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Star Group Refining Donates $5,000 to Amy Winehouse Foundation
New York, NY -(July 30, 2012)Star Group Refining, the premier dental and jewelry refiner in the United States and across Europe, recently donated $5,000 to the Amy Winehouse Foundation. This growing organization was set up last year to support charitable activities that provide help and support for young people who are suffering from addiction, ill health and disability.
Accepting the check on behalf of the Amy Winehouse Foundation was Paul Sassiene-a successful British comedy writer and ghostwriter of the recently released best-selling book, Amy, My Daughter (by Mitch Winehouse). Paul was recently a keynote speaker at the Star Group Refining Annual Conference in Las Vegas. In response to accepting Star's $5,000 check, Paul stated,
- “On behalf of the AWF, thank you so much for your generous donation. The charity has plans to help underprivileged children in New Orleans because Amy was so upset by the devastating hurricane which hit the US state in 2005. Working in conjunction with the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, the foundation is raising money to create an after-school music workshop.”
Star Group Refining is proud to be associated with the Amy Winehouse Foundation, and will continue supporting this charitable organization.
Pictured left to right, Adrienne and Clive Simnock of Star Group Refining and Paul Sassienie
About Amy Winehouse Foundation
The Amy Winehouse Foundation has been set up in Amy’s memory to support charitable activities in both the UK and abroad that provide help, support or care for young people, especially those who are in need by reason of ill health, disability, financial disadvantage or addiction.
It is the mission of the Foundation to assist as many of those affected as possible by supporting and funding identified and reputable charitable organisations that tirelessly carry out remarkable and professional work in these areas. This work will not only make a significant and positive difference for those it supports, but will also pay tribute to Amy’s remarkable life, talent and beautiful spirit.
©2011 Amy Winehouse Foundation | Amy Winehouse Foundation, registered charity 1143740 (England & Wales)
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Star Group is the Dental Refiner of Choice for the CDA Foundation
New York, NY - Star Group, the premier dental and jewelry refiner in the United States and across Europe, is continuing its long-time partnership with the California Dental Association (CDA) Foundation as its dental refining provider of choice and the founding company behind the CDA Foundation's amazing program, Crowns for Kids. To date, this cutting-edge program has provided nearly $3.5 million in grants to fund a wide variety of oral health projects, including community clinics, mobile dental programs, and education strategically selected to improve the oral health of all Californians.
Crowns for Kids offers dentists the opportunity to support philanthropic efforts in their communities by participating in the CDA Foundation's statewide program. Money raised from donations of gold fillings and crowns helps support oral health projects for underserved children that focus on preventive care, consumer education, restorative care and fluoridation.
PROGRAM BASICS:
- Star Group provides each dentist with a specially-labeled jar to collect extracted and donated gold fillings and crowns from patients.
- Star Group makes regular collection visits to each participating dentist to pick up jars and drop off new ones.
- Star Group processes reclamation of donated fillings and crowns and sends the monetary value of the dentist's donations directly to the CDA Foundation.
- The CDA Foundation uses those funds to support essential programs that help make a difference for children in local communities.
Some recent projects include:
Give Kids A Smile
Crowns for Kids delivered dental care, including restorative treatment, to about 300 underserved children 2 to 18 years old, in the Stockton area. Local dentists treated children at University of Pacific on Feb 5, 2011 between 9am and 1pm. The program was promoted to local schools, churches and community organizations to bring in children who did not have other means to access dental care.
SF Mayor Neighborhood Back to School Backpack Program
Crowns for Kids provided an oral health education/preventative component to the San Francisco Mayor's Neighborhood Back to School Backpack Program through supplying toothbrushes and the CDA Foundation "Cavity Keep Away" brochure (in both English and Spanish languages) for inclusion in backpacks for kids. The backpacks were distributed to about 4,000 underserved children in kindergarten through fifth grades, in the San Francisco area.
Dental societies that participate in the Crowns for Kids program can apply annually for funding to support local community programs that increase access to care.
About Star Group
Star Group was founded on a simple idea: make it easy to convert precious metal scrap bearing gold, platinum, palladium and silver into cash. Star did this by becoming the actual refiner of the precious metals, eliminating the middleman, and helping all of its clients make more money. Star has since expanded this core principle to now include tens of thousands of happy clients around the world in dental offices, dental labs, commercial jewelers and the public who sell their precious metals to the company. In addition to consistently offering the best prices for scrap, Star Group's success is founded on transparency, honesty, reliability and innovation.
Truly unique among precious metal refiners, Star Group has developed a proprietary and customized valuation system using the iPhone® and volume contracts with major international express delivery services. These significant advances allow the company to provide: efficient client service; rapid, accurate and transparent on-site metal evaluations; seamless and simple customer transactions; and superior pricing.
About the CDA Foundation
The CDA Foundation was formed as the philanthropic affiliate of the California Dental Association in 2001 with the mission to improve the oral health of Californians by supporting the dental health profession and its efforts to increase access to care for the state's most vulnerable people. The CDA Foundation works with experts in the dental profession, private business, academic institutions and government to produce programs that increase access to care; promote prevention, education and intervention; advance health policy research; and build a sustainable oral health workforce. www.cdafoundation.org.
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