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BUDDY WALK 2008 to benefit the National down syndrome Society

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BUDDY WALK 2008: Small Steps, Giant Strides!

 

Welcome!

I hope you will find this handcrafted lens a unique and useful resource for your 2008 Buddy Walk experience. Learn about what other walkers are doing and unique ways to energize your fundraising, motivate your team & inspire yourself!

Buddy Walk is an incredible day of celebration with family, friends and people who, like you, want to raise awareness, raise funds, and raise the hope of a better world for all people with Down syndrome.

So 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 your Buddy!

Some pretty good resources on down syndrome 

Handy links....

Kidshealth.org
...symptoms of Down syndrome can vary widely from child to child. While some kids with DS need a lot of medical attention, others lead very healthy and independent lives...read more
Wikipedia says...
Wikipedia the online encyclopedia says...
The Mayo Clinic says...
The Mayo Clinic(what else can you say)
The National Institutes of Health says...
Even though people with Down syndrome may have some physical and mental features in common, symptoms of Down syndrome can range from mild to severe....read more
down syndrome.com
If you have not found whit your need yet...You'll probably find it here...

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

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 Buddy Walk.

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 National down syndrome Society

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

Free Hope Buttons.... 

Treat yourself and a friend to a couple of free Hope buttons from Buttons of Hope

To me Hope is not a passive word. Hope is action -- talk to anyone who has been touched by the Susan G. Komen family and you'll see what I mean!

Maybe this says it best...

be the change you wish to see in the world...ghandi



CLICK HERE for your free Hope buttons and if you are planning to do the Buddy Walk let me know & I will send you a reminder in plenty of time for you to make your custom photo buttons!

NEW! The Inspiration Channel: down syndrome 

Laugh, Cry, Learn and Hope

Informative, Remarkable & Inspiring videos** from the down syndrome community and Special Olympics New on my Squid Channel

Watch, Vote, & Add (your own)

**brought to you by YouTube & SquidVids

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

Whether it's your first Buddy 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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I'm curious about You & the Buddy Walk! 

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So what am I thinking? 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.

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Walk in the 2008 Buddy Walk to end down syndrome & remember to Put a Face on your Cause!

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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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