Greetings
from Toby's Foundation,
Can You Help Us
Raise Awareness about Canine Epilepsy? It’s Not
Too Late to help us by translating our 5th
Anniversary ad and/or placing it in your club
news to help increase awareness about canine
epilepsy.
Until
the day we have a screening test the sharing of
information is vitally important in the fight
against canine epilepsy.
UPDATE: Ads and
translations of our 5th Anniversary Ad have been
received from the Netherlands , Germany and
Belgium and coming soon from the Czech Republic
. The Finnish ad was previously
received.
The Netherlands : Noelle
Hoorneman has translated our 5th Anniversary Ad
into Dutch and the ASCN, the Australian Shepherd
Club Nederland has placed the ad in their
journal December 2009. We thank Noelle and all
the members of the ASCN for their support. The
Dutch version of our 5th Anniversary ad is now
up on our website. In addition the editor for
the ASCN journal put together a full page ad In
Memory of Toby. We very much appreciate this.
Thank you to all those involved in doing this.
This Memorial ad will soon be added to our
website.
Germany : Elke Philippy has
translated our 5th Anniversary Ad into German
for her club Newspaper “Der Aussie”. We thank
Elke and all the members of the Australian
Shepherd Association Germany e.V. for their
support. The German version of our 5th
Anniversary ad is now up on our website. In
addition ASAG is holding a workshop in the
spring 2010 about epilepsy and plan to donate an
amount from each registration fee to Toby’s
Foundation to help us in the fight against
canine epilepsy. Thank you to the ASAG for this.
It is very much appreciated.
Belgium :
Nadine Moinil has translated our 5th Anniversary
AD into French for us. We thank Nadine and the
members of the ASCB for their support. The
French translation is now up on our
website.
Czech Republic: Martina Hodkova
has translated our 5th Anniversary ad into Czech
and the members of KCHBO, Klub chovatelu
belgickych ovcaku has agreed to place the ad in
the next issue of their club magazine. They are
also writing an introduction to the members of
the club about Toby’s Foundation. This is a club
that is for both the Australian and Belgian
Shepherds. The Czech version of our 5th
Anniversary ad will soon be up on our
website.
Finland: Anneli Valkonen
volunteered to translate our 5th Anniversary Ad
into Finnish for AussieUutiset. We thank Anneli
and Tuula Kuokkanen, the managing editor. The
Finnish version of our 5th Anniversary ad is up
on our website in its permanent location in our
ads section. It was previously featured in our
Spotlight section.
All new ads are placed
in our Spotlight section on our home page at
www.tobysfoundation.org and all ads are
permanently placed in the ads section of our
website at
www.tobysfoundation.org/ads.html.
Please
email us at tobysfoundation@tobysfoundation.org
if you have any questions or are interested in
translating our ad and/or placing it in your
club news. We can send you what you need for the
ad. Thank you.
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Coming
soon…March 26th is Purple Day!
Purple is the international color for
epilepsy. You can help support epilepsy
awareness globally for canines and humans by
wearing purple on that day. We are partnering
with www.purpleday.org for this global
initiative!
Visit Purple Day's
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Charitable
Giving
Your gifts help us to support the research to
find the genes responsible for canine epilepsy
and develop a screening test.
Please make
Toby's Foundation part of your charitable
giving. Toby's Foundation, Inc. is a non-profit
501(c)(3) organization. Our Federal Tax
Identification number is 74-3135217. Your gift
is tax deductible to the fullest extent of the
law and helps us in our efforts to stop canine
epilepsy. Please check with your employer about
a Matching Gifts program.
If you would
like to make a memorial or honorary gift to
support canine epilepsy research, an
announcement card can be sent to whomever you
specify.
We accept donations online (see
link below) or you may mail your check
to:
Toby's Foundation P.O. Box
7321 Laguna Niguel , CA 92677
Please
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AussiE-Update
Volume IV, No. 25 January 31, 2010
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