WHEN FLOWER EMPOWER COORDINATOR VALERIE BANKS first heard rumors that California was going to shut down in response to COVID-19, she was worried. “We’ve kept going through fires and the debris flow, but this was different,” she said. “For the first time in the 25 years since the program began, we thought, is this going […] Continue Reading
Santa Barbara, CA, June 18, 2020 –(PR.com)– Nancy Perry Graham, Senior Editorial Director with Charles Koch’s Stand Together, will join the National Board of Directors for Dream Foundation, the only national dream-granting organization for terminally-ill adults and their families. As a member of the Board, Graham will work closely with its marketing and communications team […] Continue Reading
DREAM FOUNDATION HAS ISSUED AN INVITE FOR EVERYONE TO GO BEHIND-THE-SCENES of a beloved local program with a virtual event, a free film, about Flower Empower that will go live online on Thursday, June 25th at 11am in place of its 10th Annual Flower Empower Luncheon. A program of Dream Foundation, the only national dream-granting […] Continue Reading
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – The Dream Foundation delivered orchids to United Sates Postal workers on Wednesday to thank them for delivering mail during the Coronavirus pandemic. Flower donations were dropped off at four different post offices in Santa Barbara and Goleta. The orchids were donated from Westerlay Orchids of Carpinteria to Flower Empower of the […] Continue Reading
The Dream Foundation has suspended its popular Flower Empower program delivering blooms to the elderly and ill. However local orchid growers Gallup and Stribling has donated 220 bouquets and Westerlay Orchids has given 840 plants, with the charity’s floral coordinator Valerie Banks setting up a drive-through at the foundation’s office with instructions for “ding dong […] Continue Reading