Matt's Promise Creates Leadership Award
for Outstanding Volunteer Efforts
2011 – Caroline Budner
Since the founding of Matt’s Promise and our very first event in 2006 Caroline has contributed tirelessly to our work and cause. She is always there to help handle the details. Her efforts support our annual event, help us to keep the day to day operations flowing smoothly and she volunteers her time and organizational skills to all of our events and activities. Caroline says,
2010 – Michael Budlow and Justin Rothberg: Hoops for Hope
It isn’t hard to imagine that dinner conversation at the Wiederkehr-Rothberg house often turns to issues surrounding Matt’s Promise. For a long time, Justin Rothberg has been hearing about the projects funded by Matt’s Promise and its cornerstone project — fighting Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
One dinner conversation revolved around Charley Seckler, the young son of Matthew Wiederkehr’s childhood best friend. Justin learned over the last few years that Charley’s condition is worsening.
2009 – Amy Esralew
In May 2009, we honored Amy Esralew at the Fourth Annual Benefit Concert because of her extraordinary volunteer efforts on our behalf. Amy has worked tirelessly over the last four years giving of her time and energy to boost our success and increase the amount of funds we can award to cutting-edge research. In many ways, Amy is the perfect volunteer, whose love and grace are an example to us all. We have been so grateful to Amy, who stepped forward to take the reins in helping us take a huge step in our fundraising efforts, and we are thrilled to honor her.
2008 – Morgan Procida
In many ways, Morgan Procida is like other healthy, active and happy seventeen-year-olds. A junior at Old Tappan High School, New Jersey, she participates in three varsity sports, is a member of the Italian Club and belongs to Volunteen, a group that encourages children to volunteer. Her expansive smile and twinkling blue eyes are the outward reflection of a deeply caring individual who is loved by her peers.
In other ways, Morgan is anything but typical. This past spring, Matt’s Promise created an award.
