Awgo.org
Title
The Association of Wish Granting Organization
Contact
- The Great Information Factory
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- Visalia CA
- United States 93292
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- +1.5597398443
Description
The early 80's brought about a new concept in charities, focusing on children with critical, chronic, life-threatening and terminal illnesses. The mission of these organizations was to grant the child's wishes and dreams.
In 1990, Dr. Tom Dovel, a marketing professor at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio and a board member of A Special wish foundation, Inc. a children's wish granting organization based in Columbus, Ohio, devised a project for his marketing class to show his students how rewarding it can be to give of one's self to others less fortunate.
Dr. Dovel, soon realized that e strategies, tactics and ethical considerations that he and his class developed would be beneficial to other wish and dream organizations. In 1992, Dr Dovel hosted the first "Conference of wish Granting Organizations" in Dayton, Ohio. Dr. Dovel's vision was that a national association be established that would:
