Carpe Diem for M.E. Research with INVEST in ME

Seize the Day!

 Wonderful news yesterday that the WPI (Whittemore Peterson Institute for Neuro-Immune Disease) in Nevada USA has won $100,000 regional prize with Vivint! Yay! Well done, everybody involved! Lots of little votes paved the way to a chunk of vital funding!


It shows that where fundraising is concerned for M.E. and underfunded research, there is a real urgency to "Carpe diem!" - Seize the day!

In the UK, we can seize our day by clicking the link above and getting ourselves along to nominate INVEST in ME for its chance to be in the top ten nominees for the September Cause of the Month with Easy Fundraising UK.

If you're having a bad day, if you're just too brain-foggy today and can't concentrate to write much, you can just copy and paste info across into the form at the foot of the nominations and comments page, telling why INVEST in ME should win the funding. (See below)

We have until Monday September 17th to nominate. The resulting top 10 charities will be announced on Sep 17th and then people have till midday on September 30th to vote.


Every little effort helps!
The winner will get a donation of £200 from Viking
That could be £200 more towards bio-medical research into M.E.!


Here below's an explanation from info given on Invest in ME's wonderful website that you could cut and paste to explain why you are nominating them: copy and paste into the form on the link below and the Diem is truly Carpe-d!

I would like to nominate INVEST in ME.

They are an independent UK charity campaigning for bio-medical research into Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (M.E.), as defined by WHO-ICD-10-G93.3.
They have links nationwide and also internationally. Invest in ME are one of the founding members of The European M.E. Alliance.

Their aim is to bring together like-minded individuals and groups to campaign for research and funding to establish an understanding of the Aetiology (causes), Pathogenesis (harmful effects) and Epidemiology (the pattern of distribution of a disease through a population) of M.E. This should lead to the development of a universal "thumb-print" test for diagnosis of M.E. and, subsequently, medical treatments to cure or alleviate the effects of the illness.

Invest in ME want to establish a national strategy of biomedical research into M.E.

Please join us and help make M.E. an illness which is properly understood and where adequate funding is provided for biomedical research into ME allowing treatments and cures  to be found.

EasyFundraising.org.uk Cause of the Month September 2011

What are we waiting for? 

We can do it for M.E. together!

Then you owe yourself a quiet time with a cup of something warm and comforting in this autumn air, listening to something soothing! 

Take care of yourself XXX