Donate to Support the LFA by August 26 and Your Gift Will Have Twice the Impact!

We have been given an opportunity to match your donation – dollar for dollar!

We have been challenged by a long-time supporter who has generously pledged to match all contributions up to $75,000. If we can raise $75,000 by the August 26 deadline, $150,000 will go to stimulate new areas of lupus research, education, and awareness. Please don’t miss this opportunity to double your impact and support advances that are desperately needed in lupus research.

Please give today and your gift will double if we receive it by August 26th!

P.S. As we write this, the LFA is reviewing 60 proposals from lupus researchers seeking to advance our knowledge of pediatric lupus, stem-cell transplantation, neuropsychiatric lupus (affecting the brain and nervous system), and cutaneous (skin) lupus. These proposals represent more than $5 million in research, the number of projects we will be able to fund depends on your support. Please be generous.

Southern California Hosts Fund Raiser to Send Folks to DC for the Lupus Foundation of America’s Advocacy Days in March 2008

Good afternoon everyone. Another cold day here in DC. Hope you’re nice and toasty, wherever you are.

Wanted to pass along this information to our friends in Southern California. A lupus awareness group in SoCal is hosting a "Reading Relay" fund raiser to raise at least $10,000 to send 10 people to the Lupus Foundation of America’s Advocacy Day in D.C. on March 10-11.

The fund raiser is planned for Sunday, February 17th from 9 a.m.-9 p.m. To learn more about the “Reading Relay” fund raiser, visit the Flared Up website.

To learn more about the LFA’s Advocacy Day, visit the Advocacy Day section of the LFA’s Website.

Until next time, Wick