A young Man named Miles Levin passed away yesterday. He was, and remains, a revolutionary thinker whose words will transcend the ages. In memory of his gracious and beautiful struggle, his family has set up a fund to be used in the eradication of childhood cancers, and assumedly cancer at large. It would behoove the Company from a moral and marketing standpoint to donate to this fund.
The address for the fund is:
UJF – Miles Alpern Levin Fund PO Box 2030 Bloomfield Hills, MI 48303
~cmc
Posted by Tstorm (Member # 1871) on :
I just read the story on CNN.
Um, I'm not attempting to be flippant, but which company? Or do you mean "the company of people at Hatrack"?
Posted by cmc (Member # 9549) on :
I sent it out to a few corporations yesterday. I started with BJ's Wholesale Club and then went from there...
The Company is my general.
Posted by MrSquicky (Member # 1802) on :
cmc, Do you work for this foundation or have other financial interests in it?
Posted by cmc (Member # 9549) on :
Nope - not at all. I just heard about that kid back in May and followed his story.
Posted by cmc (Member # 9549) on :
I'm deleting this in about an hour because I don't feel like getting all the slack I'm getting just for trying to do something nice.
At least I'm warning you that I'm deleting it.
Posted by Strider (Member # 1807) on :
how bout a link to some more information about this story and the person and the foundation?
Posted by erosomniac (Member # 6834) on :
quote:Originally posted by cmc: I'm deleting this in about an hour because I don't feel like getting all the slack I'm getting just for trying to do something nice.
At least I'm warning you that I'm deleting it.
Are you kidding?
You post a letter you've written to corporations with no explanation, no explanation of the fund in question, no links to supporting news stories or a foundation website and so receive one question clarifying what you meant by "The Company" (which, given your post's lack of explanation, was pretty confusing) and one unaggressive inquiry for full disclosure, which is a legitimate, appropriate thing to ask for.
And you think people are giving you flack? (I'm assuming that's what you meant when you said "slack.")
Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
You're not getting that much argument really.
Give us a link and ignore squicky, there's no reason to delete.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
She's catching a bit more flack on the other side, although that's really more about the double posting than anything else.
Cmc, instead of deleting the threads, why not just post a little more information about this kid? I don't have a problem with this thread being deleted, really, because no one has posted anything substative in it, and I appreciate your warning us that you're going to delete it, but it doesn't really seem necessary. Plus, if this kid's story is noteworthy, better to put it out there where the rest of us can discover it, eh?
Posted by Morbo (Member # 5309) on :
quote:Originally posted by cmc: I'm deleting this in about an hour because I don't feel like getting all the slack I'm getting ...
Apparently, the cause is not worth that much of a fight...maybe a mild scuffle.
Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
Please leave one thread, prefferably this one that more people will read. I would even be ok with you deleting it and reposting with rewording. Because the issue isn't what has been posted, but that it is actually a topic I'd like to follow.
And really less than 20 replies is nothing, you could have hundreds telling you you suck.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
quote:Originally posted by breyerchic04: you could have hundreds telling you you suck.
Beryerchic04--finding the silver lining on Hatrack since 2004.
Posted by MrSquicky (Member # 1802) on :
I would like to point out, I'm not going to send a check to a some P.O. box someone posted on the internet without much of anything else. Nor, were I responsible for financial decisions at a company, send a check to some P.O. box that someone sent to me in a letter or especially an email.
To put it another way, I think you are using a remarkably poor solicitation technique. Your approach is almost guaranteed to make people think that this is likely a scam.
Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
Its the second day of the semester, the silver lining is kind of important.
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
I also read some of his story online on news sites, but they didn't post a link to his blog, although they said it is very moving. You have a link to it?
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
I'd like to see this thread stay, too, although I don't think the one on the "Discussions about OSC" side needs to.
More importantly, I'd like to know more about why cmc has taken up this cause. It's a fascinating story in its own right, but I'm especially curious as to why it moved you to action, cmc. Did you know him online, or does the topic strike a particular chord in you?
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
quote:Originally posted by ClaudiaTherese: I'd like to know more about why cmc has taken up this cause. It's a fascinating story in its own right, but I'm especially curious as to why it moved you to action, cmc.
Agreed.
By the way, hi cmc! It's been a while!
Posted by Strider (Member # 1807) on :
his blog is on www.carepages.com, but you have to register to be able to view it, so I haven't seen it.
Posted by Strider (Member # 1807) on :
but seriously cmc, if you want companies to donate money to that fund, you should provide some more in depth information in your letter.
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
I thought I remembered seeing this story on the front of the newspaper (Detroit News). I had conflicting thoughts at the time, and still do. Something about his story is both familiar and distant. I'm a suburban Detroit kid too, but in a very different neighborhood. He lived in Bloomfield Hills and went to Cranbrook, which screams money money money, so it's a bit easier for a kid on the south side of Royal Oak to want to dismiss him, because he had so many more chances in life to begin with than I'll ever have. That might sound callous, but I guess you'd have to grow up in the shadow of a bunch of richer cities and interact with kids from richer schools all the time to get the accumulation of bitterness some of us got, even from our cross town rivals on the north side of town.
But he went to Beaumont Hospital, where I was born, and where two of my cousins work, one as a nurse and the other in administration. I've lost a grandmother and several other family members to cancer, and most recently my mother's best friend died of it as well. There's just something spooky in reading a story about a kid not so much unlike myself from so short a distance away, it helps the story strike home. And in the end he'll never have the thousands of chances at life that I'll have, which makes any of my bitterness sound moot and selfish.
Anyway, it's a great story. I'm curious though, as to where this money specifically would go to. What makes this fund better than Livestrong, or to something like the American Cancer Society? Or will this fund just go to one of those larger funds, or will it be given to some specific child cancer research center?
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