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Be Great Foundation Annual Seek & Find Walk

May 062013

A cause close to my heart is the Be Great Foundation, which was started by friends I met during the EMBA program at the Robert H. Smith School of Business.

Each year the foundation sponsors a charity walk to help support their cause: childhood immune deficiency. This year’s Seek & Find Dr. Bear Family Walk is less than a week away on May 18. Please consider joining in the walk or participating virtually with a donation.

Just yesterday, there was a great segment on Fox News about the foundation and the upcoming event:

Be Great Foundation, Fox News, May 5, 2013

For more details, visit:

http://www.begreatfoundation.org

Dinner Thursday Night!

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Jun 202012

It’s going to be a scorcher again tomorrow night in the DC metro area, so you should make plans to eat out!

“EAT and BE grEAT at Mamma Lucia’s Fallsgrove” and help support the BE GREAT Foundation and my good friend Pete from Smith EMBA.

Eat Out – participating restaurants, starting with Mamma Lucia’s this week, will be donating 10% of each customer’s bill toward BE GREAT. (Please submit “Be Great Eat Out [PDF]“ flyer to you server.)

Eat In – individuals can get involved by hosting a meal at their home to raise awareness/funding for BE GREAT. Program launch July 2012.

Details online at: http://www.begreatfoundation.org

Charity Walk to Benefit Children’s National Medical Center

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May 072012

On Saturday, May 19, at Fallsgrove Park in Rockville, MD, my very good friends Pete Plotas (Smith EMBA ’10) and Alison Thien Plotas will be hosting a charity walk – Seek & Find Dr. Bear Family Walk – for the BE GREAT Foundation to benefit the Center for Diagnostic Immunology & Transplantation at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C.

The BE GREAT Foundation is dedicated to Alexander James Plotas who died on September 21, 2011, at 13 months of age due to respiratory complications from a severe form of immunodeficiency after a successful bone marrow transplant.

Visit BE GREAT Foundation on Facebook or http://www.begreatfoundation.org/ for details and to sign up for the walk.

Please join us on May 19 from 10 a.m. to noon: Every child deserves the chance to BE GREAT!

Pete & Alison Launch BE GREAT Foundation

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Apr 162012

This spring, Pete Plotas, a fellow classmate in EMBA Cohort 9, and his wife Alison launched the BE GREAT Foundation, dedicated to Alexander James Plotas who died on September 21, 2011 at 13 months of age due to respiratory complications from a severe form of immunodeficiency after a successful bone marrow transplant. The BE GREAT Foundation enables advancements in curative treatments for children with immune deficiency by supporting improvements in bone marrow transplantation, medical equipment and educational programs for parents. The purpose is to improve the lives and medical outcomes of children with immune deficiency, which affects tens of thousands of children and deprives them of their healthy tomorrows. Join me, Pete and other EMBA alumni on Saturday, May 19 for a one mile “at your own pace” family charity walk on the Rockville Millennium Trail to find Dr. Bear and other surprises hiding on the trail. Visit http://www.begreatfoundation.org for details.