OUR DONORS 

What Would We Do Without Them?

November 2009

 

Out of 1.3 million realtors nationwide, 300 applications were submitted for the association's Good Neighbor Award.  Our own GAL Helen Marotto was one of five winners!  True to Helen's spirit of helping GAL children she, donated the $10,000.00 to CFGALA! 

 

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Left to right:  Sarah Geimer, NAR representative presents $10,000.00 check to GAL Helen Marotto, and her husband Phil

 

Helen Marotto presents CFGALA with $10,000.00

 

Left to right:  Anne Sorhagen, President of CFGALA, Helen Marotto GAL & NAR Award winner, Liz Kachris-Jones GAL Program Director

 

Verizon Foundation Awards $8000 Grant

to support the mission of CFGALA

July 2009

Left to right

Anne Sorhagen, Treasurer, Liz Kachris-Jones GAL Program Director, Dan Cameron President, Jim Hynes Vice President, Robert Clayton - Verizon Call Center HR Manager, Kathleen McLean At Large Member, John Taggart Secretary

 

Cape Fear Academy Kindergarten Class 2009

May 2009

After reading in the Star News about the Cape Fear Guardian ad Litem Association the kindergarten students of Ms. Eileen Aycock decided to help other children by collecting money and making a donation of $100.  The class discussed kinds of activities which would be exciting and beneficial to children of New Hanover and Pender Counties who are in the GAL program. 

Pictured Below:

Ms. Eileen Aycock's Kindergarten Class donated $100 to help fund enriching and positive activites for GAL children

Board Members Susan Carter, Allocation Chair and Anne Sorhagen, Treasurer accept the donation.

 

2008 Donors Making A Difference

Cape Fear Memorial Foundation

Delta Sigma Theta Alumnae Chapter of Wilmington

Guardian ad Litem volunteers

Guardian ad Litem Board Members

Grace United Memorial Methodist Church

Hampstead Women's Club/Thrift Shop

Katie and Wayne Hill Family Foundation

Ladies Ancient Order of Hibernians

New Hanover Public Library Crime Festival

P.P.D.

Rotary Club of Wilmington

Stephanie Hackney D.D.S.

Wilmington Cape Fear Rotary

Wilmington East Rotary

The Landfall Foundation

The Sunshine Lady Foundation

U.P.W.O. Chestnut Street Presbyterian Church

Verizon Matching Gift Program

Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church Fellowship Class

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