The Working 2 Walk 2013 Science and Advocacy video presentations are beginning to come up online now. You can access the presentations from this link HERE.
The first presentation is by Dr. Mark Bacon. He's the Director of Research at Spinal Research in the UK. They are the largest funding organization for spinal cord injury research in the United Kingdom.
Dr. Mark Bacon - The Changing Role of Not-for-Gain Organizations: Is it a Case of the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly?
Click here now to sign up, watch, and donate to u2fp. It's as easy 1, 2, 3.
Many of you know the group Unite2FightParalysis (www.U2FP.org) and the wonderful yearly conference they put on called Working2Walk (www.W2W.org).
There are many like myself who would love to attend and hear the exciting presentations made by scientists and activists in the fight to cure paralysis. Well, flying from Japan, booking a hotel, and all the costs associated with out country, or even out of city travel, doesn't fit into my budget.
But does U2FP leave me or you out just because we can't afford the time or money? No, they make sure that the presentation are available to ALL of us for free on the internet.
Click here to watch the videos. You'll be asked to log into your account and you'll get a password for the videos. If you don't have an account, you can log in through your facebook or twitter account, or create a new login. Whichever way you do it, you'll get a password which you can use.
Although they make it free to watch, it's not free for U2FP. I have learned that making the videos available to us for free costs them about $5000 for the videographer and then many many hours in volunteer time to get them ready for the final upload and editing. So I'd like to make all the video presentation viewers out there a simple, cheap challenge. From now on, every time I watch a 2013 video (the first time) I'm going to donate five bucks, and I want you to do the same. There is a donate link on all the videos which you can access after registering to view (registering doesn't oblige you to donate). You can support U2FP and their work to find a cure for spinal cord injury for as little as $5, and supporting cure is a lot better than any of the other things you can buy for a fiver. Of course, if you think that $5 at a time is a pain, please feel free just to make a larger, one off donation.
Hope you take the challenge! Click here now to sign up, watch, and donate to u2fp. It's as easy 1, 2, 3.
Dennis Tesolat
www.StemCellsandAtomBombs.org ______________
"Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom."
Martin Luther King
Who is Bob? Where best to donate? This all confuses the hell out of me
The problem is kilg0retr0ut that there is much going on that we dont understand........I was in communication with a research student just a few days ago and he has been living for the past two years on a research grant...and he is thinking of giving up ..
Who is Bob? Where best to donate? This all confuses the hell out of me
Read my posts for more clarity and I do use reliable sources for backup.
You know the thing here is this, I think we all realize that money is wasted in certain grants, drugs, etc. Then you got…U2fp, Accorda, you got the justadollar guy,
Dr. Wise, Dr Suess., Dr. Jerry Silva, a host of other advocate sites, that you can spend a whole day looking up on the net. Bob doesn't like Accorda, Paolo doesn't like Wise or thinks he knows
more, I don't know maybe he does? Shirleys blog, Luba's blog,. I really am confused too, but honestly I don't know where to put my money either. Sometimes I sign off the computer and my head
Read my posts for more clarity and I do use reliable sources for backup.
You know the thing here is this, I think we all realize that money is wasted in certain grants, drugs, etc. Then you got…U2fp, Accorda, you got the justadollar guy,
Dr. Wise, Dr Suess., Dr. Jerry Silva, a host of other advocate sites, that you can spend a whole day looking up on the net. Bob doesn't like Accorda, Paolo doesn't like Wise or thinks he knows
more, I don't know maybe he does? Shirleys blog, Luba's blog,. I really am confused too, but honestly I don't know where to put my money either. Sometimes I sign off the computer and my head
spins.
I appreciate your intuition is telling you it may not have the answer yet to what researcher/advocacy effort to support. For a good bread you don't put it in the oven right away, you let it rest until the yeast has done it's work.
Tbone you live close to NJ so you are aware of how a Governor was seen as the people's hero and now been caught taking Sandy funds away from the storm victims and giving them to his political friends to build a development in an area untouched by the wrath of Sandy.
This stuff goes on in the pharmaceutical/research area also.
Grass roots advocacy fertilized by Big Pharma-DICHOTOMY at it's best
Post by kilg0retr0ut on Feb 27, 2014 10:38:32 GMT -8
I think we get the fact that corruption runs amok in all facets of life. Humans have been hosing each other since the beginning. The sad thing is with all the confusion, money is held when it could actually do some good. I don't claim to be well informed or have the time to do the research needed, and that's why I look to people, like yourself Bob, and people like Grammy, to help form a opinion of where my money may do some good. I'm glad there are people who make the time to research and fact check these different foundations, but not all of us can.