Breathtaking decor and over 730 guests in attendance, the 2018 For Children We Care Gala was definitely a night to remember for our team. Co-Chaired by Jane Young & Stella Chan, the gala raised over $3.3 million in support of Sunny Hill Centre for Rehabilitation.
Kudos to our D2D team for raising $230,000 towards this gala. This was made possible with great teamwork, leadership from our Youth Team & support from our Advisory Board & Honorary Board.
D2D Leadership Team Recognition
Youth in Motion Team members- Cici Guan, Julie Chen, Eddy Yu, Jason Chen with BC Children's Hospital Foundation President & CEO Ms.Teri Nicholas
Our “Raise Me Up” Campaign team strongly believes in the 4 F’s of Fundraising: Funds, Friends, Family and Fun. Led by Co-Chair's Jason Chen and Cici Guan and Co Vice-Chair's Julie Chen and Eddy Yu; the Raise Me Up Campaign successful raised $155,000 in support of the 2018 For Children We Care Gala. Proceeds raised through this campaign will be used to purchase a FES Stepper for Sunny Hill Health Centre.
Youth in Motion- Raise Me Up Campaign Team Recognition
D2D Meetings with Senator Yonah Martin and UBC President
The start of 2018 has been remarkable. Last week, our team had the honour and pleasure of meeting with Senator Yonah Martin.
Yesterday marked another chapter for our D2D Destiny Foundation; our President Arthur Chan and Vice President Nicole Poon had the opportunity to meet with UBC’s President & Vice-Chancellor, Professor Santa J. Ono. Topics discussed in the meeting included making a difference in the community and the UBC Blue & Gold Campaign.
We are delighted to have President Ono on our Honorary Board. The D2D Destiny Foundation looks forward to a fruitful partnership with UBC and working together to help promising students get access to a life-changing education.
This weekend, we had the pleasure of meeting with Senator Yonah Martin. The Honourable Yonah Martin is a University of British Columbia alumni earning a Bachelor of Education in 1987. Our members were delighted to know we had the opportunity to speak with Senator Martin. Joined by our Honourary Board member, Professor Steven Minns of the UBC Sauder School of Business, we shared with Senator Martin our philanthropy journey. We started with sharing our work in the Young Ambassador Program, then leading into our current progress at D2D Destiny Foundation. Other topics of interest included grooming the next generation of leaders, as well as what it means to make a difference in our community. Our Youth Leadership Team members of benefitted greatly from...
Online auctions aren't our specialty or general channel of fundraising but this time we wanted to try something new.
Our foundation is always open to new and unique methods of fundraising and for the first time we introduced online auctioning on our site this year. It was an honour for the D2D Destiny Foundation to be the Online Auction Sponsor for this year's Miss Chinese (Vancouver) Pageant in support of Chi Heng Foundation.
A night of where beauty crossed roads with love to support AIDS orphans in China. Congratulations to Chi Heng Foundation for raising $580,000 through the dinner gala and the D2D Destiny Foundation was glad to be part of this meaningful cause.
