Sunday, November 11, 2007
National Adoption Month
November is National Adoption Month, a month set aside to raise awareness about the adoption of children from foster care. This year's theme of adopting teens from foster care builds on the Ad Council's new public service announcement (PSA) campaign of the Children's Bureau, the Adoption Exchange Association, and The Collaboration to AdoptUsKids.
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Lung Cancer Awareness Month
November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month!
Lung Cancer Awareness Month (LCAM) is a national campaign dedicated to increasing attention to lung cancer issues. By organizing rallies, distributing educational material, holding fund-raising events, contacting Congress, and speaking to the media, those involved in LCAM bring much-needed support and attention to a disease that each year kills more people than breast, prostate, colon and pancreas cancers combined.
Here's how you can participate!
Raise Awareness
You can raise awareness about lung cancer where you live in many ways during November 2007:
- Sponsor an event to bring your community together around lung cancer.
- Gain official attention for lung cancer with petitions, proclamations, and more!
- Distribute LCA's Public Service Announcement to local media
- Make your voice heard by the media.
- Set up table(s) in your local hospital/medical center/clinic and distribute LCA and LCAM materials.
- Hang up LCA posters in clinics, community centers, churches, and other high traffic areas to remind people that No One Deserves Lung Cancer!
Make LCAM official where you live! 
Join Maine, New Jersey and others by making LCAM official in all 50 states. View our interactive map to get statistics for your state.
- Write a letter to your governor and send a sample proclamation.
- FInd your Governor's name and address at www.50states.com.
- Make LCAM official in perpetuity through a bill working with your state representatives. Please let us know which state you live in.
Sponsor an Event
In past years, advocates have coordinated runs, walks, and dances to raise funds and awareness during LCAM. An example was the Race for Breath 2006. You too can hold a fundraiser!
Make your voice heard!
LCAM is an opportune time to make your voice heard in your local newspaper by writing a letter to the editor.
Got an idea for LCAM?
We’d be happy to hear about it!
American Diabetes Month
There are “many faces of diabetes.” Nearly 21 million children and adults in the United States are living with diabetes, and another 54 million people are at-risk. But those aren’t the only faces affected by diabetes. If you are a parent or loved one caring for someone with diabetes, your face is in the picture too.
Every week throughout November’s American Diabetes Month, the American Diabetes Association will focus on a different “face” of diabetes.
Caregivers – Week 1
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Employees – Week 2
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Diabetes around the world – Week 3
In December 2006, the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) passed a landmark Resolution recognizing diabetes as a chronic, debilitating and costly disease. The Resolution designates World Diabetes Day as a United Nations Day to be observed every year on November 14 starting in 2007. The ADA is a proud supporter of the UN Resolution.
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At-risk populations – Week 4
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Youth and Type 1 Diabetes – Week 5
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These are just some of the many faces of diabetes. There are also many others.
Local Supporters
Every year, thousands of people participate in American Diabetes Association events and fundraisers to increase awareness of diabetes and raise needed funds. Find out what’s happening in your area.
Volunteers
Become involved in the fight against diabetes. Register to volunteer with the ADA.
Corporate Friends
Corporate support helps to forward the ADA’s mission to prevent and cure diabetes and to improve the lives of all people affected by diabetes. Find out how.
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Superman Tags!
Superman Tags
Order your Superman Tags today!
Christopher Reeve redefined courage and hope. His strength, determination, and compassion inspired the world. He was our hero. Today, the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation proudly introduces the CDRF Superman Tag. This special offer is your opportunity to pay personal tribute to Christopher Reeve's incredible legacy. By wearing the CDRF Superman Tag, you believe that Christopher's vision will Go Forward.
Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation Superman Tags can be worn around the neck on a chain, or clipped onto gear, sports equipment, purses, or book bags. All proceeds from the sale of the Superman Tags go to the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation. Purchase the Superman Tag to show your support of Christopher Reeve's vision and the mission of his Foundation.
