We had a phenomenal day at Stockton University with Dr. Ai Zhang’s Advanced Public Relations classes on Tuesday March 22nd. Students Lauren Rowek and Danielle Horneff put together this blog about the event. A special thanks to Dr. Ai and all the students who participated in this great day!
Please click on the link below to read all about it.
Stockton University Tabling Event
Our first example of planned giving started in 2013 with Paul Samaniego when he created a bi-weekly employee contribution through his company to David’s Dream & Believe Cancer Foundation (DDBCF). This was met in 2014 by a similar monthly donation by another friend of the Foundation, Sue Vilardi. Their planned giving initiatives continue today in 2016! Thank you both.
We were informed at the beginning of 2015 about a very exciting new partnership between DDBCF and our friends at Informed Mortgage. A heartfelt thanks to our Director Dani Corso and her company Volatile Media Management for fostering the vision for this new partnership! Our hometown mortgage specialists committed to donate $25.00 to DDBCF for every loan closed by their Manahawkin, NJ office! The end result was a monumental donation of $18,000.00 to DDBCF! We must thank the entire staff at Informed Mortgage for their personal investment in the mission of David’s Dream & Believe Cancer Foundation to bring HOPE to our patients and their families affected by a cancer diagnosis! Please contact our friends at Informed Mortgage NJ for all your Mortgage needs by calling them today at: (609) 597-0007.
In 2016, several other individuals and businesses have joined in on the planned giving initiative. It’s generous and selfless efforts like the one’s mentioned above that will sustain the HOPE that DDBCF provides to our families throughout the year! Please click on the links below to download your copy of our Planning Giving Initiative and view the sponsorship levels available for all of our events. Thank You!
Patient Advocate Committee!
On February 15th 2016, Director Dani Corso and Co-Founder David Caldarella visited Dr. Ai Zhang’s Advanced Public Relations and Social Media Classes at Stockton University. Dr. Ai and her students always deliver an intensely positive discussion surrounding the mission of the Foundation. We are grateful to be working with two awesome student groups again this semester. It was during our February 15th visit that the concept to create a Patient Advocate Committee (PAC) within David’s Dream & Believe Cancer Foundation (DDBCF) was born!
Our Patient Advocate Committee consists of the very people who inspire us on a daily basis: patients, caregivers and medical personnel. This PAC will spread awareness on the impact the Foundation has with our families battling cancer because our PAC have witnessed this first-hand. They will also be able to offer support and HOPE to our current families battling cancer that will help the healing process for everybody involved. We asked 7 people to join our Patient Advocate Committee and all 7 responded with a Resounding YES!
We want to welcome: Dawn Aversa, Elizabeth Martinez, Patty Springstead, Susie Buzby, Tina Angers and Lauren & Bill Raney. We have 3 patients, 4 caregivers, 1 oncology nurse navigator and 1 married couple. We are honored to have them join us with such a strong desire to help others and bring light to so many others battling this deadly disease! #ABeaconOfHope
The mission of David’s Dream & Believe Cancer Foundation was born out of my personal battle with Stage IV Head and Neck cancer and the support that was given to me by family, friends, medical team and strangers! A day like today is only made possible with the support from our Board of Directors, Sponsors, Volunteers, Community and most importantly the patients and families who inspire us on a daily basis with their determination, courage and heart. A special thank you to my girlfriend and Realtor from REMAX of Barnegat Bay, Catherine Deely who worked on securing the lease and is donating 100% of her commission back to the Foundation. Our main focus from day one was to offer our patients and their families financial assistance/services but most importantly HOPE in the darkest of times.
That is why Today is a Monumental day in the brief 5 year history of this Foundation. Today is MOVING DAY into our “Official” David’s Dream & Believe Cancer Foundation office! This is a major step for the Foundation that will allow us to have a professional, safe and private space to meet with our families going through the most difficult time in their lives. A few of our sponsors have offered to pay a month’s rent on behalf of the Foundation and we will be spotlighting these wonderful businesses in the next couple of weeks. We would encourage our patients, sponsors, volunteers, students and any interested parties to visit us at 364 North Main Street, Suite 10D, Manahawkin NJ!
