APRIL 2017 16 | FRONTDOORSMEDIA .COM “We come in we provide all the materials,” Geyser said. “We organize all the volunteers, we have all that registration taken care of and so it’s really a benefit to them without any extra work on their part other than maybe being there on a Saturday.” Geyser said they were first group to go into Phoenix Children’s Hospital and show that it can work. The hospital liked what they were doing and asked if they could do a second shift with big donor families or families that have always wanted to help at the hospital, but never quite knew how. When they started out, Sklar said, “we would ask our friends to please come to our event” so she and Geyser could get a clear understanding of how it would work. “Now we post an event or send an email out to our mailing list and in a couple hours we’ve filled up 200 spots,” Geyser said. “And those same friends are calling and saying, ‘I can’t get in.’ It’s a great problem to have and that’s why we want to grow, to be able to have engage more families.” “Pretty early on we confirmed our belief that there’s a lot of those families out there that want to help,” Geyser said. “They just don’t know where to go, what to do and we’ve made it easy. It’s a weekend event, it’s an hour, it can fit into a schedule. It’s definitely shown how much people want to help. As many events as we’ve done over the five years it never gets old for us.” COVER STORY CONTINUED Photo credit: Thurlkill Studios

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