Fall 2007 Newsletter

CARES Foundation, Inc.

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AS OF OCTOBER 5, 2007

FOR MOST MONEY RAISED:

1ST PLACE: 19” LCD HDTV
The Kimura Family—team #1103
raising $9,818 with 126 donors

2ND PLACE: 3 Piece Designer Luggage
Richard Pendino—team #1224
for his $5,000 donation

FOR THE MOST NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS IN THE RACE:

1ST PLACE: Apple Video IPOD
The Racin’ Jason team (Lin Family)—team #378
raising $4,531 with 63 donors

2ND PLACE: David Yurman Earrings
The McLeod Family—team #1359
raising $1,175 with 30 donors

Our Board of Trustees were also extremely active in this race, but were ineligible for any prizes. 

OUR TOP TWO BOARD TEAMS WERE:

The Upchurch Family—team # 1081
raising $13,268 with 31 donors

and the

The Abell-Patterson Family—team #772 raising $11,000
with 2 donors.

Jason Lin’s team, team Racin’ Jason, collected more than $4500 in sponsorships

A Race to the Finish!

The “non-event” was a smashing success due to the incredible support from more than 100 CARES families who participated. As of this writing, this event has raised over $87,500! This is the first time we have undertaken a campaign like this and we are thrilled with the financial support for the CAH community.

Thank you to everyone who contributed their money and their time sending out invitations, letters, emails, and making phone calls. Special thanks to the Lin and Harper families who went “one step further” by organizing a walk and a hike respectively.

All of our prizes were generously donated. Thank you to Kelly & Adam Leight for the LCD HDTV; Marj & Steve Bromberg for the designer luggage, Meryl Stone & Michael Cohen for the Video IPOD, and Wilson Jewelers, Scarsdale & Mt. Kisco, NY for the David Yurman earrings.

We plan to make this an annual event and we hope we get even more families involved in the future. If you have any ideas on how we can improve this campaign, please contact Meryl at meryl@caresfoundation.org or call her, toll-free, at 866-227-3737.

Mazel Tov to Joey Feldbaum and his family on his Bar Mitzvah planned for November 17. Joey chose this event as his social action project, and raised over $1,000, with more checks arriving each day.

Hike for a Cure Raises $2700!

When little Wyatt Harper was diagnosed with CAH, his parents, Dawn and Mark Harper of Snoqualmie, WA, turned to the CARES Foundation for support. Enormously appreciative of the help her family received, Dawn Harper and her closest friends, Nan McCutchan and Robin Gray, hiked nearly 40 miles on August 11, 2007 to raise funds for the CARES Foundation’s educational and research programs. They raised $2700.

Wyatt, Dawn is pleased to report, is a healthy, adventurous toddler and she is committed to helping the CARES Foundation continue their outreach efforts.

  (Left to right) Robin Gray,
Nan McCutchan, Dawn Harper.