Angel Squad –celebrating 20 years!

Angel Squad
December 1, 2 & 3
2015
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Be a part of
Winnipeg history
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Align your brand
with goodwill
during the
holidays
DECEMBER 1, 2015
HELP US BREAK A
WORLD RECORD
Engage with your
community in a
memorable way
Misericordia Health Centre Foundation
Request for Sponsorship
Help us Break the World Record for the Largest Gathering of
Angels!
To celebrate 20 years of Angel Squad, a Winnipeg holiday tradition,
we want to show the world that Winnipeg has the most Angels in it!
SPONSOR INQUIRIES:
Vernelle Mirosh, Manager
of Partnerships and
Special Events
[email protected]
204.788.8469
misericordiafoundation.com
Angel Squad – celebrating 20 years!
Help us Prove that Winnipeg has the Most Angels!
Join us this December as we attempt to break the world record for
Largest Gathering of Angels!
Winnipeg is full of Angels, we know this. In 2014, Winnipeg made world news feeds with a Pay-itForward trend of citizens doing good deeds anonymously for strangers. In 2014, Manitoba was once
again named the most generous province in Canada, with the highest percentage of annual tax filers
donating to charity.
In 2015, we will make world news again, for a truly magical holiday feat; hundreds of Angels
gathering for yet another hometown good deed.
On December 1, 2015, we are inviting all the Angels in Winnipeg – and beyond – to come and get a
pair of wings and halo and a number. Our goal is to gather at least 1,200 Angels to break the world
record!
St Mary's student Angels, 2014 event
Angel Squad – celebrating 20 years!
Current Record-Holders
Hauzenberg, Germany
The largest gathering of angels was achieved by 1,039 participants, in Hauzenberg, Germany on
December 13, 2009.
1,039 participants set the record in Germany in December 2009
Angel Squad – celebrating 20 years!
Who We Are
Our Angels are volunteers, including students from many local schools; Westgate Mennonite
Collegiate, St. Mary’s Academy, Balmoral Hall School, Kelvin High School, Centre Scolaire LéoRémillard, and Mulvey School. Angels are also sponsors, local celebrities, and Misericordia staff as
well as many other members of the community.
We wave at morning commuters and give hot chocolate or coffee, donated by Starbucks, in exchange
for donations.
While about 400 volunteers come each year to be Angels, this year we are planning for over 1200
people to break the record – with extra Angels being sent from Misericordia Health Centre, local
schools, and existing partnerships, we believe we can do it!
Every year, people hear about Angel Squad in the news, on the radio, on their social media feeds – but
this year, we will have an even bigger story to tell.
Some of our youngest Angels come from Mulvey School and sing songs for our donors!
Angel Squad – celebrating 20 years!
Why We Do It
Angel Squad raises funds for Misericordia Health Centre.
It is a chance to spread joy during the festive season and to make a difference.
Angel Squad helps to bring life enrichment programs to residents living in long-term care, enhances
patient spaces inside MHC, and supports a wide variety of health-care priorities. One special project
partly funded by Angel Squad has been the Great-West Life Rooftop Garden and Solarium - on the
seventh floor, a peaceful, private sun-filled space for the people living at MHC.
It also supports MHC’s many flagship programs, including Urgent Care, PRIME, and the Sleep
Disorder Centre.
Music programs offer life enrichment in long-term care at MHC
Angel Squad – celebrating 20 years!
Why You Should Do It
The holidays are a perfect time to remind your customers about your company’s
goodwill and community spirit.
Over 1,200 angels will gather on December 1st, 2015 with wings, haloes - and a number - to celebrate
the season and break a world record!
Angels are everywhere Our Angels are seen in some of Winnipeg’s busiest places – we gather at the Maryland Bridge outside
of Misericordia Health Centre (23,000 motorists), Northbound St. Anne’s Road at the Seine River
Residence (23,400 motorists), and downtown at 360 Main Street and 201 Portage Avenue.
We receive great press coverage For the 2014 event, the Virgin Radio 103.1 FM Street Team along with Foundation staff members,
kicked off the 2014 Angel Squad event at Confusion Corner from 6am – 9am.
