Great Way to Help Improve Cancer Treatment!

I have been a registered user on iGive for a couple of months and thought I should use this blog to let you know about this awesome group.

There is a group of parents whose children have been diagnosed with Neuroblastoma who have joined together to raise money to humanize a really effective treatment currently in use in New York. The main drawback of this treatment is that it is created using mouse genes, and humans develop a resistance to this and the treatment cannot continue. But it has been found to greatly improve success in NB kids. They only need $2 million to make this a human form of treatment and that will remove the risk of resistance, meaning more kids will be able to use the treatment. I am sure I am leaving out a bunch of details in this, but you can search for it on the Band Of Parents website.

When you register with iGive, every time you purchase something online from over 600 retailers they partner with, a donation will be made to your charity. I registered with iGive, and everytime I pull up ebay or bluefly or babiesrus, the list goes on and on...I get a little pop up window that says this retailer participates in the iGive program and it lists the percentage of your purchase they will donate. What an EASY way to raise money! But it takes many people registering with this program in order to be successful. Some donations are only 2 percent, so it takes a lot of folks (who are probably already shopping online).

Go to Band of Parents website or iGive for more information or to sign up. If you follow the iGive link on Band of Parents' site, it already has their charity information filled in for you. It is very simple and you might even forget about it after you sign up, but if you ever just browse on a website and see the window, you will know that whatever you purchase will go to help save more children's lives!

With HOPE,
Tammy