Details:
Cost: $10.00 for a set of two Superman Tags. Each set includes two tags, one chain and one clip. Ground shipping/handling costs are $4.95 for the first set and $1 for each additional set, with a maximum ground shipping charge of $8.95. All proceeds from the sale of the Superman Tags support CDRF.
To order online: click here.
To order by mail: click here to visit WBShop.com. Add the Superman Tags to your shopping cart, and when you Check Out you will have the option of completing your purchase by Mail Order, and paying with a money order.
Phone orders are temporarily unavailable at WBShop.com.
Please do not send orders for tags directly to the Foundation, as we cannot process your order. Requests sent directly to the Foundation will be returned to the sender.
Chritopher and Dana Reeve Foundation
Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation Press Information
Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation
636 Morris Turnpike
Suite 3A
Short Hills, NJ 07078
800-225-0292
www.ChristopherReeve.org
Mission
The Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation is dedicated to curing spinal cord injury by funding innovative research, and improving the quality of life for people living with paralysis through grants, information and advocacy.
Background
The CDRF started as a grass-roots movement, led by pioneers who refused to accept the long-standing dogma that once damaged, the injured spinal could never be repaired. Back in 1982, New Jersey teenager Henry Stifel was just 17 when he was involved in a car accident that left him with quadriplegia. Led by Henry's father, the family mobilized friends, neighbors, scientists, bankers, and local political leaders to form a foundation to raise money for spinal cord research.
Just a few years later, in an effort to maximize resources and avoid duplication, the Stifel Paralysis Research Foundation approached the American Paralysis Association (APA) about a merger. The APA had also been formed by a group of spinal cord injured individuals and their families. By joining forces in the mid-1980s under the APA banner, the group was now able to work more efficiently, reach out to more people, and significantly increase its annual research budget. Through its support of cutting edge basic science, the APA changed the field of paralysis research; transforming it from an obscure specialty practiced by a few scientists in isolated labs to one of the most exciting areas of neuroscience.
In 1995, when Christopher Reeve was injured, the APA was one of the first places that he and Dana turned to. Christopher had formed his own foundation, which he came to realize had much in common with the APA (to which he was elected Chairman of the Board in 1996). He was so impressed by the passion of the APA's members and the daring research they were funding, he suggested a merger, offering to lend his name, creativity, energy, and fundraising muscle to their shared quest for a cure. In 1999, they came together as the Christopher Reeve Foundation.
Christopher and Dana were never celebrity figureheads. They were hands-on, activist leaders, who rallied a swelling chorus of voices advocating for people living with paralysis, even establishing a CRF presence in Washington, D.C. They recognized that the true heroes in the spinal cord injured community are those living with paralysis and their families. Recently it was said, "Christopher created a culture of hope… and it was contagious."
Today, through CDRF's persistence and promise, neuroscientists around the world agree that repairing the damaged spinal cord is not a question of if, but a question of when .
Research Programs
Today, the Foundation is recognized as the premier spinal cord injury (SCI) research organization throughout the world. Our research strategies cover an entire spectrum beginning with recruiting new investigators to the field of SCI research, to providing seed money to basic researchers that eventually develop breakthroughs supported by the National Institutes of Health and other funding sources, to efforts in taking bench research into the clinic for application in patients around the globe. Our mission is simple, but the method requires the collaboration of the best and brightest minds in neuroscience. To that end, the Foundation gathers the most distinguished researchers in order to build a true laboratory without walls.
Basic research starts with our Individual Research Grants Program, our largest, most comprehensive research initiative that focuses on the molecular and cellular level of research. The Foundation's support of basic research at this level provides investigators the opportunity to take smart risks with bold ideas, and turn them into catalytic breakthroughs. The findings that emerge from these research endeavors have the potential to contribute to treatments for other devastating diseases, such as Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, MS, ALS, and stroke.
