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The 20th Annual 5K: Have You Signed Up Yet?
20th ANNUAL 5K RUN & WALK FOR LUPUS
Northern California's largest lupus awareness event. Come join us - compete, or just have fun. Form a team, raise money, and enjoy a beautiful day with your fellow lupus travelers - patients, families, and the community! Prizes will be awarded for top runners, top fundraisers and largest and top fundraising teams.
Whether you run or walk, in a team or by yourself, for the medal or just for fun, you are guaranteed to have a great time thanks to cheering supporters, great food and local entertainment talent.
Sunday, June 8, 2014. Start Time: 9:00 am.West Valley College14000 Fruitvale Avenue, Saratoga Course is USATF certified. REGISTRATION IS OPEN!Register online or download the registration form. Fee: $30 pre-registration, $40 after June 6.
Proceeds will help create greater lupus awareness, provide support services for lupus patients and their families, and encourage external lupus research efforts. Bring your family and friends for a fun day, and for a good cause!
See details here.
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Car Giveaway - Two Winners and Counting
LFNC congratulates the winner of our second early bird drawing, Felicity Goldsby of Santa Rosa. She won a $500 shopping spree! Jean Kesgomol of Henderson, NV won the first early bird drawing of a 7-day Holland America cruise.
And you can still win the the grand prize, a 2014 Mercedes-Benz! Buy your tickets today - the more tickets you buy, the greater your chances!
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The World Lupus Google Map - Let's Put Lupus on the Map!
May 10 is World Lupus Day. What better way is there to raise lupus awareness than putting lupus on the map? So that's what we are doing. We're building the World Lupus Google Map!
More than 1.5 million Americans live with lupus. Worldwide, more than 5 million are affected with this disease. But where exactly is everyone - the survivors, their friends, family, supporters? They span the whole world. To see exactly where, the Lupus Foundation of Northern California is building The World Lupus Google Map - in our quest to find 1 million lupus patients, friends, family members and supporters all over the world and put them on the map. We want to be seen for the impact we all make - whether by being survivors, by being part of a support network, or as LFNC does, by providing critical patient support and education infrastructure along with providing research support.
So if you are ready to put lupus on the map, visit our campaign page, and put yourself on the Lupus World Google Map, for a donation of just $1. Each time you or a friend donates $1 or more, a colored pin/balloon will be added to the world map (yellow for patients, green for supporters, etc.). The pin/balloon will appear in the zip code, city, state and country you live in.
We're aiming high - with participation from all around the country and indeed all around the world, we want to reach a million dots on the map, and raise a million dollars. Half of the proceeds will go to LFNC's critical patient programs, and the rest will benefit research through the Lupus Research Institute and the LRI National Coalition of community lupus groups. When we succeed, together we will have made a big impact on how the world looks at lupus, literally.
"We encourage you to claim your spot on the map by contributing a dollar or more, whether you are a lupus patient, know someone who has lupus, or are a supporter of the lupus community," says LFNC Board Chair Jay Remley in his call for action. "Together, we can help bring about a world without lupus through awareness and research."
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