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2006 Annual Giving Campaign a Great Success Overwhelming Community Response to Center’s Mission
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In a year that saw south Louisiana still struggling to find its way back from the impact of the great storm disasters that impacted our region so deeply, community donors were exceptionally generous and made gifts totaling $955,826.59 to Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center during the Center’s 2006 Annual Giving Campaign. The amount includes philanthropic gifts from 100% of the Center’s employees who make financial gifts to directly benefit the patients as well as 100% participation by members of the Center’s board of directors.
“The success of this year’s Annual Giving Campaign is due to the focused leadership of the campaign cabinet and the dedicated efforts of all the campaign volunteers,” said Paul R. Thompson, CitiGroup Smith Barney, chairman of the 2006 campaign. Nearly 90 community leaders participated as volunteers. “The community responded with exceptional generosity. I am particularly pleased that over 85 percent of last year’s Leadership Donors ($1,000 or more) renewed their gifts. This is an extraordinarily high figure and speaks to the strong connection our supporters feel toward Mary Bird Perkins.” Thompson also said, “In addition to continued funding for cancer support services for patients and their families, awareness and education programs and community cancer screenings, the funds raised will support the research arm of the C.A.R.E. Network with partial funding for the academic medical physics partnership formed between Mary Bird Perkins and LSU in 2004 to develop new and better treatment options for cancer patients.”
“The success of this year’s Annual Giving Campaign is due to the focused leadership of the campaign cabinet and the dedicated efforts of all the campaign volunteers,” said Paul R. Thompson, CitiGroup Smith Barney, chairman of the 2006 campaign. 2 Perkins Perspective • Fighting Cancer for Over 35 Years.
Members of Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center’s 2006 Annual Giving Campaign Cabinet present check to the Center’s President and CEO, Todd Stevens. Pictured (l to r) are Vice President for Development Lynn Weill, JoAnn Hamilton, Wynn White, Stevens, Gary Sligar, Jim McIlwain, Tory Johnson, Annual Giving Campaign Chairman Paul R. Thompson, Blanchard Sanchez, Annual Giving Program Director Ann Wilkinson and Gordon LeBlanc.
Annual support from the community provides funding for Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center’s C.A.R.E. Network. Mary Bird Perkins established the C.A.R.E. Network to reduce cancer incidence and mortality in southeast Louisiana and to improve the quality of life for those affected by cancer. The Center’s mobile medical clinic, the Early Bird, provided more than 120 screening events for over 4,500 people in 2006, bringing life-saving early detection to people who do not have health insurance and could otherwise not afford it – including those displaced by Hurricane Katrina and now living in the Center’s 15-parish service area. The Early Bird also provided services to FEMA villages and traveled to New Orleans while mammography services for uninsured women were unavailable. Joining Chairman Thompson and Vice Chairman Jim McIlwain of Lamar Advertising on the 2006 Annual Giving Campaign Cabinet were Frank McArthur, McArthur-Sanchez Associates; Blanchard Sanchez, McArthur-Sanchez Associates; Gordon LeBlanc, Stonehenge Corp.; Shelley Mockler, Mockler BeverageBudweiser; Gary Sligar, Baton Rouge Coca-Cola (retired); Wynn White, Wynn L. White Consulting Engineers; Jo Ann Hamilton, Rubicon, LLC; Owen Cope, Entergy; Jerry Vascocu, Iberia Bank; Tory Johnson, Hancock Bank; Jean Champagne, Krebs, LaSalle, LeMieux Consultants, Inc.; Randy Kinchen, Parish National Bank; Donna Taylor, Stirling Properties.