2007

People going the distance for KD

Ed Meyertholen and Sean Blasko are participating in the Runtex Distance challenge, a series of seven races starting in September 2007 and culminating in February 2008 with the Austin Marathon.  Total distance covered will be 87 miles! Click here to read more and support this fundraising event.

Mike and Paula Goynes have been walking & rolling for several months now and plan to continue doing so indefinitely.  Someday Mike hopes to be able to once again walk with Paula but, for now, I will keep rolling beside her in my power chair or golf cart.  She is walking between 10,000 and 20,000 steps a day! Click here to read more and support this fundraising event.

Recycle or Trade In that old Cell Phone and help the KDA -

Join the Fundraising Committee today -

Get involved in the KDA Fundraising Team!  E-mail Susanne Waite, President and Executive Director, at info@kennedysdisease.org  and let her know you'd like to join this effort.

"Hope 5"

"Hope 5" is the KDA fundraising campaign in which members, friends and family support the KDA with a $5.00 a month check.  Collectively, these numbers add up and help the KDA with its mission and objectives. Click here to learn more and check on the "Hope 5" fundraising totals.

Help sell KDA "Recipes from Around the World" cookbooks -

Click here for a flyer that you can print, make copies of and hand out to friends, family, co-workers and neighbors.  Encourage them to send their orders in  quickly!  Click here to find links to the recipe index that you can also print to help you sell the cookbooks!

Items for sale on Ebay - 

Click here to see what items are up for sale on behalf of the KDA or have been sold on behalf of the KDA.  If you have a unique item you would like to donate to the KDA for this purpose, please email us at info@kennedysdisease.org .

Ideas to hold a local fundraiser on your own -

Hold a fundraiser and forward the money collected to the Kennedy's Disease Association at  P.O. Box 1105, Coarsegold, CA  93614-1105 (U.S.A.) email: info@kennedysdisease.org
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    Idea #1:    Hold a car wash at a local gas station or business that will donate the space and water.  You supply the volunteers, soap, and towels!

   Idea #2:    Hold a garage or rummage sale, asking friends, family and coworkers to donate items.  You can obtain receipts from the KDA to give to those who donate by contacting the Kennedy's Disease Association and letting us know what you plan to do.  Advertise the garage sale in the local paper, put up signs directing potential buyers to your sale. 

    Idea #3:    Hold a dinner at your home or a local restaurant.  Invite friends and family to your dinner, asking for a minimum donation that exceeds the cost of the food.  Perhaps its hot dogs and hamburgers in your backyard or its a more lavish affair with cocktails and appetizers.  Its up to you what you think is best.  Charge accordingly.  Again, the KDA can supply you with donation receipts to give to your supporters.

     Idea #4:  Hold a bake sale and sell your baked goods outside a local grocery store, church or other location where you believe you could obtain management's permission to do so.  Bake up a bunch of goodies and sweet-treats and sell them!

     Idea #5:  Hold a bowl-a-thon at your local bowling alley.  Approach the manager with the idea.  Ask them to donate bowling lanes on a specific date and time, and don't forget to drop the hint that the participants will be thirsty and they will be more than happy to purchase drinks from the bowling alley!  Also, tell them you will alert the local newspaper and attempt to get them other free publicity for their altruistic support.  Then contact the KDA to help you make flyers up about your event.  Give the flyers to friends, family and coworkers, post them around town and collect a minimum donation from each participant on the day the bowl-a-thon takes place.

     Idea #6:  Have your friends, family and co-workers go on an aluminum can hunt, aluminum can drive at work, or save their aluminum cans and then collect them all and take to a recycling center.  We've heard of the recycling centers giving .35 cents a pound.  Small things add up quick!

If you have additional ideas for a local fundraiser, please e-mail us at:  info@kennedysdisease.org