OUR DONORS: What Would We Do Without Them?

2007 DONATIONS:

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 com- committed volunteer with the Guardian ad Litem Program as well as a Sunbeam volunteer withthe 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.

CFGALA is Adopted by a Dentist's Office

Every year, Dr. Stephanie Hackney and her staff pick a worthy cause to support.  This year they decided to adopt CFGALA.  They posted our “Let a Kid be a Kid” poster and handed out CFGALA information to every client.  .

“To tell you the truth, I didn’t really know what Guardian ad Litem was all about,” confessed Dr. Hackney, “but Anne Sorhagan was so enthusiastic and, once I heard what it was about, I knew that this was an organization we should support.”

“After listening to a presentation by Dan Cameron and Anne, my staff and I voted to adopt CFGALA.”

The staff solicited donations from Picasso’s Café and Quality Clean Car Wash and Dr. Hackney added a new high-tech electric toothbrush and an art piece to the items they raffled off.  The $460 raised for CFGALA went for enrichment activities for abused and neglected children in New Hanover and Pender Counties

Most of the clients of Dr. Hackney’s dental office at 1337 Military Cutoff Road were not aware of what Guardian ad Litem was all about but the staff took the time to explain what we do and people were enthusiastic.  “That’s awesome,” exclaimed one client who bought a number of $5 raffle tickets.

Dr. Hackney and her staff were so excited about helping abused and neglected children – and bolstered by the response of their clients -  that they plan to organize another fundraiser for CFGALA in 2008.

Special thanks go to Dr. Stephanie Hackney and her staff:  Angie Allen and Barbara Roberts, hygienists; Ashley Wilson and Donna Lee Higgins, receptionists; and Amy David and Rhonda Hager, assistants.

Dr. Stephanie Hackney (second from left) and her staff raised $460 for CFGALA in 2007.

 

2006 DONATIONS:

Cape Fear Memorial Foundation

The Landfall Foundation

Rotary Club of Wilmington

Sunshine Lady Foundation Memorial Grant in honor of the late GaL, E.J. Brooks

Wilmington Cape Fear Rotary Club

Verizon Foundation

and many, many individual donors