Ten Pin’s Charity Event
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Dot’s Tots Foundation – Golf Outing
Golfing for Good
Thornapple Golf Course
1051 Alton Darby Creek Road
Galloway, Ohio 43119
Sunday, June 9, 2019
Registration Start Time
12:00 PM
Event Start Time (Shot-gun Start)
01:15 PM
BBQ & Awards
06:00 PM
Dot’s Tots Foundation – Girls’ Night Out
Leave the kids with your husband. Turn off your work laptops. It’s a night of fun for the women!
Event details:
April 4th from 6-8pm
@ Aiden and Grace
2000 South High St.
Columbus, Ohio 43207
Tickets must be purchased by March 15th to guarantee tank top delivery.
Don’t forget to pick your t-shirt size at check-out!
Dot’s Tots Foundation – New Year’s Celebration!
Dot’s Tots Foundation is a Hilliard-based 501(c)(3) not-for-profit established in 2013 to provide support to families offering foster care, children with debilitating disease, injury, and/or illness; and teenagers in their higher educational pursuits.
The Foundation will host its 5th Annual Holiday Festival at the Makoy Center in Hilliard this January. Come for food, crafts, and entertainment. Leave having made a real impact on those in need.
Location: 5462 N. Center Street – Hilliard, Ohio 43026
When: January 6th, 2019
Time: 4:00-7:00pm
What: Full catered dinner! And, lots of fun – facepainting, balloon twisting, magician, mascots, games, and more!
Why: To raise funds and awareness to support community youth and families.
Happy Holidays!
3rd Annual Harbinger of Hope – Bar Crawl
Join Dots Tots Foundation for the 3rd Annual Old Hilliard Harbinger of Hope Restaurant Tour & Tasting on September 29th.
EARLY BIRD PRICING THROUGH AUGUST 31st (increases to $60 in September).
$50 ticket includes drink tickets (2 drinks at each location – 8 total), appetizers (BBQ, chips & salsa, wings, pizza, etc.), raffle tickets, door prizes, and more.
FREE T-SHIRT WITH ADVANCED REGISTRATION.
A portion of each ticket purchased is tax deductible.
Legacy Smokehouse (OPENING SOON! new to Old Hilliard) – 3987 Main Street
Also:
– Local Cantina
– Old Bag of Nails
– Otie’s
Proceeds benefit Dots Tots Foundations general fund supporting area youth with debilitating disease, foster children and their families, and local teens in their higher educational pursuits.
Jackson’s Story
May 25, 2012, will be forever etched into their minds. “We noticed subtle things about Jackson’s physical development—enlarged calves, didn’t walk until almost two years old, waddled when he ran—but individually, these things didn’t cause us much concern,” said Kelly, Mom to Jack. “We just chalked them up to late physical development.” It was something much more serious. The diagnosis: Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
Jackson stopped walking at the age of 10, and uses a power wheelchair full time. He continues to lose arm strength and is constantly in a state of adjustment and acceptance. But, Jack is not a diagnosis. Jack is a son, a best friend, a brother, a cousin. All the things that make Jack unique—his crazy sense of humor, his overly-sensitive aversion to whispering, his ability to always know just when you need a hug—those things remain untouched by Duchenne.
Jack’s fandom for the Cleveland Cavaliers also remains untouched. On April 5, 2018, Dot’s Tots Foundation in partnership with The Ride and Flyer’s Pizza fed, transported, and treated Jack and his family to a courtside experience to the Cavs / Wizards game at Quicken Loans Arena. “Jackson is a HUGE Cleveland Cavaliers fan. He never misses a game on TV, and his bedroom is like a Cavs shrine. So imagine when our friend, Bobby Wright, surprised him and our whole family with a trip to watch the Cavs play in person, which Jack is always asking to do,” Kelly shares. “Jackson sat courtside during warmups with his big brother, and John Wall actually came over to him, fist bumped him, and offered to take a picture with Jackson! The Cavs played one heck of a game, and pulled out a win. I don’t think Jackson has screamed so much in his life.”
Thanks to the support of all Dot’s Tots Foundation donors and sponsors, Jackson enjoyed a night he will not soon forget!
Triple Crown 5K – #TeamSkylor
Triple Crown references three generous, philanthropic, and active neighborhoods on the west side of Hilliard – Lakewood, Heritage Lakes, Heritage Preserve, and Fairway Commons. As hosts to the 2018 Dot’s Tots Foundation 5K, these communities will rally co-workers and strangers, neighbors and teachers, family and friends to participate in a 5K run/walk in support of Dot’s Tots Foundation, a Hilliard-based 501(c)3.
Click here to learn more about the Triple Crown 5K – #TeamSkylor.
Dot’s Tots Golf Outing
Join us June 10 at Thornapple Golf Course for the Dot’s Tots Foundation Golf Outing. We’re still accepting sponsorships and foursomes. Click here to learn more.
Dot’s Tots Scholarship
Dot’s Tots Foundation is pleased to announce $10,000 in scholarship monies available for Hilliard seniors. Details are below and in this PDF:
* All seniors from Tolles, Hilliard Darby, Davidson, and Bradley are eligible.
* We prefer the awards go to those who align with our mission and/or have the most need.
* Application Deadline: December 1st at 5:00pm.
* Applications must be submitted by email: dotstotsfoundation@gmail.com
* Awards Night: December 10th (Makoy Center in Hilliard)
For more on Dot’s Tots Foundation, please visit: www.dotstots.org. Dot’s is a Hilliard based 501(c)3.
Bravery and Boldness – Blake’s Road to Recovery
That September morning started like any other for Blake, a senior at Hilliard Darby High School. But, the day ended much differently than most.
Upon arriving at school, the Hilliard School Resource Officer, Jon, noticed Blake wasn’t looking himself. Jon encouraged Blake visit the school nurse. Within days, that fateful encounter with a concerned safety officer led to Blake’s leukemia diagnosis at Nationwide Children’s Hospital.
Dot’s Tots Foundation, a Hilliard, Ohio based 501(c)3 charity learned of Blake’s story through local news, but his story would travel across the country. Blake could not attend homecoming as he began his chemotherapy treatments, so friends brought homecoming to him. That evening’s celebration went viral as seen in this Inside Edition montage.
On September 30th at its annual Restaurant Tour and Tasting event, Dot’s Tots volunteers and donors amassed $5,000 in funds to help support the Mounts family. Blake has a tough road ahead, but our prayers and finances might make the road to recovery a bit less cumbersome.