The Joe Jackson Foundation will be holding its third annual charity golf classic fundraiser at the Ocotillo Golf Resort on Friday, September 30, 2016. Come out and play individually or as a team. Immediately following the tournament, specialty and place awards will be given as well as a: luncheon, raffle drawing and silent auction. Popular silent auction item available to bid on include: vacation packages to Antigua or St. Lucia, Disneyland tickets, and tickets to the 2016 Cactus Bowl and pre-game party.
We have several sponsorships to choose from such as: Platinum ($3000), Gold ($2000), Silver ($1000) or Bronze ($600). These sponsorships benefits include: free day of play and golf balls for a select number of golfers, a printed golf hole tee box sign, ability to add promotional inserts into golfers’ goody bags and recognition on the Joe Jackson Foundation website. You may also want to sponsor a hole, for any company; person or occasion, which includes a printed golf hole tee box sign.
Please come out to support Joe’s mission to improve the quality of life of children, with spinal cord injuries, and their families while also having fun playing golf. Registration is $80 per golfer. We hope to see you there.
The Joe Jackson Foundation will be holding its third annual charity golf classic fundraiser at the Ocotillo Golf Resort on Friday, September 30, 2015. Come out and play individually or as a team. Immediately following the tournament, specialty and place awards will be given as well as a: luncheon, raffle drawing and silent auction. Popular silent auction item available to bid on include: vacation packages to Antigua or St. Lucia, Disneyland tickets, and tickets to the 2015 Cactus Bowl and pre-game party.
We have several sponsorships to choose from such as: Platinum ($3000), Gold ($2000), Silver ($1000) or Bronze ($600). These sponsorships benefits include: free day of play and golf balls for a select number of golfers, a printed golf hole tee box sign, ability to add promotional inserts into golfers’ goody bags and recognition on the Joe Jackson Foundation website. You may also want to sponsor a hole, for any company; person or occasion, which includes a printed golf hole tee box sign.
Please come out to support Joe’s mission to improve the quality of life of children, with spinal cord injuries, and their families while also having fun playing golf. Registration is $80 per golfer. We hope to see you there.
News Release- For Immediate Release
On Sunday, September 12, 2010 at 9:30 am. The Joe Jackson Foundation will award Jarrett Dreyer a rugby sport wheelchair made by Vesco Metal Craft (VMC) during a Phoenix Heat rugby practice held at Broadway Recreation Center, which is operated by Mesa Association of Sports for the Disable in Mesa, Arizona. Dryer of New York, attends the University of Arizona and plays on the University of Arizona Wheelchair Rugby Team was injured during a snow sledding accident.
The mission of the Joe Jackson Foundation Individual Grant Program is to support children (21 and younger) and their families in providing adaptive equipment post-injury. The Joe Jackson Foundation’s Individual Grants provide funding for adaptive equipment, some sports and recreational equipment necessary to allow those living with paralysis to continue on living their dreams and accomplishing their goals.
About the Joe Jackson Foundation
The Joe Jackson Foundation was established on October 26, 2006 to help spinal cord injury survivors and inspire children to continue to strive for their goals. Inspired by Joe’s own story, the foundation created by his calling to primarily help inspire individuals disabled by SCI to continue living actively because there’s much to overcome despite the challenges they face and to fund future opportunities for Joe’s quest to walk again.
Joe Jackson, a former Hamilton High School football player was injured during football practice in November 2005
On Saturday, October 10, 2009 at 1:00 pm, The Joe Jackson Foundation will award Andrew Donnellan a rugby sport wheelchair during Arizona Outcast Desert Dual III Wheelchair rugby tournament held at Broadway Recreation Center, which is operated by Mesa Association of Sports for the Disable in Mesa, Arizona. Donnellan of Tucson, Arizona was injured during a gymnastics tumbling accident.
The mission of the Joe Jackson Foundation Individual Grant Program is to support children and their families in providing adaptive equipment post-injury. The Joe Jackson Foundation’s Individual Grants provide funding for adaptive equipment, some sports and recreational equipment necessary to allow those living with paralysis to continue on living their dreams and accomplishing their goals.
