Guest guest Posted May 7, 2008 Report Share Posted May 7, 2008 Dear PROVE Members, We are asking you to please consider sending us a monetary contribution by linking to: http://www.vaccineinfo.net/subscribe/donations/index.shtml If we are not able to raise enough money, our email list will unfortunately have to be shut down by the end of this month. We recently were contacted by our web hosting company informing us that the amount of email that goes through our server for our email news while utilizing software to maintain privacy and confidentiality of our members is slowing down their operations for their national and international customers so much that that in order to continue, we would have to significantly upgrade our services to have our own dedicated server. For over the last decade, some of you have been very generous helping cover some of our expenses to keep our website and email list active, but the bulk of the costs associated with running PROVE have been paid for directly by our family and ’s family. We have run PROVE as a true grassroots organization. Unlike the well financed operations trying to force people to vaccinate, we are just a couple of moms with supportive husbands and kids who believe in our mission. We never wanted to require a monetary membership for people to have access to information on how to get involved in protecting their rights since the bias against families making informed consent choices where they refuse vaccines is so strong. Over the years, we have asked for financial support less than a handful of times to get past previous growing pains or to pay for new computers. While the prospect of having this kind of reach to so many families wanting reliable information about vaccines is exciting, our families simply cannot afford to absorb the costs necessary to continue this work to keep our member families informed. Over the years we have made decisions involving financial sacrifices for our families so we could cover these ongoing and growing expenses. We have done this in a way to maintain your privacy and have never given your email addresses or personal information to an email listserve, and continuing down this path, which we feel very strongly is the absolute right thing to do, is more expensive. We need your generous gifts today. Through our work utilizing our email lists and website, PROVE has had a tremendous impact on vaccine policies and practices in favor of informed consent and parental rights both nationally and at home in Texas. Considering the grassroots nature of PROVE, the accomplishments we have made are truly remarkable. With all of your past participation and donations, PROVE members have contributed to the securing of opt in consent provisions helping families avoid intrusive and invasive vaccine tracking systems, the implementation of a conscientious parental rights exemption in the state of Texas and numerous consultations to other state legislators seeking the same rights for their state, the insertion of protective language in state law prohibiting punitive action by Child Protective Services against a family for exercising their right to a vaccine exemption, educating the legislature in the State of Texas to assist them in overturning the Governor’s executive order to force vaccination of 11 year old girls with the new vaccine for the STD HPV, and many other accomplishments too numerous to list here. If you have benefitted at all from any of this and/or would like to see our work continue and grow, we need your generous monetary support today. Groups well-funded by vaccine manufacturers and others who profit from mandated vaccines abound, and we believe we have provided a rare and unique voice and a choice for parents questioning the safety of one-size-fits-all vaccine policies. Monetary contributions to offset our expenses are considered gifts and are NOT tax deductible. Gifts utilizing Paypal or a credit card can be made by linking to our website at: http://www.vaccineinfo.net/subscribe/donations/index.shtml or a check payable to “Dawn ” can be mailed to: Attn: Dawn PROVE P.O. Box 91566 Austin, TX 78709-1566 Our hosting company is unfortunately only letting us send this to a small subset of our members each day, so it will take us many many days to successfully get this out to everyone. If you have the ability to forward this to family and friends that appreciate our work and would consider giving right away, that will help us get the word out much quicker to raise the money to hopefully get us moving again. Thank you! Sincerely, Dawn and Rex M. Guppy My autism journey isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain.... Texas Autism Advocacy: " There are some aspects of a person's life that we have no right to compromise. We cannot negotiate the size of an institution. No one should live in one. We cannot debate who should get an inclusive education. Everyone should. We cannot determine who does and who does not get the right to make their own choices and forge their own futures. All must. " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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