According to the Children’s Cancer Research Fund, every single day in the United States 43 families hear these words – “your child has cancer.”
While many people know that October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, few know that Children’s Cancer Awareness Month is celebrated –just one month prior – September to raise awareness about pediatric cancer research.
In honor of this month, Holmes Custom has begun a Holmes Cares Trophy Donation Drive. We are asking the community to donate old or unused trophies. We will then be recycling the trophies and replacing the award plates with ‘Last Chemo’ to be donated to our neighbors at Dreams Come True of Jacksonville, Inc.
Dreams Come True of Jacksonville
Dreams Come True is a non-profit organization started by Thomas R. McGehee. The organization inspired by McGehee’s friendship with George Lee, a 17-year-old boy with cystic fibrosis. McGehee learned of George’s love for golf and arranged for the boy to play with Fred Couples in the Pro-Am of the The Players Championship (TPC). Fred Couples gave George his driver. A year later, George passed away and was laid to rest with the prized driver.
Following these events, McGehee and his friends started the Dreams Come True, a locally-based non-profit organization out of Jacksonville, FL dedicated to granting the dreams of children with life-threatening illness. Since 1984, the organization has fulfilled the dreams of over 3,500 children in North Florida and South Georgia.
Now, we at Holmes Custom are working with our neighbors to assist them in caring for those fighting childhood cancer. As an organization, we are passionate about taking an active role in local community causes. For updates on our local community involvement, check us out on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Where To Donate
We invite the community to participate in the Holmes Cares Trophy Donation Drive.
If you are interested in donating, you can donate your old or unused trophies by bringing them by our office at 2021 St Augustine Rd, Jacksonville, FL 32207 during our regular business hours from Monday-Friday from 9:30 AM-4:30 P.M.
If you are unable to make it to the Holmes Custom location, The McInnis Company, CPAs is also assisting in collecting donated trophies at 2015 Park Ave Suite 3, Orange Park FL 32073.
We will be removing the award plates on your trophies and replacing these with new plates reading “Last Chemo”. The trophies will then go straight to Dreams Come True.
For those who would like to contribute but have no trophies to donate, the Dreams Come True 5k coming up on September 29th and they can register and donate on their website.
You can also participate by sharing this campaign with your neighbors.
FAQs
- Do you accept plaques too? Yes, we will accept both plaques and trophies!
- Do you accept all types of trophies? Yes, we are accepting all types of trophies and plaques as well.
- Is the campaign over after September? No, we will continue to accept trophies even after September. There is currently no scheduled end date.
- Can you mail trophies? Yes. Our address is 2021 St Augustine Rd, Jacksonville, FL 32207.
Seeking Partners for Trophy Donation Campaign
We are excited to share that our expectations have already been exceeded. We have had a massive response to this campaign on Facebook as well as an influx of donations. To meet the enthusiastic response of our community, we are looking for additional local non-profits organizations interested in accepting repurposed trophies as part of the Holmes Cares Trophy Donation Drive.
For those interested, please reach out by private message on Facebook or email crogers@holmescustom.com.
To learn more about how Holmes Custom started this campaign, tune into the News4Jax interview with CEO Bryan Croft. More details to follow.
