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AWGO Providing the highest standars in wish granting throughout the world

The early 80's brought about a new concept in charities, focusing on children with critical, chronic, life-threatening and terminal illnesses. The mission of these organizations was to grant the child's wishes and dreams.

In 1990, Dr. Tom Dovel, a marketing professor at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio and a board member of A Special wish foundation, Inc. a children's wish granting organization based in Columbus, Ohio, devised a project for his marketing class to show his students how rewarding it can be to give of one's self to others less fortunate.

Dr. Dovel, soon realized that e strategies, tactics and ethical considerations that he and his class developed would be beneficial to other wish and dream organizations. In 1992, Dr Dovel hosted the first "Conference of wish Granting Organizations" in Dayton, Ohio. Dr. Dovel's vision was that a national association be established that would:

  • Serve as an accrediting agency for the various wish granting
    groups, both national and international;
  • Serve as a central database on specific wishes and dreams;
  • Serve as an informational center for the dissemination of
    pertinent date;
It was his belief that membership ins such an organization would facilitate the flow of open and positive communications between the various wish and dream granting organizations and ultimately benefit the children.

Over the next few years, meeting were held, and interim board was established and in 1995, The Association of Wish Granting Organizations, Inc. was formally established as a 501 (c) 3 not for profit organization.