OK, we are finally going to get state events planned, develop state OCF coordinators who will work with hospitals other volunteers, and run events such a cycling for awareness, run for early detection, etc. and interface with print, radio, and TV media. About a dozen people have offered to start the grass roots effort to put OCF on the map in the media, and get involved with fundraising. I have learned a lot from recent interactions with the Lance Armstrong Foundation and others, and I think that we are ready to take our first small steps in doing this. Of course this all comes at a good time as or national exposure in print ads that are going to start appearing in newspapers, and the PSA's with Blythe Danner and Jack Klugman are going to start hitting the airwaves as well. Volunteers can run the gamut from those who just want to do a few hours a month of work on their computers, to those that want to get out and speak at schools and in front of the media. Obviously there are lots of little pieces of the puzzle in between these two levels of involvement that have to be filled to pull something like a fund raiser off.

A new forum where those of us that are going to make this happen has been started at the bottom of the forum list. It is where we will all come to work out the details of a variety of initiatives, events, etc., and coordinate making it all happen. If you want to be part of making a change in the world, and in this disease specifically, now is the time to stand up and be counted. Even if you have offered your time to OCF before, please re send your contact information to me by email, and I will send you the password to get into the new forum. After we get enough people involved, even if it is just in one state