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The 2009 Team Unite Calendar is now available!!!
Show your support for our kids, and join us in the fight to CONQUER CHILDHOOD CANCER!!!
Each page features 6 Team Unite members. Also included within each month is a detailed description of one of the childhood cancers, including symptoms and statistics. The month of September features Childhood Cancer Awareness Month.
Please note that on our smallest calendar ("Team Unite Wall Calendar"), the informational text is a bit difficult to read from a distance. Please consider one of the larger sizes ("Team Unite Vertical Wall Calendar" or "Team Unite Oversized Wall Calendar") if you feel this may be an issue.
CureSearch has asked that we once again contact our Members of Congress!
Include $1.9 Billion for NIH and NCI in a new economic stimulus package
When Congress returns to Washington in mid-November, right after the election, it is expected that they will consider new economic stimulus legislation.
The cancer and biomedical research communities are working to include an additional $1.9 billion for the National Institutes of Health in the economic stimulus legislation.
We urge you to contact your Members of Congress and ask them to please support a $1.9 billion increase for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Cancer Institute (NCI) in the economic stimulus package. This would provide essential funding for NIH and support life-saving cancer research.
- Accounting for inflation, funding for cancer research is down nearly 14 percent since 2003. This has a negative impact on NCI-supported research conducted at hundreds of institutions throughout the United States. This funding supports laboratories that provide employment and purchase goods and services that support local economies across the country.
- In FY 2007, NIH grants and contracts created and supported more than 350,000 jobs that generated wages in excess of $18 billion in the 50 states. The average wage associated with the jobs created was $52,000 per year.
- A $1.9 billion increase in NIH funding would support more than a thousand new research grants.
- In addition to boosting local economies, a $1.9 billion increase for NIH would provide a much-needed increase for life-saving research to find cures for cancer, including pediatric cancer research.
As all of you are aware, Team Unite was part of a nationwide effort of individuals who strategically contacted members of Congress on a daily basis, requesting that they cosponsor and vote yes in support of “The Caroline Pryce Walker Conquer Childhood Cancer Act.” Our goal was to witness S.911/H.R.1553 signed into Law during the term of the 110th Congress and we have succeeded! Thank you for all of your help! Please continue to fight for awareness and funding from Congress!
Articles:
Article: Childhood Cancer Act Passes Unanimously
(click for full story!!!!)
Article: CureSearch Praises Passage of Landmark "Conquer Childhood Cancer Act"
(click for press release!!!!)
Article: President Bush Signs “Conquer Childhood Cancer Act” in White House Ceremony
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Please Get Involved…It is an EASY and FREE
way to help the children!
God bless Team Unite for joining forces to move forward to a cure!
If YOUR TEAM is interested in joining OUR TEAM, please fill out our Contact Form.
Team Unite formed a team and participated in the CureSearch Virtual Walk for 12,500 to Conquer Childhood Cancer! We are proud to announce that, from t-shirt sales, we were able to contribute $750 for our team. THANKS SO MUCH TO ALL WHO PARTICIPATED!! We look forward to being able to do more next year!
From CureSearch:
In so many ways, childhood cancer is a journey. In fact, when children are diagnosed with cancer, they are treated with a “roadmap”. The “roadmap” includes the dates and dosages and often covers the weeks, months or years of therapy necessary to treat a child with cancer.
As so many of you know, the journey includes ups and downs, long stretches, lots of curves and crashes. Only through research will we reach the final destination: Cure.
Thank you so much for joining CureSearch’s virtual journey in support of these children - The Virtual Walk for 12,500.
In honor of National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, we raised over $108,600 for childhood cancer research. While we will close the Virtual Walk site today, we will continue each day going forward with you in the same direction toward a cure.
We all know we cannot get there fast enough.
Thanks again from all of us at CureSearch.
October, 2008 Site Updates and Upcoming Team Unite Calendar!
We hope you are enjoying the new enhancements that have been made to the Team Unite Website through the Team Unite Message Board and Forum. Thank you to Heide,Mom of ^Jessica^ who is our web master and the talent behind the website.
The Team Unite 2009 Calendar is now available! Please click here for details.
MEDIA OUTLETS!
Team Unite’s Michelle Tucker Mom of ^Henry^ is helping us to find a much better press release list. Thank you Michelle! In the meantime, the following are links for a few media outlets you may contact. Please send to any you feel would benefit our cause in raising awareness.
Contact your local ABC Affiliate station
Contact your local Fox Affiliate station
Contact your local NBC Affiliate station
Contact your local CBS Affilitate station
CBS email Form | ABC email Form | NBC Contact Form
Ellen | Oprah | CNN
Local and national TV stations, newpapers, magazines, etc. Of course we need ongoing letters to editors, etc and also please keep your eye out for articles and when they appear be sure to post and thank the publication or news channel for reporting on childhood cancer!
Celebrity Contacts
The attached table is a listing of celebrities affected by childhood cancer. This document is a work-in-progress by Team Unite. We are hoping to build upon this list, to include more details and contact information. We'd like to reach out to these individuals and ask that they help us in our efforts to get the word out. If you have contact information for any of these folks or know someone we should add, please email dkillian@teamunite.net. Thank you!
Year-Round SEPTEMBER!
Please continue to wear your Childhood Cancer Awareness Gear! A gold ribbon is a must and is easy to make. Or you can order buttons, t-shirts and more at www.cafepress.com/teamunite. Let’s all start now in asking children’s hospitals in our area what they are planning to do for Childhood Cancer Awareness Month next year!
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