The Foundation's International Research Consortium on Spinal Cord Injury is an international multi-disciplinary collaboration of established laboratories. Having recognized that no one laboratory had the breadth to tackle the complex challenges of restoring function to the damaged spinal cord, CDRF organized the Consortium in 1995. These senior investigators work to promote repair and recovery through collaboration among researchers representing a diversity of disciplinary backgrounds and perspectives. The Consortium fosters inter-laboratory experiments and encourages investigators to pool their talents, expertise, and techniques in pursuit of new knowledge and therapies.
The goal of the North American Clinical Trials Network is to bring promising and evidence-based therapies for SCI from the laboratory to the patient population in a way that will provide effectiveness while ensuring safety to patients undergoing treatment. CDRF has brought together five leading clinical research centers and a bio-statistical center to create the Clinical Trials Network. The groups are building the foundation for a global cross-collaboration that will help speed therapeutic development and get useful therapies to people who need them.
Quality of Life Programs
The Foundation funds a variety of national, regional and local initiatives that benefit both children and adults living with paralysis, especially those with spinal cord injuries. These grants are designed to substantially improve opportunities, access and day-to-day quality of life for individuals living with disabilities, primarily paralysis, and their families. This program recognizes the unique and numerous needs of these individuals and the importance of providing services and programs that enable them to participate in all areas of life.
Christopher & Dana Reeve Paralysis Resource Center (PRC)
In May 2002, the PRC opened its doors to promote the health and well being of people living with paralysis and their families by providing comprehensive information resources and referral services. The PRC, guided by a Paralysis Task Force, houses a national clearinghouse library of paralysis-related publications, maintains a constantly evolving self-help Web site, and publishes an extensive print manual, The Paralysis Resource Guide. The PRC is equipped to address inquiries in more than 50 languages through the help of real-time translation services. Contact the PRC at (800) 539-7309 or visit www.paralysis.org. View a brochure on the PRC here .
Advocacy
The Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation believes that within knowledge lies hope. Therefore, we not only pursue financial support, but we vigorously work to increase federal dollars towards paralysis research through several avenues. We educate lawmakers about the impact of paralysis and the promise of therapies, and we make sure that disability rights remain a priority. We advocate for and propose legislation important to the disability community. We serve as the catalyst that empowers individuals to participate in the public policy debate. In these ways and more, the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation stands up for the four to five million Americans who can't.
Chairman of the Board
Peter D. Kiernan, III
Vice Chairman
Henry G. Stifel, III
Press Contact:
The MWW GroupJamie Morgan
Senior Account Executive
201-507-9500
jmorgan@mww.com Maggie Goldberg Vice President of Public Relations Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation (800)225-0292 media@christopherreeve.org
FAQs
When was the CDRF founded?The organization was founded in 1982, under the name Stifel Family Paralysis Foundation, which merged with other groups to become the American Paralysis Association (APA) in 1985. In 1996, Christopher and Dana Reeve started the Christopher Reeve Foundation (the same year, Christopher was elected Chairman of the APA). The Christopher Reeve Foundation and APA merged to become the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation in 1999, and the word “Paralysis” was then dropped from our name in 2005. In 2007, Dana's name was added to the Foundation's.
The CDRF is not a chapter-based organization, although we have relationships with many organizations across the country that raise money on our behalf.
How can I become a member/volunteer?
The CDRF does not have a membership program or a volunteer program. However, all those interested in keeping up with the organization’s activities and issues of importance to the paralysis community are encouraged to sign up for our newsletter, Go Forward, and our Action Alerts. And a great way to show the world that you support the mission and vision of the CDRF is to wear a Superman Tag.
How can I raise funds for CRF?
Visit our donations page for information on the many ways you can donate to the CDRF. If you are interested in hosting a fundraiser for the CDRF, click here.
Respecting the family’s privacy, we cannot offer to put inquirers in touch with the Reeve family.
The Reeve family and the CDRF jointly share the rights to Christopher Reeve’s name and likeness. Contact media@christopherreeve.org with any requests.
How can I advertise on your website/newsletter? Can I link to/get a link from your website?
The CDRF does not currently offer advertising opportunities. Thanks for your interest in linking to our website, and we encourage you to do so but ask that you send your website address for approval prior to linking. As for reciprocal links, ChristopherReeve.org does not have a general “links” section, so we unfortunately cannot generally offer to return the favor. Paralysis.org (the website of the Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Resource Center) features links to many web resources that provide information on paralysis. If you believe your site has relevant content, contact info@paralysis.org.
Please contact the Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Resource Center, online at www.paralysis.org or by phone at 1-800-539-7309.
General Interest
CDRF Research: One Goal, Many Approaches
The Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation is committed to finding treatments and cures for spinal cord injuries.
Toward that end, the Foundation seeks out some of the most brilliant minds in neuroscience and other fields like immunology and molecular biology. We look for researchers who are poised to deliver the answers that will change the lives of spinal-cord injured people worldwide.
Our exciting research programs accelerate the progress toward our goals. The CDRF Individual Research Grants Program, CDRF International Research Consortium on Spinal Cord Injury, and the Core Pilot Program contribute both basic and applied research, the essential groundwork for effective therapies. The Individual Research Grants Program identifies and invests in talented young scientists and proven veterans from many disciplines who move us closer to therapies. The CDRF International Research Consortium brings together seven renowned neuroscientists for collaborative projects that are beyond the scope of any single laboratory. The Core Pilot Program encourages accomplished researchers from other fields to explore how their expertise might apply to spinal cord injuries. For example, a strategy that shows promise for preventing Alzheimer's disease might reduce cell damage following a spinal cord injury.
We are working on other fronts as well. The CDRF North American Clinical Trials Network and the NeuroRecovery Network are hastening the day when successful experimental treatments move from the laboratory to the clinic. The Translational Research Fund advances discoveries that are on the verge of human testing. And the Clinical Trials Network is building the scientific infrastructure and protocols that will enable researchers to move proposed clinical trials of SCI treatments to a successful reality. The Neuro Recovery Network develops specialized centers to provide activity-based therapies to people living with spinal cord injury and certain other neurological disorders. This effort is making the latest approaches to rehabilitation more widely available.
Some day doctors will provide comprehensive treatments for spinal cord injuries. In the meantime, the cadre of dedicated scientists who receive CDRF support are answering the complicated questions posed by spinal cord injuries and transforming those answers into clinical solutions.
For more information on our research, click the links below:
Scientists
Welcome to the Scientists' Section of the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation website. This section of our website is designed for researchers who need information about our research grants and programs in spinal cord injury, and for anyone seeking more in-depth knowledge about the exciting and forward-thinking science that we support.
A spinal cord injury is one of the most complex traumas the body can sustain. It is a condition that affects one American every 49 minutes. In addition to paralysis, individuals living with spinal cord injury are continually challenged by serious health problems, and those who struggle with the dysfunction of severe high cervical lesions are in particular jeopardy. Those factors, combined with the almost incalculable economic and societal consequences of spinal cord injury, are CDRF's driving forces.
The Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation occupies a unique position in the spinal cord research community. Since 1982, under one name or another, it has aggressively pushed all accepted boundaries by seeking out the best and brightest scientists and encouraging them to tackle the enormous challenges of spinal cord repair. CDRF's research philosophy is bold, forward-looking, and strategic. Among its research grantees and scientific advisors are many of neuroscience's most renowned individuals. Its research portfolio includes seminal discoveries, carefully calculated risks that have paid high dividends, and a critical mass of solid science that is the springboard for moving toward human application.
CDRF's research philosophy encompasses the bench-to-the-bedside continuum. Its research programs take deliberate aim at all points in this spectrum, from very basic science -exploring the molecular and cellular mechanisms of injury and repair - to clinical application, creating networks of highly skilled centers to test or deliver promising therapies as they emerge from the research pipeline.
SCI Facts
How many Americans are living with Spinal Cord Injuries?
The Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation estimates that up to 400,000 Americans may be living with Spinal Cord Injuries (SCI). However, the fact is that no definitive count currently exists, and all estimates are based on incomplete data sets and a significant amount of guesswork. There have not been any overall incidence studies on SCI conducted in the US since the 1970's. The National Spinal Cord Injury Statistical Center at the University of Alabama estimates the number to be around 250,000, (with 11,000 new injuries every year) based on extrapolating the number of new SCI patients who come to one of 25 federally-funded Model SCI Care System centers.
CDRF is currently working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to identify better methods of collecting more reliable statistics.
The Demographics of the SCI Community
While anyone can receive a spinal cord injury, the prevalence of SCI does not affect all demographic groups equally. Males are far more likely to receive spinal cord injuries than females, and African Americans are over-represented among the SCI community based on their share of the general population.
- 79.6% of new SCI patients are male.
- Approximately half (48.2%) are married at the time of injury. The likelihood of the marriage remaining intact is slightly lower after the injury when compared to the uninjured population.
- The average age at injury is 37.6 years.
The Costs of Living With SCI
The costs of living with SCI can be considerable, and vary greatly due to the severity of injury. 42.6% of spinal cord injured individuals are considered paraplegic (losses of movement and sensation in the lower body) and 56.4% quadriplegic (losses of movement and sensation in both the arms and legs).
Average Yearly Expenses
| Severity of Injury | First Year | Each Subsequent Year |
| High Quadriplegia (C1-C4) | $710,275 | $127,227 |
| Low Quadriplegia (C5-C8) | $458,666 | $52,114 |
| Paraplegia | $259,531 | $26,410 |
| Incomplete Motor Function at any level | $209,324 | $14,670 |
- Length of initial hospitalization following injury in acute care units: 19 days
- Average stay in rehabilitation unit: 45 days
- 88.1% of all spinal cord injured individuals are discharged from hospitals to a private home, 5.3% are discharged to nursing homes.
Estimated Lifetime Costs by Age of Injury
| Severity of Injury | 25 Years Old | 50 Years Old |
| High Quadriplegia (C1-C4) | $2,801,642 | $1,649,342 |
| Low Quadriplegia (C5-C8) | $1,584.132 | $1,003,192 |
| Paraplegia | $936,088 | $638,472 |
| Incomplete Motor Function at any level | $624,441 | $452,545 |
- By developing therapies for those who are already spinal cord injured and preventing new injuries, the United States would save as much as $400 billion on future direct and indirect lifetime costs.
Source: The University of Alabama National Spinal Cord Injury Statistical Center, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Prevent Child Abuse
Since 1972, Prevent Child Abuse America has led the way in building awareness, providing education and inspiring hope to everyone involved in the effort to prevent the abuse and neglect of our nation's children. Working with our chapters, we provide leadership to promote and implement prevention efforts at both the national and local levels. With the help of our state chapters and concerned individuals like you we're valuing children, strengthening families and engaging communities nationwide.
Our many local programs, prevention initiatives and events help spread the word in your community, creating awareness that prevention is possible. We are a family of friends, professionals, volunteers, donors and parents who are preventing child abuse and neglect before it ever starts.
To learn even more about preventing child abuse and neglect click on "what YOU can do" or the following links:
Child Abuse Awareness
Child Abuse Awareness &
Education, the keys to Prevention.
Education, the keys to Prevention.
In 1972, Prevent Child Abuse America began its role in changing public attitudes toward child abuse. Through a variety of activities, Prevent Child Abuse America worked to lead the public in taking a more informed and active part in child abuse prevention. Public opinion polls have indicated that over the years, the percentage of people aware of the problem has greatly increased. Their media campaigns during these years has educated the public about the problem, and significantly influenced public opinion. Child Abuse America's goals expanded to encourage more people to become actively involved in preventing child abuse.
Today, the general public realizes that everyone has a role to play in preventing child abuse and neglect. In addition, the public is aware of the long-term effects of maltreatment on children and the rest of society, and is interested in learning about ways to help solve this serious problem.
Child Abuse.com's goal is to inform the public about the many opportunities available for each person to help solve the problem of child abuse.
In an effort to heighten awareness of child abuse we have available to the general public Child Abuse awareness series which provides statistics and answers to commonly asked questions on various issues related to child abuse. Here you'll find Information about domestic violence, and reports on child fatalities. Also, our Monthly News Letter continues to update our chapters, professionals, and the general public on current events surrounding Child Abuse in America.
Information available on ChildAbuse.com helps to bring education to the general public. We encourage people to visit us and receive information in a quick and efficient manner. In 1999, ChildAbuse.com web site brought such information as a list of resources for parents, a section for children, how the public can help to prevent child abuse, and an on-line live chat forum allowing the general public an opportunity to chat together about child abuse topics.
Blue Ribbon Campaign
Tomorrow - the horror starts all over again, just as it does everyday.
To receive your FREE Awareness Ribbon
click here.
You CAN help stop child abuse.
- Provide financial support to child welfare agencies working to protect child.
For every $1.00 you donate to Cardinal McCloskey Services, $.92 goes directly to providing services.
Click here to make a donation.
- Volunteer your services at your local child welfare agency.
One way of being able to ensure the maximum amount of funding goes to providing direct services is to rely on volunteers to help with administrative tasks. Do you have particular talents, skills or abilities that you would like to share with us? Click here to find out more about volunteering.
- Become a Board Member
A volunteer Board of Directors is responsible for overseeing that a not-for-profit child welfare agency fulfills its mission of protecting children. They help raise much needed funds, monitor the fiscal responsibility of an organization and lend their skills and talents to directing the course of the agency. To learn more about being a Board Member, contact our Public Relations Office.
- Advocate on behalf of abused children.
Abused children have no one to speak for them. You can do that. Advocate with your government officials provide sufficient funding to keep programs operating that help keep children safe. Make sure you -- and your officials -- know about the child welfare organizations working in your community to help keep children safe. - Know the signs and symptoms of abuse.
With so many children suffering from abuse and neglect - you may very likely know a child who is being abused. Know the signs and symptoms. If you suspect a child needs help, he or she probably does. Calling to file a report doesn't mean the child is automatically and immediately removed from the home. It does mean that someone knowledgeable will investigate and evaluate the situation. The family may need help. Your call can help them get it.
Click here for more information about abuse. Click here for information about reporting child abuse.
- Help an at-risk family.
Do you know a family in your community where Mom and/or Dad are under a great deal of stress, seem to be very short on patience, perhaps drinking a little too much and just seem to be on the edge all the time - yelling at the children, threatening them, grabbing them or maybe even spanking or hitting them? Perhaps there is something you can do to help. Maybe it is a simple thing like offering to take the kids to the park or a movie so that Mom and Dad can get a short break. Sometimes just feeling like there is someone who cares can be enough to diffuse a potentially violent situation.
- Help an at-risk child.
Do you know a child in your neighborhood who seems to be unsupervised, left alone to look after herself, often in the same clothes looking un-kept, out later than appropriate or generally seeming neglected by her parents? Child neglect is a form of child abuse. She may need help. Make a report. It could save her life. Click here for reporting information.
Saturday, October 6, 2007
Pink for October....
Welcome to Pink for October
Go Pink in Support of Breast Cancer AwarenessWeb sites will Go Pink during the month of October to bring attention to Breast Cancer Awareness Month, get people talking about breast cancer, and raise money for research. But to be clear, raising money isn’t the primary purpose of this web event.
The hope is that you turn your site pink (in whatever way works for your site), go out to that World Wide Web thing (in fact you’re on it right now! :) ) and educate yourself about the multiple issues related to Breast Cancer, then take that newfound knowledge and tell someone else what you’ve learned.
What Can You Do? Show Your Support
Get a Graphic in Support
From badges to banners, site themes to icons; it's easy to show your support for breast cancer on your site. You don't have to go pink to show your support.
