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Bakersfield Firefighters Burn Foundation Fundraiser
May 20, 2022
The Bakersfield Firefighters Burn Foundation is raising funds for Champ Camp! With a $25 donation at the Outback Steakhouse you’ll get a great meal while supporting Champ Camp. Dine in or take out!
Champy-On
April 15 – June 10, 2022
In 2021, the teams and generous supporters working together through our three fundraisers, Champy-on, Bows for Dough and Grow Your Stache helped to send 75 kids to Champ Camp! This year we have combined these three fundraising campaigns into on GIANT Champy-On fundraiser!
Create your team today and enjoy some friendly competition with our other Champy-On teams. We will be announcing different challenges throughout the campaign for a chance to win variety of prizes (and bragging rights!), including our first ever – official Champy-On Mascot trophy signed by our kiddos – to our ultimate winner! Â
Sign up to be our ultimate Champy-On winner today and help us send 50 kids to camp! Register before April 8th to receive an AARBF pin to wear throughout the campaign to get the conversation started. Our registration page has officially gone live and you can register here, https://p2p.onecause.com/champyon22
Campaign will run from April 15th – June 10th. Together, we can send 50 kids to Champ Camp!Â
Champy-on 2021
April 15, 2021 – June 9, 2021
Formally known as the Bows for Dough and Grow Your Stache fundraiser is now the Champy-on challenge! You can select what team you would like to be a part of.
Choose your challenge; Bows, Stache or Champy-on!
It is the 6th anniversary for our annual “Bows for Dough Fundraiser”, the 12th anniversary of “Grow Your Stache Fundraiser” and 1st year of the “Champy-on Fundraiser” and this year it will be a bit different for us all. We are heavily supported through this fundraiser by volunteers, community partners and by medical professionals such as; burn unit nurses, physical therapists, doctors. This year it will be harder on them to be able to support AARBF because they are needed more than ever during this pandemic, their mission is to make sure we are safe and cared for.
Are you able to help AARBF and your fellow medical teams out? Help raise funds for the Alisa Ann Ruch Burn Foundation during our 8 week fundraiser starting April 15th and ending June 9th. You are able to sport an AARBF Bow, Mustache or Champy Pin to spread awareness. Your bow or pin will be provided by AARBF once you register and raise your first $50!
Create or join a team and encourage your friends, family, community, camp counselors, medical professionals, new counselor training class and firefighters to participate and donate here online!
Create or join a team today! Click “Join”! (Make sure to note what kind of team you would like to be this year; ex. Bows, Stache or Champy-on!)
Fresno Urban Run
May 1, 2022
Firefighters from the Hanford Fire Department and students from the Fresno City College (FCC) & College of the Sequoias (COS) Fire Academies will be running the Fresno Urban Run this year, on Sunday May 1st, in their full turnouts and gear to benefit the Alisa Ann Ruch Burn Foundation and Champ Camp 2022! Donate to your team of choice and help these young men and women raise money for a great cause!​
Starting inside of Chukchansi Park, they will be put to the challenge of climbing every step from the bottom to the top of the stadium, followed by a run up a 6-story circular garage and then down an adjacent 6-story circular garage, proceeded by a 1 mile run down Fulton Street to the Tuolumne Overpass (Urban Hill), before the final challenge, climbing 220 stairs to the top of a 10-story building, The Grand Tower, where the timing sensor will stop the clock! Overall length of the Urban Run is approx. 3 Miles. Participants are released to begin one at a time with 3 to 5 seconds between each runner. First runner will be released at 8:00am.
Golf Tournaments
AARBF’s supportive community partners host golf tournaments around California as large annual events to help support our mission, resources, and events.
Host a Fundraiser
Do you want to support the Alisa Ann Ruch Burn Foundation by hosting a fundraiser? First and foremost, have fun! Raising money is fulfilling and can be fun if everything is well-planned. More than 50 organizations and individuals are currently hosting fundraisers on behalf of AARBF, ranging from pancake breakfasts and car shows to golf tournaments and firefighter burn relays. Any event can become a fundraiser—even a dinner at your house.
Organizations and individuals host fundraising events to raise awareness for AARBF and funds for the services and programs AARBF offers to burn survivors and the community. Your event donation can raise funds for one program, like Champ Camp, or all the burn survivor services and burn prevention education programs in your community.
Please contact us with your idea and let us help you start planning!
Contact Us
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us via the form below.
Join Us for AARBF's Dinner & Dance
December 11, 2021 at 5:00 PM
AARBF’s Dinner & Dance consists of a dinner, cash bar, live auction, dessert auction, silent auction and music played throughout the night. This is the 11th annual event enjoyed in the Central Valley!
Tickets are $30 each or $230 for a table (8 seats).
Donations for our auction are appreciated. Sponsorships are available!
All of the proceeds raised go directly to the AARBF to help provide services to Burn Survivors and promote Burn Prevention education.