The 2009 Benefit Auction
2009 Auction Has More Features!
Exciting new items have arrived!
This on-line auction closes January 26th, so don't forget to bid on your favorite items!
Take advantage of absentee bidding on our Live Event items! You will be assigned a personal sales representative. Please see item description for details.
Welcome! Don't forget- absentee bidding is available on all Live Event auction items! Simply read the auction item description for details! Thank you for visiting us today. We are very excited to open our indulgences category this week. Look for wines, spa packages and other sensational items to delight the senses. Our donors continue to present us us with remarkable choices,and we hope you agree! Visit any of our splendid auction items by selecting a category from the menu to the left of this article.
We are so appreciative to everyone who bid on our Holiday collection that closed on December 15th. Congratulations to the lucky winners!
If you find our auction as exciting as we do, please help us "spread the word and speed the cure" for glaucoma. Refer ten (or more) friends to the auction website. And ask them to refer their friends.
We built this auction so that people across the country, who care about the future of all of those affected by glaucoma, can join in our 31st Anniversary celebration. Winning bids support glaucoma research and education.
And your winning bid creates a double reward of satisfaction! You'll find that special item for yourself or someone close to you. And from the proceeds of your winning bids, you'll be giving real hope to that family member, friend or colleague - maybe even yourself - who is battling glaucoma, the number one preventable cause of blindness in the United States.
Here are just a few of the wonderful items friends of GRF from coast to coast have donated for your enticement and amazement:
JEWELRY: fabulous designer pieces by Patricia Crosby, Ann Cichon, Teresa Chen, Valerie Ostenak, and more!
TRIPS AND ACCOMMODATIONS: an enchanting spa weekend in San Francisco, or a weekend getaway in Half Moon Bay and more!
ADVENTURES: lunch on the Napa wine train with Wallace and Tom Brunner, a bay sail with GRF Board member Dr. Hetherington, trapeze lessons at The Circus Center in San Francisco, and more.
SPECIAL INDULGENCES: therapy facials from BellăPellé or Marilyn Jaeger, whimsical handbags from designer Mary Frances, and more!
"Buy Now"
Why wait for frenzied bidding to occur to get that item you really want? The "Buy Now" feature insures you get that special something.
All "Buy Now" items are priced to grant the purchaser a tax deductible allowance under the full extent of the law. Auction purchasers may deduct any amount above the market (retail) value of the goods/items received.
OUR 2009 SPONSORS AND CONTRIBUTORS
Ken Hedrick • Cary and Janet Rayment • B. J. and Michael P. Zimprich
James D. Brandt, MD • Patricia Crosby • Jack Hetherington, MD • Linda and Donald Linck, DDS • Manika Jewelers • Aidan McGuire • The Mandarin Oriental • June and Sean Otto • Personality Hotels • Allen and Carol Price • Michael Sayre • Silverado Country Club • The Westin St. Francis • Gladys and George Weston, DDS • Jane Weston, MD
Mr. and Mrs. F. T. Barr •BellăPellé Skin Studio • Wallace and Thomas M. Brunner • Candelier • Charles Schwab Corporation • The Circus Center • Mary Crawford • Diablo Valley Delta Gamma Alumnae • Anabella Denisoff • The Grand Hyatt on Union Square • Marilyn Fenneman and Alex Forrester • Mary Frances Accessories • Marilyn Jaeger Skincare Studios • Kuleto's • Andi Mallinckrodt • Valerie Ostenak • Palo Alto Delta Gamma Alumnae • Postrio Restaurant • Saks Fifth Avenue Union Square • San Francisco Delta Gamma Alumnae • San Francisco Diamond Exchange • Wilkes Bashford • Zingari Ristorante
Top Referrers
Top 10 Items
- Weekend Getaway on the California Coastline
- 2005 Sly Dog Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon, One Case
- A Stay with Personality
- 1983 Grand Vin de Leoville
- 2007 Red Côte Rosé, One Case
- Flying Trapeze Lesson
- Czech Glassworks Bowl
- Starburst Handbag
- The Mandarin Oriental Experience
- The Westin St. Francis Spa Package
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June and Sean Otto
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Melza and Ted Barr
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Saks Fifth AvenueGlaucoma Research Foundation and You
Glaucoma is the leading preventable cause of blindness in the United States. Everyone is vulnerable, from adults to infants. Undetected and untreated, glaucoma can lead to irretrievable vision loss; even blindness. Those at highest risk are African-Americans, where this silent thief of sight strikes at an earlier age and progresses more quickly, Hispanic-Latinos, Asians, everyone over 60, and anyone with a family history of glaucoma.
Glaucoma Research Foundation, a national foundation established in San Francisco in 1978, is one of the country's driving forces in elevating glaucoma as a national health priority. Currently, GRF is the nation's leading funder of innovative glaucoma research (outside of the government, academia, and the corporate sector). GRF's mission is "to prevent vision loss from glaucoma by investing in innovative research, education and support with the ultimate goal of finding a cure."
This mission is fulfilled with programs in research and education. Our website, http://www.glaucoma.org/, is a national model of internet accessibility for the vision impaired. We also provide a toll-free 800 number staffed during office hours with a real person ready with real information for your questions.
GRF relies almost entirely on contributions from individuals across the country to fund its programs. We receive no government funds, and very little from foundations. How do we invest those contributions? 85 cents of every dollar raised goes to support programs. This prudent use of funds has earned GRF the highest awards from two of the nations toughest monitors of charity operations: Charity Navigator and the Better Business Bureau's Wise Giving Alliance.
On Wednesday, January 28, 2009 at 5 PM the Glaucoma Research Foundation will hold its 31st Anniversary Benefit Celebration in the historic Palace Hotel in San Francisco. President George Herbert Walker Bush is our Honorary National Chairman, and the very distinguished former Director of the Wills Eye Institute, William S. Tasman, MD will attend as our National Chairman. Our event Co-Chairs are Mona and Ed Zander with Nobuko Saito Cleary and Gary Cleary, PharmD, PhD are our Co-Chairs for the Research Overview.
And you could be part of this lovely event! For more information about the benefit, please contact Craig Palmer; cpalmer@glaucoma.org or 800.826.6693.
