Hey Miracle Makers!
Who is ready for an awesome second day of celebration?
On the schedule today, we have morale dance lessons led by our wonderful morale coordinators at 5pm, Tarot card readings at 5pm sponsored by the generous Perfect Parties USA, a virtual tour of Boston Children’s Hospital at 6pm, and a fundraising rave at 6:10pm!
Hope to see y’all there!!
Congratulations Miracle Makers! We have arrived at the 2021 Emmanuel College Dance Marathon Week!
Thanks to all of you, all of your hard work, your fundraising efforts, and your passion we have had another wildly successful year of ECDM and it is now time to celebrate. This week will be filled with events dedicated to you, as our thank you. We would not be able to do what we do without each and every one of you.
Tonight kicks off the week with our opening ceremony and morale dance reveal! Special shout out to Gabby Wenc and Melanie Sachs, our morale coordinators for choreographing and making the 2021 morale song!
Tune in at 7 pm to kick things off!
To receive your event kit, click the link below!
Hello Miracle Makers!
We are so excited to announce the release of this years merch store with Booster Spirit Wear!
The merch store will be open now until March 8th, and feature our new shirts, sweats and long sleeves!
Get yours today by visiting the website linked below!
Welcome back miracle makers! The ECDM board is so thrilled to have you all back on campus and are so excited to keep making miracles with you all! We hope you all have gotten a chance to settle back into the swing of things, and for those of you new to campus are adjusting well. For the remainder of the semester, the ECDM board has already started planning COVID cautious events and fundraisers, that we can all be apart of! Be on the lookout for our upcoming push days, Chipotle fundraiser, special events, and most importantly emails for the main event!!
We are only six weeks out from our dance marathon, and while it may look a little different, your continued efforts are appreciated and will be celebrated. This year has been like no other but every dollar and every penny means the world to the ECDM board and our friends at Boston Children’s Hospital!
In these final weeks, please continue your efforts, as we continue ours.
Every penny counts!
Wow! We have made it to our 10th year celebrating and fighting for the kids at Boston Children’s Hospital. Over the last ten years we have made countless memories, so many friends, and over $753,000 worth of miracles for the patients and their families at BCH. But we’re just getting starting!
Today, celebrate along side with us and raise $10 for a wonderful 10 years!
While we will be having our first FTKompetition tomorrow night to celebrate, remember, the money that you raise directly benefits these children and helps to put on 1,095 birthday parties in the hospital every year.
For more information to sign up for our FTKompetition head over to our events pages our check out our Instagram @ecdancemarathon
Thank you to all those who registered for EC Dance Marathon and everyone who posted, shared and liked our information! Because of you we raised $545.61 in just one day!
We are well on our way!
For those of you who didn’t get the chance to register, head up to the top our homepage and click the registration icon!
If you are wondering what is next, those who have registered can customize their donor drive pages and start their individual fundraising. Please be on the look out for information sessions, fund raising tips and tricks and upcoming events!
We are so excited to announce we will also be collaborating with the EC Psychology Club for their Mental Health Awareness Week.
This Friday, October 9th, at 1 pm we will be learning with them about the Boston Children’s Hospital Creative Arts Program with a Q&A.
To RSVP, or if you have any questions regarding ECDM or the Q&A, please email us at
ECDM@emmanuel.edu
The first Monday of every October, the United States recognizes Child Health Day, a day dedicated to the health and care of children across the country. Child Health Day aims to increase public awareness for the importance of childhood health and development.
Emmanuel College Dance Marathon’s mission is to continuously be apart of children’s health and improving their care at Boston Children’s Hospital. For the last ten years, ECDM has focused on the phrase “until every child is well” as our fundraising efforts have gone directly to the Every Child Fund at Boston Children’s.
This year, we are using Child Health Day as the launch to ECDM ‘20-’21, as we recognize kids can’t wait. Now more than ever, kids need our help in making their stays at Boston Children’s that much better. With so much uncertainty in the world, these children and their families have had to continue their battles right along side Coronavirus. It reminds us that kids really can’t wait, and with your help we are that much closer to making sure every child is well.
