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Simon’s Heart At The 2024 Pro Bowl Presented By Verizon

Feb 4th, 2024: Nonprofit Organization to teach thousands of fans CPR at the Pro Bowl Games Presented By Verizon in honor of Damar Hamlin who survived Sudden Cardiac Arrest. Simon’s Heart Launches Campaign With ZOLL To Place AEDs in all 32 NFL Cities! Orlando, Fl – HEART MONTH 2024 Where:...

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What Story Do These Photos Tell You?

Simon died today, nineteen years ago, on January 24, 2005. That smile vanished and took ours too. We all have a date in our life that lies somewhere between uncomfortable and intolerable. As you can imagine, our day is today. The smile came back – we don’t remember when. It...

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Club saves lives while fundraising during pandemic

WHAT: Colonial Soccer Club is taking steps to protect hearts and place AEDs throughout the Plymouth Meeting, Whitemarsh, and Conshohocken region. The Louis T. Savino, III Foundation and Simon’s Heart collaborated with Colonial Soccer to fund 9 AEDs to 13 soccer fields. AEDs and CPR Education will be provided during...

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Jenn and Rob Shockley

Timing is everything. We met Jenn in 2019. She wasted no time helping us market ideas (her specialty), find sponsors and connect with the youth lacrosse community. We’ve been completely inspired by her enthusiasm and effort. We are lucky that Robb and she have agreed to serve as co-chairs for...

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Diana and Ducis Rodgers

A friend set us up with Ducis Rodgers. He came to one of our heart screenings and then quickly began raising awareness about sudden cardiac arrest and death in student athletes. Then, there was a couple’s dinner, and now we call Diana and Ducis friends. We’re so excited they’re serving...

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Testimony – House Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs (Maine)

Chairwoman Kornfield and Chairman Langley thank you for allowing me to testify today before the Education and Cultural Affairs Committee in support of LD 1051 – an Act to Prevent Sudden Cardiac Arrest. My name is Darren Sudman. I am the Executive Director and Co-Founder of Simon’s Fund, an organization dedicated...

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Yeah, But You Don’t Save Lives

Funny story. My son died twelve years ago from an undetected heart condition. My husband and I started this foundation to provide free heart screenings for kids. We were thinking that if other parents had the chance to check their kids’ hearts, maybe their kids wouldn’t die from detectable and...

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The Heart of Mike Pence

Published previously in Huffington Post It’s official. Governor Mike Pence of Indiana is Trump’s pick for Veep (great show, by the way). Most people are “meeting” him for the first time. I “met” him in March 2014, when he became the fourth Governor to sign the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Prevention Act...

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Mother’s Day – Post Mortem

Published in the Huffington Post Another Mother’s Day is in the books. It is my 44th. For thirty-one years, the day was dedicated to honoring my mother. In my 32nd year, we welcomed Sally, our first child. Whoa did Mother’s Day change! It became so much more special and relevant...

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The $600,000 Vacation

Published in the Huffington Post This vacation was out of control. Their room was $5,900 a night. The helicopter ride cost $36,347. They spent more than $1,000 a day on drugs. It was like nothing I’d ever heard of before. Last summer, my friends took their family to Virginia. They...

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