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It only takes a couple of stories of parents describing the effects of PD on the children in their families to make me more determined to try to raise funds for research. One of the comments from Joe Young Jr. suggested we would be better off concentrating on contributions on one or two foundations. Thats ok with me but I thought untill I established my creditability with this group, donees would prefer to make a donation to the resource institution of their choice. If I were to pick one institution to get more bang for the bucks it would be the Parkinson Disease Foundation. This institution basicly raises funds and then channels the funds out to worthy research projects. Another advantage is that checks could be sent directly to me care of the Foundation so that I could tabulate the results. Although it has not been expressed in any comment I felt some people might be relucant to send a stranger a check even if it was made payable to an institution. The remaining comment dealt with the tax deductibility of the donation. I envision every donation being tax deductible. As long as you make the check out to a charitable organization the mere mailing to another to forward the check would not make it not decutible. I am suprised that I have not received a greater response with comments in light of the number of people who expressed their views on mandority regeristration of PDP> I need some encouragements and comments. I want to use up the $ 500 matching funds before the end of the year Dale at [log in to unmask]