By registering today, donating an extra dollar, or spreading our mission, you play an important role in achieving this goal!
“Securing a bright future for America’s daughters and sons requires us to continue expanding access to quality health care and working to foster cleaner, safer and more supportive environments”
The final tally is in for how much ECDM raised for the kids at Boston Children’s Hospital! Thank you to everyone who worked so hard this year and donated in support of the kids. None of this would be possible without you all. A BIG THANK YOU to ACE Hardware for their generous donation!!
Although we couldn’t celebrate in spirit, here's a total reveal video from your ECDM 20 E-Board! We hope you are all staying healthy and safe!
For The Kids Always,
The ECDM 20 Board
We here at ECDM hope everyone is staying safe and healthy during this uncertain time. It is asuch a difficult time and transition for all of us and we hope you are doing the best you can. We know the doctors and nurses at BCH are doing everything they can! With our event being canceled, we had to get creative with how we celebrate all the efforts of this year. With this in mind, we wanted bring some light to such a dark time make sure you have some ways to stay FTK during quarantine!
With this past week being Children’s Hospital Week, we hope you have been celebrating with us on our social media! Here are some fun activities and ideas to keep your FTK spirits up during this time!
Virtual Tour of BCH!
Did you know that Boston Children’s has a virtual tour of the hospital? Now you know! If you have never visited the hospital, now’s a great chance to check it out!
Thank your donors!
Although the big event was canceled, we still fundraised all throughout the year for the kids at Boston Children’s Hospital! Take the time to email, text, call, and even write a letter to your donors to show your appreciation! We know times are hard but if you have generous family members or friends, we are still accepting donations until midnight this Friday, April 10th. The big reveal of our total will be on Monday April 13th so stay tuned on our social media!
FTK Coloring pages!
Check out these FTK coloring pages to pass the time!
Follow us on TikTok!
ECDM has a TikTok and we are still posting throughout all this! Come follow us @ecdm !
Watch past ECDM highlight videos!
Although we won’t get to celebrate in person, relive ECDM through our past highlight videos!
Dance past morale dances!
Remember past morale dance moves? Dance it out! Maybe even make a TikTok about it!
Have your own mini Dance Marathon in your house!
Play some morale music, stay up all night, play games with your family, dance it out and have fun! Maybe even throw some color team competitions in there for the whole family!
Stay safe!
Whether you are an essential employee or someone in your family is, you or someone in your family is immunocompromised, etc, we hope you are staying safe and trying to find some light in these uncertain times. Stay healthy and we’ll see you all very soon!
For The Kids Always,
The ECDM 20 Board
We’re back with another Alumni Spotlight!
Meet Marisa Ratté! She graduated in 2018 and now lives and works in Boston! During her time on ECDM, was a dancer her first year, as a sophomore she served as the Social Media & Technology Coordinator as well as one of 2 Printed Media Coordinators. Her junior year she served as the Promotions & Recruitment Chair, overseeing three recruitment coordinators and a Printed Media Coordinator while she worked to launch and manage the programs first website as well as our social media platforms! Finally, her senior year, she served as the Director of Branding and oversaw a Merchandise and Sales Coordinator, A Social Media and Website Coordinator, and a Printed Media Coordinator. She is also currently on her second year of fundraising as an alumni!
A: Above all else, it's the patients and their families that inspire me to be FTK. I originally signed up as a fundraiser/dancer my freshman year because an EC Senior who I knew from my hometown had previously said to me, "if there is anything to get involved in at Emmanuel, it's Dance Marathon," and she was right. After attending my first Dance Marathon and hearing from the kids and families themselves how much the Dance Marathon movement and ECDM means to them and the opportunity it provides, and lives it saves, I was sold. I knew that it was something meaningful that I could pour my heart into doing and every year it's left entirely full.
