Welcome Dave Greenberg
The Little Miracles Trust is pleased to announce that Dave Greenberg has joined as a Trustee. His knowledge of the social profit space, plus skills and experience in engagement, fundraising and health & safety space are very much welcomed – and will help us to enhance our support of neonatal families.
About Dave Greenberg
Dave grew up in New York City, and lived in Buffalo, New York and Dallas, Texas before moving to Wellington in 1990.
From the time he was eight-years old Dave knew he wanted to be a fireman when he grew up, and followed his dream by becoming a volunteer firefighter/EMT while working as an IT consultant. He saved his first life when he was only 13-years old, performing CPR on a stranger who collapsed on the street in front of him.
Dave arrived in Wellington for a one year IT contract in January 1990, and never left. He was accepted as a crewman on the Wellington-based Westpac Rescue Helicopter in 1991, and over the next 25-years took part in nearly 4,000 missions, part of an amazing team that helped or save thousands of lives.
Over 600 neonatal journeys. Over 600 of his missions involved working with the Wellington Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) flight team. The team transports critically ill premature babies to the specialist care they require, and then transports them back to the nearest hospital to their home, as their condition improves.
In addition to working on the rescue helicopter Dave was Crew Chief or Operations Manager for The Life Flight Trust for nearly 20 years. As a member of the Trust’s management team he helped implement policies and strategies which help keep the rescue teams safe in all types of situations.
Today Dave is director of Emergency Preparedness Services (EPS), an emergency management consultancy. EPS provides incident management training and exercises to government agencies and private companies, as well as assisting them with their policies and training to assist before, during and after a major event. He is also a professional public speaker, using his lifetime of experiences in the emergency services as a metaphor for life and business.
Welcome aboard Dave!
‘Emergency Response’, a book coming. . .
Penguin Random House is releasing Dave’s memoir, “Emergency Response: Life, Death and Helicopters” in October 2017.
More details on this to follow closer to launch.
Thanks so much for sharing your personal story!
We get a lot of positive feedback from families in a neonatal unit who read these stories and feel strength, hope and positivity knowing that they are not alone going through these experiences and feeling certain emotions.
If you would like to discuss sharing the story of your neonatal journey, we’d love to hear from you.
Support Us
If you want to help our support of families going through the stress and anxiety of a neonatal journey, you can donate via the link below.
- The Little Miracles Trust provides support to families of premature or sick full-term babies as they make their journey through Neonatal Intensive Care, the transition home, and onwards. We do not receive any Government funding and are entirely reliant on the generosity of individuals, companies and organisations in the form of donations, value-in-kind donations, grants, sponsorship and fundraising events to supplement operating costs and fund our services and initiatives.
- As we are a registered charity (CC56619) with Charities Services New Zealand we will send you an IRD compliant tax receipt – this will happen automatically by return email.