Walk For Maddie
For 2010 March for Maddie Information and Teams, please CLICK HERE.
Click Here for How To Start A MoD Walk 4 Maddie Team
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April 7th, 2009, Madeline Alice Spohr unexpectedly passed away. Now, people all over are coming together to honor her and her family. This post will show you a few ways you can do the same.
People around the country are organizing teams to walk in Maddie’s honor at their upcoming March of Dimes Walks. It is so easy for you to join in. Just sign up with the team close to you and go walk that day.
I’ll update here as new teams are announced.
Click Here for How To Start A MoD Walk 4 Maddie Team
Click to see a map of teams so far, it’s pretty darn cool.
Teams assembled so far:
(alphabetical by state)
- Spanish Fort, AL: Gulf Coast for Maddie – October 24th
- Tucson, AZ: March for Maddie AZ – walked April 25th
- Bakersfield, CA: Haute Mamas – walked April 25th
- Los Angleles, CA: March for Maddie – 2 (Maddie’s Original Team) – walked April 25th
- Newport Beach, CA: To Healthy Babies – walked April 26th
- Pacific Grove, CA: Marching for Madeline Alice – May 17
- Sacramento, CA: Sac March for Maddie – walked April 25th
- San Diego, CA: San Diego Walk for Maddie – walked April 25th
- San Fransisco, CA: Team Aiden (also for Maddie) – walked April 25th
- Washington, DC: March for Maddie DC – walked April 26th
- Georgetown, DE: TeamMaddieDelaware – May 16th
- Jacksonville, FL: Jax for Maddie – walked April 25th
- Tampa, FL: Friends of Maddie!! – Walked April 25th
- Atlanta, GA: Atlanta Remembers Maddie – walked April 25th
- Honolulu, HI: Aloha for Maddie – walked April 25th
- Naperville, IL: Walkin’ For Maddie – walked April 26th
- Elkhart, IN: Maddie’s Minions – walked May 2nd
- Indianapolis, IN: Hoosier Favorite Preemie? – walked April 26th
- Topeka, KS: March for Maddie – Topeka – Walked April 24
- Metairie, LA : Steel Magnolias March for Maddie – walked April 25th
- Boston, MA: March for Maddie – Boston Edition – walked May 9th
- Buzzard’s Bay, MA: Massachusetts March for Maddie – walked May 3rd
- Baltimore, MD: My Bottle’s Up for Maddie – walked May 3rd
- Bay City, MI: March for Maddie – Bay City/Saginaw – walked May 3rd
- Caledonia, MI: Michigan for Maddie – walked April 25th
- Holland, MI: March for Maddie – Holland – Walked April 18
- Grand Rapids, MN: The Burrow Triplets – Remembering Ethan & Maddie – Walked April 18th
- Minneapolis, MN: Minneapolis Loves Maddie – April 26th
- St. Paul, MN: MN for Maddie – walked April 26th
- St. Louis, MO: St.Louis Team Maddie – walked April 25th
- Research Triangle Park, NC: In Memory of Madeline Alice Spohr – walked May 2nd
- Lincoln, NE: In Her Honor (Maddie S.) – September 20th
- Augusta, NJ: Marching for Maddie Spohr – walked April 26th
- Belmar, NJ: Jersey Shore Families for Maddie – walked April 26th
- Sparks, NV: March for Maddy – walked April 25th
- Carmel, NY: For Maddie – walked May 3rd
- New York, NY: March for Maddie: Team NY – walked April 26th
- New York, NY: Walk for Maddie – walked April 26th
- Cincinnati, OH: Maddie’s Mob – walked April 26th
- Columbus, OH: OH for Maddie – walked April 26th
- Sandusky, OH: Maddie-Moo-the Great lakes Edition – walked May 9th
- Tulsa, OK: The Southern Family – walked April 25th
- Salem, OR: Riggs Family for Maddie – walked April 25th
- East Stroudsburg, PA: We Walk for Maddie – walked April 25th
- Philadelphia, PA: Philadelphia Walks for Maddie Moo – walked April 26th
- Pittsburgh, PA: Burgh Moms and Dads – walked May 9th
- State College PA: Central PA Moms for Maddie – walked May 3rd
- Bristol, RI: Cassie (They have pledged to honor Maddie as well.) – walked April 26th
- Anderson, SC: In Honor of Maddie – walked April 25th
- Dayton, TN: March for Maddie Spohr – walked April 26th