A: I think one miracle moment/memory in particular I will always cherish (though there are so many!) is from the end of my sophomore year, specifically our morning of total reveal at ECDM16. The story starts before that academic year even began, I had recently been accepted to the ECDM Executive Board and was attending my first Board Meeting. Everyone was blow away by what the program had just raised in only it's 4th year (just over $90k), but it was now time to set our new goal. Talks of $92k or $95k were pitched, and I was genuinely confused as to why we would be so close to the milestone of six figures and not go for it. So I spoke up and suggested we raise $100,000, and the looks I got back in response were hilarious. The soon to be seniors in the room were not happy, having a freshman who had never been a part of running the show shouldn't have been pitching this. But, our advisor agreed. Fast forward to the end of Winter Break and the start of 2016. ECDM received a hefty $20k donation from a very charitable company of an Emmanuel student's parent. The news spread quick and immediately there was talk on campus of us only being able to reach our goal because of this contribution. Everyone involved in ECDM works incredibly hard for each cent they raise, so being doubted and others using that $20k as an excuse hurt. We set out for the spring semester with an internal goal of $120k just to prove those who doubted us wrong. And we did it. The morning of Dance Marathon, raising those numbers to reflect an over $120,000 donation was indescribable. We demolished our commitment to Boston Children's and held up 6 figures in our fifth year as a program. It's a moment I'll never forget and something that I held with me for the rest of my ECDM experience.
A: I think that others on Emmanuel's campus should get involved in ECDM for the sheer fact that it is an incredibly fun and inclusive way to give back to a Hospital that has touched so many lives. By the theory of six degrees of separation, I guarantee that you know someone who has been treated or affected by Boston Children's. And, at Emmanuel there is the unique privilege of having the #1 Pediatrics Hospital in the world in our backyard - so we can see first hand how important of a place we are supporting through fundraising. Involving yourself in this program celebrates core values of EC like community and commitment. ECDM brings sports teams, clubs, residence buildings, and many others together, allowing for any and all to be involved. It bridges the difficulty of being a college student that is asking others for financial support for the Hospital with the energy of activities like dodgeball, karaoke, relay races, dancing, and creativity. It celebrates hard work, in every sense, from those who fundraise, to the hospital staff who go above and beyond, to the patients who practice strength and resilience daily. Other's should get involved simply because it's an experience bigger and more important than perhaps anything else you could partake in during your undergraduate years, and there is no way you could regret being a part of it.
A: As an alumni I have been so privileged to continue my participation in the program. Dance Marathon was so much of my college experience that I was so eager to stay involved post-grad. Last year I organized an Alumni Letter Project, reaching out to other ECDM alumni to write letters to the current board members, encouraging them and reminding them that they have a community to lean on for inspiration and support. I also was able to support fundraisers throughout the year like Trivia for Tots, the Spelling Bee, and EC Dancing with the Stars. Then, of course I was dancing around the gym for the full 12 hour event after helping run check-in with other alumni last March. This year, I've been collaborating with Tabatha, this years ECDM Executive Director, to help encourage more alumni involvement. Together we rounded up alumni to create fundraising teams for 2017, 2018, and 2019 graduates! Since graduating, I has raised an additional $2,350 and am still striving for more before this years Dance Marathon on March 28th. I just hosted my first fundraising event as an alumni with a DIY Vision Board and Mimosa's morning at my Aunt's shop/studio in New Hampshire where we raised $600 in ticket prices that I've donated to ECDM.
A: If I were to tell a first-year student about ECDM or the Dance Marathon movement, I would talk about the selflessness and sense of community it provides. One of the biggest attractions about Dance Marathon is that it's fun! The big events are packed with food, games, competitions, and performances that make the night a blast, but they are only as fun and as inspiring as they are because of the extremely selfless people that make them happen. This nationwide movement brings thousands of different personalities and people together under one common goal and it's really beautiful to see the friendships and bonds formed amongst dancers, leadership team members, and patients/patient families in the process. Especially at Emmanuel, being such a small campus, it shows the core value of community at it's finest.
