Executive Director:
Dear Friends,
Happy Spring! Research, Research, Research!
Research is in the air! Our theme for this upcoming year is research and ways that we as a community can support it. We were fortunate enough to have had a very successful fundraising and awareness luncheon in March. We hope that our golf outing in Indiana, scheduled for September 22nd, will be as successful, and that many of you will hold fundraisers in your own communities. These events have and will bring in funds for CAH research. We hope that as we continue to develop financial support for CAH research, we can make a meaningful difference for ourselves, our children and those with CAH yet to be born. If we do not do this, no one else will. This is our mandate, and we need your help to make this a reality.
Every1CARES Luncheon
On March 10th, we held the very first EVERY1CARES luncheon at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles. It was extremely successful and a wonderful day. The event raised over $100,000. On behalf of CARES and its board of trustees, I want to thank the amazing Jami Abell Patterson, her terrific, supportive family, our energetic luncheon committee, the CARES Foundation staff and the fabulous event planners, The Proper Image. The event could not have happened without all of your dedication and hard work. Thank you so much! I especially want to thank Jami, who conceived of this idea and made it a reality. Jami--you are the best and we are so very grateful. I also want to thank all of those who attended and supported the event, as well as our generous corporate sponsors including Quest Diagnostics, Pfizer, Inc., PerkinElmer Life Sciences, Pediatrix, Inc., Bio-Rad Laboratories, Creative Artists Agency, Rolex, Inc., Erno Lazlo, along with the California Department of Health Services, Genetic Disease Branch, to mention just a few. We also thank all of our private and foundation sponsors. For more details on the luncheon, see the article on the following page.
Grant to the National Institutes of Health for CAH Research
The Board of Trustees of CARES Foundation has awarded a grant for $62,500 for the National Institutes of Health to support CAH clinical research. While in the past we have given smaller grants, this is the first (we hope of many) larger grants for CAH research. Now that CARES is 3-1/2 years old, through the hard work of all of the CARES members, the board and advisors, we are at a point that we can make these kinds of larger grants. It is a real turning point for us, and is a tribute to the dedication of the CAH community. This is very exciting for me and I hope for all of you as well. Working together, we are making a difference. Onward we go.......
Warmly,
Kelly