TV coverage - CTV Morning Live and CTV evening news, CBC evening news, Shaw TV, Global, and
Breakfast Television all came out for the event.
Radio coverage – CBC radio, CJOB, and Virgin 103.1 FM all covered the event.
Winnipeg Free Press is returning as the 2015 Angel Squad Print Media Sponsor.
Amazing Reach during the holiday season and beyond In 2014, the Misericordia Health Centre Foundation website was visited by over 7,000 people. During
Angel Squad our social media feeds reached over 3,500 people.
Articles about the 2014 Angel Squad were placed in The Misericordia Health Centre staff newsletter
and reached staff, department heads, health centre visitors and 100 residents of Misericordia Place
and their families.
Coverage in the Misericordia Health Centre Foundation newsletter reached 2,500 households in
September 2014, and 2,500 households in Spring 2015, in addition to distribution at Misericordia.
Angel Squad – celebrating 20 years!
Silver Sponsors $3,500
 Your company name and/or logo as Silver sponsor on all prominent signage at the event
o Viewed by nearly 50,000 passing motorists and an expected turnout of more than 1,200
volunteers
o In addition, Angel Squad has been covered in the news every year, on the radio, on television,
online, and in social media – be seen across many mediums tied with a good cause
 Your company name and/or logo as Silver
Sponsor on the Angel Squad website with a link to
your company website
o Last year our website was visited by
over 300 people during the Week of Angel Squad
o We had 7,000 different visitors to our
website in 2014, with approximately 75% of our
website traffic from Manitoba
 Your link and logo will remain on our website
for one year
 Your company name and/or logo as Silver
Sponsor on the Foundation Facebook and Twitter
o Last year we reached over 3,500
people on our own social media feeds during Angel
Squad
 Your company name and/or logo included as
Silver Sponsor on postcard distributed to donors
throughout Angel Squad
 Inclusion on the electronic component of the
Foundation’s donor wall during the holiday season
 Recognition in MHC Foundation newsletter
released Fall 2015 and Spring 2016 (mailed to 2,500
households x 2 and distributed throughout MHC)
 We will also present your company with a
certificate for display, “You Are Our Angel” for your
participation in Breaking the World Record for the
Largest Gathering of Angels
CTV Morning Live has been a returning guest at Angel Squad for
many years
Angel Squad – celebrating 20 years!
Gold Sponsors $5,000
You will receive everything from the Silver Sponsor level, PLUS:
 Your company name and/or logo will be prominently displayed in all print material
 Your company name and/or logo included as Gold Sponsor in all press releases regarding Angel Squad
o As we break the world record we expect to be featured in national and international news in
addition to the local news
 Your company name and/or logo recognition in a minimum of one advertorial in the Winnipeg Free
Press
 An additional Thank you to your company on the day of the event on the Foundation’s Facebook and
Twitter pages
o In 2014 our social media pages reached over 3,500 Manitobans on Angel Squad days
Winnipeg Free Press funnyman Doug Speirs looking extra angelic with MHC volunteer Angel in the early hours of the morning
Angel Squad – celebrating 20 years!
Presenting Sponsor $10,000
You will receive everything from the Silver and Gold Sponsor Levels, PLUS:
 Event Name Recognition – When we
break the World Record, your company
will be immortalized in history as part of
the name of the event,
“Angel Squad, Presented by Your
Company”
 We will print your name or logo on the
numbers that we print for every Angel to
wear, in order to count participants for
the world record
 Opportunity to be seen in all news
coverage, local, national and international
 Name and Logo recognition on all signage
including all printed material at all Angel
Squad events
 City of Winnipeg Transit Bus signage for
Your company will share in all the publicity we get for our world record
attempt!
the entire month of November, 2015
 Introduced as Presenting Sponsor in all
radio spots (number of spots to be confirmed)
 Name and/or Logo inclusion as Presenting Sponsor in all press releases regarding Angel Squad
 Name and/or Logo recognition as Presenting Sponsor on posters at Winnipeg Starbucks locations for
two weeks leading up to the event
 Inclusion on Misericordia Health Centre Foundation donor board as Presenting Sponsor throughout the
2015 holiday season
Angel Squad – celebrating 20 years!
