Portland, October 17th, 2013. Pinewood derby cars raced to the finish during the final Wishes on Wheels benefit for Randall Children’s Hospital at Legacy Emanuel, Oct. 17. The annual event raised nearly $80,000 this year, with an overall net of $1 million over its 15 year history.
Wishes on Wheels volunteers Bella Garnatz, Jenny Robinson and Angela Heckathorn.
About 300 people from local companies filled the atrium of Legacy Emanuel Medical Center for their last chance to go head to head with their rivals. “It’s all for the kids, and we’re proud of what we’ve accomplished in the 15 years of this event,” said Event Chair, Brenda Alexander. “The community has rallied around the checkered flag because they see the difference Randall Children’s Hospital makes in the lives of children,” she said. “We are truly grateful for our many supporters and thank them for their dedication.”
The 2013 winning team was Fred Meyer.
Randall Children’s Hospital Foundation raises funds and promotes visibility in the community to assist Randall Children’s Hospital in providing exceptional health care to the children within the region. To make a donation or learn more about supporting Randall Children’s Hospital, call 503-276-9496. For more information about the work of Legacy Health foundations, call the Office of Philanthropy at 503-415-4700 or visit www.legacyhealth.org/giving.
About Legacy Health – the Office of Philanthropy
The Legacy Health Office of Philanthropy coordinates all fundraising initiatives for Legacy Health, a nonprofit health care system serving Oregon and Southwest Washington. Our foundations – Randall Children’s, Emanuel, Good Samaritan, Meridian Park, Mount Hood and Salmon Creek – support the system’s six acute care hospitals as well as its clinical, educational and research programs. The Office of Philanthropy is committed to Legacy’s mission of providing good health for our people, our patients, our communities and our world. For more information, please visit www.legacyhealth.org/giving.
Portland, November 1st, 2013. More than 520 celebrated success at the Central City Concern at the nonprofit’s “Compassion in Action” Benefit. Thriving clients Danielle & Jerry were featured in video shown at the event and pictured with CCC Executive Director Ed Blackburn. (photo credit, Andie Petkus) The event took place at the Portland Art Museum. Central City Concern serves single adults and families in the Portland metro area who are impacted by homelessness, poverty and addictions.
Past staff member Jeanne Rivers with current board member Pauline Anderson.
CCC Board member Ben Berry, CCC Board chair Rob Teach and CCC Executive Director Ed Blackburn.
State treasurer Ted Wheeler talked about his father’s addiction history and the importance of housing and support for lasting health.
Sam Naito, who helped develop Central City Concern in the late 1970s, with Larry Naito, current CCC board member.
Central City Concern was founded in 1979, the agency has developed a comprehensive continuum of affordable housing options integrated with direct social services including healthcare, recovery and employment. CCC currently has a staff of 600+, an annual operating budget of $41 million and serves more than 13,000 individuals annually.
Hillsboro, October 16th, 2013. Bank of America and Willamette West Habitat for Humanity dedicated a newly constructed home in Hillsboro for the Ngo family last month. (photo credit, David Gorman/Bank of America ) The Ngo family and David Gorman from Bank of America are pictured in front of their new home.
Tam Ngo, Dai Ngo and their 3-year-old daughter had been living in a multi-family, six-bedroom home with five other families, all sharing one kitchen and two bathrooms. The Ngo’s are first-time home buyers and, over the past eight months, completed 500 hours of sweat equity, on both their home and other Habitat homes, while Dai Ngo also worked as a full-time assembly operator at a large electronics company.
The Ngo family was all smiles going into their home for the first time.
The Ngo’s new two-bedroom, two-story home is the perfect size for them and, with their sweat equity and down payment factored in, they will be able to pay off their home before their daughter graduates from high school.
The home was completed thanks to the partnership between Willamette West Habitat for Humanity and Bank of America, including hundreds of employee volunteer hours contributed on top of Bank of America’s grant which funded half of the Ngo’s newly constructed home.
In addition to the Ngo’s home dedication, David Gorman, Senior Vice President of Home Loans at Bank of America for Oregon and southwest Washington, presented Willamette West Habitat for Humanity with a separate $55,000 check at the event, which will go toward funding another Habitat home.
David and his team each received four paid hours to work on the Ngo family’s home and he, along with many of his team members, spent several additional hours of personal time supporting this house build.
Bank of America has partnered nationally with Habitat for Humanity since 2002. The Bank of America Charitable Foundation has contributed more than $22 million to Habitat’s work around the world, and bank employees annually contribute more than 30,000 volunteer hours to help rehab and build homes.
