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RAFFLE PRIZES & ENTRY: https://woodywalks.betterworld.org/giveaways/woodywalksraffle

1 pair of Woodies Sunglasses (15x)
1 'Classic' subscription from Harvest Hosts
1 book and 1 bag of coffee from Falling Rocks Cafe
1 original canvas from Lansing artist Ryan Holmes (2x)
1 hoodie from #WOODYWALKS (might be Champion brand instead of Adidas)
1 'Small' charcuterie board from Amayesing Graze (2x)
1 'Mystery Bag' from Lansing artist Dennis Preston

Please share this with your friends and help spread the word!

100% of the proceeds raised through this page and the raffle will be split evenly and go directly to the organizations!

(you must register for free to be eligible for prizes and so we have a headcount for the sponsors to know how many people we are arriving with)

WHEN: Saturday Jan 4th, 11AM until we visit all sponsoring businesses

ROUTE:

MEETING POINT: 2722 E Michigan Ave, Lansing, MI 48912 (Healing with Katie) for free coffee and free breakfast!

WHAT: 100 or so of our closest friends walking around Lansing and stopping at participating sponsors for gift cards and merch giveaways! The purpose is to be together as a community, and to spread joy while sharing stories, hugs, smiles, tears, and maybe a drink or two, and of course, fundraising and raising awareness for the organizations mentioned below as well.

ITINERARY: In addition to the raffle mentioned above, we will be giving away FREE MERCH AND GIFT CARDS at these locations and in this order. We will spend 30-60 minutes at each location. Libations will be had by those that desire:

1. Healing with Katie - Free coffee and free donated breakfast for all
2. Everybody Reads - Books/gift cards giveaway
3. Hoplite Games - Gift cards giveaway
4. Stober's Bar - Merch and gift cards giveaway
5. Moriarty's Pub - Merch and gift cards giveaway
6. Nuthouse Sports Grill - Merch and gift cards giveaway
7. Midtown Brewing Company - Gift cards giveaway
8. REO Town Pub - Merch and gift cards giveaway
9. Leroy's Classic Bar & Grill - Merch and gift cards giveaway
10. Corey's Lounge - Gift cards giveaway
11. Art's Pub - Gift cards giveaway
12. Dagwood's Tavern & Grill - Merch and gift cards giveaway
13. Surprise bonus prize giveaways for those that make it to the end!

ORGANIZATIONS (more details further below):
American Brain Foundation
Brain & Behavior Research Foundation
Cure Alzheimer's Fund
Schizophrenia & Psychosis Action Alliance

IMPORTANT: We need everyone who wants to walk to register so we can have a headcount for the participating businesses...

ALSO IMPORTANT: When you register, you have the OPTION of donating, but it is not necessary to join for the walk or to be eligible for prizes!

This walk takes place on Jan 4th in Lansing and we are expecting 5-10 sponsors and 100+ people to join us! I have created the hashtag #woodywalks to promote this event. Let's challenge our great city and see how many people we can get to walk in the name of mental health awareness!

This project keeps progressing in wonderful ways that I never would have imagined or dreamed... While I was hanging out in Munising and staying in a beautiful room that was donated by the amazing folks at the Falling Rocks Cafe, co-owner Justin and I sort of inadvertently planned an on-the-fly community hike for the next morning around town and along Lake Superior. With the help of their awesome Manager Denise, about 10 people showed up for a nice morning stroll and the idea was born to organize these community walks in each town as I pass through. We planned another one in Marquette where 15-20 people showed up, some of us jumped off the cliffs at Black Rocks into 42° water, Ore Dock Brewing Co. and Drifa Brewing Company sponsored it, and the mayor Sally Davis joined us for a bit!

Tickets are free but please register to participate!

We have raised $7,000 for these organizations so far:

Nearly $214M funded to 894 grants to date
Dedicated to funding research with the highest probability of prevention, slowing or reversing the disease

$45M awarded to nearly 300 researchers
29 active research projects
85% of awardees have gone on to secure NIH and other national funding

$461M and 6,700 grants awarded to more than 5,600 leading scientists around the world
Nation’s top non-governmental funder of mental health research grants
BBRF Grant recipients have gone on to receive $4 billion in additional research funding in next stage NIMH and NIH grants

Funds and participates in the National Institutes of Health’s Accelerating Medicines Partnership-Schizophrenia (AMP-SCZ) Steering Committee. AMP-SCZ is working to improve schizophrenia treatments and treatment outcomes by identifying early indicators of the severe brain disease
Funds and participates in the Biomarkers Consortium, led by the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health. Their mission is to create and lead cross-sector efforts that validate and qualify biomarkers and other drug development tools to accelerate better decision making for the development of new therapeutics and health technologies

I encourage you to please do your due diligence on these organizations if you'd like, but just as a friendly reminder, your donations must go through my page if you'd like them to count toward the tally for the total amount raised by the #woodywalks project.

Details about the organizations we are fundraising for can be found on the original donation page here:

https://givebutter.com/woodywalksproject

#WOODYWALKS in Lansing for Mental Health Awareness

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Team Members