Last Call for NAMI-Hol!
The big day is nearing! This Saturday I will be walking for NAMI, which is an amazing organization! From their website:
From its inception in 1979, NAMI has been dedicated to improving the lives of individuals and families affected by mental illness.
For three decades, NAMI has established itself as the most formidable grassroots mental health advocacy organization in the country. Dedication, steadfast commitment and unceasing belief in NAMI’s mission by grassroots advocates have produced profound changes. NAMI’s greatest strength is the dedication of our grassroots leaders and members. We are the families, friends and individuals that serve to strengthen communities across the country.
Due in large part to generous individual, corporate, and foundation donations, NAMI is able to build on its success and continue to focus on three cornerstones of activity that offer hope, reform, and health to our American community: Awareness, Education, and Advocacy.
Not only will I be walking to raise donations for the organization, but I will also be volunteering at a booth for “metabolic screening.” Some folks will be taking weights, doing finger sticks, and measuring blood pressures. I will be “counseling” people after they’ve been screened on ways to eat more healthily, get more exercise and lose weight (if indicated).
I plan on posting photos of the event afterwards (thanks for volunteering to be the photographer, Micah!), and I might even bring my two doggie doos!
A humungous THANKS to everyone who has already donated:
Stephen/John Goldfinger/Gibbons
Stephanie Burgess
Maritza Breese
Hina T
Doug Shapiro
Linda Campbell
ChiChi Onyemaechi
Bri Campbell
Michael Myers
Julena Campbell
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Ellen Berkowitz
If you haven’t yet donated, this is my final plea for support! Go here to view my page and donate: http://www.nami.org/namiwalks11/NYC/kendracampbell
Thanks everyone, it shall be a wonderful day for a wonderful cause!
Photo: I don’t have my NAMI t-shirt yet, so please accept this photo of my “backyard” instead. As soon as I get my NAMI shirt, I promise to model it!