Making Miracles Happen!

Children's Miracle Network is the official National Platform of the Miss America Organization. Each contestant at the local, state, and national level is asked to raise funds for CMN and the Miss America scholarship fund. Miss America serves as a Goodwill Ambassador for CMN throughout her year of service, and Miss Minnesota and the local titleholders and contestants here in our state participate in a variety of CMN-related projects throughout the year.

At this year's state pageant, the Miss Minnesota Organization honored Nick Nelson, a "CMN champion". For more on Nick's story, visit his bio at the Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare website.



Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare is the only CMN-affiliated hospital in the state of Minnesota. For more information on Gillette, please visit www.gillettechildrens.org

You can also sign up for e-newsletters from Gillette. Follow this link: gillettechildrens.org/newsletter





Children's Miracle Network official website: www.childrensmiraclenetwork.org
Miss America/CMN Fundraising website: www.missamerica4kids.org

All photos below by Paula Preston, paulapreston.com

The 2008 Miss Minnesota Contestants visiting Gillette

Decorating cookies and signing autographs

Miss Minnesota 2007, Jennifer Hudspeth, with a new fan	Lots of new wall decorations!	CMN Champion Nick Nelson with Mackenzie Ross, highest fundraiser at the 2008 pageant