Birdie for ALL Raised $3000 for Leukemia Research, Thank you Donors

Thanks to the following people and organizations for supporting Birdie for ALL fundraising event:

Ping and Amy Chao Family Foundation Matching Funds

Kathy Zhu, Sunnyvale

James and Jenny Chang, Cupertino

Charles Fan, EMC, Shanghai, China

Liang Peng, Cindy, Jessica, San Jose

Sheshagiri Haniyur, Cupertino

Roger Yeung, Burlingame

Stephen Stella, Santa Clara

Hyunjung Kim, San Jose

Qin Yu, Zijue Zhang, Albany, OH

Marian Griffin, San Mateo

Xiaolin and Mingye Zang, Campbell

Shengli Wang, Dragon Life System, Chicago

Yasheng Zhao, Winsor, Canada

Lucy Guo, Jiang Wang, Chicago

Yiqing Guo, San Jose

Bei Qin, Chai Family Foundation, San Jose

Nghiem  Nguyen, San Jose

Yong Liu, Jane Chen, Scarborough, ME

Gong Chen, Chicago

Chaoyi Chen, Durham, NC

Dennis S. D. Chen DDS, Inc.
10430 S. De Anza Blvd., No. 185
Cupertino, CA 95014
Phone: (408) 996-3191

Santa Clara Dental
478 East Santa Clara Street Ste. 103
San Jose, CA 95112
Phone: (408) 280-7070

http://www.sjfamilydentist.com/contact.html

The total fund raised so far is $1,500.  Thank you for helping us reach our goal.

Target to reach is $1,500 (with Ping and Amy Chao Family Foundation fund matching the total amount could reach $3,000).

Photos from Birdie for ALL Fundraising Ceremony

Grace Chen, 8 year old golfer, support childhood leukemia research to save other children’s lives.

Grace hands $3000 check to Dr. Gary Dahl to do leukemia research at Stanford University, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital.

Grace, Mom, Dad and Birdie for ALL supporters.

Ping and Amy Chao with Grace, Chao Foundation matched funds for Grace’s fundraising, $1500.

My name is Grace Chen. I am an 8-year-old golfer, and I am starting a donation program to support childhood leukemia research to save other children’s lives. Leukemia is the most common childhood cancer, affecting more than 3,500 children in the U.S. every year. 250,000 children and adults worldwide are also diagnosed yearly with some form of leukemia. This represents about 2.5% of all people diagnosed with cancer.

In the major junior golf events I play (two world junior golf championships with details below), the Gracious Life Foundation (GLF) and I are reaching out to you for help. You can pledge three or more dollars for every birdie I score or a one-time donation of any amount. Anything you can do for my efforts would be greatly appreciated.

Birdie for ALL (Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia) Sponsored by Gracious Life Foundation

All donations will benefit Dr. Gary Dahl’s cutting-edge leukemia research at Stanford University’s Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. Dr. Dahl is a world-renowned oncology expert and pediatrician in leukemia disease research and treatment in the Department of Hematology and Oncology.

All donations will go to Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital (LPCH)
In support of Dr. Gary Dahl’s pediatric leukemia research

The Ping and Amy Chao Family Foundation will match funds for any donations made to Birdie For ALL.

Grace’s scores for the following world championships will be posted online daily, so it is easy to follow her results:

Callaway Golf Junior World Golf Championships
July 14-17, 2009
Sycuan Resort, Pine Glen Course
San Diego, CA
http://jwgc.bluegolf.com/bluegolf/jwgc9/event/jwgc91/contest/10/leaderboard.htm

2009 U.S. Kids Golf World Championship
Aug. 6-8, 2009
Pinehurst, NC

Support our Project Birdie for ALL on East Villagers and join our organization: Gracious Life Foundation.

Latest Updates

Grace got a total of 5 birdies (2 at Junior World at San Diego and 3 at US Kids Golf World Championship at Pinehurst, NC).

At San Diego Junior World, she did great on the first round and ranked 3rd place but did not do so well on the 2nd round then pulled back to 15th place among all players.

At Pinehurst US Kids World Championship, she did well on the first and second round (placed tied 3rd and 2nd place individually) but got challenged at 3rd round by best pairing players and hardened green and eventually Grace ended up as tied 6th place among all 48 players from all over the world.

All three rounds updates can be seen on the following blogs at East Villager website:

First round:

http://www.eastvillagers.org/gracec/blog/309/

2nd round:

http://www.eastvillagers.org/gracec/blog/311/

3rd round

http://www.eastvillagers.org/gracec/blog/318/

Overall ranking:

http://www.uskidsgolf.com/uskgTournaments/redirect.cfm?locationID=results&type=WC&year=2009&age_group_id=23