MADD - North Carolina 2006/2007 Events Calendar

Welcome to our Events Calendar! Check back often for updates!

MADD Interest Meeting

Who:  Rowan Community Action Site (CAS) Meeting (Throughout the Rowan and Cabarrus County areas) 

What: An annual planning session of programs and activities for the coming year.  Come join other MADD members and bring a friend.......

When:  April 10th, 2008 7:00 PM

Where: Rowan Public Library in Horley Room - 201 W. Fisher Street, Salisbury NC  28147

For questions call: Samantha (704) 637-2613 or Janet (704) 212-2739

Who: MADD's Western-NC Community Action Site (CAS)  Interest Meeting (Throughout the Haywood,Buncombe and Henderson County area) 

What: An annual planning session of programs and activities for the coming year.  Come join other MADD members and bring a friend.......

When: January 7, 2008 6:00 PM

Where: 70 Woodfin Place, Suite 232   Asheville, NC  28801

Please check out this link to; remember a loved one, to wear your pride, to wear your love

Click Here to see more.

Walk Like MADD

March 29^th,2008  -  Centennial Campus-Raleigh

May 24th, 2008 - Charlotte

MADD’s Signature 5K walk is a great way to involve your associates in a fun and important event in our area.   Our walk raised awareness for the concern of underage drinking, drunk driving and honor the victims.

Our next event, scheduled  for March 29th in Raleigh and May 24th in Charlotte...both in 2008 promises to be even more successful.   The involvement of local business and corporate partners in forming teams to participate in the walk builds excitement and a sense of pride for all associates.

Being a part of the important work MADD does in North Carolina  to help save lives is a great morale booster for all those participating.

Form a team and show your company’s support for the important work MADD does in our state!

Walk Like MADD Flyer

Walk Like MADD Sponorship

To start your team, click Raleigh or Charlotte link

Yadkin Golf Tournament

Come One!  Come All! Yadkin county sherriff's office is golfing for MADD. 

Click Here to see more.   

On September 12, 2007 Acting Surgeon General Rear Admiral Kenneth P. Moritsugu will visit North Carolina to discuss his national "Call to Action to Reduce and Prevent Underage Drinking".  This past March, Rear Admiral Moritsugu announced the research-based report, which can be found at www.surgeongeneral.gov.

Rear Admiral Moritsugu will speak at the Millennium Seminar sponsored by N.C. State University and held on campus at the Stewart Theatre on Wednesday, September 12, 2007 from 230pm to 345pm. The public is encouraged to attend this seminar to hear more about the Acting Surgeon General's efforts to reduce and prevent underage drinking in our nation. More information about this event will soon be available at www.ncsu.edu/millenniumseminars

The Fair Is Comming!!!!

Click Here for more details. We are looking forward to you signing up for the MADD booth, at the fair, or just to come by and visit.  Can't wait to see you there!

Durham County

Operation Bulls Eye Festival is October 13, 2007.  Please Click Here to read more.  Organizations that are interested in participating (setting up an information booth) Please Click Here                                

* El Centro Hispano's upcoming Latino Health Fair.  The Health Fair will be on August 25, 2007 from 12-5 PM at Hillside High School in Durham.

* Durham Police Dept., Hispanic Outreach- Albright Community, 7/21/07 9am - 12pm
*Durham Police Dept. BLET Graduation - Aug 1, 2007 7pm - North Carolina Mutual Building.

Shifting Gears Road Rally

June 23^rd, 2007

Beginning at the NC State Fairgrounds

The Road Rally is a novelty rally designed for auto enthusiasts or anyone who wants to have fun! The road rally is a family—friendly event with activities such as a kids zone, safety fair and auto show commencing at the completion of the road rally.  The concept of this event is similar to the popular TV show “The Amazing Race”   with a few extra’s added in. 

Unlike the serious professional road rallies that take place involving time and intense precision in every aspect, MADD's Shifting Gears road rally is a fun, innovative and novelty rally. It involves clues and puzzle solving as a way to identify landmarks to aid in navigating the course route.

How a Road Rally Works

Two or more people, in ordinary cars, on regular roads, within the legal speed limit, make up a Road Rally crew. MADD will host a "game rally" event. The challenge is to drive on time and answer trivia-type questions or puzzles and participate in game-like activities. The rally is about 40 miles long and will take 2-4 hours to complete. This event is a statewide event for MADD-NC with teams and supporters from all over the State participating.

