Dave Parker 39 Foundation

Through our efforts and Dave's position in the public eye, we strive to provide the type of educational support that will make the caregivers task a bit easier and help the patients understand that everyday new and exciting advancements are being made in the greater realm of treatment for and living with Parkinson's.In addition to our fund raising efforts , Dave is very active in the Parkinson's community in Greater Cincinnati and helps numerous other Parkinson's organizations in their fundraising efforts. Many of these are direct contributors as is the Dave Parker 39 Foundation) to the UC Gardner Neuroscience Institute at the University Of Cincinnati Medical Center and their current 60 million dollar construction of a new neuroscience building designed to assist all Neuroscience disease suffers.

Our goals for 2018 are to expand our list of Partners, Sponsors and contributors, increasing the funds with which we can perform our educational efforts and contribute to the UC Gardner Center and other Parkinson's research facilities.

Our board has a combined history of over 40 years worth of experience in producing successful Golf Outings, which is our main fund raiser.In addition, as mentioned above, we work closely with some other Parkinson's groups and are joining together with the Cincinnati Reds to market a "Parkinson's Awareness Night at the Reds" on April 24th 2017. This will be a "Give back" event where we, with the Reds and the other organizations and will promote the Game and recieve a portion of the ticket sales for the allotted section(s) of seats. We also intend to work with other groups who hold fund raisers and who designate a charity as their recipient and hope to have some of these events scheduled during the first quarter of 2018.

Each year we have been able to increase the net from our golf outing while still being able to offer it at the same value to golfers and without increasing our sponsorship levels. In addition we have been able to produce our first public educational event that drew a nice group of Parkinson's interested folks . For 2018 we are starting our solicitation for sponsors and contributors earlier ( letters have already gone out in December '17) , and we have our first educational event for the year already planned and will begin marketing it right after the first of the year. Our Sponsors and partners receive recognition at all of these events.