Cleft Lip and Palate Foundation of Smiles

08/22/2023

WE NEED YOUR HELP, I wanted to give everyone a update, sadly our website went down almost one year ago. We lost almost everything, I did have some stuff saved on another device and working on repairs, transfers and pulling data we still had,have access to. It been a challenge! The cost for a NEW website it very expensive and we are in the process of REBUILDING, BUT we NEED your HELP and NEED FUNDS to make it happen, I can’t do it alone! We are proudly a 501(c)3. As we are In the process of building a whole NEW website and looking for more Board of Directors to add to our New team and New medical providers. If your interested joint our team, please email me at our NEW email @ [email protected]

Please help with our website funding so we can continue with our online website, resources we offered at there finger tips in there state, country daily, programs we offer families with bottles cost, or working with your insurance company for families in need to cover cost or lower cost or we even help cover the cost when insurance has not covered. We have helped with medical on Ortho cost for some families and so much more that are not covered by insurance and is needed.

Please send your donations to:”Cleft Lip and Palate Foundation of Smiles. - Memo note : Website

Mail your 501(c)3 Donations: 5410 Eagle Glen Dr. SW Wyoming MI 49509.

Ways to get donations and help us make it happen:

Do a fundraiser at your place of job, ask for a corporate local donation to support us with a one time donation, ask your company/work to make a 1 time donation and support our foundation. Do a online donation for our foundation and raise funds with your own family and friends. We have been here for 14 1-2 years making a difference together. We are NOT going anywhere! I won’t let it happen!

JUST THINK!!! What if…..

EVERYONE was able to give us just a 1 time Donation of $5.00 -$ 10.00 just one time! We would be able make it happen together.

Thank you for your support and ongoing support. We can’t wait to be able to restore our website and make a difference together! - Rachel Mancuso CEO/ Founder

08/06/2022

08/06/2022

Learn how you can make a difference!

• Cleft lip or palate is one of the most common birth defects, affecting one in 600 children in the United States.

06/10/2022

Spread Awareness, www.cleftsmile.org Learn more at our website today.

fAppropriate postnatal care is essential after any child's birth, and that's especially true if your baby was born with an orofacial cleft. We've outlined

04/19/2021

We have been so blessed and so thankful for all our amazing families, friends and supporters over the last 11 years, we would like to take a moment and say, THANK YOU!!!!! Everyone in our network/non profit 501(c)3 organization is making a difference, by sharing advice, spreading awareness, offering there personal experience(s), lending a hand, saying prayers, sending positive vibes, virtual hugs, making online donations, and the list keeps going. We are so grateful to every single person. We couldn’t be here without all of YOU!!!! THANK YOU ALL, keep safe! We hope everyone is staying safe and healthy! ♥️ most of all, we would like to see pictures of our kiddos being kids! I shared a few of Michael who is having a third bone graph surgery soon.😊 Pictures I shared were from his 2nd Bone graph repair this past November and myself just cleaning and enjoying a clean house for a moment!!!

Post and share some pictures of your kiddos doing something they enjoy!

We will be giving out 5 visa gift cards of $25.00 each. We will be picking a couple winners this week and a few next week! Look forward seeing those pictures! Rachel Mancuso Founder/CEO

09/03/2020

In honor of September Craniofacial Acceptance Month, please visit our website and consider making a one time donation in honor of a loved one. Thank you all for your ongoing support! www.cleftsmile.org

08/17/2020

Learn how you can become involved and how you can make a different in your own town and throughout our whole foundation. When you make a donation at www.cleftsmile.org your helping families all over. Help us keep helping others, we truly CAN NOT do it without your ongoing help! Our goal is to help and serve another 3,200 families before Dec 31st,2020 We keep bringing joy by donating toys to child life, when kids have upcoming surgeries, educational care packages for families and bottles that Medela has helped us make happen for the last 8 yrs. we have many amazing families that have been with us from the start, gained over the ongoing years and just joined! We are so proud of our online community where they can seek questions, find answer, friends and a new way of support within their own home! Covid-19 has been very hard on many of our families, surgeries have either been pushed up, postponed, canceled and still not knowing a date yet!!! Listen, I HEAR YOU, UNDERSTAND YOU and SEE you! I’m right here with you! I’m a parent of twins both born with Craniofacial difference! My twins both have had 31 surgeries each since birth!!!! YES!!! I said it, I get it! My twins both have another surgery each coming ahead, one around mid too late October- Nov and the other Dec. One is the second bone graft and the other is another rhinoplasty! It hard! Scary but we need to stick together, because I’m learning with you as well! Tell me where you are right now?!? 

fAppropriate postnatal care is essential after any child's birth, and that's especially true if your baby was born with an orofacial cleft. We've outlined

06/30/2020

Awareness is KEY! Can you believe we are already rolling into July?! Share your summer FUN pictures with your kiddos!