Mon, Jan 31, 2011
February 11th Is The Deadline For Charities To Apply For 2011
Grants
Twenty aviation-related charities are the beneficiaries of
over $100,000 in grants awarded by the Lightspeed Aviation
Foundation for 2010. Midnight, February 11th is the deadline for
existing or new aviation charities that may want to apply for
grants in the 2011 round.
In April 2010, the Lightspeed Aviation Foundation submitted
twenty award finalists to the aviation community. Pilots then
selected their favorites among these charities by voting online or
designating a portion of new Lightspeed Aviation headset
purchases,
In November, $50,000 was shared at the AOPA Summit Pilot Choice
Awards between the five finalists with the highest number of online
votes. This week, additional gifting in excess of $50,000 was
distributed among all twenty charities based on the amount
designated by new Lightspeed Aviation customers at the time they
registered their product.
“What’s particularly unique about the foundation is
that we do not ask or accept financial gifts to fund the
foundation,” according to Allan Schrader, Founder and
President of Lightspeed Aviation. “Perhaps best of all, it is
the pilots who choose where the money goes.”
The 2010 Lightspeed Aviation Foundation recipients included:
- Angel Flight Central
- Angel Flight East
- Angel Flight Mid-Atlantic
- Angel Flight Southeast/Mercy Flight Southeast
- Angel Flight West
- AOPA Foundation
- Brigade Air
- Build A Plane
- Civil Air Patrol
- EAA Young Eagles
- Experience Aviation
- Helicopter Foundation Int'l
- Heritage Flight Foundation
- JAARS
- Lindbergh Foundation
- Mission Aviation Fellowship
- NIFA: National Intercollegiate Flying Assoc.
- Ninety Nines
- Veterans Airlift
- Wings of Hope
Based in Lake Oswego, Oregon since 1996, Lightspeed Aviation
makes aviation headsets for the professional or general aviation
pilot.
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