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Hi Everyone - I hope this is okay to post. Please read through it and bear with me if you will. My organization, The Parkinson Foundation of the Heartland in Kansas City, MO, was recently contacted by a group called Fund a Cure Panel. This is a subsidiary of a larger company, whose is hired by large companies ( Proctor and Gamble, Ford to name 2) to find internet affinity groups to answer monthly surveys. They have recently branched out into health care, by doing qualitative studies specific to various diseases and conditions. For the first time, they will be starting qualitative studies for PD, since the Internet and groups like PIEN make is possible to aggregate panelists. (Lance Armstrong Foundation was their first client - these guys are legit btw!) So - to the point! We have affiliated with Fund a Cure Panel to try to funnel pwp into these internet survey quantitative studies. In return, Fund a Cure Panel will pay the Parkinson Foundation ( a 501c3) not for profit, $25 for each completed survey. IN RETURN - The Parkinson Foundation will develop a new line item specifically for these funds, and donate the money directly to bench and translational research for PD. I hope that many of you will consider being a part of this initiative. It's a chance for people with Parkinson's and Caregivers to participate in on line research, and really, donate directly to PD research using some multinationals money! You can access the fund a cure panels through our website, www.parkinsonheartland.org <http://www.parkinsonheartland.org/> . You will see the Fund a Cure Panel icon directly on our home page. Enter the portal, and you will be asked to complete a two minute profile. Then about once a month, you will be emailed a survey, usually 10 minutes long or so. Each completed survey will then cause Fund a Cure to send $25 to the Parkinson Foundation, who will then segregate the funds, and make a research donation, probably to MJFF. (In my opinion they are usually doing the most translatable research) but each participant is welcome to a voice in how the money is directed. I hesitated to put this out, as I am sure there is some proscription against fundraising for individual organizations. Again, not what we are attempting to do. We are attempting to merely serve as a conduit from large organizations to actual people with PD. So, let me know what you think, or visit our website and sign up! Thanks for being patient, and if I have been clear as mud, let me know and I'll try to do a better job explaining our thought processes. Cheers, Meg ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn