We were presented a donation check from Southern Regional High School at last nights Southern Boys Basketball NJSIAA SJ Group 4 Playoff game vs. Williamstown. This was a result of last weeks Southern vs Pinelands “Coaches vs. Cancer” basketball game. Southern went on to win the game last night and will compete against #1 ranked Atlantic City on Wednesday. You can listen to the game on 97.3ESPN. Thank you! #RamPride
Congratulations to both the Southern Regional and Pinelands Regional High School Boys’ Basketball teams on competing and raising money to help “Fight for a Cure” New Jersey Coaches vs. Cancer game. The game was very competitive and both schools raised over $600.00 for 2 organizations, The American Cancer Society and David’s Dream & Believe Cancer Foundation. We will be accepting our check prior to the Southern Boys Basketball NJSIAA SJ Group 4 Playoff game vs. Williamstown on Monday, February 25th in the 9/10 gymnasium at 6:30 pm.
We’re really excited about our second installment of our Cruisin’ For A Cure event. This year we have renamed the event the “Frank Panzone Jr Memorial Cruisin For A Cure!” By renaming our event, we honor local ICON Frank Panzone for his dedication to his family, community spirit and his heroic battle against this deadly disease. Panzone’s Pizza proudly presents this year’s event. We are also working with the Southern Ocean County Chamber of Commerce on additional weekend festivities including Soar, Pour and Roar. Soar into Summer May 18 at 11am, 17th Street, Ship Bottom Beach Ramp as we cut the ribbon to LBI’s Summer 2013. Pour into Summer Wine Festival on Saturday and Sunday May 18th and 19th beginning at noon both days at Taylor Avenue Field behind Bay Village in Beach Haven, NJ.
Roar into Summer is our Frank Panzone Jr Memorial Cruisin For A Cure motorcycle and classic car ride with after party taking place at Surf City Hotel in Surf City, NJ. Please click on the sponsor and registration links below for more detailed information. We have finalized our race route. Our registration for the Cruise will take place on Sunday May 19th between 9:30-11:15 at the Taylor Avenue Field behind Bay Village in Beach Haven, NJ. Bagels and refreshments will be served. Ride will begin promptly at 11:30am and will head north on Long Beach Boulevard to Rt. 72 West, to CR 563 to CR 532 to Rt. 72 East and ride will finish at The Surf City Hotel. You can register at pre-sale price until April 19th for this motorcycle & classic car run by contacting Panzones Pizza in Surf City (609) 494-1114 or david@davidsdreamandbelieve.org. The party at Surf City Hotel takes place between 1-5pm for only a $20.00 donation and it includes a hot buffet lunch, live entertainment with Ted Hammock and Jason Booth. Also, Sprinkles the Clown for the kids, auction items and so much more…
Join us for our first North NJ event at Bowler City Lanes in Hackensack to help us Strike Out Cancer! Please contact us at david@davidsdreamandbelieve.org to reserve your lane today!
Mud City Crab House, JETTY and DD&BCF took out the below Ad in this week’s Sandpaper. We thank the businesses listed and many more for their continued sponsorship. We are so grateful for the friendships and relationships we have formed within our local community. We would ask you to please support these local businesses especially now in the aftermath of hurricane sandy!
David’s Dream and Believe Cancer Foundation would like to extend our deepest sympathy to Joyce, Jill, Kristin and the rest of the Panzone family with the passing of Frank Panzone. Frank and the rest of the family have been one of the biggest supporters of our little cancer foundation since day one. We would not have been able to help over 50 families in just 2 years without their tremendous support. We wish we were not in a position be a recipient of a memorial tribute donation from the Panzone family but we are truly honored to accept donations in memory of Frank. DD&BCF will inform the Panzone family of every donation made on behalf of Frank as well as every gift contribution the Foundation makes thanks to the generosity of their family and friends. God Bless!
Below is from Jillian Panzone:
A memorial service for Frank Panzone will be held on Monday, December 3, 2012 at 11 am at St. Mary of the Pines in Manahawkin, NJ. In lieu of flowers, memorial tributes may be made in Frank’s honor to David’s Dream & Believe Cancer Foundation, 28 Magnolia Road, Manahawkin, NJ 08050 or St. Francis of Assisi Parish or St Francis Center 4700 Long Beach Boulevard Brant Beach, NJ 08008 (*we are parishioners of St.Francis, due to devastation of Hurricane Sandy, the mass will be held at St. Mary of the Pine’s)
Dear Friends,
David’s Dream and Believe Cancer Foundation (DD&BCF) would like to use this semi-annual update to inform you of a major change to our mission statement. Also, we have news from our 2 major sponsors JETTY and Mud City Crab House. Please see the list of upcoming events and the 6 attachments. DD&BCF would like to welcome all of our newest supporters to the Foundation and thank the ones that have been with us from the beginning because we would not be able to help our patients/families in need without all of YOU!
First and foremost, it was unanimously agreed upon and approved at the annual Board of Director’s meeting that we revise our mission statement as follows: David’s Dream and Believe Cancer Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that raises funds to provide financial assistance to families affected by a cancer diagnosis to help them offset the costs of physician visits, treatments, medications, lodging and transportation. We have removed the research funding portion of our past mission statement. It is our belief that DD&BCF is best suited for helping those patients/families burdened by the financial strains of a cancer diagnosis. This belief is driven from the heart of our founder, echoed by its directors and confirmed by our growing army of supporters/sponsors! We remind you of a quote from our founder that he read a while back, “Kindness is the Shadow of God in Man”! Once again, these examples of GIVING are only made possible by the large shadows being cast by our supporters! The 3 examples below are just a small glimpse of our renewed mission towards patients/families.
