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clintonphoto.com You can
join the team a lot of ways. Let’s
Race Against Diabetes together! |
FREE T-SHIRTS! ____________________ To get a
free I’m Racing Against Diabetes T-shirt, give us your pledge that you will: ·
Form a team ·
Train with your team ·
Wear the shirt! Click here for the
pledge form. (Sorry, you’ll have to
snail-mail it to us!) T-shirts
are all-cotton, navy blue with white letters. They say “RAD Racing
Against Diabetes Foundation” on the top-left front, and “I’m
Racing Against Diabetes” on the back. ____________________ ____________________ HELP US BUY MORE T-SHIRTS TO GIVE AWAY! As we mention on the left, contributions are good, so we can give
away more T-shirts. We want everyone
in the U.S. wearing one! Like the T-shirt pledges, you’ll have to send any donations to RADF
by snail-mail. Sorry! (Coach Terry has learned a lot doing all
this, but he’s not ready to set up on-line donations yet . . . . Plus we’re not such pro’s at this that we
could absolutely guarantee someone couldn’t hack in and steal credit card
numbers.) If you want to help us buy
more T-shirts, please send a tax-deductible contribution to Racing Against
Diabetes Foundation at: RADF P.O. Box 86301 San Diego, CA 92138-6301 We’ll send you back an acknowledgement for tax purposes, and a RADF membership certificate—and our
sincere thanks! ____________________ Why free T-shirts? —Because when you wear your “I’m RAD” T-shirt, you’re committed! You won’t let yourself be a couch
potato when you wear it, and you’ll get support from everyone who sees it! Plus you’ll help get the message out—that we all need to start
training to win the Race Against Diabetes! |
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“Join Us” Q&A’s Why join
us? ·
Prevent diabetes or diabetes complications for
yourself and your family. ·
Help us prevent the diabetes epidemic—save the
country! ·
Get a free T-shirt—hey, that’s OK with us if
that’s your reason to join us: you’ll
train and help us get the message out to others when you wear it. How can I
join the RAD Team? ·
Form your own RAD team
and train! Recruit your family and
friends to ride/walk/exercise/train with you, because no one can train
alone. We need each other! We can win the Race Against Diabetes if we
all help each other! We’re all on the
team! ·
Send us your pledge to train—we’ll send you a RAD T-shirt
free. (See “Free T-shirts!” in the
box on the right.) ·
Wear that RAD T-shirt and help save the country! Wearing that shirt and telling everyone
you’re training goes a long way, both for you and for everyone you tell. We’re all in the race, whether we like it
or not! ·
Ask us for free coaching advice by e-mail. You’re on the team! ·
You can donate to RADF to buy
more T-shirts to give away to others.
(See below.) We’ll send you a RADF
membership certificate. You’re on the
team! ·
Come out and cheer for Coach Patty during the Race
Across America—her half of the 2007 RAD Tour of America.
You’re on the team! ·
Come out and talk to Coach Terry during his return
half of the RAD
Tour—and help pull him across the country too! You’re on the team! ·
Help us us get media attention, or public
attention, for the message that everyone needs to start racing against
diabetes. And wear that T-shirt! What’s it
cost to join the RAD Team? ·
Nothing.
Zip! We’re doing this to get
everyone training, not to collect money!
Send us your pledge to train—we’ll send you a T-shirt free. Can I
donate to RADF? ·
OK, contributions are good, so that we can
expand the team by giving away more T-shirts until everyone in the country
has one! Our freeT-shirt program is a
big part of our plan to get everyone training. ·
Contributions are tax-deductible (IRS will grant
501c3 status shortly, backdated to January 2006), and your contrbutions will only
be used to buy more T-shirts. ·
If you donate to RADF we’ll
send you a RADF membership certificate and an acknowledgement for tax
purposes. (You’ll also get our sincere
appreciation . . . and the appreciation of 300 million Americans when we save
the country together!) ·
RADF funds
will also be used for mailing flyers and buying and mailing T‑shirts,
but Coach Terry and Coach Patty’s own contributions paid for a color printer
and a scanner to save costs at Staples/Kinko’s, and their contributions will
continue to cover everything except more and more T‑shirts (at least
until corporate sponsors join us for advertising or events). Coaches Terry and Patty personally paid
for the 2006 RAAM event, and will personally pay for all of the 2007 RADF
Tour. (RADF uses
their computers, house, phone & Internet for free—along with the new way‑expensive
camera they just bought to help publicize the 2007 Tour better.) ·
RADF will
never pay salaries. We’re
grass-roots, and we’re committed to winning the race! (—Sorry to run on about how RADF will
use its funds, but we recently saw the salaries of CEOs of charitable
organizations we’ve given a lot of money to in the past, and we’re disenchanted
. . . . See www.charitynavigator.org if
you’re curious.) How will
this help kids avoid diabetes? ·
Aw, gosh . . . that’s a rhetorical question, isn’t
it . . . ? You’ve figured that out
long since—we not only have to show our kids what to do, we have to do it
with them. Your kids are part of your
team ( . . . even when they don’t act like they’re on the team . . . ), and you
have to lead the team! But they’ll
get excited when they see you training! We can win the race against diabetes! We must! |
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