About the Joe Jackson Foundation
The Joe Jackson Foundation was established on October 26, 2006 to help spinal cord injury survivors and inspire children to continue to strive for their goals. Inspired by Joe’s own story, the foundation created by his calling to primarily help inspire individuals disabled by SCI to continue living actively because there’s much to overcome despite the challenges they face and to fund future opportunities for Joe’s quest to walk again.
Joe Jackson, a former Hamilton High School football player was injured during football practice in November 2005.
“He reminds me of how blessed I am to be an educator,” Hogan said of the Hamilton High School football player who suffered a serious spinal-cord injury in November that left him paralyzed from the waist down. He’s currently in rehabilitation at Barrow Neurological Institute in central Phoenix.
“He has taught me that true courage is putting a smile on your face and laughing at yourself and your daily follies as you conquer life’s most powerful blows. He has taught me that faith is all we really have when life gets tough.”
Hogan, an English teacher at Hamilton, is part of a team of five from the school that has been taking lessons to Jackson while he recuperates at Barrow.
For two hours a day, five days a week, Jackson gets instruction in English, marketing (from Susan Flynn), chemistry (Debbie Crane), math (Eric Miller) and history (Les Renner).
This way, he won’t lose ground academically and will be positioned to graduate with his class in 2007. Jackson hopes to be cleared by doctors and physical therapists to return to the Hamilton campus for the fourth quarter this school year. If not, he vows to be back in the fall.
“I want to go back to school and be around everybody,” Jackson said.
Calling it “a learning process for both of us,” Hogan said this is her first experience with homebound instruction.
The Chandler Unified School District makes it available to any student who has either an acute problem or needs to be out for at least three months. Medical certification is required.
Hogan initially became acquainted with Jackson when he was in her zero-hour English class as a sophomore. His boundless enthusiasm won her over.
“There are students who leave footprints on my heart, and Joe was that student,” she said. “Every morning, he made me smile. Zero hour comes early (6:40 a.m.), but Joe was always full of energy. He is well liked by so many. It’s tremendous that our students drive down (to Barrow) and spend hours with their friend, having movie nights and playing video games.”
Todd and JoAnn Jackson, Joe’s parents, have placed few restrictions on visitors.
“We just let everybody come,” said Todd, an engineer at Intel who only recently returned to work. “We felt it would be right for Joseph. He is a social butterfly, anyway.”
Hogan said the family’s strength comes from its deep faith. “The Jacksons have taught me what true love for a son really means,” she said.
Reprinted with permission:
Doug Carroll
The Arizona Republic
Feb. 11, 2006 12:00 AM
Chris Fleace’s Coach Brad McFadden states “Chris started playing rugby approximately year ago. He has always played in a hand-me-down chair that is more than 10 years old and has been rewelded multiple times. The chair is too small and does not fit him well. Despite this he has been dedicated and works out and trains multiple times throughout the week outside of regularly scheduled practices. The Joe Jackson Foundation grant to purchase a new rugby wheelchair will make a huge difference in Chris’s performance and I believe will also encourage him to train even harder. He is someone who deserves this opportunity and he is someone who truly appreciates it as well. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts to everyone who has helped make this happen.
Testimonial
When I received the JoeJackson grant i was extremely excited. I couldn’t wait to get my chair and start practicing. Ever since i received the grant and my chair my skills have improved majorly. I am now a much faster and stronger .5 than i was when I started. Also not only that my way of life has tremendously changed because of having a new chair and keeping up with the sport. I can now say i can take care of myself completely which was not the case when i started but was definitely a goal. And i owe it all to the grant and the sport of wheelchair rugby for making me a much stronger person. I am truly grateful for receiving the Joe Jackson grant it has done nothing but open doors for me and there’s nothing better than multiple opportunities.
Testmonial
Jarret’s Dreyer
The chair that your organization provided for me opened up a lot opportunities for me. It was the first chair that was properly measured for me which allowed me to really advance and play better rugby. It allowed me to train better and ultimately help me advance to a level which I was able to make the national development team. That wouldn’t of been possible of not for chair that you provided for me.
