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Our 2010 Charities -
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
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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
Arizona National Guard Historical Society
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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
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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