The Austin Hatcher Foundation and the American LeMans Series could not have been happier with the results of the inaugural year of their partnership as the official charity of the Series. In the first year of its five-year partnership the American Le Mans Series raised more than $172,000 in goods, services and monetary donations for the Foundation Series’ drivers and corporate partners donated their time throughout the entire 2009 season, visiting local children’s hospitals at many race sites throughout the country and participating in the Foundation’s diversionary therapy events at the track in Florida, Georgia, Ohio, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Utah and California.. Such events touched the lives of more than 400 children and families.
The American Le Mans Series’ partnership with the Foundation also played a key role in establishing and opening the Foundation’s first Hatch’s house of hope, a family focused cancer care center located in Chattanooga, TN. Throughout the year, the relationships cultured through the Series and its partners made a lasting impact with long reaching effects on the Foundation’s goal of eradicating the effects of pediatric cancer.
“The Austin Hatcher Foundation would like to thank the American Le Mans Series, its drivers and partners for their dedicated and unwavering support and for helping to make a difference in the lives of many families suffering from the effects of pediatric cancer, “said Dr. Jim Osborn, Executive Director of the Foundation and co-founder along with his wife, Amy Jo.”