America’s Giving Challenge Ends Friday at 3 PM!

The Case Foundation, Causes, and PARADE Magazine’s month-long project to inspire charitable giving is coming to a close. The last day to make donations is this Friday, November 6th. America’s Giving Challenge is an effort to publicize small, continued giving to charities all across the country and around the world. The goal of the event isn’t to amass the most money for a cause — although, that’s a great goal as well! — but rather to encourage supporters to give small amounts and to give them often. Each participant can donate once per day to a cause, and each individual donation is counted.

Until There’s A Cure needs your support in America’s Giving Challenge — can you join us and make a donation of just $10 to help fight the spread of HIV and AIDS? Please visit http://causes.com/UNTIL to join our efforts — let’s work together to End AIDS.

-Until There’s A Cure

The True Value of a Gift

We’ve been Tweeting and updating our Facebook status like mad these past couple of days, trying to make people aware of America’s Giving Challenge. The really exciting thing about AGC is not that we generate donations [OK, to be fair, that is REALLY exciting, but it's not the only reason we're thrilled to participate], but that we generate buzz about HIV and AIDS, and can make thousands of people aware of the pandemic. Yesterday, at the start of the Challenge, there were 3 HIV/AIDS organizations in the top 10 for several hours, including Until There’s A Cure. That’s exciting because it means people are paying attention to HIV and AIDS — anyone who works in HIV and AIDS awareness knows that’s something that doesn’t always happen.

But how does America’s Giving Challenge really make a difference? Well, let’s look at a donation made through Facebook [how AGC works this year]. When someone donates, it helps us. But it also generates activity that’s spread throughout our Cause community and Facebook at large. The donor might post their donation on their wall, or comment on it. Her friends will “like” it, or comment on it — if we’re lucky, they’ll even click through, join our Cause, and make a donation of their own! America’s Giving Challenge is a challenge for nonprofits like Until There’s A Cure to generate energy and excitement within their own communities, and it’s a challenge to our community to generate excitement among our friends, family, neighbors, coworkers, doctors, electricians, and everyone else.

America’s Giving Challenge is an opportunity to show that a small donation can go just as far as a large one — and when we get our communities involved, those small donations can go even further. Please help us keep this great energy moving forward… Until There’s A Cure. Donate now at http://causes.com/UNTIL and then let your Facebook friends, your Twitter followers, and your email contacts know how you’ve helped to end AIDS.

-Until There’s A Cure

The Giving Challenge is On… and we’re top 5!

America’s Giving Challenge kicked off about an hour ago, and Until There’s A Cure Foundation is at #5! Please help us win a daily award of $1,000 and an overall prize of $50,000 by donating as often as possible… with the Giving Challenge, it’s not the size of the donation that matters.

Please go to America’s Giving Challenge in support of Until There’s A Cure!

Help Make AIDS A Memory with America’s Giving Challenge

It isn’t often that we ask you to wait to make a donation to Until There’s A Cure, but today is different, because tomorrow, October 7th, is the start of America’s Giving Challenge. We need your help, your stories, and your passion. Please forward this message to your friends, family, coworkers, club members and more — anyone who has or could be affected by HIV and AIDS.

Recently, we asked our supporters for their stories: why they donate to Until There’s A Cure, why they wear The Bracelet, and why they fight for HIV and AIDS awareness. Many sent us their memories of friends and family who succumbed to complications of AIDS, but they also shared inspiring messages of hope in the face of adversity. For those learning of a daughter’s AIDS diagnosis, or struggling to accept a brother’s positive test result, these stories provide strength and comfort.

We’re asking for your stories and generosity again during America’s Giving Challenge. For one month, starting tomorrow, October 7th, at 3 pm EST, we need your help in generating as many donations as possible — with the Giving Challenge, it’s the number of gifts, not the size, that matters.

Until There’s A Cure has been at the forefront of the fight against HIV and AIDS. And while we’ve spurred several several major successes — like GSID’s recent vaccine trials in Thailand — we’ve also witnessed the personal struggles that accompany such a devastating disease. With your help, and your personal request to your friends, we can move one step closer to ending HIV and AIDS.

Add your own story… and encourage your friends and family to support Until There’s A Cure Foundation in America’s Giving Challenge.

For more ways to spread the word:

On Twitter, follow us at @until_dot_org and Tweet about America’s Giving Challenge with the hashtag #AGC

On Facebook, post this note to your wall, and be sure to DONATE at http://causes.com/until [the link for UTAC's Facebook Causes application]. You can also become a fan of UTAC at http://facebook.com/Until.org and share your story.

If you have other ideas for helping, please send them our way; we’d love to hear how you are helping to make AIDS a memory.

Thanks so much for all of your support, your energy, and your persistence… Until There’s A Cure.