CFGALA Newsletter

                   February 2008

Special Interest Articles:

GALA Fundraising Efforts a Huge Success

 

Find Summer Programs for your Children

 

Why You Should be Going to www.cfgala.org

 

Individual Highlights:

Get to Know your Colleagues                 Page 3

 

GALS Honored for 15 Years of Service – Dickey and Neblett                  Page 4 

 

Denny Smith – Volunteer of the Year               Page 5                      

 

The GAL Program is Moving                          Page 6

Come to Where the Info Is www.cfgala.org          Page 7

          GAL Staff               Page 6

 

CFGALA Board       Page 8

 

GALA’s 2007 fundraising efforts resulted in a lot of happy faces.  Some 175 abused and neglected children had their lives enriched in a variety of ways because of the Guardians who care so much and the resources generated from a Wilmington community that also cares about these children.

A sixteen-year-old girl now has a guitar and is able to pursue her musical interests.  A 13-year-old got a clarinet.  A 14-year-old boy was able to join a basketball team and buy the necessary uniform.  Numerous children benefitted from tutoring. 

Many, many of our children were able to spend a week at summer camp or participate in local sports activities or day camps.  Some enjoyed art or dance classes.  One received a cheerleading uniform, one a cap and gown, and another got basketball shoes.  Three siblings, ages 5, 8, and 10, now have a computer to share.

All this enrichment and subsequent happiness cost GALA $40,000 – an average of $230 per child.

Through its “Help a Kid Be a Kid” campaign, GALA raised an amazing $56,000 in 2007, from foundations, corporations, churches and the rest from individual donors.  Wilmington was generous to the GAL children.  More than 130 individuals (including GALs) contributed generously. 

The following grants and donations additionally boosted our fundraising efforts:

Verizon Foundation

The Landfall Foundation, Inc.

Junior League of Wilmington

Valentine B. Pratt Charitable Trust

Boyd Family Foundation

Sunshine Lady Foundation Grant

     created the E.J. Brooks Memorial

     Fund.  (EJ was a committed volunteer

     with the Guardian ad Litem Program

     as well as a Sunbeam volunteer with

     the Sunshine Lady Foundation.) 

Raymond James Charitable

     Endowment Fund

We’d like to thank the following community-minded businesses, corporations, and houses of worship   for their generous support:

Atlantic Corporation

Webb-Ferretti, Inc.

PPD Development

Cape Fear Bank

G.E. Electric Company

FJM Properties

Sun Trust Banks, Inc.

Jungle Rapids

The Farlow Group

Oriental Rug Gallery

Grace United Methodist Church

St. Andrews Covenant Presbyterian

    Church

St. Marks Catholic Ladies Ancient Order

    of Hibernians

Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of

    Wilmington

Wesley Memorial United Methodist

    Church

The GALA Board would like to thank all of our donors for their amazing generosity.  We would like to give special recognition to the efforts of Kathleen McLean, at-large member of the GALA Board of Directors, who was instrumental in obtaining the generous Verizon Foundation grants. 

In addition, thank you to the GAL volunteers who go the extra mile to find enrichment activities for their children and make it all happen.

 

 

 

                   February 2007

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February 2007 Cape Fear GALA News

October 2006 Cape Fear GALA News