The "red balloon" in The Nicholas Colby Fund^® - Helping Children Be Children^® logo is actually a balloon that Nicholas painted. It has been integrated into all of our collateral, and against the beautiful blue sky provides an uplifting notion of love.

The following information is provided to help you navigate The Nicholas Colby Fund^® website to more fully experience all that it has to offer.

Please Notice:

1. The main menu bar: Welcome, About Us, About Nicholas, What We Do, Donate, Participate, Contact Us.
2. There are sub-menu bars after selecting About Us, About Nicholas.
3. There are drop down menu items to select when scrolling over What We Do, Participate.  For example one of the drop down menu items for What We Do is Events / Experiences that provides a snapshot of the type of things we do toward Helping Children Be Children.  There you can also click on quarterly photo albums that reveal all of the events and experiences in pictures as well as click on our calendar to see when events and experiences are happening.
4. You will go directly to the respective content when you select Donate, Contact Us.
5. About Us, About Nicholas, in addition to its sub-menu items there are drop down menu items.  For example one of the drop down menu items is a Picture / Story Book About Nicholas.
6. That for the drop down menu items for About Nicholas, three of the drop down menu items (Celebrating Life, Nicholas' Memorial Service and Celebration of Life, and Sound Tracks) each have respective side menu item selections.   For example the side menu items for Celebrating Life are: A Message From Nicholas' Brothers On May 25, 2006 and A Book Called, The Next Place, By Warren Hanson.
7. That for the drop down menu items for Participate, two of the drop down menu items (Journal and Guestbook) each have respective side menu item selections.

Special Notes:

• After Selecting About Nicholas, each of its sub-menu items have a corresponding picture of Nicholas. For example, selecting About Nicholas > Nicholas' Star In The Sky, you will see his actual star that was registered as "Nicholas Colby".
• After selecting About Nicholas > Nicholas' Memorial Service and Celebration of Life you will be able to access the actual speeches, songs, and poems delivered by the speakers as well as see a corresponding picture of each speaker.
• After selecting What We Do> Special "Packs" or What We Do> Collaborating To Deliver More..., there are two tabs on each page; Nutritional Packs and Back Packs, and Therapy Dogs... and Moment by Moment - Portraits..., respectively.

General Notes:

Remember to scroll down all the pages to thoroughly browse and enjoy the richness of the content that more fully reveals our work of "Helping Children Be Children". You will find surprises. For Example:

1. A Proclamation after selecting What We Do > Sponsors and Partners, and scrolling all the way down its content.
2. A personal message from Lamont (me), Sheila, and Gina after selecting About Us > Nicholas Colby Fund^® Facilitators, and scrolling down seeing a picture of each of us as well.

Notes About Having Your "Speakers" Turned On And Volume Turned Up Some:

1. When you are on the Welcome page or About Nicholas > Nicholas' Memorial Service and Celebration of Life page, you will hear Nicholas' Song-of-Love playing in the background.
2. And from About Nicholas > Nicholas' Memorial Service and Celebration of Life page > Messages & Speakers > Nicholas Videos, you will see and hear the pictures and music played at the Viewing Service the night before the Memorial Service and Celebration of Life.
3. Under About Nicholas > Sound Tracks, by clicking on the songs you can hear them.
   Please note that the songs on the album titled, A Loving Tribute to Nicholas, by clicking on each song you will hear the songs that make up the video tribute that was played during the memorial service and celebration of life. These songs were choreographed to loving pictures of our beautiful angel, Nicholas, and his wonderful life. There is more music as well as lyrics on this page by clicking onto the cascading side menu items.

We truly hope that you just enjoy as we all reflect on love in the ways that we do..."Helping Children Be Children^®".

And we hope you will save this website as a favorite and we hope you see all the pictures, songs, and love wonderfully integrated helping Nicholas' legacy to fly and the love of other children connecting…for other children.