ALS Association of Georgia Included Among Charities Selected by Macon Civic Club

The ALS Association of Georgia is one of eight charities selected by the Macon Civic Club to benefit from funds raised during their 2012 musical revue that is titled “Livin’ the Dream.”  An annual event, this year’s revue represents the 51st consecutive year that the club has produced a benefit musical.  This year’s program, featuring song, dance, comedy and colorful costumes – all supported by a live orchestra -- will run from Wednesday, February 1 through Saturday, February 4 at the grand opera house in Macon.  Shows begin at 7:30 each night.

The ALS Association will share net proceeds from Saturday’s performance with Central Georgia Autism.  Tickets for the Saturday night finale are $20.00.  Tickets may be purchased at Mercer Ticket Sales located at 400 Poplar Street in Macon (Monday-Friday, 10:00-5:00), by phone at (478) 301-5470 or online at www.thegrand.mercer.edu.

ALSO -- go to this link to read a great article from the Sunday, January 22 Macon Telegraph about this year's Macon Civic Club revue.

2012 Walks for Augusta and Macon Accounced

            Events coordinator Liza Nordmark is pleased to announce that the 2012 Walks to Defeat ALS have been scheduled for Augusta and Macon.

            The Augusta Walk will be held on Saturday March 24 at the Augusta River Walk.  The Macon Walk will be held on Saturday April 21 and will begin and end at Gateway Park.  Further details will be forthcoming.  In the meantime, to form a team you may contact Liza at (404) 636-9909 or contact her by email at liza@alsaga.org.  The online sign up will be up and running by Monday, December 5.

Third Annual Aquathon Event Beats All Records!

The 2012 Aquathon was held on January 7th at Westminster School in Atlanta.  The annual event was begun in 2009 to honor Bobby Higgins who died from ALS on Mother’s Day in 2007.  Bobby is the son of beloved Westminster swim coach, Pete Higgins, who also serves on the board of directors for ALS Association of Georgia.  The event was set up with a 2012 goal of $5,000.  This goal was completely blown out of the water with the event having brought in over $12,000 at the end of January – and with donations continuing to come in.

The ALS Association of Georgia is honored to have Pete Higgins as one of our board members and sincerely appreciative for the Aquathon event that simultaneously remembers Bobby Higgins’ life while benefiting Georgians who are currently dealing with the effects of ALS.

Georgia Tech Volunteers Continue to Serve with Spring Semester Project . . .

For the second consecutive semester, the ALS Association’s Georgia Chapter has been selected as a client of Georgia Tech’s School of Literature, Communication, and Culture, where ALS staff members will be working with a group of students from the classroom of Professor Christopher Ritter.

It will be with great anticipation and enthusiasm that Anne Marie Toland, Liza Nordmark and Tim Revis will be meeting with the student group the first week in February to begin planning the semester-long project which will consist of the development of a staff user manual for one of its two databases.  Our chapter is indeed very fortunate to be the beneficiary of the time and talents these students will provide us and will eagerly look forward to what will be the finished product in early May.  The preceding semester’s project results were so hugely successful that it was shared with all the other sister chapters of the ALS Association at the national conference held in Nashville on January 15th through the 21st. 

Georgia Development Staff Members Attend ALS National Conference . . .

Events coordinator Liza Nordmark and development research associate Tim Revis attended the ALS National Conference that was held in Nashville in January.  The session topics were thoughtfully chosen and well presented by the national staff and covered a broad array of subjects designed to hone ALS development staff skills.  In addition to being relevant and informative, the sessions afforded the opportunity for a direct exchange of ideas between members of all the chapters with the common goal of improving efficiency and service.

The Georgia development staff would like to express their appreciation to the national staff for the time and effort they put into planning this event.  The great deal of attention had clearly been given to topic selection and the details of the presentations.  It was a valuable experience and we look forward to incorporating the ideas and practices that were discussed.

 The ALS Association of Georgia invites you to view a short version of our 2010(11) Form 990. (You may visit Guidestar for full reports and information).