Portland, November 7th, 2013. “Some kids have learning differences. All kids have Dreams.” That belief brought over 350 guests to the Oregon Zoo’s Cascade Crest Banquet Center for the “Partner with Thomas Edison” breakfast. The breakfast raised over $110,000 in revenue to support financial aid, technology, and professional development at the school. Supporters loved visiting with students like Jaylynn Bernhardt, Darby Bowers, Zariah Lowe and Nicole Strain. Zariah Lowe and Chris Gettel-Gilmartin were featured student speakers. Guests also heard from former student Sarah Hall ‘98, as well as current parent Kevin Troupe, about the importance of Thomas Edison High School. (photo credit, Andie Petkus Photography)
Edison students Donny Engeldinger, Clay Rydick, and Kinley Bassham wake up early to greet guests.
Edison board member Michael Sandoval, Edison teacher Bridget Connolly, and Edison friend James Parker
Edison parents Wendell Talley and Greg Roderick
Director Patrick Maguire with Sally Klein, Edison parent Tracy Klein, and Lucien Klein
From Thomas Edison High School
Thomas Edison High School, founded in 1973, is the only high school in Oregon and SW Washington that is specifically dedicated to serving high school students with learning differences. Our work at Edison is powerful and profound: helping every student reach his or her full potential. Edison offers an individualized curriculum that meets each student’s special needs, and maximizes the ability to learn. We also provide the emotional support that builds confidence and maturity. By empowering students with learning differences to experience academic success and personal growth, Edison does more than prepare teens for the future. We change lives.
Our school was founded in 1973 as the Tree of Learning. For 17 years, students were taught in portable classrooms on the Jesuit High School campus. In 1992, we moved into a brand new building of our own, changing our name to honor Thomas Alva Edison.
As a dyslexic, Edison struggled greatly in school, where he was considered a mischief-maker and a problem child. His mind often wandered in class, he talked when he was supposed to be listening, and he paid little attention to detail. The schoolmaster called young Edison “addle brained” and considered him such a poor student that he advised Edison’s mother to take him out of school altogether, “for he would never make a scholar.”
Of course, Edison proved everyone wrong. And while not every child with learning differences will achieve such notability as an adult, the example of Thomas Edison’s achievements serves as our daily inspiration. Just as Edison transformed the way we live, Thomas A. Edison High School works to transform the lives of our students.
Portland, October 17th, 2013. The Portland Youth Philharmonic and Joy’s Uptown Style presented a Fall Fashion Show, “Beauty of Music,” at the Multnomah Athletic Club. The event raised over $15,000 for the Victor Frederick Walton Memorial Scholarship Fund, which honors Victor Walton, a former elementary school music teacher at Kinnaman Elementary in Aloha, OR and former bassoonist with PYP. Pictured are: his mother, Arleen Walton, Debora Walton (Victor’s widow), Joshua Michael John (former student of Victor’s), Jan Ahrens John (Past President of the PYP Board of Directors and Chairperson for the PYP Fall Fashion and Donald Walton. (photo credit, Brenda Hummelt)
Jan Ahrens John and Joshua John, bassoonist.(Photo Credit: Brenda Hummelt)
Joy Walker, owner of Joy’s Uptown Style. Photo Credit: Paul Rich Studio
The Runway show. Photo Credit: Paul Rich Studio
Mr. Walton passed away in May 2011 from A.L.S. (Lou Gehrig’s disease). Guests were treated to music by Samuel Zacharia, a young violist with PYP who has already earned high praise from world renowned violinist Itzhak Perlman; as well as Joshua Michael John, a PYP bassoon alumnus who studied with Victor Walton.
Mr John is now completing his master’s degree in music and “playingit forward” as he continues to teach and mentor using many of the same techniques Victor impressed upon him. The highlight of the evening was a fashion show produced by Joy Walker of Joy’s Uptown Style featuring nine models: Gail Armstrong, Shannon Day, Grace Holland, Jennifer Lamb, Linda Leblond, Najela Scott, Ren`e Steelman and Christine Wooley. Contributions to the Victor Frederick Walton Memorial Scholarship Fund can still be made by contacting the Portland Youth Philharmonic office at 503.223.5939.
PYP Board Past President Jan John said, “There is no question that Victor would be thrilled to know that a scholarship program has been created in his name that will allow other students the opportunity to play in PYP by providing financial aid or funding private lessons from qualified music teachers.”
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