Fix Auto Collision Receives 2007 Kiwanis Doernbecher Community Award

The FIX AUTO COLLISION Oregon group recently received the Kiwanis highest honor at the Kiwanis Doernbecher Awards Banquet held at the Abernethy Center. The Kiwanis Doernbecher Community Award is presented each year to an individual or organization in the community for significant contributions to Doernbecher Children’s Hospital and the Kiwanis Doernbecher Children’s Cancer Program. The Fix Auto Collision Oregon group was honored with this award for their commitment to the children of Oregon and Southwest Washington and innovative fundraising programs that have raised nearly $10,000.00 for the Kiwanis Doernbecher Children’s Cancer Program. This incredible level of contribution makes Fix Auto Collision KDCCP’s largest single donor.

Fix Auto Collision provides support, training, technology, marketing material and cooperative sharing of ideas amongst a network of independently owned body shops. Another service provided by the Fix Auto Collision Oregon group, which is made up of 10 local collision repair facilities, is continuing education classes for area insurance agents. The registration fees collected from class participants are then donated by Fix Auto Collision to the Kiwanis Doernbecher Children’s Cancer Program. In addition, this summer the Oregon group received a customer satisfaction national contest award and donated the award monies of $2300.00 to Doernbecher through KDCCP.

The Kiwanis Doernbecher Children’s Cancer Program (KDCCP) has accomplished much since support of the Doernbecher Children’s Hospital began two decades ago. In the early 1990s Kiwanians built the Kiwanis Doernbecher Bone Marrow Tran-plant Unit, the first and still the only program of its kind for children in Oregon and Southwest Washington. In the mid-1990s the focus shifted to the construction of the new hospital, which features the Kenneth W. Ford Northwest Children’s Cancer Center on its top floor. In July 2000 Kiwanians established the Kiwanis Children’s Cancer Fellowship Program to train the next generation of children’s cancer specialist. These young physicians learn to develop and apply revolutionary gene-based therapies that will forever change how children in the Pacific Northwest and beyond are treated for cancer.