Dream & Believe, David
The 5th Annual Stafford Run for HOPE: Tri/Du/Aqua/5K will take place on Saturday June 18th at Manahawkin Lake Park in Manahawkin, NJ! This is the 5th year for the Stafford Tri/Du/Aqua event but this is the first year that David’s Dream & Believe Cancer Foundation will be integrally involved in this event in collaboration with our friend Ross Reynolds from Trident Multipsort! We want to thank our friends at Informed Mortgage for signing on as our Presenting Sponsor. We cannot thank the team at Informed Mortgage enough for their continued dedication and commitment to better serve our families affected by a cancer diagnosis!
We are very excited that our David’s Dream & Believe student group from Southern Regional High School will be managing various aspects of this event for us and will have many students participating in the race. Our youth group Generation Dream will have many members and their families participating in this event.
We are also excited to announce a new partnership with 11th Hour Racing. This organization created by Mike Rowe who is an ED/Trauma Tech in the ER at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia where our Co-Founder David Caldarella was treated for Stage IV Head and Neck cancer. 11th Hour Racing’s mission is very similar to that of David’s Dream & Believe Cancer Foundation and Mike and David have created a friendship and partnership that will benefit our mutual families battling a cancer diagnosis!
We are still accepting sponsorships for the 5th Annual Stafford Run for Hope: Tri/Du/Aqua/5K! Click on Sponsorship Form link below.
***Please click on the link below to register before prices start to increase on May 31st***
http://www.tridentmultisport.wix.com/stafford
We were informed at the beginning of 2015 about a very exciting new partnership between David’s Dream & Believe Cancer Foundation (DDBCF) and our friends at Informed Mortgage. A heartfelt thanks to our Director Dani Corso and her company Volatile Media Management for fostering the vision for this new partnership! Our hometown mortgage specialists committed to donate $25.00 to DDBCF for every loan closed by their Manahawkin, NJ office! The Informed Mortgage Team made the exact same commitment to our friends and community partners at The Jetty Rock Foundation (JRF)! Through the first 10 months of 2015, Informed Mortgage used a creative Planned Giving Initiative to donate $15,375.00 to both DDBCF & JRF!
We must thank the entire staff at Informed Mortgage for their personal investment in the mission of David’s Dream & Believe Cancer Foundation. Informed Mortgage have made a long-term commitment to bring HOPE to our patients and their families affected by a cancer diagnosis!
It’s unique and creative Planned Giving initiative’s like this one with Informed Mortgage that afford David’s Dream & Believe Cancer Foundation the opportunity to direct the highest % of funds back to our families in desperate need of our support. Please contact our friends at Informed Mortgage NJ for all your Mortgage/Refi needs by calling them today at: (609) 597-0007.
2nd Annual Comedy For A Cause presented by the Rotary Club of Barnegat will take place on Saturday, April 30th at the Holiday Inn in Manahawkin. Proceeds will benefit : David’s Dream & Believe Cancer Foundation and the Humanity Preservation Foundation.
Tickets are $40.00pp. The event runs 7-11 pm and includes comedy entertainment from Uncle Vinnie’s Comedy Club, dinner buffet, cash bar, live and silent auctions!
Ticket Agents: Luann Ford, CPA, 369 North Main Street, Barnegat, NJ 08005, WB Grant Agency, 344 South Main Street, Barnegat, NJ 08005, Meticulous Landscaping, 364 Route 9, Waretown, NJ 08758.
Please contact David Caldarella (609) 548-3382 or david@davidsdreamandbelieve.org for more information
Reminder … Adult Humor 18+
We want to continue highlighting our business sponsors that have donated in excess of $10,000.00 in 2015 and have made a long-term commitment to support David’s Dream & Believe Cancer Foundation!
