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How You Can Help

Donate Money

One way you can help Column of Hope is by donating money. Donations can help pay for administrative costs like printing paper materials, hosting for the website and start up costs for fundraisers.
Donations may also go toward providing translational research services and funding. This means we provide a wide variety of services to academic researchers in addition to financial help. These services will help the researcher to get the successes in the lab to the patients as quickly as possible. Some of these services are:

  1. Government grant funding
  2. Project management
  3. FDA approval strategy
  4. Raising private equity
  5. Licensing related to technology
  6. Finding a business partner to commercialize the product.

Third, donations may go toward Column of Hope’s advocacy campaign in Washington. Column of Hope will be giving people with Chiari malformation, syringomyelia, neuropathic pain, spinal cord injury and related conditions a voice in the national political arena. This work will help to put more government dollars into research for these conditions.


Attend an Event

A great way you can show your support is by attending a fundraising event. Currently our main event is the Working Toward a Day Without Pain Dinner in Buffalo, New York. This dinner is quickly becoming a must attend event in Buffalo. It is an annual event and will be held on October 18, 2008.



Volunteer

Another way you can help Column of Hope is by volunteering. There are a wide variety of activities for which organization could use volunteers.

The first is to volunteer for the Working Toward a Day Without Pain Dinner in Buffalo. You can offer your time for the day of the event to help setup, run the event and clean up.

If you cannot attend the event you can help with the planning of the fundraiser. The Kane family frequently holds meetings at their house to plan for the event. We can always use help with a great deal of the preparation work that goes into the fundraiser: making signs, writing programs, proof reading, urging people to come to the event and more.



Hold your Own Fundraiser

You can also support Column of Hope by holding your own fundraiser. There are many different ways you can help Column of Hope to raise money. If you don’t have a lot of spare time, there are several ways to hold a low hassle fundraiser or to enlist help. Refer to the links below to get started!

Fundraising Ideas

Enlist Help