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ANAK KO = My Child 501(c)(3) Foundation
ANAK KO ACRONYM
👼🏻Angel
😇Nevaeh (“Heaven” spelled backwards)
🌈Always
🌅Kailanman (“forever” in Filipino)
💋Kisses
💐Onward
Tax-Deductible Donations
Please Help Bereaving Families
$25.00
Your contribution will help fund bereaving families with 1) CARE packages (Community Advocates Render Empathy), 2) memorial markers and 3) Marigold Scholarship. Thank you for donating!
*Please include Your Name or Anonymous & your Charitable Contribution preference, please, out of the 3 above, & donate from these 3 options:
•Zelle & Venmo: DrDR@AnakKo.Org - Elaine Dispo-Rendon
•Mail check to: ANAK KO, 410 Winnipeg Avenue, Brownsville, TX 78526
OR from these easy social media fundraisers:
👍 https://Facebook.com/AnakKoOrg *DONATE* button💖
🌈 https://Instagram.com/AnakKoOrg *FUNDRAISING* link💞
AND .5% of your qualified purchase totals can be donated by AmazonSmile: 🛍 https://smile.amazon.com/ch/86-2020221
UPDATE: AmazonSmile’s charitable program has ended, but please feel free to shop our online store, ANAK KOmpras: https://AnakKo.org/contact-us
ANAK KO = My Child
ANAK KO Mission
ANAK KO Mission
ANAK KO Mission
ANAK KO offers grief relief to bereaving families for their children’s memories
ANAK KO Vision
ANAK KO Mission
ANAK KO Mission
ANAK KO aims to keep bereaving families‘ children’s memories alive, through funding of care packages, memorial markers and endowing scholarships in memory of children who they outlived, with the help of generous patrons from all over the world
ANAK KO Origin
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When we lose a loved one, we aren’t always prepared, financially or emotionally. ANAK KO offers a support system for those who grieve their children and pets, through emotional and financial assistance and empowering families to honor them. This nonprofit organization was founded to bless families during their grief!
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ANAK KO Media Kit:
• News Release
• Fact Sheet
• Backgrounder
CARE=Community Advocates Render Empathy
Gingham Gift Bag
$66.00
($11.00 shipping)
only 1 available worth $132.15 but yours for only $66 (>1/2OFF) + $11 $hipping=$77👼🏻 this Bath & Body Works limited edition gingham tote is stuffed with self-care goodies👜🧴😻PURRfect in May for 🧖🏻♀️Mental Health Awareness Month, 💐Mother’s Day, 🎓graduation, 🍎Teacher Appreciation &/or 🏥Nurses Appreciation—proceeds will go toward our CARE packages for bereaved families [memo: B&BW—if not $old by end of May 2023, some of these products may go into our CARE packages
Spring-Summer Fundraising Drive
ANAK KO Rainbow Wave
ANAK KO supports families who lost kids & pets of all ages, with virtual water tributes:
• April thru July for Bereaved Mothers 1st Sun/May, Bereaved Fathers 2nd Sun/June, Bereaved Parents’ Month in July
• August for Rainbow Bridge Remembrance (8/28) & National Grief Awareness (8/30)
#AnakKoRainbow for CARE & Marigold$
AKO Grief Counseling
✝️ANAK☮️KO💟Anchor⚓️
ANAK KO now offers grief counseling, pro bono (free of charge), as part of CARE packages (Community Advocates Render Empathy) for bereaved parents.
ANAK KO in the News
Texas Border Business
Our Lady of the Lake University
Our Lady of the Lake University
ANAK KO press release, published 6.2.2021 in Texas Border Business:
Our Lady of the Lake University
Our Lady of the Lake University
Our Lady of the Lake University
ANAK KO founder, featured 4.14.2022 in OLLU Alumni Spotlight:
Nonprofit Daily News
The Mercedes Enterprise
The Mercedes Enterprise
ANAK KO story, shared 7.31.2022 in Nonprofit Daily News, to wrap up Bereaved Parents Month & 2nd AKO ANNIE-versary
The Mercedes Enterprise
The Mercedes Enterprise
The Mercedes Enterprise
ANAK KO’s press release ran in The Mercedes Enterprise’s 5.3.2023 issue.
Emotional Support ANNIEmal
ANAK KO Mas-cat Memoirs on Annie’s 13th Birthday
ANAK KO founder, Dr. Elaine Dispo-Rendón, wrote an anthology with pictures and stories of AKO mas-cat plus mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical exercises during bereavement. *PAWSitive PURRspective: Furry Tail of My Emotional Support ANNIE-mal & Our CATch of Mourning Waves publication set for 20 Sept. 2022*
ANAK KO 1sts
Cookbook Release on Be Humble Day
Book Release on National Read Across America Day
Book Release on National Read Across America Day
ANAK KO co-founders, Chef David & Dr. Elaine Dispo-Rendón, wrote a cookbook and planner with calendar, scripture, stories and recipes for those who wish to channel their creativity in the kitchen by honoring their loved ones. *Fly Pies: Angelic Appetizers, Divine Desserts & Heavenly Hearty Hacks for Memorial Meals publication set for 2.22.2022*
Book Release on National Read Across America Day
Book Release on National Read Across America Day
Book Release on National Read Across America Day
ANAK KO founder, Dr. Elaine Dispo-Rendón, wrote a guide with scripture, stories and activities for those who struggle with coping with losing someone special, especially their own child(ren). *Our Babies Have Halos & Wings: A Grief Communication Guide to Healing for Bereaving Families’ Children’s Memories publication set for 2 March 2021*
ANAK KO 1st CARE Gift BACK by Popular Demand
Book Release on National Read Across America Day
ANAK KO 1st CARE Gift BACK by Popular Demand
ANAK KO donor Nancy Lambert, a cosmetologist, religious educator and Deacon’s wife, offers her artisan Rosaries to support bereaved families🤍📿MARAMING MARAMING SALAMAT PO, TITA NANCY, + THANK YOU to those who buy any from ANAK KO🌹
ANAK KO 1st Grief Ministry
ANAK KO 1st Marigold Scholar
ANAK KO 1st CARE Gift BACK by Popular Demand
ANAK KO supporter Cristina Aldape, the Ministry Coordinator of St. Helen’s Catholic Church in Rio Hondo, TX, invited us to her Parish’s Women’s Prayer Group, where we sang, shared stories, reflected on scripture, prayed together and listened to each other’s valuable insight to kick off Lent 2023.🙏💒✝️
ANAK KO 1st Scholarship
ANAK KO 1st Marigold Scholar
ANAK KO 1st Marigold Scholar
Calling all college students & HS upperclassmen: ANAK KO is accepting applications for the Marigold Scholarship. Please click/tap button below for more information on how to apply⤵️
ANAK KO 1st Marigold Scholar
ANAK KO 1st Marigold Scholar
ANAK KO 1st Marigold Scholar
Congratulations, Lauren Elizabeth Gonzales, for earning our very first ANAK KOMarigold Scholarship! Find out more about our empathetic ambitious scholar here!
ANAK KO 1st CHRIS Memorial Valentines
ANAK KO 1st CHRIS Memorial Valentines
ANAK KO 1st CHRIS Memorial Valentines
ANAK KO’s CAREing CAREdio Heavenly Hearts Rally In Sports (CHRIS) Memorial Valentines, which is named for the Founder, Dr. Elaine Dispo-Rendón’s cousin, Christopher Dispo—an athletic heart attack survivor and a stroke victim—will be held annually during Heart Disease Awareness Month in February, beginning in 2023. Fun, flexible fitness virtual sessions of your choice will raise heart health awareness and bereaved families support, including for the Dispo family. Here’s how to:
♥️Participate: share your workout photos and videos with handle @AnakKoOrg and hashtag #AnakKoCHRIS
💝Donate: contribute to any of our methods at the top of our homepage with the memo/note, “ANAK KO CHRIS”
ANAK KO 1st EJ 5K
ANAK KO 1st CHRIS Memorial Valentines
ANAK KO 1st CHRIS Memorial Valentines
ANAK KO’s EJ 5K, named for the original President, Bernadette Aniag’s son, Elijah James, will be held annually during the weekend of Worldwide Candlelighting on the second Sunday of December, at 7PM🕯✨The very 1st one was held on MLK Day January 2021 to draw virtual runners/walkers in commemoration of all children in Heaven, including the late & great Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., whose own parents also had outlived him.👊🏿🎤
ANAK KO 1st PAIL 5K
ANAK KO 1st CHRIS Memorial Valentines
ANAK KO 1st PAIL 5K
Pregnancy & Infant Loss (PAIL) Awareness Month is in October, with PAIL Remembrance Day on October 15th, the Feast of St. Gerard, Patron and Protector of Expectant Mothers and Unborn Babies. We had our very 1st annual *VIRTUAL* ANAK KO PAIL 5K in 2020 and plan to have it every year — from anywhere all around the world: we’ll walk/jog/run 5km (>3mi) & release balloons to remember our loved ones, especially our babies who died too soon.🎽🪂 An International Wave of Light abounds at 7PM through every time zone to commemorate children in Heaven.🕯Please tag @AnakKoOrg & hashtag #AnakKoPAIL5K when you participate &/or donate👟💸
ANAK KO 1st Donor
ANR 1st Memorial Scholar
ANAK KO 1st PAIL 5K
EMILIANA POPATCO: MANY MANY THANKS / MARAMING SALAMAT PO / ¡MUCHÍSIMAS GRACIAS! ANAK KO’s founder‘s GODmother / Ninang / Madrina’s our very 1st patron to contribute a generous amount to help start up our foundation. This helps families who’ve buried their children💸⚰️
ANR 1st Memorial Scholar
ANR 1st Memorial Scholar
ANR 1st Memorial Scholar
CONGRATULATIONS to the very 1st recipient of the Angel Nevaeh RendónMemorial Scholarship from Our Lady of the Lake University, ANAK KO founder’s PhD alma mater! This award winner wrote about her own loss of a dear friend in the fatal El Paso Walmart shooting + plans to pursue a career in law & social work👩🏻🎓👩🏻⚖️
ANAK KO 1st BOD Meeting
ANR 1st Memorial Scholar
ANR 1st Memorial Scholar
ANAK KO has held its 1st few Board-of-Directors (AKO BOD) quarterly meetings to induct new officers and discuss fundraising. Aside from memorial markers and scholarships, the AKO BOD also decided to add care packages for grieving parents, like some of us founders💝🧺The Board also had a consensus that AKO not only offers financial support, but also emotional support, as well. Now we have a CARE acronym for CARE packages + CHRISTmas CARE-oling CARE-oke to cheer up bereaving families: Community Advocates Render Empathy
Please Vote to Support ANAK KO
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🎀Your daily vote from 10-10-12/15/2022 helped us advance for the chance to benefit our foundation for bereaved families, thank you! From 2nd place out of 50+ in my group to Top 20, followed by 4th to Top 15 and 5th to Top 10, I finished at the Top 5 of my group!🌟☀️
