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The CKNW Orphans' Fund
Working for special needs children every day of the year.
NEWSLETTER Winter 2008 CKNW Orphans' Fund Pledge Day 2007  Congratulations for helping us raise $1,072,510 at the 30th Annual CKNW Orphans? Fund Pledge Day on Friday, December 07, 2007. Pledge Day is the one time each year the Fund takes a moment in the spotlight to appeal for support and tell the public how the money is being spent. Because of your help we are even now looking for new ways to make more miracles happen, and put smiles on the faces of children with special needs. In (1977) pledge day raised a couple of hundred dollars during the afternoon drive show, over the next few years both the morning talk show and afternoon drive radio shows doubled and tripled the dollars raised for the Fund. In 1983 the station committed a full day to Pledge Day and just over $200,000.was raised. Each year the fund continues to grow allowing us to help more and more disadvantaged youngsters in our communities. The bar just keeps moving higher and higher. We are successful because of the incredible team effort within Corus Entertainment and Shaw Cable TV. This broadcast pulls radio/TV personalities, community leaders, clients, school choirs, grateful recipients, thousands of individual donors and You. On behalf of the Directors of the CKNW Orphans' Fund, we would like to say "thank-you". Tax receipts for your 2007 donations are now in the mail. CKNW Orphans? Fund Prize to Paradise The major Fall fundraising Draw took place December 2007 and the winner answered a skill testing question to Win a trip for 2 to the Big Island of Hawaii! Airfare courtesy of Westjet... non-stop service from Vancouver to the Big Island! Trip included seven night's stay at Outrigger Keauhou Beach Resort, courtesy of the Big Island Visitor's Bureau Good things happen when you help the CKNW Orphans' Fund. <><>><><><><><>><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> CKNW Orphans? Fund Special Events Wed May 21, 2008 CKNW Orphans? Fund Ladies Bowling League Banquet Nikkei Community Centre, Burnaby. Norm Grohmann master of ceremonies, 200 ladies who bowl year round for the Fund raised over $12,500. in 2007. This event is by invitation only. Become a member today! The Ladies Bowling League is always looking for new members. So get your friends together for a fun season of bowling and support the CKNW Orphans? Fund. Sign up at Port Coquitlam Bowl, Scottsdale Lanes or Varsity Ridge Lanes or call (604)738-5412. Ladies Bowling and the Orphans? Fund...A tradition for over 40 years! June 2008   Annual CKNW Orphans? Fund Picnic with 3,500 special needs children and their caregivers will descend on PNE Playland. The elementary school children from special classes will be entertained for the day. This event is arranged through special needs teachers in schools throughout the lower mainland and is by invitation only. July 7th, 2008 British Columbia Paramedics are holding their 4th annual charity golf tournament with proceeds to the CKNW Orphans? Fund at Northview Golf & Country Club, Surrey. Tickets: $150. per person Registration at www.apbc.ca. TBA Neil McCrae/Tony Parsons Golf Tournament Sarah McLauchlan Foundation Music Outreach Project with Arts Umbrella allows inner city students the unique opportunity to fully explore their creative potential, hopefully inspiring them to succeed in life ? partially supported by the Fund. For more information click here Donate your Car Why not recycle your old vehicle by donating it to the CKNW Orphans' Fund through the Charity Car Program. AA Wayne's Towing will come and get your vehicle, tow it away and YOU get a tax receipt. Call 604-321-CARS (604-321-2277) and tell them you'd like to donate your car to the CKNW Orphans' Fund.
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CKNW Orphans? Fund - History The CKNW Orphans' Fund grew out of the commitment of a fledgling radio station to become part of the New Westminster community in which it was established. Radio station CKNW signed on in September 1944, and at Christmas the following year, it seemed like a good idea to make the season a little brighter for the children who were resident in the Loyal Protestant Home. It housed parentless children, wards of the government and those whose families couldn't or didn't want to care for them. An appeal to listeners brought contributions of about $1200, some of which was spent on radios so the children could hear the new radio station. That appeal worked well so the station undertook, with help from contributing listeners, to take the kids on a picnic. The donations helped along by the loan of a small fishing boat from a friend of the station, resulted in an outing for the youngsters accompanied by CKNW staff to Bowen Island. From those humble beginnings grew the CKNW Orphans' Fund, using the facilities of the radio station to solicit donations from its listeners. Station sponsors became involved with promotions and events to swell the total and this participation continues today. CKNW AM980, a division of Corus Entertainment, provides promotional and marketing services for the Orphans? Fund and donates funds to cover administrative costs. CKNW Orphans? Fund - Fundraising Activities While the Fund has become one of the major sources of grants for children's organizations in the Lower Mainland, it operates without a base of community volunteers, rather relies on the employees of radio station CKNW and Directors of the Fund. Our major annual fundraiser at the beginning of December each year is the CKNW Orphans? Fund Pledge Day. This is a live radio/television broadcast on CKNW Radio and Shaw TV. This broadcast pulls together a full day of entertainment with radio and television personalities, community leaders, politicians, CKNW clients, school choirs, grateful recipients and many donors. Once a year our Fall fundraising Direct Mail campaign yields a substantial number of donations all of which go directly towards helping children with special needs. Other fundraising events have included the annual herring sale, ladies bowling league, golf tournaments, the News cruise motorcycle ride, along with other community and corporate initiated promotions that generate revenue for our Fund. Bequeaths form a substantial contribution to our fundraising. Bequeaths are gifts or donations made through a Will. If you are drafting or making changes to your Will, talk with your lawyer or accountant, and think about including a donation to the CKNW Orphans? Fund. Where the Dollars Go The Picnic has become a day at Playland for many elementary school children, during which some 3,000 children with challenges, some confined to hospital beds, community homes and other institutions are given free run of all the rides, are sumptuously fed and royally entertained. In excess of $200,000 a year is provided to camping organizations to provide fees for special needs children whose parents cannot afford to send them to camp. Applications must be made to camping organizations. We make funds available for needed equipment and services for children. Anything from a specially adapted tricycle for a spina bifida child, to emergency dental work for a child in pain or buying a computer for a child who is bedridden. We have funded horseback riding lessons for muscular dystrophy children, purchased hearing aids, eyeglasses & electric sports wheelchairs funded speech and language therapy, mentioning only a few of the services we provide. We respond to appeals from charities and organizations whose commitment is to work for and with special needs children. In 2007 we funded over $100,000 to Lower mainland hospitals for their infant care nurseries to purchase critically needed equipment; incubators, fetal monitoring devices. Over $100,000 a year is provided to individuals attending specialized schools, devoted to working with children diagnosed with learning difficulties. One hundred thousand dollars was provided Children's Hospital to partially equip a research lab to study inflammatory bowel and crone?s disease in children. An endowment was established to fund a UBC professor heading up research into the immunology of children's diseases. Endowments have been established at most community colleges, BCIT and the Open Learning Agency to provide bursaries for single parent students. Applications are made to the schools. An endowment fund was established at SFU to provide one scholarship per year for a student from an income assistance background. It pays 100% of the cost of tuition, books, housing and other expenses for up to four years. Each year a grant is provided to an organization whose sole purpose is to assist "youth at risk" ?.Administered by the Orphans? Fund interest from the Josiah Vandreil Fund has supported youth for the past decade. <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Please contact us: Applications for funding Fundraising ideas Volunteering through our membership program Email: cknworphansfund@cknw.com Telephone: 604 331 2711 Fax: 604 332 2722 Website: cknw.com/orphans Mailing Address: CKNW Orphans' Fund Suite 2000 - 700 West Georgia Street Vancouver, B.C. V7Y 1K9
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