Print Media Sponsor
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WINNIPEG FREE PRESS
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Name and Logo recognition as Print Media
Sponsor during entire Angel Squad event at
MHC location and satellite locations
Introduced as Print Media Sponsor in radio
spots for the Angel Squad Appeal
Featured on the Foundation website,
Facebook and Twitter
Name and logo included in postcard
distributed to donors throughout Angel
Squad
Name and/or Logo on posters at all Winnipeg
Starbucks locations for two weeks leading up
to the event
Name and/or Logo recognition in minimum
one advertorial in the Winnipeg Free Press
Angel Squad – celebrating 20 years!
Student Engagement
We are very committed to engaging young people in
our community to build relationships and make a
difference to our aging population. We welcome
students from Westgate Mennonite Collegiate, St.
Mary’s Academy, Balmoral Hall School, Kelvin High
School, Ecole Scolaire Léo-Rémillard, and Mulvey
School as “angel” and “choir” volunteers. We
sincerely believe that students volunteering for Angel
Squad become aware of the great need to raise funds
for our aging population and for other essential
programs, services and equipment needs at
Misericordia Health Centre not funded by government
Students from Balmoral Hall School
dollars.
CONFIRMED SPONSORS TO DATE
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City of Winnipeg Transit
MacDon – Gold Sponsor
Maxim Truck & Trailor – Friend of the Foundation
Red River Mutual – Friend of the Foundation
Starbucks – Gold Sponsor
Winnipeg Free Press – Print Sponsor
Thank you for considering our request.
Please direct all correspondence or questions to:
Vernelle Mirosh
Manager, Partnerships & Special Events
Misericordia Health Centre Foundation
Room 161, 99 Cornish Avenue
Winnipeg, Manitoba R3C 1A2
(204) 788-8469 – phone
(204) 774-0766 – fax
(204) 799-6883 – cell
For more information regarding Misericordia Health Centre Foundation and the work we do, and upto-the-minute Angel Squad event updates, please visit our website, www.misericordiafoundation.com.
Angel Squad – celebrating 20 years!
A History of Winter Feats Other World-Records Broken Close to Home
Longest Skating Rink in the World,
Winnipeg
The Red River Mutual Trail on the Assiniboine
River and the Red River broke the record for
the first time in 2008, when it took the record
away from Ottawa.
Winnipeg's Red River Mutual Trail is a source of hometown pride!
Longest Winter Road, Manitoba - Ontario
The 'Wapusk Trail' road (752 km (467 miles) in length) constructed each year between Gillam,
Manitoba, and Peawanuk, Ontario, Canada, is thought to be the longest seasonal winter road in the
world. Constructed each January on snow and ice, it gives road access for a few weeks to remote
settlements around Hudson Bay until the warmer March weather forces its
closure.
Slurpee Capital of the World, Winnipeg
According to 7-11, Winnipeg is a long-time undefended champion when it
comes to which city consumes the most Slurpees. Like our skating rink,
this world-record is a source of pride for many citizens!
Angel Squad – celebrating 20 years!
More information about MHC
Misericordia Health Centre is proud to have four flagship programs not offered anywhere else in Manitoba:
1. BUHLER EYE CARE CENTRE
This dynamic Centre, including 14 in-patient beds, is the largest comprehensive surgical and treatment centre
in Western Canada. More than 25,000 treatments and assessments and 12,000 eye surgeries are performed
each and every year, treating cataracts, macular degeneration, cancers of the eye and more. The Buhler Eye
Care Centre is also home to the Misericordia Eye Bank, a place to coordinate eye tissue donations for
transplantation, which can give the gift of sight back to patients. The eye bank also supports education and
research, enabling exploration into new treatments and technologies, so that MHC will remain at the forefront
of the best treatments for Manitobans.
2. PROVINCIAL HEALTH CONTACT CENTRE (PHCC)
The PHCC operates over 30 inbound and outbound calling programs – receiving 700,000 calls each year in
more than 110 languages. These programs include the Breast-Feeding Hotline, Triple-P-Parenting, TeleCARE,
Dial-A-Dietician and Health Links-Info Santé, where nurses provide health information and advice 24 hours a
day, seven days a week.
