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Balancing Blogs – and Win Dinner for 10!

Posted in Fundraising, Running, tagged , , on January 28, 2015| Leave a Comment »

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Well, by now you all know that aliens have invaded my body and are making me run the Boston Marathon. 🙂 Ok, ok, I signed up for this myself – I just couldn’t resist being an official member of the Running for Rare Diseases Marathon Team! The team has had my heart and soul for years, and now it has my (aching, out of shape) body, too! What it also now has is me writing more blogs on http://running4rare.org than here (Like the blog about my Snow Run). So I am hoping you will all go to the site and sign up for the e-mail alerts so you can read posts from me and other runners, as well as posts from our patient partners, as we all make our way through this marathon training season. It would also be great if you could…

And of course, if you’d like to donate, that would be much appreciated, too! All funds donated to my fundraising page go directly to the Genzyme/NORD NIH Undiagnosed Diseases Program (UDP).

Hey – want  a chance to WIN something for your donation??? Enter my raffle to win dinner for 10 ($1,500-2,000 value) catered to your specifications! Here are all the details:

Dinner for 10 Raffle to benefit the NORD/Genzyme NIH Undiagnosed Fund

¨ Catered dinner for 10 people at your home! (Must be within 20 miles of Boston – if you don’t live within 20 miles of the city and you win, you can have it at my place – seriously! So don’t let this stop you from entering!)

¨ Menu & date to be agreed with Chef Paul Spillane of Ne Me Quitte Pas Catering

¨ Value $1,500 – $2,000: all food, glassware, dinnerware, silverware, servingware, linens, etc., included, except alcohol

¨ Custom menu cards for each place setting as well bar cards, miniature boxes, etc.

¨ Dinner must be booked within one year of winning the raffle

“In the last few years we’ve become known for our five- to seven-course small-plate chef’s tastings as well as our miniature passed hors d’oeuvres… fully personalized mini-boxes fit in the palm of your hand. They include everything from French fry boxes, to lobster roll boxes, to take-out boxes and burger boxes and more. Since we design, print, cut and mold all the boxes ourselves they can be entirely personalized to the client and the evening.”  – Chef Paul Spillane, Ne Me Quitte Pas Catering

1 Ticket for $10; 3 Tickets for $20; 10 Tickets for $50

Winner to be Drawn and Notified: March 28, 2015 (After we run the Charity Run – our longest training run!) 

 You can buy your ticket easily by going to my fundraising page, donating the amount for the number of entries you want, and putting “Dinner Raffle” in the comments. I will then notify you with your ticket numbers – if you don’t think I have your contact information, please email it to me at altatwood@gmail.com. Otherwise I won’t be able to contact you if you win! Good luck! 🙂  And please pass this along to any friends who may want to enter and support us at the same time! Thank you!

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A short rant: How dare you, Avon?

Posted in Boston, Cancer, Fundraising, tagged , , , , on March 17, 2014| 2 Comments »

I was always taught if you don’t have anything good to say, don’t say anything at all. I also really hate to bad mouth a company, especially one that has a strong charitable giving arm. But this has been bothering me for weeks and I’m sick of it. And I think you need to speak out when you truly believe something is wrong.

Nearly every day while driving my very short route to work I hear the same commercial: Avon’s Walk for Breast Cancer. And it makes me want to scream. In fact, when I hear the ending, I sometimes do scream back at the radio. (Yup, people probably think I’m crazy – or that I’m on blue tooth.) I’m sure you’ve heard it. Because it’s on so often, it’s possible you just tune it out and haven’t really listened to what they’re saying. Well, let me share: the last line is “Will you walk, or will you walk away?”

That’s when my blood boils. How DARE Avon accuse people of turning their head from breast cancer just because they don’t sign up for their walk??? I think their walk is great, I am glad they do it, I simply choose not to participate because I only want to do one major thing per year where I beg people for financial support – I don’t think it’s fair to solicit your friends year-round. And I choose to do the Jimmy Fund Boston Marathon Walk for a million reasons including the fact that Dana-Farber provide me and my friends such fabulous care and that the money supports multiple types of cancer research and treatment. And especially because it was one of my dear friend’s ideas to have a team.

So I think it’s great that Avon has their walk and does so much for breast cancer. But don’t use guilt advertising! I don’t go for guilt in religion, in life or in advertising. In fact, it makes me want to do the opposite; it completely turns me off. So do as you do in the TV version, Avon. Leave that line off your radio commercials. It’s not helping your cause, which happens to be one of mine, even if I don’t do your walk.

 

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