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You can help make
miracles for children –
join us today to
take the lead!
Children’s Organ Transplant Association®
Children’s Organ
Transplant Association
The Children’s Organ
Transplant Association is
a 501(c)3 national charity
dedicated to raising funds
for transplant-needy
patients.
COTA’s priority is to
assure that no child or
young adult is denied a
transplant due to lack of
funds.
Children’s Organ
Transplant Association
100% of all funds raised in
honor of patients are used
for transplant-related
expenses.
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Transplant Association
Since 1986, COTA has served
more than 1,400 children and
young adults, working with families
in 49 states.
In addition, more than 100,000
people have volunteered and made
gifts to help these families meet
their transplant-related financial
needs.
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Transplant Association
We call these individuals
and organizations Miracle
Makers, as they help us
Give Hope...and Make
Miracles.
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Transplant Association
Over the past two decades,
members of The American Legion
family have provided generous
support for COTA.
Dating back to 1988, The
American Legion family has
contributed generously and have
spent thousands of hours
volunteering to help transplant
patients and families.
Let me introduce
Suzanne
Seiders…and let her
tell you her families
story of hope and
miracles.
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Transplant Association
MEET STEVEN
According to Steven's father,
"Steven’s transplant journey
has been filled with miracles
including finding 10 donor
matches for Steven through
our bone marrow drives,
Steven's remission from
leukemia, his quick recovery
following the transplant, and
his outstanding health today
-- two years post transplant."
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Transplant Association
Ten Tips for Fundraising Success
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Transplant Association
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Start Now!
Apply the same determined
approach to fundraising as you
would to starting a new task at
work or to conditioning for a
sporting competition.
Make a list of things to do and then
get started.
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Transplant Association
Events take Volunteers.
Usually a lot of them! Carefully consider
how much manpower it will take to pull off
the activity you are considering.
Remember, an event chair cannot and
should not do all the work.
Set up committees for each aspect of the
fundraiser: publicity, supplies, donations,
decorations, food, entertainment, set-up,
entertainment, etc.
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Transplant Association
Make it Personal.
COTA can match your post with
a local child who needs
assistance. Be sure that you,
and your volunteers, are
knowledgeable about a COTA
family’s transplant journey.
Where is the family now (at
transplant, waiting for the call or
celebrating a miracle)?
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Transplant Association
Simple can still be Profitable.
Fundraising events do not need to be large or
complicated to be successful. Selling home
baked cookies, collecting coins or asking a
local restaurant to share profits one evening do
not take weeks of planning or large numbers of
volunteers!
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Transplant Association
No Cost Fundraising is Best.
Try to get all expenses covered, but should
you need to ‘spend money to make money’,
make a plan to minimize your risk and
maximize your proceeds. In any event,
expenses should be less than 25% of the
anticipated income from the event.
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Transplant Association
Promote Wisely.
Media coverage and signage are important,
but do not guarantee people will come to a
fundraiser or make a donation.
Many times the best advertisement is wordof-mouth. Get your team talking about their
fundraising activities and commitment to
helping a local COTA family! Use social
networking, the Internet and community
communications tools, as well as traditional
media like newspaper, radio and television.
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Transplant Association
Make it Easy to Give.
COTA can offer a variety of giving options:
online donations, credit cards, checks, national
bank accounts for cash and gifts-in-kind.
Remember to include all of these giving
options in your marketing materials. And
provide links to the patient campaign donation
page and the campaign website in all ecommunications.
People can’t help if they don’t know how!
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Transplant Association
Be Creative.
Duplicating what another group has done to
raise funds is not a bad thing – doing what
works is smart. And adding a new twist to a
standard money maker is even smarter! For
instance: don’t just wash cars, also offer
bicycle and dog washes.
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Transplant Association
Remember your Manners!
You cannot say ‘thank you’ often enough.
Do it in writing, verbally and via the media
whenever you can. Appreciated donors
and volunteers are more likely to keep
helping!
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Transplant Association
Keep the ‘Fun’ in Fundraising.
Get donations such as pizzas to serve to
your crew at an activity set-up or wrap-up
party or ice cream coupons to tuck into
thank you notes or prizes for top ticket
salespeople or volunteer recruiters!
Good attitudes + incentives = success!
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Transplant Association
Words from Katy, a teen in Wichita, KS:
Over the past few months, I’ve
realized how truly blessed and
fortunate I am. I have boundless
energy and nothing holds me back
from accomplishing the things I need
to get done. I get up every morning,
go to school, come home, or go to the
gym. This is just my typical daily
routine, and I think nothing of it.
However, for a special friend of mine
every single day is a battle.
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Transplant Association
Courage, hope, and strength
are only a few words that
describe one incredible
young man, Kyle Hicks. Kyle
does his very best to be a
normal eighteen year old.
He enjoys school, working
with computers, movies,
television, chocolate, Pepsi,
and his cat, Sharon. He has
a dry sense of humor and
loves to talk. But Kyle is not
like his classmates.
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Transplant Association
Painful recurring blisters and open
wounds cover nearly all of Kyle's
body. He only weighs 51 pounds
and is barely 4 feet tall -- about the
size of a 7 year-old. Kyle has the
inherited skin disease called
Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB).
EB is a painful disease. To help
prevent infections, Kyle must keep all
external blistered areas clean and
covered with fresh Vaseline gauze and
bandages. Each day, with his
mother's help, he has to spend two
hours soaking off old bandages and
putting on new ones.
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Transplant Association
Team Kyle has taught me that anything is
possible with the right attitude.
I’ve never seen a group of people more eager
to work at a garage sale on a hot summer day.
I regret all of the days in my life that I wasted
being negative and complaining because I’ve
learned that life is the thrill of never knowing
what tomorrow will bring, but embracing each
and every moment of today.
It’s your choice what you do with every day,
but if you want my advice…
do something for someone else and you’d be
surprised how great you’ll feel!
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Transplant Association
Are YOU ready to begin
giving hope and making
miracles for COTA
families like Lauren’s,
Steven’s and Kyle’s?
COTA challenges you to collect
one million pennies…
and to help COTA make one
million miracles.
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Transplant Association
Pennies, nickels and dimes
add up.
Coinstar®, a national coin
redemption machine manufacturer,
estimates an average eight ounce
jar of coins equals $14.27 and a
gallon jug filled with coins can net as
much as $228.34. Using Coin
Collection as part of your fundraising
activities allows your community to
turn everyday change into lifesaving
dollars!
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Transplant Association
For more than 20 years, Legionnaire Tony Lori
has placed COTA coin collection canisters
across the state of New Jersey. His efforts
have resulted in more than $80,000 -- mostly
pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters -- for
COTA children who call New Jersey home.
In New Jersey, each of the 21 Chairmen
manages a COTA ‘jug’. Every six weeks, the
donations are counted and the Post writes a
check to the Department of New Jersey. The
checks are combined and sent to COTA to help
make a miracle for New Jersey families.
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Transplant Association
COTA provides Coin Canisters
in almost any quantity at no
cost. COTA also provides a
personalized Canister Sheet
featuring a photo of a local
COTA patient, as well as other
important campaign
information.
To request Canisters, complete
an online supply request form,
e-mail [email protected]
or call 800.366.2682.
To get started, go online to get more
information ... tools, tips, ideas and
resources are available at no charge.
Log onto
www.cotamiraclemakers.org
or call 800.366.2682 to register your
Post today.
Thank you for being a
Miracle Maker for
children – join us
today!
Children’s Organ Transplant Association®