Recently a basketball team in Virginia, the Richmond Spiders, held a charity event that raised $2,200 for the National Arthritis Foundation’s Virginia Chapter.
“The Spiders received a special waiver from the NCAA to play in the charity game against members of the Tuckahoe Middle School faculty. All proceeds for the event went to the Arthritis Foundation Virginia Chapter in honor of Dymond Carle, a Tuckahoe Middle School sixth grader who suffers from juvenile rheumatoid arthritis”(CSTV.com).
The event was so popular that people had to be turned away at the door, and the Spiders gave Dymond an autographed basketball, Spider gear and courtside seats to a game next winter.
I love hearing about fundraisers for RA. I feel like so many are out there for cancer, diabetes, boys and girls clubs, etc. And not that those other causes don’t deserve the money, but RA rarely gets attention. I feel like this is often because people confuse RA with arthritis and don’t realize that it is an autoimmune disease that needs funding for research just like diabetes. I push you all to set up a fundraiser for RA organizations such as the Arthritis Foundation!
Until next time,
S.P.
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