Our friends at the Sea Shell Resort & Beach Club stepped up their donations to DDBCF through various forms of giving in 2015. It came in the form of event sponsorships, memorial donations and this year’s 19th Annual Sea Shell Resort & Beach Club Striped Bass Derby. The icing on the cake for the families of DDBCF was Mike and Jaimee Boyle’s Holiday Party. They asked their friends to attend the party but requested no gifts and only donations for a particular husband and daughter family of DDBCF that are currently living in a motel after the wife/mother passed away from cancer earlier this year. It’s the “Generosity of Spirit” displayed by the entire Hughes Family and their amazing staff throughout the year that affords DDBCF the opportunity to assist those families like the one above affected by a cancer diagnosis!
We have held our Island Gala at the Sea Shell Resort & Beach for the past 3 years. The partnership between the two organizations grows stronger every day. A special thank you to Tom, Jaimee and Brittany for working so dilligently to ensure our Island Gala is a complete success each and every year. It’s a testament to the Hughes family and their staff when our guests inform us they felt like they were attending a family party. That’s exactly how all of us feel and we really hope you support the sponsors like the Sea Shell Resort & Beach Club that make giving to the families of DDBCF a priority for not only their business but also in their personal lives!
Thank you!
We want to continue our “Shop Local” theme this weekend and use this Sunday Sponsor Spotlight to feature our dear friends at Reynolds Garden Shop, Nursery, Floral Market & Landscaping. We are putting the spotlight on businesses that have donated in excess of $10,000.00 in 2015 and have made a long-term commitment to support David’s Dream & Believe Cancer Foundation!
The Reynolds family have been ardent supporters of the Foundation since the early stages of DDBCF. In 2014, we were informed about a local patient battling cancer in Little Egg Harbor that was about to become homeless. The Reynolds family used all of their available resources including manpower, moving trucks and apartment to work with DDBCF to assist this patient.
In 2015, the Reynolds family, business and staff focused their primary attention on our Island Gala event at the Sea Shell Resort & Beach Club in Beach Haven, NJ on Friday August 14th. Our Directors Kim McCabe Manzella and Dani Corso worked together with the entire Reynolds team to make the 3rd Annual Island Gala the most succesful event in DDBCF history nearly doubling the donations from 2014! This was an incredible team effort including the Reynolds family (Peg, Mark, Katie, Tanek, Ashley, Luke, Ashley), Reynolds Staff, Jacquelyn Zeichner, John & Sophia Steber, Kim McCabe Manzella and Dani Corso. We would not be able to offer financial assistance, services and HOPE to almost 500 families without the support of families like the Reynolds, their business and amazing staff!
Please support the sponsors we spotlight that make giving to the families of DDBCF a priority of their business!
Thank you!
We want to continue highlighting our business sponsors that have donated in excess of $10,000.00 in 2015 and have made a long-term commitment to support David’s Dream & Believe Cancer Foundation!
We met the Beach Haven Moose Riders crew on a very cold, rainy and windy day on LBI in May 2012. They were supporting our 1st Annual Frank V. Panzone Jr. Memorial Cruisin for a Cure. Unfortunately, the weather which consisted of sideways rain and temperatures in the low 50’s was not going to cooperate with us and bike/car turnout was low. However, The Beach Haven Moose Riders not only showed up that morning but they insisted on riding! They told us that cancer did not sleep or take days off due to the weather and neither would they! They’ve been a consistent sponsor for our Cruisin for a Cure event since that day in 2012 and in 2013 they informed us that their Rocktoberfest every September would benefit the families of David’s Dream & Believe Cancer Foundation. Its’ members support various other events throughout the year and we could not be happier to partner with such an amazing group of men and women dedicated to helping our families battling a cancer diagnosis.
We must also recognize the administration, staff and members of Beach Haven NJ Moose Lodge 1575 for their continued support and commitment to DDBCF. The Lodge gives us free space for our youth group Generation Dream meetings and its’ members make up our largest support network throughout southern New Jersey.
Thank you!