Mamma Jamma Announces . . . .

(Community Matters) so, Jan Hill had a dream of a ride that one day raised $1,000,000 for breast cancer services in Central Texas. She had this dream about 5 years ago. About 4 years ago she teamed up with Nan McRaven and they gathered up all the breast cancer service providers to talk about services and volunteer opportunities. About 3 years ago, the Entrepreneurs Foundation agreed to adopt the collaboration of providers as a leadership project. Marion Cimbala joined EF and worked for the collaboration. We talked about a vision for the continuum of services, incubated new ones, raised monies, conducted studies and reengaged in conversations about this ride. About 2 years ago, David Smith agreed to create the Mamma Jamma Ride AGAINST Breast Cancer. One year ago, Kerry Tate agreed to serve as honorary chair of the ride (I haven’t seen anything honorary about it, she worked her tail off too).

Kerry Tate, Jan Hill & David Smith

Last night at Galaxy Cafe (Mamma Jamma sponsor extraordinaire!) David, Jan & Kerry announced we raised $564k our very first year.

Jan’s dream was to one day raise $1,000,000. We budgeted to raise $250,000 our first year, though we all hoped to hit $400,000 – wow, $564,000 our first year.

Teresa Ricar and daughter Amy Lynn

Teresa volunteer in charge of corporate teams and giving – for the Mamma Jamma & the Hill Country Ride for AIDS

Kevin Johns, Mark Kelly, Becky Taylor & Brigid Shea

David Altounian (Motion Computing), Joanna Luttjohann (Pervassive), Larry Stone (Motion)

Funny story about Dave and his first training ride. There were some issues which needed to be addressed. Thankfully Dave expressed his concerns, the issues were addressed and Dave became one of the ride’s biggest cheerleaders and supporters. He went on to co-chair the EF corporate teams.

Jackie Oaks & Sandi Aitken

Jackie co-chaired logistics; Sandi chaired outreach. They obviously both way exceeded expectations 🙂

Alisa Weldon, Millie Price, Lynn Slayton Yeldell, Oliver Everette

Amon, Carol & Scott Burton & Brandi Clark

Cherie Matthews & Sloan Foster

Wow, the team blew away expectations. Just being with them last night, easy to see how. Congrats