Paying it forward wishes & Hero’s Chicago & NWI
Press release
For immediate release | Contact person: Tamye Haugen
Company name: Paying It Forward Wishes & Hero's Chicago & NWI
Telephone number:219-554-9359
Email address:Payitforwardchicagoandnwi@gmail.com
Websiteaddress:https://www.facebook.com/groups/payingitforwardChicagonNWI/
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“Paying It Forward A Growing Sensation”
Hammond Indiana September,16th,2013— New pay it forward group takes Facebook by storm and helps to grant 100 wishes in just 18 days. Tamye Haugen a NWI area housewife takes Facebook by storm when she created a new group Paying It Forward Wishes and Hero's Chicago and NWI on Facebook just 18 days ago. Tamye always has had a passion for helping others and when a local person asked her if she had any food left over from a BBQ she had a few days before that she could share because she was hungry Tamye took to Facebook to ask for help. In just 24hrs after Tamye posting her request online close to 100 bags of food were delivered to both Tamye’s home and Mikes Auto in Hammond Indiana to help. Due to the amazing out-pour of help from others Tamye was able to provide this family and 5 others with food for a month. Tamyes need to help others didn't just stop there she created the new group Paying It Forward Wishes and Heroes with the hope of giving those who are in need a safe place to come to to make a wish for help without feeling they are being judged for being in need and helping to connect them with others who have the same desire to help Pay It Forward as she does and then it happened.
On July,30th,2013 Paying It Forward Wishes and Heroes Chicago and NWI came to life starting out with just 140 members with the desire to help others and with those in need of help and just like that members started granting wishes for school supplies, clothing, household items, food and necessity baskets, birthday wishes,rides to the Dr. or store, household help among others and overnight the spirit of paying it forward grew. Tamye Haugen founder and CEO has since then grown the group to over 1000 members and with the help of members granted over 100 wishes in just 18 days . The group has also received enough donations to start their own clothing closet to continue to help members in their community with clothing and other needs and each day the group does more and more and just continues to grow. Tamye Haugen say’s “ We have no intention of stopping as long as people are in need the members of this group will be around to pay it forward”
On September,5th Fox News Chicago came out to meet Tamye Haugen in person and the group has since grown from 1,700 members and 240 wishes granted to 2,300 members and close to 300 wishes granted. They now have 3 clothing closets one in Hammond Indiana, one in Michigan City Indiana & one in Romeoville with more coming soon. They are also planning on opening a Paying It Forward Store with all proceeds going to benefit charitable organizations and members wishes being granted. They have filed paper work to become a not for profit corporation and are raising money to file for 501c3 tax exempt status so that they can apply for grant funding to be able to have their own crisis hotline with a focus on suicide prevention as well as continue to help members in much larger ways. To check out their interview on Fox News Chicago you can go to http://www.myfoxchicago.com/story/23354459/paying-it-forward-facebook-page-helps-make-wishes-come-true
Member Nicki Fahey say’s “You know the more I look for things the more I realize how unique this group really is. Nobody here I believe will put you in a specific category by what you might be wishing for or what you really need. Everybody just comes together and helps one another however they can. The ladies who created this group are blazing amazing.”
Nicki is right unlike many other non-profit organizations which you have to meet a certain criteria for to be helped. Paying It Forward Wishes and Heroes is 100% funded by donations and the help that is given one member to another and that is what really sets them aside from all the rest but that is not the only thing. Unlike many other organizations where if you need help you call, set up an appointment come in with all your paperwork this group is social media based with a group page hosted on Facebook for members to join ask for help and then members of the group looking to pay it forward can offer help to others in their areas. It is not all just members granting the wishes both Tamye Haugen & her growing crew of administrators, area managers and volunteers go above and beyond to not just administer the site but to also go out and contact and talk to others to help make their members wishes come true. Tamye is restoring faith in humanity one wish at a time and the trend is spreading. Tamye is being contacted on a daily basis from people all over the US looking to start a Paying It Forward Wishes & Heroes chapter of their own. With locations already in Illinois & Indiana she is currently in talks with others about starting a chapter in Twin CIties Minneapolis as well as Las Vegas. Look for Paying It Forward WIshes & Heroes to expand and grow all over the U.S.