GIVING:
UPCOMING EVENTS:
Gilbert Gottfried:
Longshot’s restaurant and bar in Waretown, NJ is kindly donating all proceeds from the 10:30 comedy show of Gilbert Gottfried on
Saturday July 14, 2012. Please see attached flyer for details and contact us directly for tickets at info@davidsdreamandbelieve.org
JETTY Coquina Surf Jam:
Simply put, this event last year breathed new life and positive energy into the Foundation and it’s a distinct possibility that DD&BCF would not be here today had it not been for this 2011 event. This is a female surf contest that benefits DD&BCF which in return donates gift
contributions to local breast cancer patients in need. Please see attachments regarding this event including a press release, sponsorship form and flyer. We would ask that you consider sharing this press release and flyer with your friends and business associates. Also, please consider becoming a sponsor for this great event whether it is a t-shirt, business or new this year (In Honor – In Memory) real estate signs which will be displayed on the beach.
Girls Night Out & Live Bachelor Auction:
September 2012. This is currently a work in progress. Please contact our Secretary Joyce DeGregorio joyce@davidsdreamandbelieve.org
with any questions, suggestions or bachelors?
Crabbin for a Cure:
This event was born out of a dinner amongst some friends at Mud City Crab House and within 30 days “Crabbin for a Cure” took place and in excess of $17,000.00 was raised for DD&BCF. This far exceeded our wildest expectations and has quickly become a signature event for
DD&BCF along with the JETTY Coquina Surf Jam and now our Cruisin for a Cure. We have been receiving requests for tickets as soon as the day after last year’s event. Co-owners of Mud City Crab House Melanie & Eric Magaziner and Bob & Gina Nugent have opened up the tickets for this year’s event. Please see the attached Crabbin letter from Melanie and sponsor forms. We would ask that you consider sharing Melanie’s letter and our sponsor form with your friends and business associates. Tickets for this year’s event are going to sell out rapidly!
Lastly we are committed to help those patients/families burdened by the financial strains of a cancer diagnosis. However, our commitment is only fueled by the generosity of our individual and corporate sponsors. Please take a minute to share the attachments in this email with your contacts, find us on Facebook and visit our website for updates on giving.
SAVING LIVES BY FIGHTING CANCER TOGETHER!!!
Dear Friends,
We want to take this opportunity to update you on our 2 most recent events, post a picture of our Cruisin shirts that are on sale right now and give you a preview of upcoming events and dates.
KENTUCKY: Tim Hall, Lindsey Kunze and David completed the Louisville Kentucky Derby ½ marathon on Saturday morning 4/28 and attended a fundraiser in Lexington for DD&BCF on Saturday night. This event was created by Tim and Janice Hall’s daughter Ashley and was attended by family, co-workers and friends from the community and church. It was great for us to bring our mission to Kentucky and we were even able to help a woman struggling through a 2nd bout of breast cancer whose house had just burned down and was living in a hotel with her kids and husband.
CRUISIN: We need to start by thanking our chairperson Kathleen Ryan for creating this event and managing every aspect of this event for DD&BCF. She has created something incredible that will be in our stable of fundraising events for many years to come and we are so grateful and appreciative of her tremendous efforts. The weather did not fully cooperate but that didn’t dampen the spirits of nearly 35 motorcycles, 15 classic cars, volunteers, sponsors and guests. We need to thank Barnegat Police Department and specifically Kathleen Ryan’s husband Jeff, Long Beach Twp. Officer Gary Gore for leading the procession, Waretown Police Department and New Jersey State Police including our friend Eric Schmitt for orchestrating a NJSP Helicopter flyover. Also, we want to thank Longshot’s and the Brother Pete Band. We added our Jetty created Cruisin shirts to our t-shirt page for $15.00 (you may also message us about purchasing them). The day prior to the event, our secretary Joyce DeGregorio and David visited a woman battling breast cancer in Toms River with her husband and 5 children. They had been served a legal notice that they were being evicted due to their rent being 3 months behind. Thanks to the generosity of the DD&BCF faithful; the family will not be going anywhere!
GIVING: Most importantly, we want to update you on the progress of our gift contributions since the inception of DD&BCF in 2010. The following accomplishments are only made possible by the generosity of our sponsors and donors. Our giving began in January 2011 and has resulted in 25 gift contributions to 24 people from age 13 to 76 including 14 different states.
UPCOMING EVENTS:
1. Friday June 1ST, Relay For Life of Manahawkin benefits ACS. Team David’s Dream and Believers.
2. Saturday July 14TH, Gilbert Gottfried Comedy Show, DD&BCF benefit at Longshot’s.
3. Saturday August 4TH, 4th Annual JETTY Coquina Jam.
4. Wednesday October 24th, 2nd Annual Crabbin For A Cure at Mud City Crab House.
5. COMING SOON – Climbin For A Cure, February 2013!!!
Lastly, our website is being revised again to keep you better updated on gift contributions, upcoming events and blogs on past events as well as pictures, videos and articles featuring DD&BCF. We ask you to please share our website with your friends, family and coworkers. It’s only through an energized community that we can and will make a difference in our fight against this dreaded disease. We thank you for your continued support. Dream and Believe!!!
