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Help kids: Make Dan Moulthrop bald (or balder, depending on how you look at him)


Dan Moulthrop, the WCPN host of the Sound of Ideas (among other roles he fills at Ideastream) is asking for help in raising funds for an excellent cause: childhood cancer research through the St. Baldricks Foundation. I can’t write the ask any better than Dan so here’s the latest on an effort that will take very little to help so much:

Hi, Friends,

I hope you don’t mind hearing from me again. If you do, my apologies. I know not all of you can give to this cause right now, but I’ve included you in this mailing because I consider you at least a close colleague, if not a close friend or good neighbor, and I thought you’d like to hear how things are going.

And here’s the update: Your generosity has been immensely inspiring. I started off with a goal of $1,000. I didn’t really imagine my shaved head could possibly be worth much more. Well, you basically destroyed that goal in a matter of hours. So, a savvy fund-raising friend of mine suggested changing the goal, which I did, to $5,000. And here’s the update: about 50 of you have put us just about halfway there.

I can’t say this enough: Thank you. You inspire me.

We have less than a week left to raise the next $2,500. Anything you can give—$1, $10, $100—is greatly appreciated and goes a long way towards helping to study, treat and wage an eventually very effective campaign against childhood cancer.

Some asked about an address to send a check, if that’s how you’d like to give, make the check out to the St. Baldrick’s Foundation and send it to me at ideastream, 1375 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH, 44115. If you’re going to send a check, please print out the attached form and fill it out–it makes the record keeping much easier.

Now, if you’d like to laugh at me, please see this [a great piece in the Cleveland Scene's C-Notes section about Dan's efforts]

OK, thanks for your time and again, thanks for your support.

All the best,

Dan

[click on his name to get to the place where you can give and learn more]

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:43 pm March 11th, 2008 in Announcements, Cleveland+, Health Care, Ohio, Social Issues, WCPN/SOI 

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