Saving Pennies for SPF Research

Bring us one step closer to the cure with your pennies and small change in the

Saving Pennies For SPF Campaign!

Collect your pennies and small change and get your family, friends and co-workers to do the same! It all adds up to some pretty remarkable change to benefit our Research Awards, bringing us one step closer to the cure!

Thanks to volunteer Gary Lockwood, we have a label you can affix to your collection container. Simply download the PDF file and print it out: Saving Pennies label.

Ronnie Grove, organizer of the annual Spring Fling weekend in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, challenged us in 2005 to collect ONE MILLION PENNIES by the 2006 Spring Fling event on April 1-2. We listened and we passed that goal and raised over $16,000!

After wrapping up a fabulous first-year effort, Ronnie turned the project over to Sue Meholick (Sue Me in our email support groups) and Jackie Wellman. Please contact Sue at momofboysonly@yahoo.com or Jackie at hoppywell@aol.com to help us make change for our future, one penny at a time! You'll turn your collections in regularly to your project captain.

Note from Ronnie when she launched the Saving Pennies Campaign:

A Savings Pennies Team Captain will recruit team members. The Goal: One million pennies -- $10,000.00. With a minimum of ten captains and 10 members that is $1,000.00 per team or a mere $100.00 dollars a month. With ten team members, plus the captain, that is less than ten bucks each per month. Now that doesn't sound too hard, does it?

Pennies can be collected however it suits the collector. I already have several people collecting. I put a jar in my living room and I can guarantee you no one will leave my home until I have asked if they have any pennies they want to give up for a good cause. I will have a jar on my desk when I go back to work. I will ask everyone who comes in contact with groups of people to do the same. All you have to do is ask.

Any small change that goes into the jar will be counted in pennies. I hope some folks will slide some paper money into our coffers too. I think a simple way to handle this money would be for the captains to collect a check from each team mate once a month. These checks could be made out to the Spastic Paraplegia Foundation and forwarded to me along with the captain's collection. There would be no mailing of pennies at any time. These things are heavy.

Summer is a very good time for a kick off as there is always a lot of things going on. Ball games, carnivals, parties, reunions, vacations to grandma's and vacationers to your home.....Hardly anyone could be offended if asked for a few pennies.

It should be fun and a little challenge here and there between teams just might spice things up a little.

Ronnie
 

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