Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood Foundation
Step Up to END AHC
Welcome to our annual campaign to raise funds for important, and directed research into a treatment or cure for AHC. Joining us is easy. Go to http://www.firstgiving.com/AHCF/step-up-to-end-ahc-2017 Click on FUNDRAISE Create a login Join a team Click on ‘I want to create my own team’ Create your team page Name your team. It could be ‘Step Up to End AHC for (your child’s name) or get creative. Team Organization – Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood Team Story – You can write a story about the team goal or you can use the generic one that is created for you (see http://www.firstgiving.com/fundraiser/jthomas-christie/step-up-to-end-ahc.) It is also where you will send people to join your team. Add photo (portrait not landscape) Fundraising Goal You can add a goal for you team or leave blank and each person who becomes part of your team and set’s their goal, increases the team goal. Create a personal fundraising page This is your personal page where you tell your story. Set your personal fundraising goal. Confirmation – jump start your fundraising. Now that you have created your personal page and team page, both will show up on the Step Up to End AHC and the landing page for the foundation. EDITS – You will need to login to make any changes to your personal page. You can change the team page because you have been designated team captain. If someone joins your team and wants to make changes, you will need to make them the team captain. When people ask to join your team, remember to send them the link to your team page. This is where it will ask them to ‘join team’ and they will need to also create an account, join your team (your team name will show up) and set their goal. They don’t need to tell a story unless they want to but if left blank, there is a generic one that populates. If you run into trouble, you can call first giving direct. They have been very helpful. They are on the east coast and close at 5pm est. No after hours.
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Here is what you can send to your network along with the campaign flyer and the link to your fundraising page on Firstgiving. FLYER in PDF formatIt is very exciting times in terms of research. Right now we have the problem of how to raise enough money to fund all of the potential projects that have been put in front of the foundation. We currently have $477,835 in research grant requests that we hope to fund. Our 2017 end of year goal is to raise $149,835 that will specifically fund:
- $123,835.00 Dr Alfred George @ Northwestern & Dr Kevin Ess @ Vanderbilt, phase 6 “Molecular Physiology and Pharmacology of ATP1A3 Mutations in AHC”
- $26,000 Dr. Kevin Ess Vanderbilt Univ. Accelerate Treatment Research with antibody development
A donation now can change the future for these children and families, before it is too late.
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