I am up to my ass in alligators right now, but the first thing will be to write a letter to Mark Burnett the producer of The Apprentice. Someone (or more than one person) in the message boards readership needs to take the first whack at this. I will have an address for him on Monday, via an agency in Hollywood that I have friends in. This address will be better than what is listed for him in VIP directories. We need to pitch the idea, who we are, and what they, the public, and the foundation get out of it. Several people should take a shot at the first draft of the letter, then after massaging a few versions out of it; we will get the membership to contact him directly with it. I was told by my Hollywood friends that The Apprentice has indeed done a charity related challenge a while back and it was for the pediatric AIDS foundation, and they are very heavily tied to Glassier there.... I don't know that we will break through that relationship, but we need to try. The fact that our disease is not well known by the public is a major point in comparison to AIDS. The fact that we are much smaller as an organization, and their shows impact on our disease (via public awareness, literacy, and early detection) as a result would be greater is a factor. The fact that our disease is not waiting for a new wonder drug to change the toll of death, but that that toll can be reduced through public awareness and early detection is a major point


Brian, stage 4 oral cancer survivor. OCF Founder and Director. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.