Every day, researchers moving closer to identifying ways to find a treatment / cure for MHE. In
order to speed up the investigation into possible treatments, the MHE Research Foundation is
committed to insuring a flow of funds to researchers. Our foundation needs your help in order to
maintain this mission.
To make a donation via check please click the check logo
Consider holding a large fundraising event like the MHE Golf Classic or becoming a sponsor of this or other event. Flyer's, hosting donation cards and other funds raising materials can be obtained free of charge by contacting our main office (toll free 1-877-486-1758) or via email Susan Caputo or Susan Eaton at the following email address fundraising@mheresearchfoundation.org. or By Online Form Below |
Letter Drive:
Families have raised funds for MHE research simply by mailing letters to friends and family. Holiday
time is an especially good time to do this since people are already in a giving mood and many are
thinking about year-end charitable giving. We can even help you write these letters, if you'd like!
"Change" the World with the wings of hope:
Ask 5-10 people to save all their change for 3-5 months. You save yours. Count it at the end of the
prescribed time and you may be surprised to find how much you've raised.
Garage Sales, Bake Sales, Book Sales.
Ask 2-5 friends to help with a bake sale, book sale, or garage sale. You and your friends bake the
goodies, or get the books or other stuff required for the sale, staff it, and help clean up afterwards.
This is an excellent way to get people involved in fundraising without ever actually asking them for
money.
Another idea:
Have a sidewalk sale or garage sale for your whole neighborhood or building. Go around to your
neighbors and tell them you will take their stuff outside and sit with it all day to sell it if they will
donate half or all of the proceeds to your group. Since this is stuff people want to rid of anyway, it is
a good deal for them.
Happy Birthday:
Invite people to your birthday party and ask that in lieu of gifts they give donation to this foundation.
Make A Wish campaign:
A "Make a Wish Upon a Star" fundraiser works well with schools, churches, scout groups, etc.
To have one, make your own stars out of colored paper or contact us and we will send you some
and then ask people to buy them for $1.00 (or amount of your choice) a piece. By doing so, they
can "make a wish" for themselves and for your cause. Then, to show off the support you've
received, you can hang the stars you've sold on a wall with a person's name on each.
Matching Gifts:
Find out which of your friends (perhaps this is true for you also) work in corporations with matching
gift programs. Then ask them to donate and get their gift matched, and ask them to ask their
co-workers to donate and get their gifts matched.
Churches:
If you belong to a church, research whether your church or theirs has a discretionary fund. Many
churches have small pools of money available to groups through a women's fellowship or pastor's
discretionary fund or various seldom-used endowments. Grants are often in the $50-$500 range
and so go largely untouched by fundraisers. Sometimes simply writing a letter will free up this money
and it tends to be renewable if someone is willing to ask the church yearly.
Ask if you can do a "second collection." The church passes the plate for its own collection and then
you give a brief talk (or sometimes the whole sermon) about MHE and the plate is passed again.
Service Clubs:
Solicit small businesses or service clubs for $500. If you own your own business and are involved in
business organizations or service clubs, this can be very effective. You can often raise $200-$500
with a simple proposal and oral presentation. Research all the service clubs in town and see what
their giving policies are. They often have formal giving guidelines for large grants of $2,000 and up,
but have smaller amounts of money available for specific small projects.
Ask friends who belong to service clubs, sororities, antique collecting groups, support groups,
bridge clubs, etc. Ask to discuss the MHE Research Foundation in their group and pass the hat for
donations. A once-a-year sweep of even small organizations can yield a surprising amount of funds.
Have a Sundae party:
Hold an ice cream social after church or on a hot, summer afternoon. This is an event that could
involve kids and get them involved in doing something good for the community.
Split the Pot poker party:
Get your gambling friends together. Charge a $5 entrance fee, and have a poker evening, asking
that every "pot" be split with the MHE Research Foundation. Individuals win and so do we. You can
charge extra for refreshments, or include one or two glasses of something with the price of
admission. (Watch the laws in your community on this one. In some communities it is illegal to
gamble, even in your own home.)
Dinner Ideas:
With 4 or 5 friends, have a Spaghetti Dinner at a church or union hall or other big room with a large
kitchen. Charge $10 per person and feed more than 50 people. You can charge extra for wine or
garlic bread or for dessert.
Have a Fancy Dinner:
At your home or a regular dinner at someone's fancy home. Serve unusual or gourmet food, or have
special entertainment. Charge $25 or more per person, and have 20 or more guests.
Get three friends to help you have a Progressive Dinner: Start at one person's home
for cocktails and hors d'oeuvres, progress to the next person's house for soup or salad, the next
person's for the main course, and the last person for dessert. Either charge by course, or for the
whole package.
To make it extra special (and much more expensive), get a limousine for the evening that carries
guests from house to house.
