http://gabydavisfoundation.com/wpblog Director's thoughts on helping families affected by childhood cancer. Sat, 17 Dec 2011 00:17:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en-US Cincopa video hosting solution for your website. Another great product from Cincopa Send Files. Hi everyone! Here is December’s update! Christmas Market – Dec 3rd…close to 20 vendors…over $1100 raised, thanks to those vendors who donated a percentage to the Gaby Davis Foundation. Thank you to all our volunteers that helped set up and clean up and to Jodi and Emily and Clare for helping Grayson at his hot [...]]]> http://gabydavisfoundation.com/wpblog/2011/12/16/december-2011/ Cincopa video hosting solution for your website. Another great product from Cincopa Send Files. Where does the time go? We all get so busy with the hussle and bussle of life, don’t we? Well, I kind of took the summer off from the Gaby Davis Foundation…okay, well, not really, but we didn’t hold any events nor did we help any families due to lack of donations at the time. [...]]]> http://gabydavisfoundation.com/wpblog/2011/10/23/october-2011/ Cincopa video hosting solution for your website. Another great product from Cincopa Send Files. I can’t believe it’s already August and I have not blogged since the beginning of the year! So much has happened! In May we held our first Girlfriend’s Night Out event featuring clothes from My Girlfriend’s Closet, a clothing colour presentation by Katherine of ICU Image Consulting, appies and wine and 50 great ladies!  Well, let [...]]]> http://gabydavisfoundation.com/wpblog/2011/08/03/to-july-2011/ Cincopa video hosting solution for your website. Another great product from Cincopa Send Files. The start to 2011 has proved to be a positive one for the Gaby Davis Foundation.  We have a great team of dedicated board members and lots of willing volunteers! We ended the year with donations exceeding $45,000 and helped 15 families with financial grants and gifts (over $42,000 to families!)! We are hoping to help [...]]]> http://gabydavisfoundation.com/wpblog/2011/03/03/strong-start-to-2011/ Cincopa video hosting solution for your website. Another great product from Cincopa Send Files. Wow! Many things have happened since my last blog.The Gaby Davis Foundation has helped 26 families and we continue to help more families each year due to people like you who continue to give! Thank you!    On November 5th we held our 2nd Annual Family Movie Night Fundraiser at Coquitlam River Elementary in honour [...]]]> http://gabydavisfoundation.com/wpblog/2010/12/15/november-and-december/ Cincopa video hosting solution for your website. Another great product from Cincopa Send Files. Even though the Gaby Davis Foundation took the summer off, the fundraising efforts of others continued! We are so thankful to all of you who choose to donate to our charity.   First of all, earlier this summer 7 year old Hannah Deck of Port Coquitlam decided that for her 8th birthday party she was not [...]]]> http://gabydavisfoundation.com/wpblog/2010/08/31/summer-2010/ Cincopa video hosting solution for your website. Another great product from Cincopa Send Files. Wow! Once again, we were blessed with beautiful weather and great crowds for our Annual Swap Meet and Fire Department Car Wash FUNdraiser. Together we raised over $9,000 to help families affected by childhood cancer. We saw many happy people shopping for bargains and checking out what was new with Tupperware, Mary Kay among other [...]]]> http://gabydavisfoundation.com/wpblog/2010/06/12/swap-meet-fire-dept-car-wash-fundraiser/ Cincopa video hosting solution for your website. Another great product from Cincopa Send Files. Last night, 4 bands came out to Cafe Deux Soleil and donated their time and talent to raise funds and awareness for the Gaby Davis Foundation. Ka Huila, Signal and Sound, Sister Says, and Falcon Rights, drew many people out and put on a fantastic show! More than $400.00 was raised to help families affected [...]]]> http://gabydavisfoundation.com/wpblog/2010/05/23/music-benefit-show-may-22-2010/ Cincopa video hosting solution for your website. Another great product from Cincopa Send Files. So it’s a new year, a new beginning, a new start. What is to come this year? It really depends on our supporters, our fundraising and hopefully some grants along the way too.  Personally, I would love to help every family that receives a childhood cancer diagnosis this year…about 150 new cases this year alone in [...]]]> http://gabydavisfoundation.com/wpblog/2010/01/01/the-new-year-what-is-to-come/ Cincopa video hosting solution for your website. Another great product from Cincopa Send Files. Usually Christmas is a joyous fun time, with parties and shopping and gift giving and Santa. Christmas used to be like this for us, but now, it’s really quite depressing. This Christmas will be our 3rd without our Gaby here to celebrate with. Our first Christmas without Gaby we didn’t go see Santa at the [...]]]> http://gabydavisfoundation.com/wpblog/2009/12/03/christmas-time-cancer/