Dear friends
On Sunday, November 5, I will be running 26.2 miles in the 2016 TCS New York City Marathon. I am running on the Arthritis Foundation team in support of the 50 million people, including 300,000 children, who live with arthritis pain every day.
I set a goal to raise $3,000 and I need your help. With your donation, the Arthritis Foundation leads cutting-edge research, advocates for access to the critical medications, and provides life-changing information and resources to help people like me live a full life.
$25 – Your gift helps provide educational materials and online information so that people with arthritis can live better with this debilitating disease, which strikes one in every five Americans.
$50 – Your gift helps address the needs of the 300,000 kids diagnosed with arthritis, including educational opportunities, camps and other support to help manage their condition.
$100 – Your gift helps advance scientific research, making possible new breakthrough discoveries for better treatments to reduce arthritis pain and increase mobility.
$250 – Your gift helps make arthritis a national health priority through our advocacy efforts, pushing for policies and laws that protect arthritis patients and their families.
$500 – Your gift helps accelerate research to end arthritis pain and disability, unlocking other funds that can multiply to thousands, even millions, of dollars to cure this terrible disease.
You can support me in two ways:
- You can visit my personal fundraising site to make an online donation:
https://www.crowdrise.com/arthritisfoundationnyc2016/fundraiser/olgapetryna
or
- You can write a check to the Arthritis Foundation and mail it to:
Arthritis Foundation
Olga Petryna’s Marathon Campaign
122 East 42nd Street, 18th Floor
New York, NY 10168
I joined the Arthritis Foundation’s TCS New York City Marathon Team to help create a world where people don’t have to struggle to button their shirt, tie their shoe or pick up their child or grandchild. Your support can help me make a difference.