Host a Wine and Cheese Party:
Do not charge admission and invite as many people as you can. During the party, give a short talk
about MHE, and ask everyone to consider a gift of $25, $50, or $100 or more (depending on the
crowd). Either pass out Hosting donation cars & envelopes and ask people to give then, or after the
party contact everyone individually who came send them out then. Hosting donation cards can be
obtained by contacting our foundation.
Start a Pyramid Dinner or a Chain Dinner: Invite 12 people and charge $12 each. Get two
people of the twelve you invited to invite 12 people each at $12, and two people from each of those
two dinners to invite 12 people at @$12, and so on. Here's the income: Your dinner 12x$12 = $144,
From your dinner 12 x(12+12) = $288, From those dinners 12x(12+12+12+12) = $576. Twelve is
used as an example.
Service Sale
Organize a service sale:
Get four people (one can be you) to donate a simple but valuable service that many people could use
and sell changes for $3-$5 each. Keep the price a little high so you don't have to sell so many and
so that the buyers have a higher chance of winning. Services can include child care for a weekend or
for any weekend night two weekends in a row; one day of housecleaning; yard work; house painting
(interior or exterior), etc. Sell the tickets to neighbors, work mates, etc. Encourage people to buy
several by offering discounts for multiple purchases, such as one for $5, 3 for $13, 4 for $17, 5 for
$20. If you are really bold or live in a more affluent area, sell the tickets for $20 each. A full day of
housecleaning for $20 is a real bargain, and buyers have a high chance of winning with fewer tickets
sold.
Childhood Collections:
If as a child, you collected something avidly that you now store in a basement, consider selling it.
Coins and stamps are particularly valuable and have usually increased in value over the years. But
your collection of rocks, toy ships, rockets, arrowheads, or dolls can also be valuable. When you
donate the income from the sale, you can deduct that sale amount from your taxes -- an added
bonus of this strategy since you probably paid little or nothing for the items in the collection.
Teach What You Know:
Lead or get someone to lead a nature walk, an architectural tour, a historic tour, a sailing trip, a
rafting trip, or a horseback ride. Teach a seminar or tutor on a topic you know: fundraising, knitting,
organic gardening, organizing, proposal writing, gourmet cooking, dog grooming computer skills.
Charge $15-25 per person, or charge $35 and provide lunch.
Are you Artistic? Do have an Artistic side of you burning to get out ?
If you have an artistic side, offer to design greeting cards to specification for organizations or
individuals for a fee. If you are good at calligraphy, sell your skills to schools for graduation
announcement, friends for classy but low-cost wedding invitations, or just fun certificates such as
"World's Greatest Dad" for Father's Day or "Outstanding Friend." Create unique Halloween costumes
or masks. Donate the proceeds from your artistry.
Walk-a-thons, Bowl-a-thons, Swim-a-thons, etc:
Hold some type of a-thon event, a walk-a-thon, a bike-a-thon, a swim-a-thon, a bowl-a-thon, etc.
People collect pledges for how far they walk, how many laps they swim, how many strikes or points
they get, etc. Consider holding the event at a local school or even in a mall.
Resolve to Quit a Bad Habit for a Good Cause:
Offer to do something your friends and family that have been nagging you to do anyway, and attach
a price to it. For example, quit smoking on the condition that your friends and family give a donation
(This method could be applied to other healthy behaviors, such as exercising or not eating sugar.)
A Nice Getaway:
If you have a vacation home and would like to rent it out to give someone a nice getaway. The
proceeds can be donated to our foundation.
MHE Golf Outing:
Contact us to find out how you can host/chair a golf outing to benefit MHE Research.
Special Occasion Scrolls: Gifts to Remember:
Honor guests of your next wedding, bar mitzvah or other special occasion like the birth of a child by
giving them their own MHE Research Foundation scroll.
By making a $3-5 donation (per guest) to the foundation, our foundation will create and send scrolls
to you. An elegant white ribbon will tie around each scroll.
The scrolls can be placed on reception tables or other locations of your choosing. Each will thank
your guest for sharing this special day with you, as well as recognize the donation you made in lieu
of a traditional gift.
Leave a Bequest:
A strategy with a long-deferred payoff (we hope) is to include the MHE Research Foundation in your
Will. If you would like information on how to make such a bequest, please contact the main office at
1-877-486-1758 or email fundraising@mheresearchfoundation.org. We will have our foundations
President Craig A Eaton esq. contact you.
Do you have a bulletin board at work or a web blog ? Post a copy of this information, the MHE
Research Foundations Brochure or the Foundations Donation Form.
Families have raised funds for MHE research simply by mailing letters to friends and family. Holiday
time is an especially good time to do this since people are already in a giving mood and many are
thinking about year-end charitable giving. We can even help you write these letters, if you'd like!