All of the events are essentially non-timed location hunts where participants use puzzles to unveil the location of secret checkpoint locations.  It is the way in which the game is organized and the theme used that makes it enjoyable for you.  All clues used during the game are unique and fun.

Unlike the serious professional road rallies that take place involving time and intense precision in every aspect, MADD's Shifting Gears road rally is a fun innovative and novelty rally involving clues, puzzle solving as a way to identify landmarks and thus navigate the course route.

Prizes will be awarded to the top three finishers and other fun prizes will be given out to those that get "lost" along the way! Approximately 100+ vehicles (crews) will be participating.

A crew is comprised of a driver and a navigator who are encouraged to raise $500 in pledges to support MADD. Crews will drive the route, participate in checkpoint activities and finish the road rally at a community event celebration and car show.

Event support

Looking for something other than the typical nonprofit walk, golf tournament or gala than this event is for you.  With a tremendous response so far from corporations and individuals this year inaugural event is sure to become one of the top events in our State.  Below is a listing of several ways you as an individual, family team or corporation can participate. 

• Start a team and raise funds to support MADD or to honor a loved one effected by underage drinking or drunk driving.
• Become a corporate sponsor and receive unparalleled exposure by having your business as a featured stop on the route (what better way to bring potential customers to your door front)
• Participate in the car show by displaying your special vehicle.
• Make a donation to our event or hold a special fundraiser on our behalf. 
• Come out support us with your participation by attending the event or become an event volunteer. 

Contact:  Lori Brown – MADD State Development Officer lori.brown@madd.org  (919) 787-6599

Click this link to visit MADD's Shifting Gears

Click this link for our Shifting Gears sponsorship packet: Sponsor Shifting Gears

Hello  everyone.

 We got a letter from the  First Lady . Please click on the "First Lady" PDF link and see what she says about MADD and our TOOFS Campaign. 

A special thank you to Mrs... Mary P. Easley - First Lady of North Carolina. We really appreciate your support.

March 31^st, 2007

Centennial Campus

Raleigh , NC

MADD’s Signature 5K walk is a great way to involve your associates in a fun and important event in our area.   Our walk raised awareness for the concern of underage drinking, drunk driving and honor the victims.

Among our list of sponsors for the event, so far, are the Law Offices of James Scott Farrin, Rehabilitation Support Services, RBC Centura Bank, Nissan, 100.7 the River, Aquatise

Our next event, scheduled  for March 31, 2007 promises to be even more successful.   The involvement of local business and corporate partners in forming teams to participate in the walk builds excitement and a sense of pride for all associates.

Being a part of the important work MADD does in North Carolina  to help save lives is a great morale booster for all those participating.

Form a team and show your company’s support for the important work MADD does in our state!

Click this link to visit our website:  Strides For Change

Click this link for our SFC sponsor information:  SFC Sponsor kit

Nov.20^th – TOOFS 2006 Fact Sheet

What is Tie One On For Safety (TOOFS)?

• Started in 1986, MADD’s premier public awareness project, Tie One On For Safety, celebrates its 20^th Anniversary this year. The red ribbon is a symbol of the driver’s pledge to drive safe, sober and buckled up.  Additionally, MADD asks the public to Tie One On For Safety   in support of MADD’s Campaign to Eliminate Drunk Driving.
• MADD, through the Campaign to Eliminate Drunk Driving, calls for intensive, high-visibility law enforcement     efforts that included sobriety checkpoints and saturation patrols; advocates that all convicted drunk drivers have an alcohol ignition interlock installed on their vehicles; supports the research of transparent, vehicle-based technologies that will prevent a drunk driver from driving drunk; and mobilizes grassroots support of all of these efforts, led by MADD.
• Holiday drivers display a MADD red ribbon or red ribbon decal in a visible location on their vehicles to show family, friends and loved ones they support safer roads free from drunk driving. It also reminds other drivers and passengers to do the same.
• Activities to support TOOFS are organized by a majority of the 400 MADD affiliates across the country. More than 6 million ribbons and ribbon symbols are distributed annually.
• Our message includes seat belts because it is the best defense in a crash caused by a drunk driver.
• Tie One On For Safety runs Thanksgiving through New Year’s Day when road travel is the heaviest of the year and typically drunk driving increases.
  
  

Why is Tie One On For Safety important?

• Each year nationally, more than 1,000 people typically die during Thanksgiving to New Year’s in drunk driving crashes and more than 2,000 are killed in drunk driving crashes and/or crashes where safety belts were not used.
• Nationally, fatalities involving a driver at or above at .08 were down 1.2 percent from 13,099 in 2004 to 12,945 in 2005.  Additionally, an estimated 500,000 people are injured in alcohol-related crashes each year. (NHTSA, 2006; Miller, 2000)
• Alcohol-related crashes cost the American public an estimated $114.3 billion and people other than the drunk driver paid $71.6 billion of that amount. (Taylor, Miller and Cox 2002)
  
  

How Can You Support?

• in a visible location on your vehicle. Red ribbons and red ribbon window decals are available through local MADD at www.madd.org/nc  
• Host parties responsibly by offering mocktails and other non-alcoholic beverages, and by providing alternate transportation or accommodations for guests who have been drinking. For safe party tips visit www.madd.org/safeparty.
• Designate a non-drinking driver before drinking begins.
• Log onto www.madd.org and learn more about the Campaign and how you can help support intensive enforcement, current alcohol ignition interlock technology and learn more about advanced vehicle-based anti-drunk driving technologies.

MADD will be hosting two press conferences to kick off our campaign.  One will b e in Raleigh and the other in Charlotte.

MISS AMERICA AND MADD NATIONAL PRESIDENT

TO VISIT NORTH CAROLINA OCTOBER 15^th & 16th

Miss America  , Jennifer Berry and MADD’s National President, Glynn Birch will be visiting the Triangle to kick off a MADD milestone campaign in our area between October 15^th & 16th.

Miss Berry  has been a forceful advocate for MADD and has traveled throughout the U.S. to speak about the dangers that drunk driving poses to our families and friends. With an increase in the number of alcohol related fatalities in 2005, the battle against drunk driving has intensified.

Both Jennifer and Glenn will attend our MADD booth at the NC State Fair on October 15^th.   The following day we encourage you to join us on October 16th  at the Cardinal Club in downtown Raleigh to meet with our legislators, law enforcement officials and leaders within our business community as we discuss the strategy to stem the tide of increasing DWI offenses, nation-wide and within our state. Cost is $100 per ticket to participate in the luncheon and seating is limited to 150. 

To make your reservation, call 919.787.6599

MADD of North Carolina has been very blessed with support from volunteers from across the state for years.  We are very fortunate to have dedicated volunteers who are willing to help us spread our Mission by setting up promotional booths at community carnivals to hosting fishing tournaments in honor of a lost loved one.  You can help us make a difference today by partnering with us to develop a special outreach program or fundraiser in your community.  Funds we raise from area bake sales to car shows and everything in between help us to enhance our existing programs and expand and offer new ones.  Our goal is to save lives and your generous support is greatly appreciated.  Contact our office today to develop your special project. 

September 23, 2006                              

8 AM to 12 PM

@NCSHP Training Facility on Tryon Rd. in Raleigh, NC

The NCSHP (NC State Highway Patrol) Training Facility on Tryon Rd. in Raleigh, NC will host the their first annual Patrol Stroll.  MADD of North Carolina is proud to partner with our North Carolina State Highway Patrol during this event.  The event consist of an expo, fun walk and timed running event,.  The fitness and NCSHP expo is a showcase of what the NCSHP has to offer.  Come and check out our Patrol Cars from the past and the equipment we now use which include helicopters, motorcycles and the brand new NCSHP Dodge Chargers.  The expo will also include displays and booths from local running stores and a variety of vendors.  Food will be available on site.  The running course is certified by the USAT&F.  Split times will be provided at each mile mark and the half way point.  There will be 2 hydration stations provided by 9th St. Active Feet.  The event will be timed using the ChampionChip system. The chip must be attached to the runner's shoe and will be collected at the end of the race.  Proceeds from the event will go towards MADD of North Carolina.

Please Volunteer...start an awareness or fundraising event in your community.

MADD will have a booth at the El Pueblo fiesta on September 8th and 9th. The festival will be in Harrill Center at the NC State Fairgrounds in Raleigh, NC.  It will be from 12 PM - 8 PM on Sept. 8th and 12 PM - 6 PM on Sept. 9th.

La Fiesta del Pueblo is the largest Latin American Festival in the Carolinas.  It has grown from an attendance of 2,000 in 1994 to 50,000 in 2005.  Through La Fiesta, El Pueblo has brought the arts and cultures of Latin America and the Caribbean to hundreds of thousands of people during the past ten years.

There will be Cultural art exhibits of Music performances, including folk musicians, Traditional dance performances, Children amusement park and patio activities, Latin American and Caribbean foods, etc.. and much more!

Please visit:  http://www.elpueblo.org for more information.