2019

Opened trips to Cozumel, Grand Cayman, and Key West, Florida!

2016

Opened trips to Nassau and San Juan Puerto Rico !

2015

Cruisable.com features Cathy as "Cruiser of the Month", writes four page article about Hope Floats

2014

Belize, Aruba, & Cozumel ports and charities added. Hundreds of volunteers spread the word after stellar experiences!

2013

Partnership set up with ShoreTrips.com as their 'Shore Trips GIVES' program. Hope Floats featured in articles in Travel Pulse, Porthole Magazine, Travel Weekly, & the NEW YORK TIMES!

2012

Our first (brave) volunteers register & end up serving tea to an English Prince in Tortola! The 'Travel Detective' Peter Greenberg calls & writes about Hope Floats!

2010- 2011

Site rebuilt, 501(C)3 Non-Profit status granted (LOTS of red tape!), and dry run set up with friends to Antigua, Barbados, St Lucia, St Thomas, & Tortola with fifteen charities on board. All charity leaders are met and volunteers work at their locations

2008

Hope Floats, with Board of Directors, is born!

March 2007

While on a family cruise, Cathy and Bill take their fours sons, 9-20, to volunteer with developmentally challenged children in Antigua on advice from a crew member. They were amazed by the experience and frightfully unprepared for the severity of their issues; even their cab driver bolted. Idea for Hope Floats is born: why not connect passengers with existing charities to volunteer while in port and PREPARE them ahead of time with details, items to donate, etc.?

2000-2004

Cathy and Bill are offered an amazing opportunity to speak as Guest Lecturers on cruise ships on topics from scrapbooking to open heart surgery. Good work if you can get it!

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