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Guardian Angels – September 2013

By Together Rising | September 13, 2013

Guardian Angels Love Flash Mob was held on September 17, 2013. We raised $100,000 in six hours – with maximum donations of $25 each. The funding was enough to provide four alert dogs as guardian angels and companions for children desperately in need of canine companions. Two children suffered from Type 1 Diabetes and needed diabetic…

Battle Monument School

By Together Rising | April 19, 2013

Please take seven minutes out of your day to watch this. Then spend another seven minutes showing it to your kids or someone you love. Show the people you love WHAT YOU DID. Show them WHAT THIS PLACE DID. What the hope and love you share here each day turned INTO. Show them what hope…

Project Home Indy – March 2013

By Together Rising | March 5, 2013

Project Home Indy Love Flash Mob was held on March 5, 2013. We raised $85,000 in 5 and a half hours in increments $25 or less, so that Project Home Indy could bring a teenage mom and her young son without a home into PHI to live and thrive. All told, more than 4,500 people from…

Microsoft + Monkees = Miracles

By Together Rising | November 1, 2012

The Monkees joined forces with Microsoft to GIVE time, technology, and hope to Battle Monument School.  Battle Monument is an under-funded public school located in Baltimore County, MD  for students between the ages of 3 and 21 with profound mental and physical disabilities. The week before the transformation, Monkees used amazon.com to purchase over $18,000 worth…

Miracle Mindy

By Together Rising | July 23, 2012

We first met Mindy in March 2012, when her neighbors reached out to the Monkees to see if we could help their family friends.  Mindy was a beloved mama battling stage 4 bone, lung, and liver cancer. Their much older car was in the shop with desperately needed repairs.  You can read about the first…

Our Claudia

By Together Rising | June 15, 2012

After an active life serving others as a fire fighter, EMT, paramedic, nurse, and flight medic Claudia found herself without a vehicle. In 2005, this single mama with three children, all of whom have Fragile X syndrome, was diagnosed with ALS,  also known as Lou Gherig’s disease.  Her health slowly deteriorated to the point where…

Kairos for Croyles

By Together Rising | May 2, 2012

On February 9, 2012, the Monkees held our first official Love Flash Mob, raising money to send a well-loved mama with cancer, Kristin Croyle, on vacation with her beautiful family.  The outpouring of love blew. us. away.  Giving only in increments of $5, $10, and $25, Monkees raised over $25,000 in 10 hours. You can…