STEP OUT TO FIGHT dIABETES to benefit the American diabetes Association

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STEP OUT TO FIGHT dIABETES WALK 2008

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Step Out to Fight Diabetes, formerly America's Walk for Diabetes, is about changing the face of diabetes in our country—by raising funds to help find a cure and by walking a few miles to bring a greater awareness to this devastating disease.

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

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 Step Out Walk!

Official Step out to Fight diabetes website

Handy links to get you started...

Gather your friends and family to walk and raise funds for Step Out to Fight Diabetes in your city. Together, we can crush this epidemic. Step Out is a whirlwind day packed with energy, fun, support for others and a perfect amount of selfless dedication.

Find a Step Out Walk: Find your Step Out Walk or maybe start/join a team...Walking with co-workers, friends and family members makes participating in Step Out to Fight Diabetes even more enjoyable!
Fundraising tips: Fund raising for Step Out to Fight Diabetes is easy with all of the resources you have available! There are so many ways to reach out to your potential donors.
Why we do it: Nearly one in 10 American adults now has diabetes...here are some thoughts about why we Step Out for diabetes!

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

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 at your 2008 Step Out to Fight diabetes fundraising walk.

Make your custom button today at Buttons of Hope

No Minimum - make one custom photo button if you like

Upload a photo and add custom curved text

$1 from each photo button donated to the American diabetes Association

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

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

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About.com's Debra Manzella, RN on diabetes.

Helpful source for info & resource links about diabetes.

From Debra Manzella...
"This site is designed for people who are interested in, or diagnosed with diabetes, and also for the people who would like to support them. Items such as glucometers, insulin, oral medications, nutrition, exercise and new cutting edge research and development are all involved in comprehensive care. I'll try to steer you in the right direction!"

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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 and charities.

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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 Nov...

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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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