"Change" the World with the wings of hope:
Ask 5-10 people to save all their change for 3-5 months. You save yours. Count it at the end of the
prescribed time and you may be surprised to find how much you've raised.
Garage Sales, Bake Sales, Book Sales.
Ask 2-5 friends to help with a bake sale, book sale, or garage sale. You and your friends bake the
goodies, or get the books or other stuff required for the sale, staff it, and help clean up afterwards.
This is an excellent way to get people involved in fundraising without ever actually asking them for
money.
Another idea:
Have a sidewalk sale or garage sale for your whole neighborhood or building. Go around to your
neighbors and tell them you will take their stuff outside and sit with it all day to sell it if they will
donate half or all of the proceeds to your group. Since this is stuff people want to rid of anyway, it is
a good deal for them.
Happy Birthday:
Invite people to your birthday party and ask that in lieu of gifts they give donation to this foundation.
Make A Wish campaign:
A "Make a Wish Upon a Star" fundraiser works well with schools, churches, scout groups, etc.
To have one, make your own stars out of colored paper or contact us and we will send you some
and then ask people to buy them for $1.00 (or amount of your choice) a piece. By doing so, they
can "make a wish" for themselves and for your cause. Then, to show off the support you've
received, you can hang the stars you've sold on a wall with a person's name on each.
Matching Gifts:
Find out which of your friends (perhaps this is true for you also) work in corporations with matching
gift programs. Then ask them to donate and get their gift matched, and ask them to ask their
co-workers to donate and get their gifts matched.
Churches:
If you belong to a church, research whether your church or theirs has a discretionary fund. Many
churches have small pools of money available to groups through a women's fellowship or pastor's
discretionary fund or various seldom-used endowments. Grants are often in the $50-$500 range
and so go largely untouched by fundraisers. Sometimes simply writing a letter will free up this money
and it tends to be renewable if someone is willing to ask the church yearly.
Ask if you can do a "second collection." The church passes the plate for its own collection and then
you give a brief talk (or sometimes the whole sermon) about MHE and the plate is passed again.
Service Clubs:
Solicit small businesses or service clubs for $500. If you own your own business and are involved in
business organizations or service clubs, this can be very effective. You can often raise $200-$500
with a simple proposal and oral presentation. Research all the service clubs in town and see what
their giving policies are. They often have formal giving guidelines for large grants of $2,000 and up,
but have smaller amounts of money available for specific small projects.
Ask friends who belong to service clubs, sororities, antique collecting groups, support groups,
bridge clubs, etc. Ask to discuss the MHE Research Foundation in their group and pass the hat for
donations. A once-a-year sweep of even small organizations can yield a surprising amount of funds.
Have a Sundae party:
Hold an ice cream social after church or on a hot, summer afternoon. This is an event that could
involve kids and get them involved in doing something good for the community.
Split the Pot poker party:
Get your gambling friends together. Charge a $5 entrance fee, and have a poker evening, asking
that every "pot" be split with the MHE Research Foundation. Individuals win and so do we. You can
charge extra for refreshments, or include one or two glasses of something with the price of
admission. (Watch the laws in your community on this one. In some communities it is illegal to
gamble, even in your own home.)
Dinner Ideas:
With 4 or 5 friends, have a Spaghetti Dinner at a church or union hall or other big room with a large
kitchen. Charge $10 per person and feed more than 50 people. You can charge extra for wine or
garlic bread or for dessert.
Have a Fancy Dinner:
At your home or a regular dinner at someone's fancy home. Serve unusual or gourmet food, or have
special entertainment. Charge $25 or more per person, and have 20 or more guests.
Get three friends to help you have a Progressive Dinner: Start at one person's home
for cocktails and hors d'oeuvres, progress to the next person's house for soup or salad, the next
person's for the main course, and the last person for dessert. Either charge by course, or for the
whole package.
To make it extra special (and much more expensive), get a limousine for the evening that carries
guests from house to house.
Host a Wine and Cheese Party:
Do not charge admission and invite as many people as you can. During the party, give a short talk
about MHE, and ask everyone to consider a gift of $25, $50, or $100 or more (depending on the
crowd). Either pass out Hosting donation cars & envelopes and ask people to give then, or after the
party contact everyone individually who came send them out then. Hosting donation cards can be
obtained by contacting our foundation.
Start a Pyramid Dinner or a Chain Dinner: Invite 12 people and charge $12 each. Get two
people of the twelve you invited to invite 12 people each at $12, and two people from each of those
two dinners to invite 12 people at @$12, and so on. Here's the income: Your dinner 12x$12 = $144,
From your dinner 12 x(12+12) = $288, From those dinners 12x(12+12+12+12) = $576. Twelve is
used as an example.
