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2012 CHARITIES

Are you a local charity benefiting Fort Wayne women and children? The Fort Wayne Derby Girls may be able to help you. Fill out our Charity Application and someone from our Charity Committee will contact you.

At each bout in 2011, we will donate the proceeds from the 50/50 raffle to the night's charity.

The Fort Wayne Derby Girls have successfully raised over $75,000 for local charities since May 2006!

Charities for the 2012 season include:

The League for the Blind and Disabled-Youth Services

http://www.the-league.org

This year round service to children, youth and their family members was established in 1995 as an expansion of the League's Summer Youth Program. It emphasizes integrating children and youth with severe disabilities into existing age appropriate, community based summer programs with individualized support from League staff members. It also includes advocacy training and assistance, parent support services, youth peer support opportunities, and adult/youth mentoring services.

Mad Anthonys Children's Hope House

http://www.childrenshopefw.org/

The mission of Children's Hope is to provide a temporary, low-cost home-away-from-home for families whose children are being treated for serious illness, injuries or birth defects at area hospitals. The Children's Hope House shall provide families with the physical and emotional support necessary to enable them to focus their attention on their children while simultaneously easing the financial burden by offering such low-cost lodging accommodations throughout the duration of medical treatment for their children.

Turnstone Center for Children and Adults with Disabilities

http://turnstone.org

Turnstone's mission is to provide therapeutic, educational, wellness and recreational programs to empower people with disabilities. As the only not-for-profit organization within northeast Indiana that provides a full range of rehabilitative, educational, wellness, athletic and recreational programs and facilities to persons with physical disabilities and their families, Turnstone is creating possibilities.

Hoosier Burn Camp

http://hoosierburncamp.org

Hoosier Burn Camp was established in 1997 through a partnership of the State Fire Marshal's office, Indiana career and volunteer fire departments, and two major pediatric burn hospitals (Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis and St. Joseph hospital in Ft. Wayne). In 1998, 5 campers travelled to Camp "I Am Me," a burn camp sponsored by the Illinois Fire Safety Alliance. 1999 marked the first official Hoosier Burn Camp at Camp Tecumseh in Brookston, IN where it has been held each summer since. The first year there were 12 campers at camp and has now grown to around 70 campers and multiple programs for all ages each year.

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