Last year, we gave most of our funds to Open Door of Freehold and held a large food drive due to Covid.
Here’s how your support impacted our community:
Camp Quality of NJ - $10,100
We support DBSA of Neptune
Girl Scouts of Jersey Shore - $1,500
Monmouth Council of Boy Scouts - $1,500
Ladacin Network - $25,450
Local Families - $30,000
Huntington’s Society - $16,000
First Tee - $7,500
We heard about a young boy named Joey, who, as a result of a traumatic brain injury became permanently wheelchair-bound and lost the ability to control his body. His parents lost any guardianship or visitation and he was cared for by the State. Luckily, he was blessed with the loving, amazing Graves family. The Graves family fell in love with Joey, and after several years of visiting him and bringing him home for events and holidays, they pursued adoption. The Graves are retired and live on a fixed income and were unable to afford the handicapped van they needed to comply with the adoption requirement that they owned the van.
Along with the Graeme Preston Foundation for Life and The Charitable Fund of Lomurro, Davison, Eastmon & Munoz, we acquired and donated a handicap-accessible van for Joey and the Graves family. The adoption was final in 2018.
The Ken Cup is indeed a time to have fun and relax with friends and family, but it’s also an opportunity to do life-changing work for real people in need. Joey reminds us why we do what we do.
Thank you for helping make stories like this a reality!
Last year’s Ken Cup was a great success. It was so great to see all of you, and we’re so thankful for your contributions.
After the 9th Annual Ken Cup, we donated almost $20,000 in total to the following causes:
The First Tee of Monmouth
Camp Quality NJ
LADACIN Network
The Huntington Society
Masterpiece Hope Foundation
Handicapped Van for Joey
Let’s make this year’s Ken Cup even better.
Love,
The Kennedy E. Kowalski Charitable Foundation
We've donated an additional $15,000 this year! Thank you all for your support.
Your contributions make our community better, help our neighbors in need, and build a brighter future.
We made a donation to The First Tee of Monmouth and Ocean for their YMCA outreach program.
“Dear Craig and Joy,
On behalf of The First Tee of Monmouth and Ocean, I would like to thank you for the donation of $1,550 received on November 28, 2016 to support our Freehold Boro YMCA outreach program at Battleground Country Club for Fall 2016 and Spring 2017.
The mission of The First Tee is to impact the lives of young people by providing educational programs and that teach core values and positive life-skills via the game of golf. This generous donation has a direct and powerful impact on the kids in the Freehold Boro Y program – we are all looking forward to Spring of 2017 thanks to your support.
We are so very grateful to the Kennedy E. Kowalski Charitable Foundation and welcome you to The First Tee family!
Warmest regards,
Tara B. Kelly
Executive Director”
Friends & Supporters of the Kennedy E. Kowalski Charitable Foundation:
So far this year, we've donated:
Thank you all so much! Your contributions make our community better, help our neighbors in need, and build a brighter future.
The KEK Charitable Foundation is so excited to support The First Tee! An amazing program designed to build character and encourage healthy habits in children through golf. The KEK foundation has supported 10 local children for both the spring and fall sessions as well as provide transportation to and from the course!
Our foundation is lucky enough to be working with Monmouth County Vocational School's Automotive Program this year. We recently donated several sets of brand new tools to their students!
Today we feel very honored and blessed to pass on to you that we have made a $7,500 ($10,400 CAD) donation to The Huntington's Society of Canada. As the first trials to silence the faulty HD Gene began in 2015 we have requested that the funds be used for research and we pray every day for a cure!
Learn more about Huntington's Disease here:
Thank you to YOU! Thank you ALL for helping us support the LADACIN Network. You have again made it possible to offer a generous $5,000 donation. Those funds will go a long way to assist the wonderful LADACIN organization and their employees to help advance the progress of individuals with physical and developmental disabilities.
Learn more about LADACIN here:
