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08.19.2010 -- Kindness helps Lake Elsinore man battling cancer fix up yard -- Press Enterprise.com
Last Christmas Lake Elsinore resident Aaron Roy struggled to put up decorative lawn inflatables before his 2-year-old son, Eli, came home from day care.
After the daylong ordeal and Santa finally in place, Roy retreated inside to rest and didn't notice when someone stole the decorations.
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08.17.2010 -- My Wish To Meet Robin Roberts -- ABCNews.com
Check out the ABC news special on John Meacham and fulfilling his dream to meet Good Morning America's Robin Roberts.
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07.28.2010 -- Wish Granting DF in Need of Airline Miles -- Noozhawk
From a small office in Santa Barbara, the Dream Foundation is working on 134 dreams — with more than 50 requesting travel, to allow for reunions, goodbyes and final family trips. The airline tickets associated with these dreams alone would require more than 5 million airline miles.
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07.21.2010 -- Summer Style in SB -- Santa Barbara Independent
Feet Dreams: So, once a year, the Dream Foundation—the S.B. nonprofit that fulfills the dreams of adults facing illness—throws an epic fundraiser that doubles as a fashion show and has wrangled such behemoths of the catwalk as Stella McCartney, Diane Von Furstenberg, and Roberto Cavalli. (There’s usually a cadre of shirtless men standing around, sporting angel wings, too. Just saying.)
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07.18.2010 -- Tender Wishes -- Daily Times
Terry Whitfield had a dream of meeting horse trainer Ken McNabb, riding horses with the star of RFD-TV's “Discovering the Horseman Within” under blue Wyoming skies. That wish was fulfilled in June when Whitfield and his wife Terri Lynn traveled to McNabb’s ranch in Wyoming courtesy of Dream Foundation, an organization formed in 1994 to grant wishes of terminally ill adults.
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06.30.2010 -- Dare to Dream -- Idaho Mountain Express
Fashion divas long to sit with the likes of Vogue editor Anna Wintour and celebrities such as Sarah Jessica Parker in the front-row seats of the catwalks for New York City Fashion Week every February. Among this year's front-row patrons was Latoya Headley, 25, from Montecito, Calif. Headley had her fashion fantasy wish come true with the help of Santa Barbara's Dream Foundation and saw Diane von Furstenberg's collection strut pass her first-hand, allowing her to experience true fashion bliss this past February.
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06.21.2010 -- Living The Dream -- Santa Barbara News-Press
Her own name, Samantha Goldstone, would certainly have been fitting for the jewelry line she launched in July 2009.
Instead, the young designer, who lives in Montecito with her husband, Andrew Goldstone, and their 3-year-old daughter, Nina, calls her eclectic collection Adesso.
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06.14.2010 -- Marines Fulfill Nebraksan's Dream -- Omaha.com
It's all enough to make Galindo feel like a lucky man, in many ways. And he said he can't thank the Dream Foundation enough for making his wish come true. The California-based organization, founded in 1994, is close to fulfilling its 10,000th dream this summer.
“Those Marines could've just gone home, and they didn't have to stay around to do that for me,” Galindo said. “I owe all of that to the Dream Foundation, because without them none of this would've been possible.”
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06.03.2010 -- Oldest Post Fulfills Marine's Last Wish -- Washington Post
Julian Galindo wanted one last memorable moment with his wife, but he had grown so weak from a debilitating brain disease that even holding a telephone for a few minutes made him tremble uncontrollably.
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06.03.2010 -- Flower Power! -- Montecito Journal
After rain forced the event’s rescheduling, the Dream Foundation’s First Annual Flower Empower luncheon was held Friday May 21 at the fairytale setting of Rose Story Farm in Carpinteria. Hostesses Nora McNeely Hurley and Danielle Hahn welcomed 80 women for an afternoon of wine, food, flowers and fun. As guests arrived they followed a meandering trail that led them to a grass-covered plateau surrounded by stately cypress trees and Danielle’s 20,000 colorful and fragrant rose bushes.
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05.04.2010 --Dream Foundation Asking Community to Vote Online -- Noozhawk
The Dream Foundation is in the running for a $50,000 grant through the Pepsi Refresh Project, and it needs the community to rally behind it and vote.
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03.2010 -- Compassion is Always in Fashion -- Montecito Journal
Long-time Vogue editor Anna Wintour always sits in the front row during New York Fashion Week, but thanks to Santa Barbara's Dream Foundation, one very special guest also got the celebrity treatment last week with front row seats to the Diane von Furstenberg show and a private meeting with Oscar de la Renta at his showroom.
