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GREAT STRIDES WALK 2008: Taking Steps to Cure cystic fibrosis

 

Great Strides to Cure Cystic Fibrosis is the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation's largest national fund-raising event. Tens of thousands of co-workers, friends and family come together each year as one community for one cause%u2026

The cystic fibrosis cause holds a special place in my heart -- way back in 1983 while I was at NC State our fraternity Lamdba Chi Alpha participated each year in Bounce for Breath -- bouncing a basketball from Chapel Hill to Raleigh NC to raise money. I met a couple of kids with cf and I was powerfully moved.

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

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 Great Strides fundraising and at your event!

Official Great Strides 2008 website 

Handy info and fundraising links...

Find your Great Strides Walk
Take the first step find your walk and register here...
Why do it?
In over 500!! cities all across the United States, tens of thousands of people just like you are showing their commitment to "adding tomorrows every day" to the lives of those with cystic fibrosis through the simple act of walking...
I have a question???
Frequently given answers....

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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Buttons of Hope in Southpark Magazine! 

His Photo Buttons Serve Many Causes...like Great Strides against cystic fibrosis

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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Grab a Kleenex and then your Walking Shoes... 

Jessica in her own words....

It does not get much more powerful than this WATCH and then WALK

A Heroes Story

One (of many) Hero Stories... 

Great Strides Heroes are not Born they work their butts off!

Mary Michaels, the Great Strides Walk chair in Syracuse, NY, has done a great job of growing one team into multiple teams. In her first year as a team leader for "Team Tess" (named after her daughter who has CF), she recruited 25 fund-raising walkers and raised $8,000.

a very busy woman...

In 2005, Mary branched out again and added "Team Tess" to the Ithaca (NY) walk site. In 2006, Mary invited a local company, Home Finance... read more about Team Tess and other heroes 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 button, but to one person that 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 Great Strides fundraising 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 cystic fibrosis Foundation

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

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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I'm curious about You & the Great Strides Walk for cystic fibrosis 

What is your experience with the Great Strides Walk?

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So what do I know? 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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About.com's Joanne Fritz on Nonprofit & Charitable Orgs. 

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

From Joanne, "The nonprofit world is unique, complex, and fascinating. I'll help you keep up, stay informed, and develop your skills as you work in the field or develop your own organization."

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Thanks for visiting my Great Strides lens -- I would love your feedback! 

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Walk in the 2008 Great Strides to end cystic fibrosis & remember to Put a Face on your Cause!

GREAT FINDS! 

Stuff i stumbled upon about Great Strides & cystic fibrosis

Great COFE Ride
Wow!!...Cycling from Paris ( 28 July 2007) to Istanbul (6 October 2007) and filming a documentary to inspire those living with Cystic Fibrosis.

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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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