Tuesday, 16 August 2011

UPDATED: Raising $5,000, Simon Youth Foundation fundraiser is a slam dunk

Indiana Pacers Head Coach Frank Vogel participated
in the California Pizza Kitchen fundraiser for SYF

UPDATE  ON TUESDAY, AUG. 23
The total numbers are in, and Indiana Pacers Head Coach Frank Vogel and the hundreds of other Simon Youth Foundation supporters who dined in at the California Pizza Kitchen at Circle Centre on Tuesday, Aug. 16, raised $5,000 for SYF programs.

ORIGINAL POST ON TUESDAY, AUG. 16
We are posting this at nearly the half-way point of the Aug. 16 Simon Youth Foundation fundraiser being hosted by the newly opened California Pizza Kitchen at Circle Centre in Indianapolis, Ind. The restaurant is donating 50 percent of all the day's dine-in sales to SYF.

Hundreds had already enjoyed their CPK favorites by the end of the lunch hour, and the guests included Indiana Pacers Head Coach Frank Vogel and his staff as well as SYF Board of Directors Chairperson Deborah J. Simon and other board members.

We'll update the blog when a total donation amount is announced. The money will support the national network of Simon Youth Academies, which are alternative schools that serve at-risk students who may be homeless, seriously ill, facing parenthood, or otherwise unable to attend their traditional high school, as well as the Simon Youth Scholarships program, which helps send hundreds of high school graduates throughout the country to college each year.


SYF board members and supporters

SYF supporters from the Simon headquarters

The Circle Centre team supports SYF

SYF staff members enjoy lunch at CPK

A table full of Simon employees eat for SYF

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