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Fall/Winter 2009NEWSLETTER
AADP turns 20!!
For the past two decades, AADP continues to help save thelives of patients with life threatening blood diseases curableby a marrow/stem cell transplant. A special newsletter issue
on AADP’s 20 year journey is underway. Keep a look out forthis issue, you won’t want to miss it!
In This Issue
Love,
LAUGH
, Live...
Mark your calendars! LFL2010 will be onFebruary 26, 2010,at the Palace of Fine Arts, SF.Support AADP andbuy your ticketstoday!
OutreachCommunities...TECH SAVVY...
AADP is going web-mobile-friendly
How would you define the word
“giving”
and what does “giving”
mean to you? Does culture impactyour perspective on giving? Theefforts to break through existingmisconceptions, myths and facts,stereotypes, etc. about registrationand bone marrow/stem celldonation.
On July 25,
2009, Michelle Maykinpassed away after a courageous 2-year battle with cancer.
During herbattle Michelle, Van (college sweetheart andhusband), Megan (mother), Dr. Lam Do,and AADP worked with state and local gov-ernment officials from the City of San Joseto provide paid leave for city employees who desired to serve as organdonors (including bone marrow and stem cell donors) or volunteer forother life-saving medical procedures. Vice Mayor Dave Cortese worked
very hard to see that this policy was adopted by San Jose. “My goal is
to make it easy for everyone, including city employees, who want a
chance at saving a fellow human’s life, to be able to do so without anyimpact to their employment,” said Cortese.
Since the announcement of this adoption in June 2008 and thepassing of Michelle Maykin, Megan, Project Michelle, and AADP haveslowly made progress into other cities and on the state level. On Sep-tember 22, 2009, City of Berkeley Council Member Jesse Arreguinawarded a Resolution Honoring the Life of Michelle Maykin and UrgingPeople to Register as Bone Marrow Donors. We will continue to work
with Council Member Arreguin on adopting policy similar to San Jose’s.
AADP pays a tribute to Michelle Maykin and Nick Glasgow and the legacythey leave behind. How each person made an impact for searchingpatients and patient families, AADP, and the community.
Gift of Hope
Read inspiringdonor stories
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Executive Director
I am so glad to see that2009 is on its way out andI look forward to 2010.
Exciting times are ahead and AADP
is on it’s 20
th
year. Although every-one at AADP worked extremelyhard to reach our recruitment goal,this year we fell short. We are surethat every donor registered was well-educatedand will be a committed donor.
In light of our short fall, we are eager to redeem ourselves
.We registered over 12,000 donors bythe end of our fiscal year, September 2009.Thank you to every community group, corpora-tion, religious organization, volunteer, donor,and searching patients.
You helped make this possible.
I would like to acknowledge all the bravepatients searching for a donor who trusted uswith their stories, but lost their battles with can-cer: Michelle Maykin, Nick Glasgow, JorgeOchoa, Saret Silva, Erica Lepe, Geary Moya,Stan Kwong, Ben Yen and Min-Fei. You are for-ever in our hearts and it is all of you who helpus move into 2010 and encourage us to fighteven harder.
Our goal for 2010 has increased by15%. We must register 16,293 new donors.
We have a plan of action and we have added tothe AADP family by two.You will see AADP a little more oftenwhere you socially network (Twitter, Facebook,Blogs and LinkedIn). We have some fun eventsplanned, and yes, a recruitment drive almostevery day. Please visit our new website,
www.aadp.org
and find out how you can helpAADP achieve its goal and mission.Be part of the solution to saving a life!Happy Holidays!!
Carol Gillespie,
Messages From AADP
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Fund Development Director
2009 was a year ofchange
to say the least. Wegot a new president, lostMichael Jackson and Edward
Kennedy, and let’s not talk
about the economy.My name is Lisa Foon,and I was hired in June of 2009 as the newFund Development Director for Asian Ameri-can Donor Program. This is a very fittingplace to end up; my journey started withAADP as the wife of a patient in a desperatesearch for an unrelated match to help himsurvive Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. AADPdid find Barry a match, but it was too late be-cause his cancer spread, and he lost his battlein April 2007.
Because of AADP’s tireless efforts in
bone marrow recruitment, we were givenhope
.Hope is all you have when faced with
a tragedy…
hope is the difference betweenfighting and giving up. I am honored to be apart of this amazing organization.This year started off with a changing of
the guard…OBAMA. I was lucky enough to
attend the inauguration. What a lifetime ex-perience it was to be in Washington as hetook the oath to lead this country with hopefor a better day.
It is what AADP does every-
day…provide hope for a better tomorrow for some-
one with a life threatening disease.
As we approach 2010, I hope to accom-plish a goal to help build more publicawareness through education and gettingcorporations involved in helping our efforts.Finding new avenues of fundraising in analready burdened economic time will not beeasy, however,
it will be through these timesthat we can solidify the need to help others.
I know what it is to lose someone verydear. If I can help in some small way to makea difference for another family, it will be ablessing.
AADP has many exciting events in2010. There will be something for everyone!
Wehope to see you all at an event. You can go toour website,www.aadp.org, to get all thedetails.May 2010 bring much joy to your lives!
Our goal here at AADP is to recruit moredonors than ever. Please help us with ourefforts.
At the end of the day, it is all aboutthe goodness we put back into the universethat will define us.Sincerely,
Lisa E. Foon
Left to Right:
Glenna Lee, Donna Megino,James de Lara, Mellisa Kim,Ivonne Flores, Pawan Dhillon,Ruby Law, Carol Gillespie,Sandy Zhou, Annie Doan, andJonathan Leong.
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