TIP of NW Florida 2015 Heroes with Heart Auction

STUDER FOUNDATION and Trauma Intervention Program of NW Florida are hosting the 2015 Heroes with Heart Event. Trauma Intervention Program (TIP) of NW Florida is a group of specially trained volunteers who are called by emergency responders to provide immediate, on-scene emotional and organizational support to any victim of a traumatic event. We are a 501c3 organization and our annual fundraiser Heroes with Heart will take place on Saturday, January 24th 2015 at 5:30 pm at the Pensacola Yacht Club at 1897 Cypress Street, Pensacola. This event recognizes law enforcement officers, firefighters, hospital personnel, and other first responders nominated by our volunteers for going above and beyond the call of duty in 2014. Recipients of the Heroes with Heart Awards are unsung heroes who, at this event, are given the public recognition they deserve. We are proud to announce that we will recognize 7 first responders from our 2 county area of Escambia and Santa Rosa. Thank you to our Heroes, and to all we work with that do an outstanding job and impact our community in a positive way every day! We would like to express special thanks to our event sponsor, the Studer Foundation, as well as Platinum Sponsors, Escambia County Sheriff's Office and Santa Rosa County Sheriff's Office. A complete list of our very generous sponsors and donors may be found on our event website at http://www.tip-ser.org/Heroes_with_Heart/index.html.

TIP of NW Florida is an all-volunteer affiliate with no paid staff. Our volunteers are called by first responders to provide immediate, on-scene support to emotionally traumatized family, friends, bystanders and witnesses of such events as suicide, house fires, drowning, sexual assaults, domestic violence, child deaths, car accidents, home invasions, natural deaths....any situation where a citizen needs emotional and practical support. We provide this volunteer service 24 hours/day, 365 day/year. Trauma spares no one, and takes no holiday. Our volunteers answer calls reliably and compassionately to provide assurance that no one ever needs to be alone in a time of crisis.

At close of online auction at 11:45pm on January 23rd, the auction will transition to live silent auction at the Heroes with Heart event starting at 5:30pm on the evening of January 24th. All high online bidders will transition to live event, and any proxy bids will continue through the evening until auction end. If online bidders are not present at live event but are winners of the auction, those winners will be notified by email and arrangements made for pick up/shipping/delivery of items. All out of area/out of state shipping costs are the responsibility of the winning bidder.