The blog's text editor is broken today, which means the ENTER key does not work. We'll get it fixed up soon...please bear with me until then. Today is just a wonderful day. I'm going to share a neat little story about why today is a very fabulous day.
Guess what? Miller's will donate $100k to worldwide charities in 2008! What/Who is Miller's?
Rewind 2 weeks to WPPI in Las Vegas. 1 big room, hundreds of vendors to see & meet. I passed by the jazzy Miller's Imaging Lab expo-booth and saw they offered a fancy wheel to spin & win prizes. I am a customer of Miller's lab and was very excited to step up to the magic wheel. Finally my turn came up and I thought to myself, yeah right, I am NEVER winning anything. Get this: I spun the wheel...tick....tick...tick, just like Jeapoardy....to my surprise & delight, I won a $1k ticket to donate to a charity of my choice!
It was a tough decision no doubt, all kinds of questions came up like, how do I know which one is legit? Who gets the money? Will it be used efficiently? A great website called www.charitynavigator.org does the homework for you. There's info on each charity to include tax reports, financial breakdowns, PIE CHARTS (i'm a visual person, so this helped me) growth alerts, etc. After much looking and comparing I've asked Miller's to donate the $1k ticket to the Fistula Foundation.
I heard about the Fistula foundation while waiting at the airport in Vegas. Fixin' to board for the return flight to Seattle I struck up a casual conversation with the business guy sitting next to me (as he chewed tobacco, ewwww) he listened carefully about the donation prize and without a moment's hesitation, he said 'google fistula. f-i-s-t-u-l-a.' I forget things (even when I try really hard to remember) but for some reason 'fistula' stuck in my memory with no problem.
What is fistula? Its a gut-wrenching condition that affects women after childbirth causing lifelong bladder & digestive incontinence. Some are abandoned, some live in isolation, its a very hard life. Perhaps folks out there in blogworld might not want to think about what goes on outside of our American bubble, but believe me, this foundation is doing AMAZING things to help women who suffer from fistula. I thought you should know!
The FF is among the top 5 fastest expanding charities. Johnson & Johnson and a bunch of other sister foundations help them out, too! The even super-er good news is Miller's donation of $1k will provide at least 2 women with surgeries (at $450 each) which includes post-op rehab, new clothing, even tutoring/education during the hospitalization. I am SO happy and humbled. THANK YOU MILLER'S!!!
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