Category Archives: Fundraising Events
BHS Bucket-a-Thon and Gold Out 2023
Thank you to our Bucket-a-Thon Partner Battlefield Basketball for hosting their 2nd Bucket-a-Thon event AND Gold Out this past weekend!!
The Battlefield Bobcats raised a whopping $17,186.00 towards their basketball program and equally supporting our Green & Gold Athletic Spirit Scholarships!
Learn more about hosting your own Bucket-a-Thon event here.
Golf Tournament 2022
Thank you as always to all who took part in our 7th Annual Driving for a Cure Golf Tournament! We couldn’t have asked for a more beautiful day in July to play 18 holes fundraising to support our mission. Thank you to our 2022 Tournament Sponsor Chick-fil-A and to all our sponsors who supported this years event and to all who continue to support our mission every year! Thank you to Piedmont Golf Club for hosting a wonderful event this year and to all our amazing volunteers who spent the day making the tournament a success once again! Please enjoy pictures from this years’ event – stay tuned for information about our 2023 Tournament!
2022 Driving for a Cure Golf Registration Open!
BHS Bucket-A-Thon
This past Saturday, Battlefield High School Bobcats Basketball held our first ever Bucket-A-Thon event at the high school level and collectively raised $12,127.00 for their BHS Boosters AND for our Green & Gold Athletic Spirit Scholarships!!!
We are thrilled to announce our Bucket-A-Thon program and would LOVE to work with additional schools and organizations down the road. We believe that by partnering together we can make a difference for the programs we work with AND for athletes whose lives are forever changed by a childhood cancer diagnosis.
Learn more about our Green & Gold Athletic Spirit Scholarships here, the application period for our 2022 scholarships opens Feb. 1!
If you’re interested in learning how your school or org can host your own Bucket-A-Thon to mutually benefit your needs and Alex’s Army, please don’t hesitate to contact us to learn more!
Below are pictures from the BHS Bucket-A-Thon from Saturday, Jan. 22nd. Special thank you to Chick-Fil-A Haymarket and all the donors for your support. Great job to the Battlefield Bobcats Basketball teams and all the best of luck for the rest of the season!
2021 Driving for a Cure
Thank you so much to everyone who made our 6th Annual Driving for a Cure Golf Tournament a huge success! While the temps were hot, our golfers, volunteers, and sponsors were as amazing as always and contributed to another fun day of golf!
Together we raised a whopping $36,486.83 towards our mission!!!
We’d like to once again thank our Tournament Sponsor Thrivent Financial Dulles Group for their support and incredible generosity in sponsoring our event. From handing out extra waters/snacks on the turn to raffling off their own Yeti cooler to raise additional funds – each year they have been a proud supporter and we are grateful for Marty, Dave, Kim & group!
Thank you to all of our Sponsors: Brilliant Remodeling / Mosaic, Branscome Paving Company, A1 FloodTech, Brown & Brown Insurance, Cardinal Business Products, Chick-fil-A, Dewberry, EastCoast Insulators, Ennis Electric, FVC Bank, GD Flight Ops, General Dynamics, Greco Masonry, Haymarket Kings Basketball Team, Invisible Fence Brand by Clark Associates, Jennifer Young Homes, One Hot Mess, Park Valley Church, Patriot Auto Glass, Primis, R&S Services, RHOLC, Superior Paving, & The Thomey Family.
Thank you to our friend Niko’s dad Juan for joining us and sharing their families story with all of us. We know Juan touched many hearts and what he did isn’t always easy to do. Please keep the entire Chavarriaga family in your thoughts and prayers as we know too well that a cancer diagnosis is life-changing, we pray for Niko’s continued good health and healing from all he & his family have been through over the last few years.
Thank you to all of our in-kind donors who helped contribute toward auction and raffle items, our awesome team of volunteers, all our participants, and of course to the staff and team at Piedmont Golf Club. Each of you contribute to the success of this event year after year, and we are so grateful.
And a big Thank You once again to our Golf Tournament Director Franz Ferstl for 6 years’ of awesome events! We wish you, Leslie, & your family all the best in the next chapter of your lives together!
Congratulations to the following teams for placing in this years event:
1st Place
Bryce Corbett, Tate Corbett, Gavin Furlong, Austin Nevins
2nd Place
Todd Keener, Tony Gourley, Steve Hardt, Tim Juran
3rd Place
David Branscome Jr., Thomas Whitsman, Josh Baird, Cody Reeves
And of course to the recipients of our first ever Hackers Award:
Steve Bloom, Ernest Bush, Charlie Patten, Chris Pool
Congrats to our contest winners:
Longest Drive
Ladies – Beth Foster
Mens – Bryce Corbett
Closest to the Pin
Nick Yates
Closest to the Pin
Jason Brunetti
We hope you enjoy the pictures from this event – shout out to Raishad & Hollie along with a few of you who tagged us in your own pics on social media!
2021 Driving for a Cure Golf Registration Open!
Save The Date: Golf is back in 2021
Save the Date: Monday, June 7th Location: Piedmont Golf Club, Haymarket, VA More details including registration & sponsorship opportunities coming soon!
Alex’s Army Holiday Gift Card Giveaway!
Hearts Of Gold Gala 2019
We are so incredibly excited to share with you all that our first ever Hearts of Gold Gala raised a whopping $68,737.46 (and counting)!!!! We well exceeded our $50k goal and all in all we are over the moon with your generosity, love, & your support of our foundation and this first ever Gala event!!!
To say the evening was special is an incredible understatement. We feel so blessed by every moment and by each of you who joined us. Everything from our Honorary Family Patrick, Linda, and Matthew McDonnell sharing their connection with the Green family, what the REST trial has meant to their family, and presenting a check from their foundation Matthews Hope 4 Miracles to Dr. Dome to help contribute to the financial support for this trial to continue for other kids, to the live auction bidding with professional auctioneer HL Wenger and finishing off the evening with your incredibly generous paddle raise donations!
We had a wonderful time and hope each of you who joined us did as well!!
A huge Congratulations to each of our Hearts of Gold Volunteer Award Recipients who took home awards Saturday evening. We thank you for your service, support, and love that you have each poured into making Alex’s Army what it is: Franz Ferstl, Kristi Catlett, Stacia Rowles, Hollie Farrish Piraino, and Raishad Peoples.
Thank you to Dr. Jeffrey Dome, MD PhD, for attending our event and for sharing with our attendees remarks about the REST Immunotherapy Trial at Childrens National that Alex’s Army has helped fund the last 2 years (not including our 2019 grant).
Thank you again to our event sponsors – Heart of Love Sponsors: Advantage Air Conditioning of Virginia, The Dunham Family, Janet Hroncich & Joanne Arehart, Simply Divine Decorating & Staging, Thrivent Financial Dulles Group – David Stach & Martin Cox; to our Heart of Compassion Sponsors: FH Furr, Len & Elizabeth Forkas, and Smoots Custom Concrete; and to our Family Sponsors: A-Advantage Heating & Air, Amy Orne, Brett & Tawni Schwemer, FH Furr, Gary & Denise Rogerson, Gossom and Costello Paving, Padgett Business Products, Park Valley Church, and Trish Weinsten.
Thank you to our amazing planning committee, all of our volunteers, and our speakers for the evening! Thank you to Photography by Trisha for capturing moments from this event, to Kris Heeter for his construction of our gigantic Gold Heart for center stage and to Devin Hutcheson for his expertise on the painting and finishing touches for this masterpiece!
It truly does take an army to fight childhood cancer and we feel as though we have the best army around!