Why do you paddle?
Here in the office, we’ve been gearing up for one of our biggest fundraising events of the year: Dragon Boat Upstate Festival! On April 21, over 1,000 paddlers will descend on Portman Marina at Lake Hartwell to race against other teams, to celebrate their fundraising success (this year’s goal is $250,000 for cancer research and [...]
Finding your giving groove
Let me start this blog post with an acknowledgement: I am not writing this to brag about my husband. Well, okay, maybe a little bit. My husband – after two years of watching me dive into the philanthropy world and graciously volunteering at several events – has officially caught the fundraising bug. And it’s perfectly [...]
Giving hope
Gratitude is contagious. I’ve seen it firsthand. Take Tiffiney Addis, for example. Her family’s life changed in July 2009, when her daughter, Sadie Mae, was born prematurely. Little Sadie, weighing in at about a pound and a half, spent the first few months of her life in the Bryan Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at [...]
Thesis with a vision
Sometimes, I just look at our youngest donors and I think: “Wow.” Take Madison Turrentine, for instance. What did she decide to do for her senior thesis at Christ Church Episcopal School? She started her own toy drive through the GHS Children’s Hospital Virtual Toy Drive, with the sole purpose of sending pediatric cancer patients [...]