- Knoxville, TN: KnoxvilleTeamMaddie – walked April 25th
- Nashville, TN: Nashville Team Maddie – walked April 19th
- Austin, TX: In Memory of Maddie – walked May 9th
- Houston, TX: Marching for Maddie – Team Houston – walked April 26th
- San Antonio, TX: March for Maddie – San Antonio – May 16th
- Layton, UT: Marching Mommies *in honor of Maddie* – walked May 2nd
- West Valley City, UT: Remembering Maddie – April 25th
- Seattle, WA: Seattle for Maddie – walked May 3rd
- Spokane, WA: Spokane for Maddie – walked April 25th
- Martinsburg, WV: Babyscapes – walked April 25th
- Green Bay, WI: Oneida Airport Hotel Corp (Honoring Maddie – anyone can join!) – walked April 25th
*Organizers: please inform me of your teams so I can add them.
If you want to join one of these teams and walk for Maddie – please make sure you click over to the team page and sign up to join that team, so that you’ll be on the roster. It’s very easy and free, so make sure you complete that step so each team knows who’s walking with them!
It will ask you to enter an amount as you goal when you sign up. Just enter anything – you can edit it later if you want. Don’t sweat that part, just throw something down and sign on.
Service for Madeline: Tuesday April 14 at 2:30 pm, Old North Church, Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills.
Central Page for all things Maddie:
March for Maddie
More information:
For Maddie
March for Maddie
Mad About Maddie Spohr (Paypal button code here!)
In Maddie’s Name
Flickr Group In Honor of Maddie (anything to honor her, including photos of you in purple for her)
Madeline Alice Spohr – this photo was posted by many at 2:30 Pacific Time 4/14 to honor Maddie
Operation Purple Balloon – Please Participate!
Purple for Maddie Spohr – if you’re wearing purple for Maddie, or turned your blog or twitter page/avatar purple for her, please add your link to the appropriate section here.
Beautiful Memorial Video For Maddie by newrose
Shirts have been designed (by Heather Durdil) in purple with Maddie’s face on them. These are available for purchase here: Maddie’s T’s All proceeds go to The Spohr Family.
John, Braden and I are committed to Nashville Team Maddie. We’d love for anyone in the surrounding areas to join our team and walk along with us.
Information for the Nashville Walk:
Nashville Team Maddie Page – please go there and register with our team!
April 19, 2009
Centennial Park
2500 West End Ave
Nashville, TN 37203
If you can’t walk with us, please make a donation: any amount will help us get to our team goal for Maddie. (These donations are in Maddie’s name, even though the account carries my name – I had to create a profile to be able to create “Nashville Team Maddie.”)
Thank you so very much.
You can also still offer to help Heather & Mike with expenses via Paypal: formaddie@hotmomreviews.com
Or donate to March of Dimes directly through Maddie’s Original Donation Page
PS: Any incentives earned from donations to the Nashville Team Maddie walk team will be turned over directly to The Spohrs.
Clean the shirts on their backs by putting one on yours.
The putrid piles of
clothing in my house are proof
of this one truth: I
hate doing laundry.
But at least I have the means.
Some out there do not.
The term that is used
is “natural disaster.”
I’m sure the victims
feel anything but
natural picking up the
pieces of their lives.
I have not suffered
severe destruction but
just thinking about
the devastation
after floods, hurricanes, and
twisters, I shudder.
At such desperate
times, I can imagine that
all help is welcome.
Tide is offering
practical help to those who
need it in this way:
You buy a shirt here;
proceeds provide clothes cleaning
service for victims.
So now even if
I am not cleaning my own
family’s clothing…
I can take comfort
in knowing that I’m helping
clean laundry elsewhere.







