Charity
The charity we support is the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Our club donates a ski week for two people to help raise money for The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. The AA Celebrity Ski weekend is a fundraiser benefiting the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and has generated over $30 million for CF. American Airlines Corp sponsors this event every year, usually the first weekend of March. Every year at Celebrity Ski, they have an auction on Saturday evening and we have been fortunate enough to donate a ski week for two as a bid item. Whoever has the highest bid on our item is invited to ski with the American Airlines Ski & Snowboard club at one of our ski weeks. They pay Cystic Fibrosis whatever they bid (it has been as high as $10,500) then their ski trip with us is gratis. It generally costs us approximately $2500 to make this happen. So the bottom line is this, we leverage what we do (A fun week of skiing) to help raise money for Cystic Fibrosis.
Regarding the funds required to pay for the winners of the Celebrity Ski auction. During our Training Camp every December we have a raffle with items that has been donated to our club. The proceedings from the raffle are then put into an account that will eventually be used to pay for the winners of the ski week for two.
Over the past few years, members of our club have been invited to volunteer at the AA Celebrity Ski weekend... we are hopeful this will continue. The volunteer week is a lot of hard work but if you ask any of our members who have volunteered, they will tell you it was well worth their time. The following is a article Nathan wrote explaining the genesis of our involvement with Celebrity Ski.