There are two wishes that have really pulled at the group members heartstrings and members are going out of their way to do all that they can to help make these wishes a reality and bring sunshine and light into an otherwise sad situation and she would like to share them with us.
Dana Krisine states
“My friends son earned his angel wings after fighting cancer he was only 20 months... They are trying to get his name on the wall at the Ronald McDonald house! We need more pop top tabs to make this happen! Please help us make this family's dream come true! Thank you everyone for your consideration and time!” Something as simple as all of the members pulling together to save their pop top cans and donate them to the Ronald McDonald house in this child's name can make one family whose precious child was taken from their arms too soon dream memorial for him come true. Tamye Haugen and her amazing group Paying It Forward Wishes and Heroes will not stop until they can mark these and all their other wishes as granted because they believe Wishes can come true when people work together and pay it forward.
On July,31st the group was created and the first wish was posted by Jamie Kellerman Altman who made this wish for her parent’s “ hi my wish is for my parents they are both very ill and won't make it another year my dad suffers from congestive heart failure and seizures and micro heart attacks he is eighty four and a war vet Vietnam and my mom has hardening of the arteries in the brain pier like a child because of pressure on the brain they will celebrate their sixty third anniversary on the twenty third of august i would like to make one of their dreams come true and help them meet some wrestlers please let me know if you can help”
Ever since this wish was posted many of the amazing group members have been bending over backwards contacting everyone they can think of to help grant this dying wish of an amazing man and Vietnam veteran because as group members and friends will often hear creator Tamye Haugen say over and over again “ That's what we're all about “ 6 weeks later on September,16th we are happy to report this wish has been granted and The Paying It Forward Team will be hosting an Anniversary Party complete with a wrestling match for this couple and their family on Sunday,September,22nd at The American Legion Hall in New Buffalo Michigan where Tamye will be presenting the Altman’s with yet one more surprise, Tickets to WWE Monday Night Raw the following evening with backstage passes to meet the wrestlers one on one. Tamye said “ When I first saw this wish it touched my heart but to be honest it wasn't what I had created the site for and I wasn't sure how I could possibly grant it and make this happen but just like any other wish that comes to our site I wasn't giving up on it until I could mark it WISH GRANTED and I beyond ecstatic that together we were able to make it possible I can’t wait to see the look on the couple’s face when we tell them about it.”
If this amazing group can bring close to 1000 people together to pay it forward and grant 100 in just 18 days
can you imagine what they will do as they continue to grow. 18 days in and they are already in a position to help members with a weekly clothing giveaway, starting a necessity drive to run throughout the month of September and a Holiday food and toy drive starting in October to help families in need. for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Group members are coming together to donate their time and service to help in anyway that they can, A group of men in the construction industry have already contacted Tamye about offering their services to do a room remodel for a family in need this fall and details are currently being worked on to make this offer a reality and once again make one family's dream come true. The reason behind creating this group comes from Tamyes desire to not just help others but to show them that when times are hard and you are feeling blue that there is a safe place that they can come to ask for help where they will find people who care and are willing to help,proving once again that it doesn't have to cost a dime to help those in need it just takes a lot of heart and that is one thing this group has.
Whether you would like more information about this group, need help or someone to turn to when you are down or you are like the other amazing members of this group and would like to offer help and pay it forward you can go tohttps://www.facebook.com/groups/payingitforwardChicagonNWI/
If you would like to sponsor a wish, sponsor a fundraiser or make a donation to this truly amazing organization you can do so by contacting the Pay It Forward group at the number listed above or you can PayPal donations to payitforwardchicagoandnwi@gmail.com
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