Over $2K Raised So Far for MCMF Holiday Challenge on @Crowdrise

Hey everyone,

Thank you so much for helping our MCMF Holiday Challenge reach the $2000 mark! We couldn't do this without you -- Thank You!! For those of you reading about this challenge for the first time, the MCMF Holiday Challenge is the Matt Cwiertny Memorial Foundation's newest project on CrowdRise.

Our next goal? To hit the $3,000 milestone! We can do this. Let's save lives and help find a CURE... Every bit will definitely make a difference.

We're so excited about this challenge, as Mozilla Firefox will be donating $25,000 to the charity that raises the most funds on CrowdRise between December 13th and January 11th... Soooo, we definitely need everyone's help. Yep, everyone's. Please join our team. Please donate. Please join our team AND donate AND tell everyone in the world all about it too. 
 



Thank you again for your amazing support! You all totally ROCK. xo


Michele Cwiertny

Over $1800 Raised So Far for MCMF Holiday Challenge on @Crowdrise

Hey everyone,

Hope you're having a wonderful Holiday Season!

Just letting you know that our MCMF Holiday Challenge on CrowdRise has hit the $1800 mark -- Awesome! We're so, so close to $2,000... Who is going to help us reach that incredible milestone? :)

We're so excited about this challenge, as Mozilla Firefox will be donating $25,000 to the charity that raises the most funds on CrowdRise between December 13th and January 11th... Soooo, we definitely need everyone's help. Yep, everyone's. Please join our team. Please donate. Please join our team AND donate AND tell everyone in the world all about it too. 

Thank you very much for your support! Without you, the Matt Cwiertny Memorial Foundation wouldn't be able to save lives and help find a CURE.

Thank you!!

Michele

 

Over $1500 Raised So Far for MCMF Holiday Challenge on @Crowdrise

So Awesome!

Thanks to our very generous donors, our MCMF Holiday Challenge, which benefits the Matt Cwiertny Memorial Foundation, has reached the $1500 mark! So, so great. 

OK, so here's the new goal: Let's raise another $1K for the MCMF Holiday Challenge by this Sunday- Yay! Please help us save lives & find a CURE.

We're so excited about this challenge, as Mozilla Firefox will be donating $25,000 to the charity that raises the most funds on CrowdRise between December 13th and January 11th... Soooo, we definitely need everyone's help. Yep, everyone's. Please join our team. Please donate. Please join our team AND donate AND tell everyone in the world all about it too. :D


Thank you so much for your amazing support. You are all incredible people.
MC

Over $1K Raised So Far for MCMF Holiday Challenge on @Crowdrise

Awesome! Our MCMF Holiday Challenge is off to a good start... We've raised over $1,000 so far and we have 23 days to go! Let's keep going and help find a CURE for EBV and EBV-Associated diseases, which include blood cancers. We can do this.

The Matt Cwiertny Memorial Foundation needs your help. Join our team. Donate. Join our team and donate. Tell everyone in world all about this so we can make a difference.

To help the Matt Cwiertny Memorial Foundation win the Mozilla Firefox Challenge and the $25,000 donation toward our 2012 grant, please click here:

MCMF HOLIDAY CHALLENGE

Thank you so much for your amazing support!

MC

P.S. To find out more about our MCMF Holiday Challenge, please click the link above or read the previous post on this blog. Thank you! 

The MCMF Holiday Challenge on @Crowdrise

Please help the Matt Cwiertny Memorial Foundation win $25,000!

Mozilla Firefox will be donating $25,000 to the charity that raises the most money on Crowdrise between December 13th and January 11th... and how AWESOME would it be if the Matt Cwiertny Memorial Foundation won?! We can do this!!

PLEASE HELP! Join our team. Donate. Join our team and donate. Get your friends and family to join in and donate. We need everyone's help. Let's make certain our 2011 grant makes an impact and saves lives... and please, please help us start NEXT year's grant off with $25,000! Amazing, right?

Please help the Matt Cwiertny Memorial Foundation by donating here:
MCMF Holiday Challenge

So why does this matter so much to us? Here's why we're so passionate about this:

Matt was a 22-year-old junior art director for Marshall Advertising, who loved the L.A. Galaxy soccer, A.S. Roma, the Flight of the Conchords, The Dandy Warhols, Jack’s Mannequin, The 88, and Will Ferrell movies, when he got a really bad case of mono. We thought he'd recovered until six months later when Matt started getting extraordinarily high fevers, his blood pressure dropped, and his blood counts cratered. His doctors were confounded, especially when they concluded it was not mono. It was only after he went into respiratory failure that his doctors at USC learned he suffered from EBV-induced Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (EBV-HLH), a blood disorder affecting only 1 of every 1,000,000 persons (after a bone marrow biopsy, the doctors decided he'd had mono earlier). While EBV-HLH is not cancer, it acts and is treated like a cancer. The disorder destroys healthy blood cells, and is treated with chemotherapy, and a bone marrow transplant, if necessary. EBV-HLH often induces lymphoma, which it did in Matt. One month after his EBV-HLH diagnosis, Matt learned he was also battling NK T-Cell lymphoma, one of the most aggressive and least researched blood cancers there is.

In December 2008, Matt received his bone marrow transplant. While it temporarily put him in remission, his lymphoma returned in February 2009, and in June 2009, Matt learned it had returned in the form of an inoperable brain tumor. After chemo failed to put him in remission, Matt began radiation treatment. Before finishing it, he was readmitted to the City of Hope in late September 2009. At that time, Matt was in a weakened state, with his EBV levels extraordinarily high that it was debilitating to his liver and kidneys. Unfortunately, the doctors were unable to administer any treatment that could reverse the affects of the EBV and its impact on Matt’s vital organs… And at midnight on October 3, 2009, he passed away with his family surrounding him.

Please help us fund medical research for EBV and EBV-associated diseases, including blood cancers. We need cures and NOW. Let's do this.

To learn more about the Matt Cwiertny Memorial Foundation and what we want to accomplish, please visit: http://www.mattcwiertnymemorialfoundation.com

Thank you!