CHARITIES SUPPORTED BY JEAN DeKRAKER, CPA, PC

Do you have a favorite charity you support with your time, talent or treasure? Each year Jean DeKraker, CPA, PC selects a charity to financially support.

We look first to organizations supported by our clients and select an organization most in alignment with the firm’s values.


Our 2010 Charities -

CPA, Arizona, Scottdale Best Buddies of Arizona The focus of this nonprofit organization is to help kids that are developmentally challenged.

Started in 1989 by Anthony Kennedy Shriver, Best Buddies is an organization providing volunteer coordination, one-on-one friendships, and leadership development as well as integrated employment for those with disabilities of an intellectual and developmental nature.  In just twenty years time, Best Buddies has grown into a global program that provides services and assists over 700,000 individuals a year.

Best Buddies of Arizona is the local branch and has a variety of endorsers, such as local television anchorwoman Tara Hitchcock using her own home to sponsor events.  The annual Best Buddies Spirit and Friendship Ball is regularly held there with a number of guests in attendance including Frank Caliendo (doing his famous John Madden impersonation) as well as Kurt and Brenda Warner, Larry Fitzgerald, and Matt Leinhart to name a few.

More information can be found at: www.bestbuddiesarizona.org

CPA, Arizona, Scottdale Muhammad Ali Parkinson Center This medical facility provides treatment, research and education for patients and their families who suffer from Parkinson’s disease.

The Center was established in 1997 by Muhammad Ali, Jimmy Walker, and Dr. Abraham Lieberman, and focuses on improving the care and treatments of those suffering from Parkinson’s disease (Also known as PD).  Beyond the normal research and care for those with PD, the Center also provides recreational activities and public education of those with movement disabilities.

 More information can be found at: www.maprc.com

CPA, Arizona, Scottdale Arizona National Guard Historical Society - This non-profit corporation helps preserve the Arizona Military Museum and holds events to remember the military in wars and other military actions around the world. 

In addition to preserving the museum, the Society also puts out a newsletter regularly that documents the history of the Armed Services that have a connection to Arizona.  Some examples of this is printing stories about Arizona’s first World War 2 ace fighter pilot who grew up raising cattle on the Mongollon Rim.  The newsletter also provides articles about current military operations, such as the Arizona Air National Guard 214th Reconnaissance Groups, a team of pilots stationed at Davis Monthan Air Force Base. This group has been flying Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, providing information about battlefield conditions and assisting ground troops since August of 2007.  

More information can be obtained by calling: (602) 267-2676 

CPA, Arizona, Scottdale In Our Offices - We also received numerous food bank and animal shelter recommendations, so we decided to take donations in our office during tax season.  Feel free to come into our office and participate with our staff in donating non-perishables, for the food banks, and blankets and/or pet bedding for the animal shelters. 

Thank you for all of your emails and phone calls supporting your local charity. 


 

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