2016: A Year in Review (photo slideshow)
2016 RAF Year in Review 2016 was an INCREDIBLE year here at Random Acts of Flowers. Thank you to everyone who supported our mission of delivering hope!
100 nursing home residents get flower delivery surprise (WTHR, Indianapolis, 12.23.16)
100 nursing home residents get flower delivery surprise Every single resident of an Indianapolis nursing home received a holiday bouquet Friday morning. Volunteers from Random Acts of Flowers delivered the arrangements to residents at the North Capitol Avenue Nursing home - all 100 of them. Cathy Poole was on her first delivery with the non-profit [...]
Rescued flowers brighten days for Indianapolis patients (WTHR, Indianapolis, 12.20.16)
Rescued flowers brighten days for Indianapolis patients Most people love a surprise, at least one that makes you smile or feel better. But it's just as fun when you're the one making someone else's day. "Flowers always lighten up my life. How could they not lighten up the people who get them?" said one volunteer. [...]
Bouquets make a difference (Indianapolis, Charitable Advisors, 12.12.16)
Bouquets make a difference By Lynn Sygiel, editor, Charitable Advisors At Random Acts of Flowers (RAF), recipients of the arrangements are touched and surprised. “The calls we get from these recipients, they just make you weep because you know what that arrangement looked like. You know it was not a big extravagant bouquet, it was [...]
The healing power of flowers (Indianapolis, Charitable Advisors, 12.12.16)
The healing power of flowers By Lynn Sygiel, editor, Charitable Advisors Why Indianapolis? Five years ago, Betty Stilwell, then chief philanthropy officer at IU Health, mentioned the organization to [now-RAF Indianapolis Executive Director, Alison] Kothe. Stilwell said she had been talking with Jay Hicks, president and CEO of Prime Care Properties and Management. After meeting [...]
WTHR: Charity recycles donated flowers to hospital patients
INDIANAPOLIS (WTHR) - No one likes being at the hospital - but one new local organization is doing something to give patients a little happiness. Random Acts of Flowers opened a branch Thursday in Indianapolis. It's the charity's fifth branch nationwide. The group collects donations of flowers from weddings and other events where arrangements may [...]
WBIR: Random Acts of Flowers expands to Indianapolis
"Random Acts of Flowers is spreading cheer through floral bouquets in a new city. The nonprofit is expanding to Indianapolis, and made its first delivery there Thursday morning. RAF was founded in Knoxville in 2008, and is now operating in five cities across the country. Its mission is to improve the emotional health and wellbeing [...]
IndyStar: Random Acts of Flowers brings smiles to Indy
The Indianapolis Star followed Random Acts of Flowers Founder Larsen Jay as he, along with RAF Indianapolis staff and volunteers, made the inaugural deliveries at Eskenazi Health - "Nothing brightens up a hospital room like a bouquet of flowers. But not everyone consigned to a hospital stay receives a floral pick-me-up. A new local organization [...]
Release: Random Acts of Flowers to Deliver Encouragement in Indianapolis
First Delivery Impacts Emotional Health and Wellbeing of 75 Individuals at Eskenazi Health INDIANAPOLIS, IN (October 13, 2016) – A very vulnerable segment of the Indianapolis community — those struggling with injury, illness and the aging process — will receive much-needed hope and health benefits thanks to a national not-for-profit agency now serving Indianapolis. “The mission [...]
WISH News Introduces RAF to Indianapolis
To celebrate the launch of RAF Indianapolis, the morning news on WISH8 spoke with Founder Larsen Jay as he, the RAF Indianapolis staff, and RAF Volunteers prepared to make the first delivery of flowers to Eskanazi Health Center. Watch the full coverage here...