It looked like Phoenix Rising was toast; we had dropped from 86th on Sept 10th to 136th and then all the way to 174th and had a meager 40 vote cushion with a day and a half to go……and then the ME/CFS Community erupted – propelling us all the way up to 133rd and allowing us to win $10,000. It
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Posted by Cort Johnson Opportunity Knocks! The Chase Giving Contest is back and with it the opportunity to get cash-starved ME/CFS non-profits some real cash. All it takes is your vote and spreading the word for the next two weeks (Sept 6-19th). This, in the world of non-profits is a remarkably easy (if nerve-wracking) way to make money… Over the past
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Posted by Cort Johnson The Chase Community Giving Contest for non-profits will run from Sept 6th-19th. In the past two years Phoenix Rising has poured time and resources into helping other ME/CFS orgs win over $170,000 and now, for the first time, we’re in ‘the chase’ (:)) and we’re excited to be there. The annual Chase contest provides a
ContinuePosted by Cort Johnson We started out with seven CFS non-profits in the running for $175,000 in the Chase Community Giving Contest. We knew the contest was going to get really volatile in the last couple of days and it has with four organizations dropping like rocks. With only 22 hours left in the contest only three organizations appear assured
ContinuePosted by Cort Johnson The RMCFA is one of six CFS organizations in the running for from 25K in the Chase Community Giving Contest running until Aug 22nd. Chances are,though, that after being in contention for 2 weeks, on the last day of being in the Chase Community Giving contest, the RMCFA will drop out of the top 100 and come up
ContinuePosted by Cort Johnson The Chase Community Giving Contest is almost the only way for penny-poor CFS non-profits to come up with easy cash. With four days left in the contest two non-profits – the New Jersey CFS Association (#93) and the Enterovirus Foundation (#81) – are hanging on by the skin of their teeth. The next couple of days
ContinuePosted by Cort Johnson Only Four days left for Chase Community Giving and two of our most important CFS non-profits are in the running. Check out why your vote for these organizations will make a difference for ME/CFS. CFS Knowledge Center The CFSKnowledgeCenter is actually two sites: a thriving Community Center with blogs, research surveys and CFS support groups and
ContinuePosted by Cort Johnson The regular season is over – it’s playoff time for the Chase Community Giving Contest for large non-profits…..time to win some BIG MONEY for CFS research.This is a unique opportunity. Increasing govt funding for ME/CFS has been agonizingly difficult given the negative attitudes towards ME/CFS and it’s pretty darn clear, with the NIH suffering significant cuts
ContinuePosted by Cort Johnson Chase Community Giving is at it again. This time they have expanded their month long Facebook contest to include a round of larger non-profits with have annual operating expenses from 1-5 million dollars. That would includes two ME/CFS organizations in the US; the Whittemore Peterson Institute and the CFIDS Association of America. The WPI, of
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