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Alex’s Lemonade Stand foundation is built around one person. This foundation is built on Alexandra Scott. When she was four years old, she had her first childhood cancer fundraiser in her front yard. She had a lemonade stand to fundraise cancer. After she finished her lemonade stand she had raised over $2,000. By the time she died in 2004, she was just eight years old and had raised over one million dollars for cancer.
Alexandra went through a lot in her life even though she only lived until she was eight years old. Shortly before her first birthday, Alex was diagnosed with neuroblastoma, a type of childhood cancer. A few days later, the doctors told her parents that if she beat her cancer it was doubtful that
News spread of Alexandra and that she was dedicated to helping other sick children. People from all over the world held their own lemonade stands and donated the money they made to Alex and her family. This helped the foundation reach a goal of $1 million dollars raised to help children battling cancer. In August of 2004, Alex passed away at the age of eight ,knowing that, with the help of others, she had raised more than $1 million to help find a cure for the disease that took her life. Throughout all of this she helped create the foundation today known as Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF). The goal of this charity is to raise money for pediatric cancer research with the help of kids and adults. They raise money by hosting different fundraising events.
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They are dedicated to raising funds for research into new treatments and cures for all children in the fight against cancer. To raise money and awareness of children with cancer, the money mostly goes to research that supports new treatments and cures. The organization has several different programs that benefit cancer research such as the Alex Gordon baseball tournament, Denver lemon climb, telethons, and many more. A few celebrities support their foundation, like Bailee Madison and Alex Gordon. They are dedicated to helping kids with cancer and wanted to make a
A charity that Kane does is the Chicago Blackhawks Charities. These charities are a variety of charitable events that happen throughout Northern Illinois, but mostly the Chicago area. They focus towards health, education, and housing. However their one goal is to “to serve local citizens and impact the lives of youth and their families in and
Unfortunately of all the members in the immediate Ingram family circle, Lisa Campbell is the one whose philanthropy remains the most unknown. However she has served on many boards, so it’s likely that she and her husband have made a number of significant gifts; most likely through a Donor Advised Fund. We do know that they have given over
Since matriculating to Wake Forest School of Medicine, Jonathan has been very involved with student organizations that attract the creative energy and civic commitments of students. As an active member and leader of the Wake Forest Chapter of the Student National Medical Association (SNMA), Jonathan has devoted many hours to the planning and execution of numerous events and initiatives involving advocacy, community outreach, and service. His most significant involvement was with the SNMA Inaugural Art for a Cure Gala and Art Silent Auction. For the event, he used his nonprofit event management and leadership abilities to organize a successful fundraising campaign and gain support from local organizations to accumulate over $1,000 for research purposes at Wake Forest Baptist Comprehensive Cancer Center. Eager to help others learn from his experiences to achieve their own goals, Jonathan has also mentored local undergraduate, graduate, and medical students individually and through SNMA
Coming up on May 21, it will mark the 136th year since Clara Barton started the American Red Cross (Benson 66). Besides bringing a little-known organization to America and making it thrive here to help people, she did many other things. Clara Barton had a full and rewarding life, as a child she learned skills that helped all throughout her life, did her part to contribute in the Civil War, started a school, and fought for women’s rights, as well as brought the Red Cross Back to America.
Maitri AIDS Hospice has engaged their donors through three key events: dinners at Maitri, the student art sale (later turned permanent art gallery), and Maitri retreats. The dinners at Maitri introduced potential new donors to the Maitri AIDS Hospice (prospect identification and cultivation); the student art sale then art gallery provided a large fundraising opportunity (solicitation); and the Maitri Retreats fostered relationships with current donors, offering recognition (stewardship).1 Donations primarily came from the residents of San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood and gay men. In general, gay men donated heavily
As I stood at her bedside, my mind flashed back to how it happened. Before, I never thought a phone call could change someone’s life. I found out a few months ago, on a late sunday night. I remember her saying she had it. When I asked what she had, her voice grew silent and she whispered one word. Lauren had cancer.
Considering cardiovascular disease has become an important problem in modern American society, in 2013, Merry Maids launched a special campaign called “Help Us Raise the Roof”. In February they left each customer a donation box to fill with coins and dollars. At the end of the month they collected the money on behalf of the American Heart Association (AHA). AHA is a non-profit organization in the United States that fosters appropriate cardiac care in an effort to reduce disability and deaths caused by cardiovascular disease and stroke. Merry Maids gaining raised over 100,000 dollars after this campaign. This report analyses and evaluates the activity, then shows the value and impact of this cause-related marketing campaign.
Marian Anderson raised money for a school in Washington D.C. “... the singer focused her attentions on a lengthy concert tour of the United States.” “Beginning in 1936, Anderson sang an annual concert to benefit Howard University School of Music…” This was good for her and the school to help her and the school. It also says the the concert were so successful that each year larger and larger venues had to be found. Marian was doing a great job helping the school. “... a new organization called the Marian Anderson Citizens Committee… DAR held fast and continued to deny Anderson use of the hall. It still was not fair to Anderson for not being allowed to use the stage to perform. Marian idea was good to make a new organization and for her to perform on stage which was called
She worked with Congress and raised the budget to help fight pediatric AIDS from $3.3 million to $8.8 million. One example of Ethos is “I started out just as a mom fighting for the life of her child. But along the way I learned how unfair America can be today, not just for people who have HIV, but for many, many people-poor people, gay people, people of color, children.” She shows to the audience that she understands the struggles of the aforementioned groups, because she has HIV.
The Diane Holcomb fund enables ACM Lifting Lives to respond quickly to immediate financial needs of ACM members, staff, and music- related organizations and individuals. Over the past four years, ACM Party for A Cause continues to grow with the support of artists, fans, and sponsors.
This past October, Alpha Phi, a sorority here at the University of Arizona held its 11th annual Red Dress Gala. Held on parents weekend, the Red Dress Gala is a casino-style event filled with an auction, fun games and dancing. This event is held to not only benefit members and their parents, but to raise money and awareness for Women’s Heart Health. This year, the chapter's goal of raising $50,000 was easily attained through a multitude of methods. Ticket sales and the auction contributed to a significant amount of the goal, although the majority can be attributed to generous donors. These contributions were collected through an effective method used by many organizations: fundraising letters. Through a very specific process, these letters are sent out to wealthy individuals and corporations in hopes of receiving a donation.
King, Samantha. Pink Ribbons, Inc.: Breast Cancer and the Politics of Philanthropy. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 2006. Print.
The American Cancer Society is a volunteer-based organization that is present across the United States. Its main purpose is to raise money and awareness about the severity and prevalence of cancer. Cancer education and research is where most of the focus and monetary donations are used for. The American Cancer Society strives to fulfill their goal of “less cancer and more birthdays” across all generations and populations (ACS Inc., 2011).
She has accomplish many projects such as adding products, books, televisions shows, and other things to her name. One could say that prison help her company with media and the right mind set to help get her company back on top after the scrutiny she went through during this case. The time in prison had was a huge impact on her company because it allow her to think about the different perspectives she wanted for her company in the future. This made the transition from prison to her business easy because she already had a plan ahead of her. Today she is worth more than nine hundred million
In 1993, they made a $1 million Challenge Gift to Seattle Children's Hospital, where Laurie had been serving as a board member for twenty years. They have given over $10 million to the University Of Washington School Of Medicine cumulatively and over $1 million to Harborview Medical Center. They have also given at least $700,000 to America’s Foundation for Chess, an organization Scott founded in 2000. A list of their known gifts of $1,000 or more is available.