TRANSPLANT PATIENTS NEED YOUR VOTE!
Help NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson and Be The Match Foundation take the lead in a race for $100,000
Today's post involves another simple thing that you can do to make a difference in the lives of others! You don't even have to leave your house... just take a few minutes, log on to your pc and make a difference! I posted about Be The Match Foundation in an earlier post (view post) and decided to post again when I was made aware of this contest. Helping Be The Match win a $100,000 prize would be awesome!
Pepsi, Jimmie Johnson and Be The Match Foundation are teaming up in a race to win $100,000. There’s never been an easier way to help children battling leukemia and lymphoma receive the marrow or umbilical cord blood transplant they need.
Go to NASCAR.COM/PepsiRefresh and vote for NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson and Be The Match Foundation’s Transplant Grants for Kids. Voting is open through June 23rd and you can vote as many times each day as you would like.
Pepsi has invited three NASCAR drivers to take part in this friendly competition. All are teammates on the Hendrick Motorsports team and each driver will promote a charity of his choice. The driver who collects the most online votes by June 23rd wins $100,000 for his charity.
Jimmie Johnson, the four time reigning NASCAR Sprint Cup champion, has selected Be The Match Foundation as his charity. The funds would help financially vulnerable families afford the uninsured and overwhelming recovery costs that come with a child’s marrow transplant.
“I can't imagine having to choose between being beside my child's hospital bed or being at work in order to keep our insurance active and a roof over our heads. It is a wonderful thing to know that Transplant Grants for Kids can help ease that tension,” Johnson said. “These grants give moms and dads a little less to worry about and give kids what they want most when they are sick - their parents by their bedside."
This $100,000 competition featuring NASCAR drivers is part of the Pepsi Refresh Project, a multi-million dollar national campaign that asks people to submit ideas to better their community and gives the public the chance to vote for their favorite.
Every year, 10,000 patients with leukemia, lymphoma, and other life-threatening diseases discover they need a marrow transplant but have no donor match in their family. Many are children. Be The Match Foundation raises funds to help patients find an unrelated marrow donor and receive the transplant they need.
While a marrow transplant can be a life-saving treatment, it takes a financial toll on a family. Often there is the temporary loss of at least one parent’s income to care for their child. And even with insurance, not all costs are covered. On average, child transplant recovery expenses exceed a family’s income by $1,200 per month.
Your support of Be The Match Foundation helps families pay for prescription co-pays, transportation to and from the transplant hospital (often in another state), temporary lodging, and other uninsured expenses for up to six months after transplant.
So remember... get out the vote! Vote for Jimmie Johnson and Be The Match Foundation. You can vote as many times as you like....stuff that ballot box on behalf of children and families recovering from Marrow transplants!
Other ways you can help:
Click here to learn about the many ways you can give.
Ways to get involved.
Join the registry.
Give birth to hope... donate umbilical cord blood. Find out how.
Sources: Be The Match
Pepsi Refresh
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