Awareness Idea: Gift cards

What if every vasculitis advocate (patient, family, caregivers, friends) carried with them a booklet with half off coupons for some national chain, like Target, or Subway, or whomever the partnership can be set up with.

Then when they have the vasculitis talk with some new person, they have an immediate way to raise funds for vasculitis with them, right there on the spot.

Ideally, these coupons require someone to put their name and contact information so we can send them more information about vasculitis later as a follow up. But the coupon itself is immediately redeemable, so there is an immediately useful reason for them to buy the coupons.

The advocate submits the money as a donation to the VF, and collectively we might be able to raise an additional several thousand dollars.

I need to share this idea with Bob Sahs, the new Vasculitis Foundation Board President.

I will get back to you guys if this pans out.

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Joseph Carpenter

Parent, daughter with CSS (DX March '08)

New Mexico Chapter Leader