Mary Freeman, admiral and CEO of the Tammy Lynn Center for Developmental Disabilities, has appear that the 2008 A Toast to the Triangle™ aloft added than $212,000, a almanac breaking aggregate for the fundraiser. The 23rd anniversary Toast was captivated on Sunday, March 9 at North Carolina State University’s McKimmon Center in Raleigh. More than 1,200 guests were in attendance, including the event’s honorary chair, Olympic gold advocate and accepted Dancing With The Stars best Kristi Yamaguchi. Event volunteers and restaurant participants added addition 300 attendees.
Media Sponsors for the 2008 Toast included ABC11, BP Studios, Curtis Media Group’s 680 WPTF and Y102.9 FM stations and Women’s Edge magazine. A cafeteria with Carolina Hurricanes brilliant Bret Hedican was the single-largest donation accustomed during the abide auction. The amalgamation awash for $3,000 and accustomed the champ and three guests to appear a Carolina Hurricanes convenance at the RBC Center. After a claimed bout of the locker room, guests enjoyed a two-hour cafeteria with Hedican at the RBC Center’s arch restaurant, The Area Club.
A Toast to the Triangle raises funds for the Tammy Lynn Memorial Foundation, Inc., which supports the accouchement and adults of the Tammy Lynn Center for Developmental Disabilities. The centermost provides appropriate needs programs for accouchement and adults, including educational services, acquittal care, aboriginal adolescence intervention, residential casework and a summer program.
The accident offers guests samples from added than 40 of the area’s finest restaurants, caterers and purveyors of accomplished wines and beers, as able-bodied as affable antagonism amid the participants for “Best in Show.” The 2008 Toast aloft added than $212,000 for the Tammy Lynn Memorial Foundation. The antecedent fundraising ambition for the 2008 Toast was $200,000. Event data for the 2009 Toast will be apparent on Oct. 14.
Related Links:
www.atoasttothetriangle.org
www.tammylynncenter.org
www.mckimmon.ncsu.edu
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“We were captivated with the outstanding success of the 23rd anniversary A Toast to the Triangle,” said Freeman. “Each year, we attending advanced to hosting an accident that brings the bounded association calm to abutment such an important cause. Our alignment has acutely top hopes for the 2009 Toast in March.”
About the Tammy Lynn Memorial Foundation, Inc.:
The Tammy Lynn Memorial Foundation, Inc., founded in 1969, supports the accouchement and adults of the Tammy Lynn Center for Developmental Disabilities. The centermost provides appropriate needs programs for accouchement and adults, including educational services, acquittal care, aboriginal adolescence intervention, residential casework and a summer program. The Tammy Lynn Center serves about 350 accouchement and families anniversary year. For added information, amuse appointment www.tammylynncenter.org.
About the Tammy Lynn Center:
Located on a nine-acre campus abreast North Carolina State University in Raleigh, the Tammy Lynn Center for Developmental Disabilities (TLCDD) offers educational, residential and ancestors abutment casework to accouchement and adults with appropriate needs. In its 39th year, the centermost charcoal committed to accouterment the individuals it serves with the befalling to aerate their abilities and abeyant in a loving, adorning environment. TLCDD is endemic by the Tammy Lynn Memorial Foundation, Inc. and is apart operated by TLC Operations, Inc. Both corporations are beneath the ancestor aggregation Tammy Lynn Center, Inc. All organizations are nonprofit entities (510(c)(3)), and contributions are tax deductible. For added information, amuse appointment www.tammylynncenter.org.
About A Toast to the Triangle:
A Toast to the Triangle was aboriginal captivated on April 6, 1986 at Carolina Place. Approximately $6,000 was aloft and accustomed to the Tammy Lynn Memorial Foundation’s Building Fund. Since 1986, the accident has been captivated annually to accession funds for the Tammy Lynn Memorial Foundation, Inc. and its affiliated organizations. The accident offers an amazing arrangement of comestible brightness from 40 of the Triangle’s finest restaurants, caterers and purveyors of accomplished wines and specialty beers. Attracting added than 1,200 people, endure year’s accident aloft added than $212,000 for the center’s programs and services. To apprentice added about this event, amuse appointment www.atoasttothetriangle.org.
Maria I. Hernandez
Director of Development
Tammy Lynn Center for Developmental Disabilities
(919) 832-3909 x 107
(919) 863 2021 (fax)
mhernandez@tammylyncenter.org
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