Adapted Dance Camp 2009

Save the Date

Monday, August 3 through Thursday, August 6
  4:00 - 5:30 pm
Diane Matthews School of Dance Arts
West Chester, PA

The Samantha Zajac Memorial Fund of the Chester County Community Foundation is dedicated to developing a new dance program directed to children with physical disabilities in our community.  The Fund is collaborating with West Chester University and the Diane Matthews School of Dance Arts to sponsor a summer adapted dance camp for girls and boys with mobility limitations.  As Sammy loved and benefited in so many ways from dance, it is our honor to bring the love of dance to children who can not participate in a typical dance program. Learn more...

Check out this recent Advance Magazine article covering the

Samantha Lee Zajac Memorial Fund

$30,000 Donation to the Fox Chase Cancer Center

The Mesothelioma and Asbestos Disease Society

(Meso Society) recently granted $30,000 to Fox Chase

Cancer Center to fund Mesothelioma research. This is the

third grant for the 10-year study which hopes to diagnose

Mesothelioma at an early and potentially curable stage.

More information is available at

www.mesosociety.org

The Mesothelioma and Asbestos Disease Society (Meso Society) is a fund of the Chester County Community Foundation.

The Chain of Love Foundation was created by Stephen and Kimberly Niggeman (parents of a daughter with Turner Syndrome) to support nonprofit medical research and charitable activities dealing with Turner Syndrome and related medical disorders. 

Since their daughter was first diagnosed, the Niggemans have worked to increase awareness of Turner Syndrome and to create a network of families and patients impacted by this medical condition.  Kim voices her determination to advocate on behalf of those affected by this disorder and Steve concurs.  “It is a logical next step for us to establish the Turner Syndrome Foundation with the hopes of finding the medical means to mitigate the impact of this tragic disease.”

The Foundation funds: 1) research on the causes and impact of Turner Syndrome, 2) education programs, and 3) enrichment programs for children and families impacted by Turner Syndrome.
 

The Chain of Love Foundation offers a scholarship each year to a child (or more) who will be attending the Turner Syndrome Camp, sponsored by Pepperdine University in California. All applications are due to the Foundation by May 30th. For the 2009 Chain of Love scholarship application, please click here.

To donate and/or register online, please click here. Contributions are gratefully accepted.

To learn more about the Chain of Love Foundation visit www.turnerschainoflove.org