Service Sale
Organize a service sale:
Get four people (one can be you) to donate a simple but valuable service that many people could use
and sell changes for $3-$5 each. Keep the price a little high so you don't have to sell so many and
so that the buyers have a higher chance of winning. Services can include child care for a weekend or
for any weekend night two weekends in a row; one day of housecleaning; yard work; house painting
(interior or exterior), etc. Sell the tickets to neighbors, work mates, etc. Encourage people to buy
several by offering discounts for multiple purchases, such as one for $5, 3 for $13, 4 for $17, 5 for
$20. If you are really bold or live in a more affluent area, sell the tickets for $20 each. A full day of
housecleaning for $20 is a real bargain, and buyers have a high chance of winning with fewer tickets
sold.
Childhood Collections:
If as a child, you collected something avidly that you now store in a basement, consider selling it.
Coins and stamps are particularly valuable and have usually increased in value over the years. But
your collection of rocks, toy ships, rockets, arrowheads, or dolls can also be valuable. When you
donate the income from the sale, you can deduct that sale amount from your taxes -- an added
bonus of this strategy since you probably paid little or nothing for the items in the collection.
Teach What You Know:
Lead or get someone to lead a nature walk, an architectural tour, a historic tour, a sailing trip, a
rafting trip, or a horseback ride. Teach a seminar or tutor on a topic you know: fundraising, knitting,
organic gardening, organizing, proposal writing, gourmet cooking, dog grooming computer skills.
Charge $15-25 per person, or charge $35 and provide lunch.
Are you Artistic? Do have an Artistic side of you burning to get out ?
If you have an artistic side, offer to design greeting cards to specification for organizations or
individuals for a fee. If you are good at calligraphy, sell your skills to schools for graduation
announcement, friends for classy but low-cost wedding invitations, or just fun certificates such as
"World's Greatest Dad" for Father's Day or "Outstanding Friend." Create unique Halloween costumes
or masks. Donate the proceeds from your artistry.
Walk-a-thons, Bowl-a-thons, Swim-a-thons, etc:
Hold some type of a-thon event, a walk-a-thon, a bike-a-thon, a swim-a-thon, a bowl-a-thon, etc.
People collect pledges for how far they walk, how many laps they swim, how many strikes or points
they get, etc. Consider holding the event at a local school or even in a mall.
Resolve to Quit a Bad Habit for a Good Cause:
Offer to do something your friends and family that have been nagging you to do anyway, and attach
a price to it. For example, quit smoking on the condition that your friends and family give a donation
(This method could be applied to other healthy behaviors, such as exercising or not eating sugar.)
A Nice Getaway:
If you have a vacation home and would like to rent it out to give someone a nice getaway. The
proceeds can be donated to our foundation.
MHE Golf Outing:
Contact us to find out how you can host/chair a golf outing to benefit MHE Research.
Special Occasion Scrolls: Gifts to Remember:
Honor guests of your next wedding, bar mitzvah or other special occasion like the birth of a child by
giving them their own MHE Research Foundation scroll.
By making a $3-5 donation (per guest) to the foundation, our foundation will create and send scrolls
to you. An elegant white ribbon will tie around each scroll.
The scrolls can be placed on reception tables or other locations of your choosing. Each will thank
your guest for sharing this special day with you, as well as recognize the donation you made in lieu
of a traditional gift.
Leave a Bequest:
A strategy with a long-deferred payoff (we hope) is to include the MHE Research Foundation in your
Will. If you would like information on how to make such a bequest, please contact the main office at
1-877-486-1758 or email fundraising@mheresearchfoundation.org. We will have our foundations
President Craig A Eaton esq. contact you.
Do you have a bulletin board at work or a web blog ? Post a copy of this information, the MHE
Research Foundations Brochure or the Foundations Donation Form.
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Good Search Tab above and be sure to enter the MHE Research Foundation as the charity you want
to support. If 1,000 people with using Good Search twice a day for a year, MHERF could raise
$7,300. 00 without anyone spending a dime!, be sure to spread the word!
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Donations of raffle prizes and items for auctions during event are greatly appreciated.
Sponsorships from families as well as Corporate Sponsorships is another way to help
support our mission. There are many more ideas listed below. MHE needs all the help we
get recive from everyone, no matter how big or small. The amount add up quickly, when
we all lend a helping hand.
Sponsorships from families as well as Corporate Sponsorships is another way to help
support our mission. There are many more ideas listed below. MHE needs all the help we
get recive from everyone, no matter how big or small. The amount add up quickly, when
we all lend a helping hand.
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National Library of Medicine, Directory of Health Organizations (SIS) website, as well as the link for Patient
Information on The Diseases Database a cross-referenced index of human disease, and the Intute: health & life
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