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Welcome to my arthritis Walk lens! I hope you will find this handcrafted lens a unique and useful resource for your 2008 arthritis Walk | fundraising experience. I have two goals with this Squidoo lens.

First, Provide YOU with unique, useful and updated information on the amazing arthritis Foundation and Walk organization, the walk events, information on what other walkers are doing and unique ways to energize your fundraising, motivate your team & inspire yourself! Re: Custom Buttons | Buttons of Hope - Putting a face on fundraising | North Carolina

Second, I'd like to introduce my
new company Buttons of Hope for your consideration. I started Buttons of Hope to give people like you a way to put a face on your cause rather than just scribbling a name on the back of your t-shirt -- making it easy to create your own custom photo button to honor a loved one. What if all the arthritis Walkers wore a button with a smiling face!? [More on Buttons of Hope below]

So grab a cup of coffee & take a look around and while you're here check out Buttons of Hope and consider making a custom photo button to wear in support of a loved one during your 2008 arthritis Walk!

Official arthritis Walk 2008 website 

Handy info and links...

Arthritis Walk
The Arthritis Foundation hosts hundreds of Arthritis Walk events nationwide, raising needed funds to prevent, control and cure arthritis, the nation's leading cause of disability.

Enjoy the Walk

* Choose from one-mile or three-mile course
* Write an inspirational message on the Wall of Heroes
* Wear a blue "hero" hat if you have arthritis
* Show your team spirit with signs, posters and team shirts
* Enjoy the fun, festivities and free arthritis information

Inspire More | Scribble Less with Buttons of Hope! 

You know how it is, the morning of the walk ten minutes before the start and you're hurriedly scribbling the names of loved ones on your back!

At Buttons of Hope we make is super easy for you to make custom photo buttons of all your loved ones before the walk. You know why you're walking ~ now you can proudly show them for WHO!

Less Scribbling....

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More Inspiring....

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arthritis Walk Success Stories 

Creativity and hard work pays off..

Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital, located in Whittier, California, proved that strength comes in numbers. A record number of individuals - 304 in total - joined the team and participated in the Walk. They were resourceful and competitive, and even though they had never participated in an Arthritis Walk previously, they met and exceeded their fundraising goal. READ MORE FUNDRAISING SUCCESS STORIES HERE

Make your own custom photo button to wear in honor of a loved one @ BUTTONS of HOPE. 

To the world it may be just a photo button, but to one person that photo button may be the world!

Try something new this year! Show them WHO you're walking for. Honor a loved one or support a friend by wearing a custom photo button with their picture before and during your 2008 arthritis Walk fundraiser.

Make your custom button today at Buttons of Hope


  1. No Minimum - make one custom photo button if you like

  2. Upload a photo and add custom curved text

  3. $1 from each photo button donated to the arthritis Foundation

Energize your fundraising...Motivate your team... and Inspire yourself! Put a face on your cause today!

Buttons of Hope in prestigious Southpark Magazine! 

His Photo Buttons Serve Many Causes...like arthritis Walk 2008

I am honored to be chosen as South Park (Charlotte NC) magazine's Snapshot for March 2008! Buttons of Hope is my passion & I hope this helps everyone understand just how powerful custom photo buttons & putting a face on your cause can be!
read the article here | Photo Buttons Focus on People
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Roger Carr's Everyday Giving Blog 

Roger Carr is a friend of mine. He is a extraordinary guy committed to helping others and to "being" the change he wants to see in the world. He has a personal passion for the arthritis cause and writes often about it in his blog.

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Absolutely everything you need to know about walking from Wendy Bumgardner! 

Whether it's your first charity walk or you are a fundraising champ - Wendy's posts at About.com are interesting and informative. This is really good stuff!

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About.com's Carol & Richard Eustice on arthritis. 

Helpful source for info, ideas and links to the non profit world.

From Carol & Richard Eustice:

"We're here to help you understand essential information about arthritis, including signs and symptoms, diagnosis, medications, natural remedies, and other treatment options. We share our insight on living and coping with arthritis and offer practical advice to help you manage your illness.

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So what do I know about charity walks & Fundraising? Michael Gibbons' Behind the Button blog 

Inspired stories about the people behind the photo buttons we make & some thoughts on fundraising & charities from the founder of Buttons of Hope.

Make a button and share your hero story and I will write all about it in Behind the Button!...and I will send you a cookie...seriously!

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"A year ago Mike Gibbons had never done any fund-raising. Now he hopes
to change the world" Regan White in "Message in a Button", Charlotte Weekly November 2006.

Upon reading that I was at first taken aback -- not exactly the kind of thing you want to lead with especially if your stated goal is to "change the face of fundraising". But as I thought about it IT IS PRECISELY what I want people to know and now I open all of my fundraising seminars with that line.

Fundraising is not easy nor is it as hard as you might think. I am proof of that and I am out to help ordinary people do extraordinary things -- the task is not easy but the answer is inside of each of us!

I kinda wish Regan had use this opening line instead.. 

"Here's to the crazy ones...because the people who are crazy enough to THINK they can change the world, are the ones who do."

Maybe the combination of the two sums it up -- I have been lucky enough to find a group of remarkable people, my cycling team MojoRiding and together we have become somewhat of a fund raising phenomenon (often in spite of ourselves I might add!) --we raised over $110,000 in 2007 for cancer and multiple sclerosis causes.

So how did we do it? We personalized our cause, we told a story, many stories! And then we took it a step further we made it tangible -- many of us made photo buttons of our loved ones to wear while fundraising -- can't fully explain it but there is just something powerful about these little buttons  --I have seen it make a difference and in some cases all the difference!

I hope you will take a look around (grab a cup of coffee) at what I am building here on Squidoo. I have tried to make unique, useful and updated lenses on active charity events. If you like the lenses then please visit my blog Behind the Button and of course my website Buttons of Hope -- where you too can go on make a custom photo button to wear in YOUR charity event 

The title of the full quote above is THINK DIFFERENT. Regan was right I am out to Change the World by helping people to not only think different but to be different -- it will change you and together we will be the change we wish to see...I hope one button at a time!

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