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Hi, as I posted on General Support, Bill Gates &, his wife, Melinda, are SOLEY going to focus on their charitable organizations in 2 years...even now, they donate 1 BILLION a yearI just read!
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We need to hit them up about Lyme Disease. If we can get them to donate to the Columbia Research Center, say something like a couple million dollars, that would be wonderful.
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In fact, this is something we need to do NOW.
This needs to be a co-ordinated effort, and we need to make as efficient a presentation as possible.
Who knows how much we could get??
My guess is quite a bit. Gates is spending a lot on malaria and HIV.
If we can get a chance to speak with his wife, maybe we can get this thing rolling. I hear she is very sympathetic to the sick who have no one working to help them.
Maybe if we clearly explain the situation to her, and tell that Columbia is the only place that wants to help us, they can make a large donation. I see this as an extremely likely occurance of our getting such a grant if we do this right.
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Sure. I think this is a freaking great idea. We allow them to know that Columbia is the only place helping us. We let them know the US government is doing NOTHING AS WE SUFFER.
Columbia University is willing to do something.
Give them a grant so they can help us.
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IF we wrote individual letters would that be at all effective? I dont know how to write a grant. But I can tell my story in a page and be rather convincing.
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