Welcome to Henry's Heartlings!

2010 Pittburgh Heart Walk Scheduled for Sept. 18, see [News About the Heartlings]

What are Heartlings?

\Heart' lings\, interjection An exclamation used in addressing a familiar acquaintance. [Obs.] --Shakespeare

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

About Us

In the United States, heart disease is the number one cause of death, and stroke is number three. Henry's Heartlings are the family, friends and supporters of Henry Schmitt who donate to the American Heart Association via the annual Pittsburgh Heart Walk. Pictured above is the Henry's Heartlings 2009 Walking Team.

If you would like to support us in raising money to help fight heart disease and stroke, please visit our donation page. To find out more about our walkers and why they walk, visit the Walking Team page. A number of companies support Henry's Heartlings with either monetary or in-kind donations. They can be found on our sponsors page; information about becoming a sponsor can be found there as well.

Join Us

If you would like to walk in the Pittsburgh Heart Walk with us, or would just like to help us raise money for the American Heart Association, you can sign up at our team page on the Heart Walk fundraising site.

In Memoriam

Nancy Lacina a long-time heart patient and mother of Heart Walker Katherine Schmitt, passed away on April 17, 2009 She will always be our Honored Heartling. Please donate to the Nancy Lacina Memorial.

News

2010 Pittsburgh Heart Walk Scheduled for Sept. 18

After much waiting, the 2010 Heart Walk is finally scheduled! This year's date is earlier and hopefully warmer. We've got a lot of work to do in the next four months if we want to reach our goal and become the #1 Community Team in Pittsburgh. The AHA is working on getting more organizations involved, so the competition will be fierce. We need your help!

Pittsburgh CAPA 6-12 Raises Almost $500 for Henry's Heartlings

The Vocal Majors at Pittsburgh Public Schools Creative and Performing Arts School won the National Junior Honor Society's fundraiser for Henry's Heartlings. However, since Stagecraft and Creative Writing were both within $3 of the Vocal students, the CAPA PTSA decided to throw a pizza party for all three majors.

Altogether, the 6-8 graders raised $460.25 for the American Heart Association. The pizza party was held on Feb. 5, 2010, which was also to be National Wear Red Day. Despite a snow storm which was the start of the snowiest month ever in Pittsburgh, the kids had a great time. Thanx CAPA!

Henry's Heartlings Wins Four Awards

We want to say a big Thank You to everyone who supported us in the 2009 Pittsburgh Heart Walk. Thanks to you, this was our best year ever.

Almost the entire Team made it to the Award Ceremony at Le Mont on Mount Washington this year. We came away with four awards.

Henry and Karen received Top Walker Awards for raising over $1000 each. A Star Walker Award went to Kath for raising $500. The big surprise for the evening was Henry's Heartlings receiving a Top Friends & Family Team Award as the Number Two non-corporate fundraising team in Pittsburgh. We're aiming for Number One in 2010!

THANK YOU!

T-Shirts Available

We've made our supporter t-shirts available from a new online store. Not only that, but for the first time, we're also making the Walking Team T-Shirt available as well. It's a great gift for your Honored Heartling. Ten percent of all sales go to the AHA.

Link to Henry's Heartlings

Help us raise money for the American Heart Association by putting a link to us on your site. We've added a new page to the site with graphics and HTML you can use to put a Henry's Heartlings link on your web site.

Facebook Page

We now have a Page on facebook. If you're a facebook member, become a fan, show your support for our team and keep up with our latest news.

In-Kind Donation Sought

We're looking for a printer who can print our Heartling Cards for us. In return we'll feature the printer on our Sponsors Page. If you're a printer, or know a printer willing to do this, we'd like to hear from you. Please contact us at sponsor@henrysheartlings.org. Thanx!