Thanks to our Walk Chairs, Doug Kanner and Jim Bullock and our enthusiastic donors we were able to raise over $128,000 for the families that stay at the Los Angeles Ronald McDonald House.  That is equal to a “home away form home” for all of the families in our House for almost one month.

Special thanks go out to over 1600 people who participated in the Walk through donations supporting friends, families and business associates.  Sponsors for this past year include –

And Media Participants –

In acknowledgement of some of our exceptional walkers the following awards were presented –

Most Successful Fundraiser Matt Pillar	Most Successful Team Fundraising United Online
Largest Fundraising Team United Online	Best Team T-Shirt Powerful Penguins
Newcomer Award It’s All About Lappy	Passion & Pride Award McDonald’s So Cal Stride

• Most Unusual Fundraiser – Oreo the Bunny

It wan an beautiful day at Griffith Park that got off to a great start with the help of Ronald McDonald and Kate Santulli, who lead all the walkers in a warm-up stretch.  Also important to the success of the day were our emcee, Liz Warner of Indie 103.1, and our teen celebrity presenters –

Next year we will be holding the 9th Annual Walk for Kids in June at Woodley Park in Van Nuys while Griffith Park is under renovations.  We hope to see you there!