Hope for the Holidays

If you find yourself in a frantic, last-ditch effort to tack a little Jesus on to this season's pagan parade of materialistic magic, instead of giving your friends one more candle they don’t need, your dad one more necktie he won’t wear, your grandma one more high-caloric health hazard, would you please consider the following options?

Dave’s Homeroast, coffee sold by the father of Clifford, a young man who is afflicted by the juvenile variant of Batten Disease, gives one hundred percent of the proceeds to BDSRA. Andy considers himself a bit of a coffee connoisseur, and he's a big fan of Dave's beans, especially the Nicaraguan blend. Purchasing coffee from Dave is one of those situations where a little hill of beans can make a mountain of difference.
Garrett’s Wings, a foundation that honors a little boy lost before age three, has promised to make a dollar-for-dollar match on all contributions to BDSRA for infantile Batten Disease research (donations must be marked Garrett’s Wings Challenge Grant and must be received by BDSRA before February 1, 2010). If a notice about the donation isn’t, by itself, sufficient as a gift-substitute, if you feel the need to spruce it up a bit before licking the envelope, perhaps you could accompany it with a poem or a prayer for the recipient.
Cardthartic (whose new website isn’t up yet, but from which you’ll soon be able to order cards) continues to share proceeds from Celia’s card with BDSRA. For Columbus locals and for people in our hometown of Gallipolis, the cards should be available at both The Book Loft and The Purple Turtle.
Please also remember that using Good Search to navigate the web and making purchases through Good Shop are easy ways to help. Just designate BDSRA as your charity of choice.
Our family is not the only one whose holidays, whose every days, are affected by Batten Disease. Thank you for considering the aforementioned ways to support efforts to develop treatments, for giving hope to the possibility of a cure.
JEB