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DALLAS
– Jessica Baillie, of McKees Rocks, Pa., has been selected as a grant
recipient of the Fallen Patriot Fund,
established on April 16, 2003, by the Mark
Cuban Foundation, to help families of U.S. military personnel who were
killed or seriously injured during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Baillie will receive $8,000 from the Fund to assist with raising her son Ethan,
3, after her fiancee, Army Sergeant Nicholas
Allen Tomko, 24, was killed in Iraq Nov. 9th.
Army
Sergeant Tomko was
assigned to the New Kensington (Pa.) 307th Military Police Company,
Army Reserves. He was fatally shot in the shoulder and chest when his unit was
attacked by mortar and small arms fire while he was manning an automatic weapon
on top of a Humvee. Prior to his
death, Tomko was scheduled to leave Iraq and be home in time for the holidays.
Donations to the Fallen
Patriot Fund are still being accepted and can be made at any of the 4,200 Bank
of America banking centers; through the Web site at www.fallenpatriotfund.org,
or mailed to the Fallen Patriot Fund, c/o Bank of America Private Bank,
TX1-492-19-09, P.O. Box 832409, Dallas, Texas, 75283-2409.
Additional information and grant application may be obtained through the
Web site.
The Mark Cuban Foundation will match
donations to the Fallen Patriot Fund dollar for dollar up to $1 million.
Since April 16, 2003, donations have been received from 48 states, Canada
and Italy. In addition, the Bank of America Foundation will match employee
donations dollar for dollar from gifts of $25 up to $5,000.
Financial resources are vital to enhancing
the sustainability of the family unit who has suffered a loss because its loved
one sacrificed him/herself for freedom. Within
that group, grant recipients will be selected in accordance with criteria
established by The Mark Cuban Foundation. All proceeds will be disbursed.
The Mark Cuban Foundation is a tax-exempt 501(C)(3) organization,
contributions to which are tax deductible.
Please contact a tax advisor for further details on charitable
contributions.
FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Gillian Breidenbach (Bank of America) 214.209.3122
Gillian.M.Breidenbach@bankofamerica.com
Dawn Holgate (Mark Cuban), 214.658.7170 (office)
214.878.2867 (mobile)
dawn.holgate@dallasmavs.com
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