Legacy of Giving

The Legacy of Giving Award is not given on a schedule. It is given when a family, an individual or a partner has done something that changed what this Foundation is able to do — and kept doing it, often for decades.

The Clawson Family

Advocacy & event leadership

The Clawsons have served as Unite Walk Chair and Advocacy Coalition Chair, and they host the Heroes in the Hills Golf Tournament each year. Their leadership in Austin is a direct reason Texas families have the access to care they have today.

The de la Riva Family

Twenty years of leadership

Debbie de la Riva served as Lone Star’s Executive Director, and the family’s dedication to the bleeding disorders community over more than twenty years helped make this Foundation what it is today.

The Martin Family

Founding Unite Walk Chairs

As founding Unite Walk Chairs, the Martins gave and opened doors across the community, and helped build what became the largest fundraising Walk in the country. That support let the Foundation move into its first real office in 2008 — out of Debbie de la Riva’s upstairs office — and hire additional staff. Scott Martin has since served as Chair of the National Bleeding Disorders Foundation board and founded a pharmaceutical company advancing treatment for hemophilia B.

The Foster Family

New family resources

The Fosters’ support started initiatives that reach families at the moment they need them most — the Foundation’s Travel Guides, and the New Family Backpacks that every family receives when they join, personalized to their disorder.

Kodiak Cares Foundation

Rural outreach & education

Kodiak’s support allowed the Foundation to take the next step in rural outreach and education, reaching school nurses, rural emergency departments and hospitals with training on how to treat bleeding disorders — in Galveston, Corpus Christi, Harlingen and as far west as El Paso. Their support also made it possible to hire the Foundation’s Outreach Coordinator.

The Wagner Family

Since the first Walk

The Wagners have supported Lone Star since the very first Walk. Their generous financial support has helped the Foundation continue to fulfill its mission and carry needed programming out to the rural areas of South Texas.