June 10, 2021
The Nicholas Colby Fund® creates personalized events & experiences for children with cancer to uplift their spirits. In 2020 we provided games, or books for patients primarily from the three largest Northern California children’s hospitals:
June 10, 2021
The Nicholas Colby Fund® creates personalized events & experiences for children with cancer to uplift their spirits. In 2020 we provided games, or books for patients primarily from the three largest Northern California children’s hospitals:
June 10, 2021
The Nicholas Colby Fund® creates personalized events & experiences for children with cancer to uplift their spirits. In 2020 we provided games, or books for patients primarily from the three largest Northern California children’s hospitals:
February 10, 2021
The Nicholas Colby Fund® creates personalized events and experiences for children with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses, focused completely on uplifting their spirits. In 2017, the result was nearly 300 smiles including luxury suite experiences and backpacks for patients primarily from the three largest Northern California children’s hospitals:
January 26, 2017
The Nicholas Colby Fund® creates personalized events & experiences for children with cancer to uplift their spirits. In 2016 we provided opportunities for over 500 smiles from luxury suite experiences to toys, games, or books for patients primarily from the three largest Northern California children’s hospitals:
There were over 25 luxury suite experiences at Oracle Arena – a major entertainment venue in the San Francisco Bay Area – to enjoy NBA professional basketball via the Golden State Warriors, Disney on Ice, Harlem Globetrotters, concerts, and more.
January 4, 2016
The Nicholas Colby Fund® creates personalized events & experiences for children with cancer to uplift their spirits. In 2015 we provided opportunities for at least 1,004 smiles from luxury suite experiences to toys, games, or books for patients primarily from the three largest Northern California children’s hospitals:
There were 20 luxury suite experiences at Oracle Arena – a major entertainment venue in the San Francisco Bay Area – to enjoy NBA professional basketball via the Golden State Warriors, Disney on Ice, Harlem Globetrotters, Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, and more.
Walt Disney said, "You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality." Without support from individuals and organizations such as Albertsons / Safeway Foundation; CSAA Insurance Group, a AAA Insurer; and the Golden State Warriors, we would not be able to help children (and their families) have another opportunity to smile.
We believe we truly are making a difference – Helping Children Be Children® – and we are grateful for the support from so many of you.
Thank you and happy, Happy New Year!
December 22, 2014
The Nicholas Colby Fund® creates personalized events & experiences for children with cancer to uplift their spirits. In 2020 we provided games, or books for patients primarily from the three largest Northern California children’s hospitals:
October 2, 2013
Following up on Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Barnum & Bailey Circus events we provided to children's hospitals in August, the Nicholas Colby Fund just released luxury suite experiences to enjoy Disney on Ice: Passport to Adventure. Patients from Children's Hospital Oakland (October 16), Stanford - Lucile Packard Children's Hospital and UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital (October 17) should have a fun time - opportunities to smile if even for a moment or two.
And later this month with the National Basketball Association (NBA) season kicking off, patients will begin to experience NBA games for our seventh consecutive year.
June 17, 2013
The Nicholas Colby Fund's Lamont Gilbert will be interviewing former NBA star, author, poet, and motivational speaker Adonal Foyle on June 21 at the Lafayette Library & Learning Center as part of the launch of a new family series called Authors & Athletes. Nicholas loved the Lafayette library so along with hospitals and speaking engagements we collaborate on efforts that are focused on children.
The foundation of the interview will be Adonal's new children book called Too Tall Foyle Finds His Game. "It is a charming story of a young child who is different from other boys his age...he is just too tall! Like all young boys, he wants to play sports, but he just can't find one that fits. He tries EVERYTHING. The kids tease him when he fails, so he gets sadder and sadder. Then one day his life changes forever. A new sport comes to his Caribbean island where being tall is a good thing to be. It's a tale of a boy struggling to find his place in the world, sometimes failing, but never giving up until he finds it."
May 16, 2013
Tonight a patient from Children's Hospital Oakland/UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital was in the Nicholas Colby Fund® suite to enjoy the NBA Playoffs: Golden State Warriors vs, San Antonio Spurs.
February 26, 2013
Patients from Bay Area children's hospitals* will enjoy Disney on Ice: Dare to Dream and Golden State Warriors basketball games between February 27 through March 11, 2013 from the Nicholas Colby Fund luxury suite.
Disney on Ice: February 27, February 28, and March 2
Golden State Warriors: March 4, March 9, and March 11
*Children's Hospital Oakland, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital, and Stanford - Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
January 11, 2013
Lamont Gilbert of the Nicholas Colby Fund® announced National Basketball Association and Harlem Globetrotters experiences for patients via the Nicholas Colby Fund® luxury suite...
NBA this week for patients from Children's Hospital Oakland to see the Golden State Warriors versus the Memphis Grizzlies on January 9, 2013, and Portland Trailblazers on January 11, 2013.
World-famous Harlem Globetrotters next week for patients from Stanford - Lucile Packard Children's Hospital on January 19, 2013.
December 18, 2012
A "Suite" Experience tonight (December 18, 2012) for a former patient from Stanford-Lucile Packard Children's Hospital who was also at Ronald McDonald House with Nicholas. This patient, his family, and friends will be in a luxury suite enjoying the Golden State Warriors vs. New Orleans Hornets via The Nicholas Colby Fund®.
December 18, 2012
This past week the Nicholas Colby Fund® was the benefactor of two more wonderdul touches of love. PG&E's Recruiting Department in San Francisco, CA and Safeway's Corporate Office in Pleasanton, CA, provided about 100 teddy bears and hundreds of toys, respectively.
The teddy bears and toys will be part of our backpack experience for newly diagnosed patients, and for our Patient Gift Giving Experience wherein patients will be able to select a toy for everyone of their siblings enabling them to give their siblings a gift when their siblings come visit them in the hospital. (The Patient Gift Giving Experience was created by the Nicholas Colby Fund so that patients can also feel the joy of giving.)
January 21, 2012
The Nicholas Colby Fund® is providing 100 Build-A-Bears to Children's Hospital Oakland tomorrow (Friday) for 100 children at their annual holiday party tomorrow night. This contribution is with thanks to AAA Northern California, Nevada & Utah's insurance product management department for collaborating with us toward Helping Children Be Children.
The hospital's social workers said: "This is huge and will certainly excite the children...your work never ceases to help us and benefit the children..."