Caring Crowns is in the planning stages of a fundraiser to help the victims of the Haiti earthquake - we hope to have the event in early March, as funds will still be needed in the coming months.
In the meantime, please go to
hopeforhaitinow.org
and donate as you are able. Thank you!
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Upcoming Events
FEBRUARY, MARCH, & APRIL
Events are TBD.
MAY
Gwinnett Relay for Life!
Fri. & Sat., May 7th & 8th
(you don't have to stay
the whole time)
Gwinnett County Fairgrounds
Arrival Time TBA (will be Friday afternoon/evening)
You can go ahead and join the Caring Crowns Relay team and start your fundraising! Just click the link below and click "Join our Team".
LINK
Then select one of the "Participant Registration" options.
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Calendar of
Volunteering!
JANUARY
Friday, January 15th:
Special Olympics Opening Ceremonies!
Cobb Civic Center
548 South Marietta Parkway
Marietta, GA 30060
We will once again be signing autographs, taking photos with the special athletes, and (for queens ages 12 & up) escorting them in the Special Olympics Opening Ceremonies!
Attired is dressy-casual "cute" - NO jeans! Bring a camera, a Sharpie to sign autographs, and if you have headshots, bring about 150 of those to autograph and hand out as well.
E-Mail Ashley to RSVP!
Queens at the Special Olympics!
Contact us!
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your message!
About:
"Fine Print"
Caring Crowns is a volunteer organization that has been a labor of love for Ashley Jones since early in 2006. We are our own organization and not affiliated with any pageant system - all queens are welcome to join, no matter what pageant system they represent. Caring Crowns is not just one service project; it is an organization that continually provides help to various organizations in need. We work with a different organization each month, such as Relay for Life or March of Dimes. Ashley's goal is for the girls to get exposure to helping with various causes and events, not just one.
Our organization, Caring Crowns, Inc., is legally recognized by the state of Georgia as a nonprofit corporation, and Ashley Jones is legally listed with the state of Georgia as the Founder and CEO of said organization. We filed articles of incorporation with the Georgia Secretary of State's office, which were approved, and we were then granted an official legal certificate of incorporation, signed by Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel. We also submitted our registration of "Caring Crowns" as an official "service mark" with the state of Georgia. (This is the equivalent of a copyright or a trademark, except it protects services instead of goods.)
We are also in the process of getting approved as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charitable organization. This means that any donations to Caring Crowns will be tax-deductible once this process is complete. Our official website can be found at www.caringcrowns.org.
As stated above, Caring Crowns is NOT affiliated with any one pageant system - queens from ALL systems are welcome to join. We want girls of all ages to be able to experience the joy of helping and giving back to their community, no matter where they obtained their titles. We invite anyone to volunteer - you do not have to be involved in pageants. Any more information about Caring Crowns can be found on the various pages of our website. Thanks for stopping by our website, and we invite you to join us and make a difference.
Use the crown to care!
Welcome to the home page of Caring Crowns, a volunteer organization founded by in January 2007 by Ashley Rebecca Jones, Ms. Grayson 2009 and Miss American Princess 2008. Caring Crowns is made up of pageant queens who want to make a difference in their community.
Caring Crowns supports many causes, not just one. Our main objective is to hold at least one event a month where we help out or raise money for a cause that needs our help - we will help a different cause every month. Members are welcome to make suggestions if they have any ideas for fundraisers or groups that might need assistance.
Caring Crowns is NOT affiliated with any one pageant system - queens from ALL systems are welcome to join. Also, you do not have to be a queen to participate with Caring Crowns - if you are willing to volunteer your time and effort to our causes, we'd love to have you! Queens, feel free to bring your parents, siblings, friends, etc., to help out at our events. We are always looking for more titleholders who want to be a part of this great organization - please contact us and let us know if you're interested in becoming one of the queens of Caring Crowns!
About Ashley
Ashley is an actress and pageant titleholder who is also pursuing a career in the communications industry. She has performed in over two dozen theatrical productions with theatres across the Southeast, as well as having served on various technical theatre crews. Most recently, she performed in the famous show Steel Magnolias.
Ashley holds two college degrees - a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre and a Bachelor of Science in Communications with a concentration in Electronic Media. Her communications background includes having served as the News Director of TV62, Western Carolina University's campus television station. Ashley also completed an intensive internship with the FOX5 News Atlanta I-Team (the station's investigative reporting team). She worked on investigative stories with I-Team reporter Randy Travis, and even went undercover equipped with a hidden camera. Two of the stories Ashley worked on were later recognized with Southeast Regional Emmy Awards. Ashley most recently worked in public relations in Atlanta, traveling to various elementary, middle, and high schools as a motivational speaker. She currently works as the executive assistant to the president of one of Atlanta's top horticulture and holiday design firms.
Ashley is the reigning Ms. Grayson 2009 and Miss American Princess 2008, and has been involved in all aspects of pageantry for over a decade - everything from competing to emceeing to judging to directing. Ashley is also an approved judge in the Miss America organization.
Ashley uses her pageant titles as a means of giving back to her community, and her community service has had national and international impact. Ashley is currently overseeing the formation of Caring Crowns chapters in over half a dozen additional states!
