The planning committee for the third annual Girls Night Out fundraising event recently donated $2,500 of its proceeds to the Altoona Regional Health System Foundation for Life. The event, held in October at the Jaffa Shrine, drew a crowd of 500 women.
Event chairwoman Julie Bratton reported raising a total of $33,716 (a net of $13,000 more than last year).
"We wanted to give something back to our community," Julie said. "That's why we selected Altoona Regional's Foundation for Life to help local hospital patients."
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At the check presentation from the third annual?Girls Night Out fundraiser are (from left):?front row — Dana Chestney, Girls Night Out committee member and four-year breast cancer survivor, and Ann Benzel, chairwoman of the Altoona Regional Foundation for Life; back row — Mike Corso, director, Altoona Regional Imaging Services; Fred Thursfield, president of the Foundation for Life; Julie Bratton, Girls Night Out event chairwoman; Nancy Campbell, secretary/treasurer of the Foundation for Life, and Jerry Murray, president/CEO of Altoona Regional Health System.
Additional proceeds from the event were split between the Joyce Murtha Breast Care Center Foundation and the Penn State Hershey Cancer Institute.
To make a donation to Altoona Regional's Foundation for Life, call 889-6406.
Altoona Regional Health System Foundation for Life is a private 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization which exists to inspire gifts from individuals, foundations, corporations and other entities to support the preservation of health care for the well-being of community members in central Pennsylvania.
As a qualified charitable organization, donations to the Foundation for Life are tax deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law.
