treats (and donating their own money) to raise funds to help kids like these ones get better.
We spent the rest of the day visiting DQ locations all over the Twin Cities. It was great to see the hundreds and hundreds of people lined up buying Blizzard treats to help us make miracles happen for sick and injured children, and to see how hard our DQ operators and staff were working to make the day such a huge success.
So, although eating multiple Blizzard treats in one day won’t help me train for that 10 mile race in October – I know what I will see and feel on Miracle Treat Day will do wonders for my heart and my spirit. I might even try to sneak in a seventh Blizzard treat this year – I have always wanted to try that Banana Cream Pie Blizzard, and I should probably demonstrate to my boss that I am indeed “growing and improving” in my job, right?! Please join me on Aug. 13 by purchasing a Blizzard (or six!) at a participating DQ location and help make Miracles Happen in the lives of kids in need.
Check out what American Dairy Queen Corporation’s president and CEO John Gainor has to say about this year’s Miracle Treat Day:
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Posted by The Web Master under In the Community on July 8th, 2009
If you’re like me, you probably grew up with one or more heroes. I remember at age five thinking Superman was the bravest person on the planet. He was my hero and I faithfully wore my very own homemade Superman costume just to be like him.
As an adult, I still believe in heroes – people throughout history who have made a profound difference in all of our lives – but even more so, to me the real heroes are the young children who face incredible odds just to make it through each day. They are the unsung heroes, patients in children’s hospitals all over North America who, instead of playing soccer or the violin or dressing up like their favorite caped crusader, battle diseases such as leukemia or medulloblastoma. These children face at a very young age what most of us can’t ever imagine having to deal with during our lifetime and they do it with courage and grace.
Children’s Miracle Network raises money and awareness for 170 hospitals throughout North America. Each year these hospitals provide the finest medical care to help millions of children. Dairy Queen®, which has long been a cause partner of Children’s Miracle Network, will celebrate the fourth annual North American Miracle Treat Day on August 13. On that Thursday, participating DQ® stores all over the U.S. and Canada will donate $1 or more to their local Children’s Miracle Network hospitals for every Blizzard® Treat sold. Last year, $5.7 million was raised to help children and families.
Can you think of a better way to cool off this summer and simultaneously help children in need?
I hope you will join us at your favorite Dairy Queen location on August 13 to help create smiles and stories while we make miracles for our littlest heroes. For more information visit MiracleTreatDay.com!