The Dream Foundation was able to fulfill the lifelong dream of Latoya Headley, who suffers from an aggres- sive form of brain cancer, to attend New York Fashion Week, along with her sister, Naima, and the Dream Foundation's Hollye Jacobs.
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02.19.2010 -- Dream Foundation grants a wish to attend NY Fashion Week
Who says the fashion industry is coldhearted? Latoya Headley, a 25-year-old battling an aggressive form of brain cancer, was granted her ultimate “wish” – to go to New York Fashion Week. And two of fashion’s biggest names, Diane Von Furstenberg and Oscar de la Renta, helped make the experience extra meaningful.
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02.17.2010 -- Stroke Patient Determined to Enjoy Pleasures of Reading... -- www.denverpost.com
For nine years, she's plugged away. The 85-year-old now is fighting a malignant neoplasm in her lungs that could take her life this year. But she refuses to give up on the simple pleasures she once enjoyed — like sitting down to read the newspaper or expressing emotions in handwritten letters.
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02.12.2010 -- Closing Shop... High Times... Time on Skates -- www.wwd.com
Diane von Furstenberg is no stranger to celebrities in her front row, but on Sunday, she will have a special guest. Latoya Headley always dreamed of attending a fashion show. She was diagnosed with glioblastoma multiforme, which paralyzed her from the waist down, in 2007, and the 25-year-old recently wrote about her wish to the Dream Foundation. The Alexandria, Va., native also will lunch with Lyn Devon before attending the DVF show with her sister, Naima, and on Monday will get a tour of the Oscar de la Renta showroom, lunch and a shopping experience at Bergdorf Goodman, and then head down to the West Village to take in the fall Donna Karan Collection show. Diva Limos will be driving her around town, and Dream Foundation arranged for the airfare and hotel stay at Hotel Mela. “I have always had a passion for style and fashion, so this is truly a dream come true for me,” Headley said. “I feel so blessed by the way Dream Foundation — and these amazing designers — have rallied to make this a incredible and memorable experience.”
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01.2010 -- Sweet Dreams -- Santa Barbara Magazine --PDF
The Dream Foundation, which grants wishes for terminally ill adults held its eighth annual Celebration of Dreams event -- a soiree of music, fashion, and auctions -- at Bacara Resort & Spa. Carolina Herrera's cheerful 2010 resort collection graced the runway, and Peter Noone hosted the auctions. The stage was packed with entertainers, including Amercian Idol winner Kris Allen, Michael McDonald of the Doobie Brothers and Steely Dan, Grammy nominee Taylor Dayne, and star crooner Kenny Loggins.
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12.29.2009 -- Marymount Students Help Dream Foundation Spread Holiday Cheer -- noozhawk.com
The fourth-grade class of Marymount of Santa Barbara recently decided to donate their time by helping families devastated by terminal illness.
As part of their holiday class party, the students chose to help the Dream Foundation with its annual Toy Program by gift-wrapping toys.
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12.27.2009 -- Jennifer Guess Finds Fulfillment in Giving -- noozhawk.com
If you want something done right, give it to a busy person like Jennifer Guess. This dynamo juggles being president of Junior League of Santa Barbara with volunteer work for Habitat for Humanity of Southern Santa Barbara County, Family Service Agency and the Women’s Fund of Santa Barbara. Oh, and did we mention she has her own public relations agency?
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12.27.2009 -- Mom with cancer needs car repairs to take dream vacation -- statesman.com
Time could be short for Diana Quiroz. She has terminal cancer. But she has dreams.
"There's so much I want to accomplish," Quiroz says. A former licensed vocational nurse, she understands her situation. Quiroz, 46, recently was diagnosed with a cancerous tumor, her third such diagnosis since 2003.
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12.2009 -- Making Dreams Come True -- Montecito Journal PDF
The Dream Foundation recently celebrated “Fifteen Years of Making Dreams Come True” and it boasts quite a record: 8,852 dreams, 46,800 bouquets of flowers, 31,374 toys for children and 1,081 active volunteers.
A sold-out crowd of 540 converged on Bacara Resort & Spa for the 8th annual gala. Until last year, the event was a ladies’ luncheon and fashion show. Now it’s a black-tie evening that the gentlemen seem to enjoy.
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