The Domaining Community: Like None Other
Over the past week or two, I’ve noticed something about the domaining community that I hadn’t before. To put it simply, we’re a tight, connected community. With the earthquake in Haiti and the announcement about Bill Strong’s charity, I’ve seen numerous articles published about each. And it’s amazing the amount of support we are able to give each other, especially when somebody is in need.
I thought that this would be an appropriate time to publish the letter that Bill Strong, a fellow domainer, sent out to gain support for his family’s charity. If his charity gets enough votes in a contest, they will be given a $1,000,000 grant from Chase Bank. A link to the voting is in the letter below. Currently, Strong’s charity is ranked #5 out of the 500,000 charities in this contest.
Dear Friends:
Please take two minutes to read this. Our charity is currently closing in on 5th place, with more than 30,000 votes, out of more than 500,000 organizations to win a $1 Million grant from Chase and we need your help to keep the momentum up through the end of final round voting on Friday, January 22.
I’ll try to make this as short as possible. Many of you know that my two-year-old daughter, Gwendolyn, has a terminal genetic disease called Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA). SMA is the leading genetic killer of young children and at the ripe old age of 2, Gwendolyn is considered an outlier living with this cruel disease. Gwendolyn is awesome — in every way — plain and simple. But this degenerative disease has left my precious little girl completely paralyzed and dependent on machines to eat, swallow, cough, and breathe — while her mind remains untouched. In short, SMA is a brutal disease and we’re fighting to help cure it, hopefully in time to save Gwendolyn’s life.
Our nonprofit, the Gwendolyn Strong Foundation, has a unique opportunity to win a $1 Million grant in the Chase Community Giving campaign on Facebook. How did that happen? Well, our supporters voted us to one of the top 100 organizations out of more than 500,000 charities in the first round and we’re now in 6th place with more than 30,000 votes in the final round. We’ve pledged 100% of anything we receive from Chase to SMA awareness and research programs and this amount of funding, which is extremely material to SMA programs, WILL help accelerate that CURE for SMA — no doubt about that.
So, please take a few minutes out of your day to help us out:
VOTE – Go to http://VoteForSMA.com to vote
POST LINK – Post the voting link – http://VoteForSMA.com – to your Facebook profile every day of this week
POST VIDEO – Post our campaign YouTube video – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQkUwDEou7Q – to your Facebook profile
EMAIL – Forward the voting link – http://VoteForSMA.com – to at least 20 contacts and ask that they do the same
TWITTER – Use our creative http://VoteForACure.com Twitter app to spread the word
For more information on the Gwendolyn Strong Foundation, please visit http://GwendolynStrongFoundation.org.
Thank you for your help. We can’t do this alone, but together we can make this $1 Million MIRACLE an SMA reality — for all of those impacted by this horrible disease!
Bill
If you have any comments or questions, make sure to submit them below.
Thanks so much for the support Sam! This means the world to us. One more day of voting to go in the Chase Community Giving campaign. We’re currently in 6th place and we need to be in the top 6 to be guaranteed at least $100k for our organization and SMA research.
To be honest, I’m simply humbled by the selfless support shown my family by the domain industry. From the bottom of my heart, thank you.
Bill
@Bill – I wish you the best of luck. I placed my vote, and hopefully with the support of the domain industry you’ll be able to stay in the top 6. Let’s cross our fingers.