PEOPLE Magazine: Heroes among us
Excerpt from PEOPLE Magazine, February 4, 2008
Article “She gets special help for sick kids”
From her office near the Las Vegas airport, McGee and her staff scour cheap-ticket Web sites and solicit donated seats from airlines, relying on foundation grants and individual donations to fund their $3 million budget.
“These kids wouldn’t get the help they need [...]
Healthcare hero
Excerpt from ‘Healthcare Heroes Nevada 2009’
“We live for happy endings,” says McGee. “The people we help are the miracles, their stories keep us going. Given the growing costs of health care today and how often illnesses can lead to monetary troubles, the need and demand for the Miracle Flights for Kids program has never been [...]
Miracle Worker
Excerpt from Article ‘Miracle Worker’, Nevada Woman March/April 2007
It has often been said that every time a bell rings, an angel gets its wings. For Las Vegas resident Ann McGee, it was the bell on her telephone that got her her “wings’ – in the form of an airplane – so that she could perform [...]
Measuring a Non-Profit’s Success
What is a non-profit’s bottom-line? Many non-profit watchdog organizations use financial data from the non-profit’s IRS 990’s filed year to year, to measure the financial strength, efficiency and capacity of a non-profit.
This gives a potential donor good background information, but is it enough?
At Miracle Flights for Kids, we take tremendous pride in being extremely efficient and [...]
Dear Miracle Flights,
thank you so very much for helping all of us get Liam to Children’s Hospital. We couldn’t have gotten there without you. It was so important that we did. Someday we hope to be able to help out Miracle Flights with a bigger donation – in the meantime we feel very lucky to be able [...]
Perez Hilton and Miracle Flights
http://perezhilton.com/2008-06-16-a-worthwhile-cause-85
If you follow this link to Perez Hilton’s website you’ll find Miracle Flights was posted as a worthy cause. It inspired many comments from grateful parents all around the country.
Of course, given that Perez’s website IS a celebrity gossip site it is not surprising to also see in the first 10 comments some disgruntled gossip [...]
Wings of an Angel
Excerpt from Article, Wings of an Angel,
Las Vegas Woman, Winter 2009-10
Ann McGee married local pilots with missions of mercy when she founded Miracle Flights for Kids. “This program began out of my apartment in 1985. I knew private pilots here in Vegas who were trying to organize themselves to fly blood to remote sites around [...]
Thank you for helping me!
Dear Miracle Flights,
Ava will be a first grader in school this year. She is sooo excited. Ava does quite well. Her left arm and shoulder will always be a work in progress, but with your help she gets the opportunity to be the absolute best she can be. You cannot imagine some of the stress [...]