Every day, there are children born with a variety of health challenges that are the result of premature birth. March of Dimes has helped the health community in their research to reduce the frequency of premature births that cause many of the health challenges.
On April 25, 2009, I will join the thousands of people across the USA who are walking to raise funds for the March of Dimes in the March for Babies.
Many of the people who are walking to raise funds for March of Dimes are doing so because they have children or grandchildren who have been born with challenges that resulted from premature birth. I am so thankful that my three amazing children were born perfectly healthy. I don’t have any first hand experience in dealing with the issues that other families have had to overcome. I can’t imagine the difficulties and the emotional stress that other families have had to work through. I hope that I never find out, but if I am ever faced with it through someone near and dear to my heart, it is comforting to know that I can turn to an organization like March of Dimes for help.
You Can Help
Yes, of course I am soliciting donations. If you are able and would like to contribute to March of Dimes and sponsor me in this walk, please do so. Clicking on on the link in this paragraph or the banner at the end of this post will take you to a page where you can donate either by credit card or with PayPal.
Whether or not you are able or even care to contribute financially, there are other ways that you can help. I am attempting to create sort of a “viral” campaign on the internet. You can help in the cause by taking a few minutes to promote this efforts to your sphere of influence.
Did you arrive here as the result of an email message? Take a look at the list of recipients of the message you received. If you have people in your address book that didn’t get the message, forward the message to them. If you prefer, draft your own message with a link to this post and send it to your contact list.
Do you have a Facebook profile? Copy the following line and past it into the “What are you doing now” box on your profile.
supporting the March for Babies. http://highvantagepoint.com/around-the-neighborhood/bad-news
Do you Twitter? If you don’t know what Twitter is, don’t worry about it. If you are a Twit, like me, please send out the following tweet.
RT I’m helping @ohohdon and March of Dimes fight for baby’s lives. http://budurl.com/yhtw
Use your other Social Networking tools. Stumble this post, Digg it, add it to your del.icio.us favorites, or any other social media that you use.
Do you have a blog? Please write a short blog post that links to this post.
Performing any of these suggested activities will take only a few minutes of your time, but will expand the reach of this message many times greater than I can do on my own and provide many thousands of people the opportunity to support a great cause. Don’t do it for me – do it for the babies and the families that pour out their heart and soul to love and care for their child who was born with problems that resulted from premature birth.
Hi Don Yes that was a very good plug for March of dimes and the organization has been around for many years . Nice to see that you are a participant
Rod
Don — I love you even if you did grow up. 🙂 You gave me a daughter-in-law and 3 grandchildren to love also. I am happy for you and for Alyssa and Casey. May God richly bless you all. Mom
Great charity Don. If anyone is a member of ping.fm you can of course send it out to all your social networks at once.
I will add something on my blog about it and do what I can to spread the word.
Thanks for being someone who makes a difference
Diane
Thanks, Diane, for helping me to spread the word.