Notable Gifts: Chester women's club raises $15,000

By: Carolyn Harris | Times-Dispatch
Published: June 12, 2011

The Junior Federated Women's Club of Chester's seventh annual Black Tie & Diamonds Ball fundraiser raised $15,000 for charities. Each year, JFWCC contributes 3,000 volunteer hours hosting the Black Tie & Diamonds Ball, which includes a silent auction and casino night raising money to benefit charities in the Chester community.

Crater Community Hospice, the primary charity recipient of the fundraiser proceeds, was awarded $10,000.

Other recipients were:

•$250 each to Be the Match (in honor of Mary Schindel); Bike for the Blue Chesterfield County Police, Virginia Treatment Center, and Camp Baker;

•$500 each to Bright Beginnings YMCA and Colonial Heights Alliance of Social Ministry; and

•$1,000 each to Bensley Elementary School, Beulah Elementary School and Harrowgate Elementary School.

Corporate partners donate to Special Olympics

Special Olympics Virginia recently received contributions from several corporate partners.

SunTrust and Enterprise Holdings each contributed $25,000 to the Law Enforcement Torch Run initiative for Special Olympics Virginia.

Sheetz and Wawa sponsored in-store fundraising campaigns. Sheetz collected more than $29,000; Wawa collected more than $72,000 in donations.

American Family Fitness donated $35,000 to help send nine athletes to the Special Olympics World Summer Games in Athens, Greece.

Comfort Zone Camp wins SUV from Toyota program

Comfort Zone Camp, a nonprofit organization in Richmond that offers free weekend bereavement camps to children who have experienced the death of a loved one, is a winner in Toyota's 100 Cars for Good program.

Through the program, Toyota is awarding 100 cars to 100 U.S. nonprofits in 100 days.

Comfort Zone Camp will receive a new Toyota Highlander SUV, which will be used to transport children to and from camp.

Martin's marks anniversary with food bank donation

Martin's Food Markets commemorated its one-year anniversary of converting 25 stores in the greater Richmond and Williamsburg communities by donating $25,000 to the Central Virginia Food Bank.

Martin's Food Markets' charitable donations in the Richmond and Williamsburg communities during the past year totaled more than $1 million in cash and product contributions through the company's "Living Here, Giving Here" program. The donations supported local hunger-relief organizations, the Salvation Army and other nonprofits at the local level.

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