Save the Dates - 2009
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May 2, 2009 -
6th Johnny Leathers, Jr. Memorial Golf Tournament
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Nov. 14, 2009
- 3rd Fashion for A Passion Show
Events
Out of the Darkness Walks
2008
Out of Darkness Walk
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2005 Team Johnny raised over $5,000 participating in the Atlanta Out of the Darkness Walk.
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2004 - Team Johnny was represented in 3 states while participating in the Out of the Darkness Walks raising over $7,000 for AFSP.
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2002 - 11 members of Team Johnny raised over $15,000
and walked 26 miles in the first overnight walk sponsored by AFSP.
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Memorial Golf Tournaments
2008 Johnny Leathers, Jr., Memorial Golf Tournament
$18,000 was raised at the 5th annual Johnny Leathers, Jr.
Memorial Golf Tournament held on May 3, 2008 with 106 golfers.
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2007 Johnny Leathers, Jr., Memorial Golf Tournament
The Johnny Foundation would like to ask you to support
the 4th annual Johnny Leathers, Jr. Memorial Golf Tournament benefiting
the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) being held May 19th,
2007 at Woodmont Golf and Country Club.
We have been blessed to have raised over $46,000 in the last three
tournaments targeting College Student Prevention Programs in hopes of
preventing just one of the suicides that tragically ends the lives of
1,100 college students every year. Last year’s tournament helped fund
AFSP’s On-line College Screening Project at Emory University. This
web-based project reaches out to students with serious depression and
other problems who would not otherwise have sought help. A three-year
pilot test of the outreach method showed the project is effective in
resolving the students concerns about treatment through engaging in
anonymous online dialogues with a counselor. At-risk students who
exchanged dialogues were found to be three times more likely to eventually
come for an in-person evaluation and to enter treatment. We have seen
evidence that awareness does work and desperately need your help to raise
awareness, give hope and reach the nearly one million people in the U.S.
who attempt to end their lives every year.
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2006 Johnny Leathers, Jr. Memorial Golf
Tournament The Johnny Leathers, Jr. Memorial Awareness Banquet and Golf Tournament held in April to raise awareness of depression and to promote education on suicide prevention was blessed to have raised $16,000 for the Johnny Leathers, Jr. Memorial Fund established at the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
(AFSP) and $1,000 being donated to an Atlanta Area Christian Counseling Center to help fund counseling sessions for patients in need. The funds going to AFSP will again target on-line screening of college students. Maybe if this project had been in place when Johnny attended college we would not be walking this journey. We can’t change the past but we pray God will use these funds to help change someone’s future.
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2005 Johnny Leathers, Jr. Memorial Golf Tournament
The 2005 Johnny Leathers, Jr. Memorial Awareness Banquet and Golf Tournament was blessed to have raised $15,000 for the Johnny Leathers,
Jr. Memorial Fund of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP). The funds raised will be used to help fund a confidential screening
program for students at Morehouse College and Emory University by bringing awareness and counseling help directly to the students online. Your generous
support may very well help provide the life line needed to save a college
student’s life in the Atlanta area.
The first Johnny Leathers, Jr. Memorial
Awareness Banquet was held on the eve of the tournament and was blessed
with 65 dinner guests who enjoyed a gourmet meal, silent auction, delightful
array of door prizes, Keynote Speaker Dr. Phil Ninan of Emory University and
honored with the presence of William Grard, Development Director, at AFSP
who flew in from New York City just to attend the banquet.
The second
Johnny Leathers, Jr. Memorial Golf Tournament was blessed with 80 players
who feasted on a BBQ buffet lunch, played 18 holes on a sun drenched golf
course, and enjoyed appetizers during the raffle and awards presentation. We hope you will join us next year in this ongoing effort to raise awareness
and save lives.
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2004 Johnny Leathers, Jr. Memorial Golf Tournament
Raised $15,000 that was donated to AFSP for the Johnny Leathers, Jr.
Memorial Fund to help fund distribution to colleges across the U.S. of a video entitled “The
Truth about Suicide: Real Stories of Depression in
College”.
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Memorial Tennis Tournaments
2008 Johnny Leathers, Jr. Memorial Tennis Tournament
The Johnny Foundation would like
to thank everyone who supported the 2nd annual Johnny Leathers, Jr. Memorial
Tennis Tournament held on May 31st, 2008. 42 players participated
and raised $2,000 which was added to the $18,000 raised at the 5th annual
Johnny Leathers, Jr. Memorial Golf Tournament. The Golf Tournament was held on
May 3, 2008 with 106 golfers.
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Fashion with a Passion Show
2008 Fashion with
a Passion Show
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2007 Fashion with
a Passion Show
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