Affiliations

Surf Club

Charter Members Inaugural Installation Ceremony on February 22, 2010

The mission of the Surf Club is to support the efforts of the Outer Banks Relief Foundation as it assists members in our community who are burdened with financial difficulties due to debilitating illness or personal tragedy to themselves or their families.

Inner Banks Efforts

For four years the OBRF Board of Directors struggled to define the words Outer Banks. At the board’s February 2008 retreat the board approved that OBRF will “… assist citizens in our community!” The Board removed the words Outer Banks from their mission statement. The Board further defined community to include not only Dare and Currituck Counties, but the inner banks, for Northeastern North Carolina counties whose economy is not driven by tourist dollars.

What OBRF/The Surf Club do not want to do is to complicate or duplicate fundraising efforts and community services in the inner banks. Our intent is to share our foundation’s mission with the inner banks. By doing so and if our assistance is needed, we want to do what we can to assist our inland neighbors.

David Joyner, Treasurer of The Surf Club, Martha Wickre, member of The Surf Club and Director of the Hospitality Committee of the Outer Banks Sporting Events, Inc., along with Chris Kelley, Executive Director of the Outer Banks Relief Foundation, Inc.[OBRF]/The Surf Club, and John Gillam, III, OBRF President have joined the Good Shepherd Food Pantry of Bertie County, Inc. in their planning of the 1st Annual 5K Spooktacular and Family Fun Run and Walk. In fulfilling their mission, OBRF/The Surf Club is serving as the Event and Race Directors of the 1st Annual 5K Spooktacular and Family Fun Run and Walk.

Outer Banks Sporting Events, Inc. (OBSE)

The mission of Outer Banks Sporting Events, Inc. (OBSE) is to organize and promote sports competition and healthy living resources, provide financial resources for needed relief and support for education while contributing to economic development for the Outer Banks of North Carolina.” Proceeds from the sporting events of OBSE benefit both the Outer Banks Relief Foundation (OBRF) and the Dare Education Foundation (DEF).