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HEART WALK 2008: GET STARTED!

 

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

First, Provide YOU with unique, useful and updated information on the amazing American Heart Association, the Heart 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 myself and Buttons of Hope
 for your consideration. I started Buttons of Hope to give people like you a way to personalize your cause. Rather than just scribbling a name on the back of your t-shirt -- now you can easily create your own custom photo button to honor a loved one or support a friend. Imagine if everyone at the Heart Walk wore a button with the smiling face of a loved one, WOW! [more on Buttons of Hope and me below]

This year over 1,000,000 walkers will participate in more than 600 events across the country, raising funds to save lives from this country's No. 1 and No. 3 killers, heart disease and stroke.

So grab a cup of coffee & take a look around -- I hope you will find this a useful and fun resource and please consider wearing a photo button in honor of your loved one ~ together we can put a face on heart disease!

Official Heart Walk website 

Handy links and info for your Heart Walk...

Start! Heart Walk for Employers

Official Heart Walk 2008 homepage
Here it is.....get all the info you need...read more
Find My Heart Walk
You may have left your heart in San Francisco but you'll find you Heart Walk here...read more

Heart Champions

Heart Champions
Maybe you can become a leader, a CHAMPION in the fight against heart disease..read more

Top Walkers

Ways to Give
Walk, Play Hoops, Jump rope -- learn about all the ways you can help battle heart disease...read more

Hoops For Heart

NEW! Buttons of Hope founder Mike Gibbons talks about his passion! 

Read Mike's Behind the Button blog post about the video and the work he is doing with charity walks and missing children!

Buttons of Hope's Mike Gibbons on the Debra Kennedy Show

Michael Gibbons founder of Buttons of Hope talks about the inspiration for his company.

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RED means HEART but GREEN means START! 


Start! is the American Heart Association's groundbreaking national campaign that calls on all Americans and their employers to create a culture of physical activity and health to live longer, heart-healthy lives through walking. Read all about it!

Inspire More | Scribble Less with Buttons of Hope!** 

**Pictures courtesy of Heart Walk Charlotte NC 2007

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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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 Heart 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 American Heart Association

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 Heart Walk or you are a fundraising champ - Wendy's posts at About.com are interesting and informative. This is really good stuff!

April Showers: Walking in the Rain

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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Once-A-Year Walker's Survival Kit  

How to Make it Through a Charity Walk

f About.com's Wendy Bumgardner is not THE expert on walking then I don't know who is! She does a nice job with a special report for Once-A-Year charity walkers. Watch the video "5 Walking Mistakes to Avoid"

Get a Better Walking Workout- Five Walking Mistakes to Avoid Video - About.com

Click on the walkers to watch the video!

Just about everything you need to know about heart disease from Richard Fogoros, MD. 

Doctor Fogoros at About.com provides a wealth of info about heart disease -- learn something new or start your heart disease learning process

Richard N. Fogoros, MD (DrRich)

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SO WHO IS THIS BUTTON MAN? 

So who is this guy Michael Gibbons and what are Buttons of Hope? I think if you watch this video you'll understand my passion and meet some of the people we have helped!

Custom Buttons | Buttons of Hope - Putting a face on fundraising | North Carolina

Click on Mike's head to see what people have to say!

Take part in a poll about Heart Walk 

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Buttons of Hope in Southpark Magazine! 

His Photo Buttons Serve Many Causes...like Heart Walk

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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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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"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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