The Olympic Club Foundation’s Ohleyer Award recipients were recently featured in an article in the San Francisco Chronicle on February 18th.
Lowell’s Hannah Safford and Castro Valley’s James Woodard received the Olympic Club Foundation’s Ohleyer Award on Monday, February 23rd at the Foundation’s Annual Awards Banquet.
The Ohleyer Scholarship is a prestigious scholarship awarded by The Olympic Club Foundation. The recipient is a student whose athletic and academic interests are matched by personal qualities of leadership, involvement and community service.
Read the article at SFGate.com
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For the last two years, it has been my honor and privilege to serve as President of your Foundation. With 25 active Board members, two wonderful staff, but most importantly with your faith and support, we have had our best year ever. Through the execution of a focused strategy, and working closely with the Club’s Board of Directors, we have achieved a number of significant milestones in 2006, namely:
- Funded 28 grants for sports programs for less advantaged kids, totaling $355,000, which is the highest yearly total ever.
- Attained our $2 million goal, and presented our 2 millionth dollar grant to the Good Tidings Foundation.
- Made three grants to promising, needy young athletes to help them develop into the sports stars of tomorrow.
- Selected the 2006 Ohleyer Award recipient, Sam Finlayson
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Your Foundation has been hard at work this year under the adroit leadership of our President, John Trauth. We continue to grow and flourish with the indispensable help of the Club membership.
Our annual campaign from the membership yielded $105,229, an increase of 28% over last year. We had 396 donors, an increase of 26% over last year. We encourage all of our members to take part in the charitable work of the Foundation. No contribution is too small.
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