Jennifer Wilks Foundation » Announcements http://blog.jenniferwilks.org Fighting Childhood Cancer Thu, 15 Jul 2010 06:03:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 1st Annual Charity Poker Tournament http://blog.jenniferwilks.org/events/1st-annual-charity-poker-tournament/ http://blog.jenniferwilks.org/events/1st-annual-charity-poker-tournament/#comments Thu, 15 Jul 2010 03:59:12 +0000 admin http://blog.jenniferwilks.org/?p=798 Please join us for our 1st Annual Charity Poker Tournament to benefit ‘The Jennifer Wilks Foundation’.
Date: Sunday July 25th at 2:00pm
Location: Third Base – (Downtown location)
1717 West 6th Street
Building 2, Suite 210R
Austin, TX 78703
GRAND PRIZE: $1,000 toward entry into any 2011 WSOP Event plus 4 hotel accomodations plus
SECOND PRIZE: Flat Screen Television
Lots of other great prizes!


Enter now with a $30.00 suggested donation, with 2nd chance donations available for up to two hours.
Advance registration will give you $5K extra start!
Register and donate via the form below.

]]> http://blog.jenniferwilks.org/events/1st-annual-charity-poker-tournament/feed/ 0 Golf Tournament 2010-a SUCCESS! http://blog.jenniferwilks.org/events/golf-tournament-2010/ http://blog.jenniferwilks.org/events/golf-tournament-2010/#comments Sat, 16 Jan 2010 06:56:58 +0000 admin http://blog.jenniferwilks.org/?p=736 Thank you all for supporting the Jennifer Wilks Foundation’s Golf Tournament held on April 23, 2010. Because of your help and support we raised $27,823 this YEAR! On behalf of the JWF we cannot thank you enough for making this tournament a great success. Together, we help to support the children and families at the new Dell Children’s Hospital and the charities that kept a smile on Jennifer’s face.

Thanks to your assistance, we will be able to continue doing the following:
 
· Bring meals 3 times a month to Dell Children’s Hospital
· Grant Arturo’s “Make A Wish” to Disney World
· Continue as the main sponsor of the teenage youth group at Dell Children’s Hospital “The Hungry Bunch”
· Support the Leukemia Lymphoma Society
· Support the His Grace Foundation
· Put on the Christmas Eve Party at Dell Children’s Hospital

I hope you had a great day playing golf and I hope that you will come back next year. We will be setting next year’s golf date soon and we will keep you updated

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Mary and I understand firsthand how special this is for the child, sibling, and for the parents.

So please look over the Donor Levels and together let’s put a smile on the kids faces this Christmas.
Stockings

Christmas Party 2007

]]> http://blog.jenniferwilks.org/events/christmas-donations-for-the-children/feed/ 0 Happy New Year – 2009! http://blog.jenniferwilks.org/announcements/happy-new-year/ http://blog.jenniferwilks.org/announcements/happy-new-year/#comments Sat, 03 Jan 2009 23:21:46 +0000 admin http://blog.jenniferwilks.org/?p=101 Well we did it again! On Christmas Eve Mary, Timmy, Elaine and I served a nice steak, chicken and shrimp dinner to the families on the oncology unit at the new Dell Children’s Hospital in Austin. We served 21 families as well as the nursing staff (over 70 people). We had some great help from our friends to make this day a success. THANKS!!! I would also like to thank Robert, the manager at the Joe’s crab shack on 183, for supplying our holiday feast. So go to Joe’s Crab Shack and thank them for making this happen!

We also raised enough money through the Jennifer Wilks Foundation website to give each cancer patient and their siblings a stuffed stocking and $100 worth of presents. Before Christmas we had the parents fill out a form telling us what each child wanted/needed for Christmas and we went shopping. We helped 47 children!

Other great things in 2008 – granted Yazmin her Make A Wish and she went to New York with her family to go shopping and see the Rocketts.

Became the main sponsors for the Hungry Bunch group. The Hungry Bunch is the teenage group at the Dell Children’s Hospital. They do monthly activities outside the hospital and they have a big camping trip each year. Jennifer loved the Hungry Bunch and we are proud to help.

We are bringing meals to the cancer unit at the Dell Children’s Hospital on the 1st, 3rd, 4th and 5th Wednesday each month. I would like to thank Jason’s Deli, Bush’s Chicken and Bill Millers BBQ for helping us with the meals. This has turned into something special for Mary and me.

At the 3rd Annual Jennifer Wilks Golf Tournament in April we raised just over $32,000. We had over 140 golfers and this allowed us to give back to the charities that kept a smile on Jennifer’s face. We also donated to His Grace Foundation and The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

2009 will be a great year for the Foundation. Mark your calendars for the Golf Tournament on April 24th. It’s getting BIG…we are going for 288 golfers this year! We will have 7:30am and 1:30pm tee times. Sign-ups will start in January.

I know that Jennifer is in heaven and looking down on each of us and smiling.

Thanks and God Bless,
Tim, Mary, Timmy and Elaine

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