Posts Tagged ‘Charity Events’

One of our own New Lawrenceville networkers is racing for the cure! Please support Mona Johnson as she takes an amazing journey in the fight to end breast cancer! The Susan G. Komen 3-Day for the Cure is a 60-mile walk over the course of three days. Net proceeds from the Susan G. Komen 3-Day for the Cure™ are invested in breast cancer research and community programs.

She is taking this challenge in honor of MANY great women like her grandmother Dorothy Bennett, who she never had the pleasure of meeting, due to this disease, and many other family members. She also walk for many brave SURVIVORS, her aunt JoAnn Bennett as well as 2 very good friends, Dionne Ferris and Maria Hale.

Thanks so much for your support and encouragement! Check out her link below to sponsor her fight!

www.the3day.org/goto/MonaJohnson

Below is a request from a local business owner, to help children in need in our community. Please do what you can to help!

I need your help! My staff and I have decided to give away 50 backpacks to any child in our community that is in need of backpacks and school supplies.
For th e next 2 Saturdays anyone that brings a child to our office in need of supplies will receive a free backpack. Now here is where I need your help………………

We need supplies!!!!!!

We are in need of pencils, erasers, note pads, pens, magnets, book markers, crayons, calculators, copy paper, anything that a child can use in school. If you have any of these items and would like an opportunity to promote your business, as well as help a child in need, this opportunity is for you.

We will be accepting any and all donations starting Monday, August 16 through August 20. You can drop off your donations at my office or we will pick up your donations. Just call us!!

Please consider helping the kids in our community! Remember it takes a village to raise a child.

Also! Pass the word around! We want to give these backpacks away!!!

Thanks for your help!!

Mernice Oliver
American Family Insurance
“W e are the family you choose!”
678.745.9490 office

2815 Buford Drive
Ste. 105
Buford, Ga. 30519

Help local foster and at risk children start the 2010-2011 school year off with all of the tools needed to be successful!

Current Needs for Back 2 School and More!:

• New Book bags- for all ages (including rolling backpacks for youth who cannot carry bags on backs as well as well as messenger bags and other appropriate backpacks for youth)

• School supplies-
  • new binders (1 inch or larger)
  • black ink pens
  • Index cards (3X5 and large sizes)
  • glue sticks (not liquid)
  • #2 pencils (mechanical & regular)
  • pocket dictionaries
  • subject dividers
  • mini staplers
  • composition books

• Baby Products
  • Baby wash
  • Baby lotion
  • Baby shampoo
  • Diaper Rash Cream
  • Baby Wipes
  • Strollers (for infants and young children, including ones with umbrellas to protect from the sun)
  • Infant car seats in good condition (newborn-1year old)

Special Need—We have a family who is lacking essential items for the children in their home. We were contacted by a representative of one family who needs items such as a couch, kitchen table, twin bed for a 4 and 11 year old, and dressers or somewhere to store clothing. If you are able to help, please call us to coordinate to get the items directly to the family.

If you are able to help with any of the items listed above, please call us today! We are in need of many of these items by no later than Saturday, July 31^st for our Back 2 School Open House for families. Please call us at 770-623-6135 to coordinate a time to drop off in Duluth next week prior to the open house or let us know if you will be able to bring them to the Resource Center the morning of the Open House.

This is a local fundraiser for a very worthy and important cause. Monique Germaine Miller’s 22 year old son has been diagnosed with a rare fatal heart condition.

The hospital requires a minimum of $160,000 just to put Austin on a wait list for a heart transplant. Without the transplant Austin’s chances of survival are next to none.

Please join us at Olde Towne Tavern for a silent auction to help raise funds for Austin’s transplant!

We are requesting a $20 donation to attend. Everyone will be responsible for your own food & beverage.

Please come out and show your support for Monique and her family!! Invite everyone on your Facebook friends list!

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Austin Maddox is in need of a heart transplant.

Austin needs to raise $160,000 just to get him PLACED on a donor list.

“This is a rare and fatal heart condition that is undetectable until onset of symptoms.

Two weeks ago he was a normal healthy 22 year old and now he is fighting for his life in Salt Lake City, Utah at the Intermountain Medical Center

DONATIONS TO:

Wachovia Bank
#1010269393301

If mailing a check:
Wachovia Bank
Attn: Victoria
3994 Tampa Rd
Oldsmar, FL 34677
on memo write: Austin Maddox

If writing a check make it out to: Monique Miller
Also: Austin Maddox Fund
EIN# 80-0530054

Donations online to PAYPAL:

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=11320912

Information on the condition
http://www.myocarditisfoundation.org/giantCellMyocarditis.htm

Rita’s Lawrenceville, along with Miracles of Massage would like to help Victory World Church in their efforts in helping collect for the relief drive for Haiti. We have setup a bin to collect items for the relief efforts in Haiti. All donations will be taken to the Victory World Church who has partnered with Grace International and have agreed to become the drop off point in Atlanta for all donations to help the refugees.

Together, we can all make a difference!

Author: Katie Sweeney

Lawrenceville, GA – Gwinnett Federal Credit Union members were tickled pink to win a basket full of pink “treasures”.  The annual pink basket raffle has become a member favorite.  Gwinnett Federal staffers donated enough items to fill eight large baskets.  Since every branch had a different basket filled with pink “treasures”, some members purchased tickets at more than one branch.  This basket raffle helped to collect over $2,500 (surpassing last year’s fundraiser) for the Gwinnett County Relay for Life program during the American Cancer Society’s breast cancer awareness campaign.

Employees and members raise money year-round with various fund raising events, culminating in Gwinnett County’s Relay for Life.  Since 2001, Gwinnett FCU has raised $84,000 and donated thousands of employee volunteer hours to Relay for Life.

More about Gwinnett Federal Credit Union

Gwinnett Federal Credit Union is $149 million in assets and serves 28,000 members in a five county area.  Operating as a not-for-profit financial cooperative owned by its members and operated with the purpose of promoting thrift through convenient, competitive savings opportunities and providing low cost loans to our members. For more information about Gwinnett Federal Credit Union, visit gwinnettfcu.org.

WHAT: 

OPEN HOUSE  - COME BY AND SEE OUR PLACE

GOODIE BAGS FOR PETS – INFORMATION AND TOUR

WHERE:   2160 OAKLAND INDUSTRIAL COUR, SUITE 100, LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA 30047

WHEN: 

• Saturday, November 14^th 9am  –  3 pm
• Sunday, November 15^th 12pm  -  4pm

WHY:    NEW LEASE SIGNING, NOVEMBER 1^ST, STAYING IN OUR ORIGINAL LOCATION

• LOOKING FOR SPONSORS – WE ARE STILL SUPPORTING OUR COMMUNITY          
• OPEN FOR BUSINESS, NEVER CLOSED
• FINANCIAL AND FOOD DONATIONS ACCEPTED

CALL FOR MORE INFORMATION

678-725-4992

TOM WARGO