A good cause: Walk for Life 2010

I've participated in the Walk a couple times, and it is one of the most peaceful, joyful events I've had the honor to be a part of. If you can, please send some support! And if you can get to San Francisco in January of 2010, even better!

Dear Friends,

We are writing to you to ask for your financial support for the 6th Annual Walk for Life West Coast on Saturday, January 23rd, 2010.

The Walk for Life is powered by a team of dedicated volunteers; our total volunteer workforce allows us to field this event for a fraction of what it would otherwise cost. However, we do have hard costs that are unavoidable – a major sound system, event insurance, facility fees, speaker fees and travel, porta-potties, shuttle buses, bus parking, signage and advertising to name the large ticket items – that total roughly $45,000.

For the first time since the overwhelming success of the inaugural Walk for Life in 2005, we need to appeal to our supporters for funds to meet the expenses of putting on the event. Each year we have been blessed with grant support and unsolicited private donations. Due to the economic downturn, those sources have dried up. Because a major part of the mission of the Walk for Life is to support the ‘trench’ work of the pro-life battle, we have been careful to not draw much-needed funding from other pro-life organizations trusting that if the time came when we needed to solicit funds, the generosity of our supporters would carry the day.

That time has now come. We are writing to you today to ask you to consider prayerfully a generous (and tax-deductible) donation and to please forward this email to like-minded friends of life. Please know that each dollar donated goes directly to the cost of the event; we have no administrative overhead.

Thank you in advance for your support. You are enabling the continuation of what secular society said couldn’t be done – to raise-up a voice for life in beautiful San Francisco.

For ways to make a donation, please go to our donation page.

Thank you and God bless you,

The Walk for Life Team