My Nonprofit Reviews

Dear Volunteer/Mouthpiece for Breath of Hope,

Thank you for your comments, but we respectfully disagree with the entirety of your review.

Your "facts" are far from true without any proof are merely slander to further your own motives and your own charity. It's neither constructive nor supportive of the CDH community to so aggressively, repeatedly, dishonestly and callously attack a charity and those who work there. It is not helpful to the CDH community to be competitive and malicious towards another charity. You have never and will never see CHERUBS or anyone at our charity behave in such a way publicly or privately yet you seem to do so on a weekly and sometimes daily basis. This obsession with us has to stop. It only hurts the entire CDH community and it is not professional.

We do not post reviews on other charity pages, nor do we bash other charities on ours. If you have negative reviews, that has nothing to do with us. We are professional and focused on our own charity work instead of any negativity. There was no need to bring our charity into your issues with others. People are allowed their opinions and reviews and in the future, we hope that if you receive a negative review that you can be more professional and compassionate towards the families who write the reviews. Such behavior as attacking grieving families, slandering charities to try to prevent donations and personally attacking others only makes the entire CDH community look bad. We are here to help children, not act like children.

To set the record straight, Dawn does not make that amount of money or even close to that amount. After 15 years of volunteering she gets a small paycheck to work 60+ hours a week for the charity. She deserves much more as her salary is not commiserate with an executive at a non-profit with her experience. Many at your charity have had paid positions at non-profits so it's very confusing as to why you so object to Dawn having a salary when she works very hard and does the work of 3 full time people and currently without any office help. Every large, successful charity has paid employees that run operations. Please rest assured that if your charity reaches the same status as ours that no one from CHERUBS will harass, question or publicly try to ridicule anyone there who earns a living. We should hope that others would be happy that our CDH charity is so successful instead of resentful because at the end of the day, the families are getting more help and that should be what is most important.

We would also like to make clear that our 3 Boards are very active. As you can see from their reviews here, work with families, our newsletter postings, newspaper and tv interviews, etc. It takes a team to run CHERUBS and we do that well. We also have an attorney and an accountant on Board and your accusations are not only untrue, but impossible. CHERUBS is a Gold Level charity, audited annually, is very successful and highly respected. If any one of your accusations were true, our charity would not be running. We hope that any intelligent person would realize this and see how transparent your motives are in posting such untruths. We hope that any CDH parent who has read your blogs and other libelous postings can see that your motives are to harm our charity and Dawn.

We are sorry for whatever issues you have or whatever goals you can't seem to accomplish without trying to tear us down... but we ask, yet again... please leave our charity alone and let us continue to do our good and successful work at helping CDH families. We suggest that you find other more positive things to occupy your time with and to try to help CDH families as well.

Again, there is no record of a donation from anyone in honor of your daughter. If there had been, of course you would have received an acknowledgement. Perhaps they made donations elsewhere? It makes no sense that they would donate to a charity that you so adamantly do not support.

We do appreciate you taking the time to go out of your way to post on our charity's Great NonProfits page and all the time and energy you spend towards our charity.

Our Board members have been notified of your latest public accusations and our lawyer, Lauren Campbell, or our CHERUBS Parent Advisory Board would be happy to speak with you regarding your questions, concerns and other issues. You can reach them at cpab@cherubs-cdh.org

As always, we extend the olive branch yet again and hope for a professional, positive, productive CDH Community.

Sincerely, CHERUBS

CHERUBS has never charged a membership fee in 17 years or any other fees. As any other charity, we do ask for voluntary donations but it is never required or requested in exchange for service. We are sorry you misunderstood and wish you would have attempted to clear up any misunderstanding at the time rather than post here 6 years later. We are sorry you felt unsupported. The forums are there for 24/7 support, on-call volunteers, State Representatives and our Board are always available for support and information. As with any organization, there is always more than 1 person to help and we post that on our site and forums. If we can do anything else for you, please let us know.