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May 2021 Morning Blend

Executive Director Pam Miklavcic and former MSU Intern Samantha chat with Host Deb Hart about Max’s Race WSYM’s Morning Blend segment. 

April 2021 Morning Blend

Host Deb Hart chats with Volunteer Drivers Kathy L. and Dush on WSYM’s Morning Blend segment. 

March 2021 Morning Blend

Segment of the Morning Blend with Executive Director & Founder Pam Miklavcic.

February 2021 Morning Blend

Segment with Board Member Mary Schulz and Volunteer Coordinator Teyei Pam.

January 2021 Morning Blend

Segment with Vice President of Fund Development Rich Howard chatting with Bob and Deb on Fox 47’s Morning Blend. 

November 2020 ePIFanyNow

Interview with ePIFanyNow founder Bob Hoffman and Teyei Pam, volunteer coordinator with The Davies Project.

November 2020 517 Business and Life

Article by Mary Gajda about the important role volunteer drivers have for helping children and families access health care.

July 2020 WILX Christiana Ford

Segment by WILX’s Christiana Ford about the need for volunteer drivers.

July 2020 Q106

Segment by Randy Stine at Q106 to encourage people to volunteer to drive children and families to medical appointments.

September 2019 Morning Blend

Segment with Dr. H. Dele Davies and Pam Miklavcic talk about the importance of transportation to access health care

June 2019 East Lansing Info

Article about the transition of Max’s Race

May 2019 Max's Race: The Next Chapter, Fox 47 Morning Blend

Executive Director Pam Miklavcic and Natalie Hool from Max’s Race talk about the future of the run for health and hope.  Watch the segment here. 

July 2018 Senior Living, HOM TV

Executive Director Pam Miklavcic talks with Peggy Frisch, host of Senior Living on HOM TV.  Watch the segment here. 

July 2018 Capital Area Women's LifeStyle Magazine

TDP Executive Director Pam Miklavcic highlighted as an inspiring woman for her work to make sure children make it to their medical appointments.  Read full article on page 6 here.

WSYM YES! Grant

Produced for being the October 2018 YES! Grant recipient. Watch the segment here.

WLNS Tell Me Something Good with Chivon Kloepher

WLNS reporter Chivon Kloepfer interviewed TDP Executive Director Pam Miklavcic and a current TDP family.  Watch the episode here.

9th Annual Battlefield Brawl

The Lansing State Journal interviewed TDP Executive Director and founder Pam Miklavcic.  Read the article here.

Lansing State Journal Op-Ed by Dionta Brown: Reliable Transportation Impacts Children's Health

As a soon-to-be college graduate from Michigan State University, I started the daunting but exciting job search process this past summer. Since I’m passionate about public service and social justice, I was hoping to find a role that would help me gain a better understanding of the unique challenges facing our community.

Throughout this process, I happened across an organization that addresses a challenge that I was already familiar with as a child who grew up without a car at home. That organization was The Davies Project, a non-profit that is filling a unique but critical role in our community: That of providing free rides to medical appointments for kids in need. I am proud to now serve as their family services coordinator.

Growing up, I was the kid on free lunch, from a single parent household, with no car at home due to my mother’s vision disability. These life experiences of hardship and adversity not only taught me how difficult life can really be for kids and families trying their best to get ahead, but have allowed me to truly empathize with the children The Davies Project serves, who have had, or are going through, similar struggles. Read more here.

​Capital Area Women's Lifestyle Magazine: The Davies Project surpasses 1,000 rides provided and 100 children served

“As of this month, The Davies Project (TDP) has provided 1,064 rides to medical appointments for 105 children in Mid-Michigan, with the help of 28 volunteer drivers. These are important and exciting milestones to recognize as TDP enter its third year of operation — a testament to the strength and commitment of TDP’s small but dedicated staff, volunteers and community partners.” Read full article on page 4 here.

Pam Miklavcic on Fox 47 News 'Morning Blend'

Executive Director Pam Miklavcic went on FOX 47’s Morning Blend in March, 2017 to talk about TDP’s services in the Greater Lansing area and our volunteer recruitment push. Watch the full interview here.

Pam Miklavcic on 92.1 FM - Connecting with Community

Executive Director Pam Miklavcic went on The Team 921FM to talk about The Davies Project’s mission to provide transportation to families with sick kids in the Lansing area, as well as our effort to recruit more volunteer drivers. Listen to the full interview here.