Show Your Support NowGet Involved
Submit Your Site
Turning your site pink this October? Register it and have your site linked in our footer. This years it's easier than ever to register you site so you've got no excuse not to go pink.
Make a Difference
Act Now, Make a Change
Want to do something more than turning your site pink for October? Want to donate to breast cancer? There are many ways you can act now and help raise awareness.
Find Out More
What is Pink for October?
How did this all start? What do you need to do to get involved? Who created this project? Why was it started? Find out about this annual event and what's behind it.
Find Out More Now Oct 03 2007
We’ve had some issues with the sign up process so we are on to Plan B. Check out the list of sites and sign up there as well. With this new way of doing things, everyone is automatically approved. I’ll just be going through the list now and again to remove spam and people who don’t seem to truly be with the spirit of the event.
If you signed up before October 3, 2007, your entry should still be there. Have a look and if not let me know in the comments on this post. Write the info that needs to be changed and I will edit it for you.
If you signed up on October 3, 2007 (today) before the we moved to Plan B, take a look for your site in the list (it will be toward the end). If it isn’t there, give me a until tomorrow. Some sites came in while I was doing the data transfer from here to the new list. I will manually add those today. If you don’t see it by tomorrow, please resubmit. I hope to capture 99% of the submissions so far, which means I might miss one or two.
Let me know in the comments if you have any problems with the new sign up process. I still don’t know what the issues were with the previous application. The code seemed fine and Media Temple was working with me on a daily basis to track down issues.
My thanks to Zach for all the hard work and to Destiny at MT. Lastly, thanks to Kevin Hale of wufoo.com for helping me out so much.
Tomorrow or Friday I hope to get back to my planned schedule of posting about the issues and no longer have to worry about the sign ups. Thank you everyone for you patience. I am sorry if some of you had a bad experience signing up.
Categories at Pink for October
Courage, Hope, Strength!
The red wrist band is written in traditional Chinese characters, representing Courage, Hope, and Strength. The Chinese community has the lowest mortality rate for cancer than any other ethnic group. They embody the courage it takes to get screened, the hope for a day when cancer will no longer be a major disease, and the strength to endure a cancer diagnosis.
Help us spread the word about the importance of prevention and early detection by proudly wearing the red wrist band. Share the wrist bands with your friends and family to ensure that, like the Chinese community, we all have courage, hope, and strength to lead long and healthy lives.
For more information about cancer and the Chinese community, as well as to view the American Cancer Society's prevention and early detection guidelines, please visit www.cancer.org.
Race for the Cure
Susan G. Komen for the Cure Receives Distinguished 4-Star Rating from Charity Navigator
Charity Navigator’s rating system evaluates two broad areas of a charity's financial health: organizational efficiency and organizational capacity. The ratings show potential donors how efficiently Charity Navigator believes a charity will use donor support right now, and how the organization is positioned to continue providing programs and services in the future. Charity Navigator provides the ratings so that donors can make intelligent giving decisions, and the philanthropic community can more effectively monitor itself. |
Saturday, October 6th join the Race at City Park for the inaugural K-9's for the Cure™ event and dog walk. For $35 ($25 for owner and $10 per pet) you’ll receive a bandana for your pet and K-9's for the Cure™ T-shirt for you. In addition, when you register you’re automatically registered for Sunday’s Komen Denver Race for the Cure® (October 7th at Pepsi Center) and will receive that T-shirt as well!
Last year’s efforts are helping Coloradans — right now — receive diagnostic services, mammograms, surgery, chemotherapy, home health visits, navigation services, home delivered meals and housing assistance.
Charity Navigator, America’s largest independent evaluator of charities, recently awarded four out of a possible four stars to Susan G. Komen for the Cure. That designation recognizes the Susan G. Komen for the Cure excels in successfully managing organizational finances in an efficient and effective manner. The rating is an exceptional feat for the organization, especially given the economic challenges many charities have faced in the last year. This is a tremendous distinction, resulting from the hard work of our staff, Affiliates and activists.
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