3. SLEEP DISORDER CENTRE
The Sleep Disorder Centre consists of the provincial sleep disorders diagnostic laboratory, sleep clinic and
treatment service. Sleep specialist physicians from the University of Manitoba’s Section of Respirology,
Department of Medicine, review more than 5,400 sleep studies annually by centre staff in the diagnostic
laboratory. Staff study everything from breathing problems to Restless Leg Syndrome to Insomnia.
4. URGENT CARE CENTRE
Our Urgent Care Centre opened in 1998 as a made-in-Manitoba program; the first of its kind in Canada. Urgent
Care specializes in handling non-life threatening medical emergencies, providing assessment and treatment
for urgent health concerns. It plays a strong role in providing support for city emergency departments, helping
more than 43,300 people a year. In addition to health assessment and treatment, patients also have access to
diagnostic testing and other health-care disciplines such as social work, physiotherapy, occupational therapy,
nutrition, pharmacy and respiratory therapy. Whether you have broken an arm, your baby has a fever, or you
are living with mental illness, we are there to help.
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Misericordia is also home to the following programs and services:
PRIME – Services for Seniors
In keeping with a vision to be a leader in healthy aging, Misericordia Health Centre has been chosen as the
second site for PRIME — a health centre for seniors, scheduled to open in May of 2015. The main focus of this
program is to support seniors who have complicated health and social needs to live independently in their
own homes for as long as possible. Donations are making this forward-thinking, crucial care program for
Winnipeg a reality. Gifts to PRIME will allow Misericordia’s program to offer a full menu of services to 94
people (and their families) living in their own homes, but needing that extra bit of help. This beautiful new
space has been purpose-built with our aging population in mind.
AMBULATORY CARE
This unique out-patient program includes rehabilitation services such as physiotherapy, occupational therapy
and Easy Street – a unique mini-community where our patients can practice activities of daily living like
banking and shopping. Ambulatory Care meets the needs of our community through diverse clinics: cast,
wound and foot care, peripheral vascular disease and minor surgical procedures.
MISERICORDIA HEALTH CARE FOR LUNGS
The MHC for Lungs program is designed for people living with lung conditions including emphysema, chronic
bronchitis or chronic asthma. Every year we have more than 600 clinic visits, teaching people about their
disease: how to live with it and how to improve their quality of life.
DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING SERVICES
If you need an x-ray, a CT scan or an ultrasound, MHC provides these in-demand services with excellence.
Diagnostic imaging also includes a cardiology service and incorporates the Winnipeg outpatient location for
the Manitoba Breast Screening Program.
PEDIATRIC DENTAL SURGERY
In 2005, Misericordia was named as a community setting site to help reduce wait times for pediatric dental
surgery. Today, wait times are half of what they were when MHC started performing dental surgeries. Children
over two years of age come to us to have their teeth repaired – so they can eat, sleep and just be kids again!
We perform approximately 950 pediatric dental surgeries a year.
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LONG TERM CARE
Misericordia Place is a 100-bed warm and inviting personal care home, providing quality care 24 hours a day.
Misericordia Place is connected to Misericordia Health Centre via a convenient enclosed walkway. We are also
home to 145 interim care beds, providing a comfortable home-like environment for these residents waiting to
get into the personal care home of their choice.
LABORATORY SERVICES
Our laboratory services – operated by Diagnostic Services of Manitoba – provide a vital link to surrounding
community clinics and to all of Misericordia’s programs. If you visit our Urgent Care Centre, for example,
laboratory staff will draw your blood, perform the test and report the results to Urgent Care.
Responding to Needs
MHC REDEVLOPMENT & GROWTH
Both Misericordia Health Centre and Misericordia Health Centre Foundation are governed by a Board of
Directors. Directors are accountable to the communities MHC serves — including the Winnipeg Health Region
and Manitoba Health — for ensuring that we are providing safe and compassionate care to our residents and
patients. During this time of significant redevelopment at Misericordia, both Boards continue to be responsive
to the changing health-care needs of Manitobans and advocate for an aging population.
Misericordia Health Centre provides education and training to all care-givers, including physicians, nurses,
staff and volunteers. For example, donor dollars are used to educate ophthalmologists of the future through
the University of Manitoba’s Ophthalmology Residency Program, housed at Misericordia.
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