The Caring Crowns Board of Directors is comprised of Ashley Jones (Founder & CEO), Bree Lynch, and Caroline Vickers.
Use the Contact page above to e-mail them!
Bree Lynch
Caroline Vickers
Bree Lynch, Miss Heart of USA 2009, graduated from North Gwinnett High School with the HOPE Scholarship and is currently attending Georgia Perimeter College aspiring to be a Pharmaceutical Sales Representative. She has been competing in pageants since the 6th grade and has held the titles of Pre-Teen Miss Fourth of July, Pre-Teen Miss Pickens County
Caroline Vickers is currently Miss Georgia All American Sweetheart 2008. She graduated from Faith Academy as an honor graduate, and also accomplished graduating high school a year early. She is currently attending Gainesville State College and is deciding her major between nursing and Childhood Education. She has been involved in pageants since she
Peach, Miss North Georgia Belle 11th Grade Sweetheart, Miss National Gwinnett Sweetheart, Teen Miss Forsyth County, and is now the reigning Miss Heart of USA. She is actively involved with working in the community with Relay for Life, Special Olympics, and many other special events. Her main goals in life are to fulfill her career dreams, raise a family like her own, and be a role model for as many as girls as she can. She mainly enjoys spending time with her family and friends and being out in the community, but she also loves to go horseback riding, tubing down the river, and swimming.
was twelve years old. She has competed in many pageants and has held the past titles of Junior Miss Collins Hill, Coastal Georgia Beach Beauty Miss Atlantic, Miss Sophomore Collins Hill, and Miss Atlanta National Sweetheart. Along with competing in pageants, she has also directed the Miss Ignite Pageant for the past three years. Her community service has included Special Olympics, Operation Christmas Child, and volunteering at public school functions. Her future goals are to complete college and pick her major. She would also like to direct more pageants and begin judging in the pageant world!
CAUSES:
Atlanta Children's Shelter
Camp Caglewood
Prevent Child Abuse Gainesville
March of Dimes (March for Babies)
Gwinnett Relay for Life
Special Olympics Georgia
Families First
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
(Out of the Darkness Walk)
Samaritan's Purse
(Operation Christmas Child)
VOLUNTEER/COMMUNITY LINKS:
President's Volunteer Service Award
(Caring Crowns is a certifying organization!)
MISCELLANEOUS:
AshleyRJones.com
(Ashley's homepage for coaching, emceeing, & judging)
Caring Crowns Facebook Page
Hope for Haiti Now
PAGEANTS:
Miss Ignite
Georgia Pageants
USA'S Teen, Miss, & Mrs. Georgia Pageants, Inc.
Miss Cherokee County
(Young Miss Pageant, Miss Cherokee Fair)
Miss Dacula Pageant
Miss Flowery Branch
(sister program to the Miss Dacula Pageant)
Miss Georgia State
Miss Paulding County &
Paulding's Beautiful Miss
Miss Georgia National Teenager
Southern USA Pageants
(Miss Heart of USA Pageant)
Georgia Fabulous Faces
Links
Check out the links to the right to find out more information on the following: various causes we have helped support, other volunteer/community organizations we recommend, as well as links to other pageants we enjoy!
If you're interested in volunteering with an already-existing chapter, please contact the chapter president for your state. Contact e-mails for individual state presidents are posted below. Thanks, and happy volunteering!
Georgia - Ashley Jones (Founder & CEO): ashleyrjones_hotmail.com
Louisiana - Katina Smith: katinal2003_yahoo.com
New Jersey - Marissa Mitchell: MissGardenState_gmail.com AND www.caringcrownsnj.org
South Texas (from Austin to the Rio Grande Valley) - Tamedra Vasquez: caringcrownstx_yahoo.com AND http://www.myspace.com/caring_crowns_tx
Tennessee - TN President needed! Contact Ashley Jones at ashleyrjones_hotmail.com
Virginia - Jessi'ka Coley: caringcrownsva_yahoo.com
West Virginia - Cindy Wilcoxen: caringcrownsofwv_yahoo.com AND http://caringcrownsofwv.bravehost.com/
Here, you can find information on the events of our other chapters of Caring Crowns. We currently have an active chapter in New Jersey, and are in the process of organizing chapters in several other states. Scroll down to see if we have a chapter in your state! If we don't, and you would like to organize a chapter in your state, please e-mail Ashley.
Many thanks to Marissa Mitchell,
President of Caring Crowns NJ
for all her hard work in getting
the chapter up and running!
If you are interested in
starting a chapter of
Caring Crowns in
YOUR state, please
e-mail Ashley Jones
for guidelines.
Click below to download forms - forms will open in a new window.
Rules & Release Form
News & Achievements
If you are a member of Caring Crowns & have a new accomplishment you would like listed here, please
contact us using the Contact page. Thanks!
Congrats to Caring Crowns' first-ever recipients of the President's Volunteer Service Award!
Savannah Bradford
2008 - Gold Award for 118 hours of volunteer service
2009 - Gold Award for 168 hours of volunteer service
Ashley Jones
2007 - Bronze Award for 192 hours of volunteer service
2008 - Silver Award for 251 hours of volunteer service
2009 - Silver Award for 259 hours of volunteer service
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