Lansing State Journal: "​Putnam: Grateful mom coordinates free rides for dozens of sick kids"

“LANSING – Pam Miklavcic recalls the terror she felt on Christmas Eve 1999 when her toddler son’s fever couldn’t be brought under control. The family was out of state for the holidays and came straight home.“I called the doctor. I remember saying I am more scared than I ever remember being and I don’t know why,” she recalled. The terror was justified. Peter, 3, had leukemia and was gravely ill. Pam and her husband, Milan, now an associate professor of math at Michigan State University, also had a 1-year-old son and another baby on the way. More than three years of chemotherapy followed. Peter survived. He’s now 20, healthy, and studying mechanical engineering at the University of Rochester in New York. The experience changed Miklavcic, a Haslett mother of four with a doctorate in agricultural economics. Instead of working on microenterprise projects in Africa or surveying migrant workers in the United States, she has dedicated her career to helping other families with sick kids.” Read the full article here.

​Lansing State Journal: "Nonprofit Spotlight: The Davies Project"

The Davies Project provides non-medical support to families in greater Lansing with seriously ill or chronically ill children. Our up-and-coming organization provides round-trip rides to local medical appointments for families that have difficulty accessing transportation. We plan to provide many types of additional support in the future. Our current team of 25 volunteer drivers (highly screened and trained) provides the rides using their own vehicles. We began this work in December 2014 and have had 56 children and their families reach out to us for help. In 2015, our first full year, we provided a total of 360 rides. Read the full article here.

​Lansing Regional Chamber of Commerce FOCUS Magazine: "Two Mid-Michigan Non-Profits Selected for Leadership Lansing Scholarships"

“Leaders from The Davies Project for Mid-Michigan Children and The First Tee of Mid-Michigan will attend the Lansing Regional Chamber of Commerce’s leadership initiative, Leadership Lansing, at no cost this year thanks to a pair of scholarships provided by Resch Strategies.” Read the full article here.

​Capital Gains Lansing: "​Davies Project driven to ease transportation worries for families with sick children"

“”We were a family with two Ph.D.’s, but found that navigating health care was one of the hardest things in the world,” Miklavic says. “There were so many obstacles. We saw that you can have the best critical care in the world, but if you don’t have access to that care, it becomes even tougher.” That experience led Miklavic to found the Davies Project in 2014: a unique service that provides community-based, non-medical support to local families caring for kids with serious illnesses and conditions.

In particular, the volunteer-driven Davies Project provides free transportation for families to clinics and doctor offices for medical care. To date, 23 volunteer drivers transport 53 children and their families to appointments in Greater Lansing. About 70 percent of clients are on Medicaid. Before connecting with the Davies Project, many of the families missed 60 percent of their appointments—simply because they couldn’t get there.” Read the full article here.

​Giving Jar Blog: "Charity Spotlight: The Davies Project"

“The Davies Project provides transportation to and from medical appointments for children with serious or long-term illnesses. Ensuring children receive the care they need not only helps improve the health of the children, it can also improve the overall well-being of their families. In this charity spotlight, I spoke with the Executive Director of The Davies Project, Pamela Miklavcic.” Read the full article here.

​WKAR: "The Davies Project transports sick kids to vital appointments"

Dr. H. Dele Davies, MD, Vice Chancellor University of Nebraska Medical Center and former MSU pediatrician and executive director Dr. Pamela Miklavcic spoke with WKAR’s Mark Bashore about how The Davies Project is helping break through the significant isolation families feel when trying to care for a seriously ill child; and our kick-off “Friend-raiser” event at which the 2015 Help Drive Change Campaign will launch and run through the end of the year. Listen to the full interview here.

​Pam Miklavcic on Fox 47 News 'Morning Blend'

The Davies Project founder and executive director Pamela Miklavcic spoke with Fox 47 News’ ‘Morning Blend’ hosts Bob Hoffman and Mary Turner about services available to local families, how to become involved with The Davies Project as a driver, and other opportunities to support its work. Watch the full interview here.

WKAR: "Neighbors in Action: The Davies Project"

The Davies Project founder and executive director Pamela Miklavcic, and Dr. Roshni Kulkarni, director of Pediatric and Adolescent Hematology and Oncology at MSU’s College of Human Medicine, spoke with WKAR’s ‘Neighbors in Action‘ about how the project is developing in Lansing and how everyone can become a part of The Davies Project. Listen to the full interview here.