Thanks to all of you who were "virtual" guests at our CCSVI Alliance Fundraiser yesterday!  We appreciate all of the donations and well wishes.  Pictures and videos will follow....today is clean up :)

 Jeff and I welcomed 120 guests into our home;  we ate and drank delicious Italian food, wine, and sparkling sodas.  Jeff and I performed an Italian baroque duet--all in honor of Dr. Zamboni and his Italian team of researchers.  My girlfriends did gorgeous floral arrangements, including many golden leaves, referring to the CCSVI Alliance leaf.  The wine glass charms were leaves.  There was live jazz, wonderful conversation and a 20 minute keynote presentation on CCSVI Alliance.    A friend of ours who has been treated in Poland and needed retreatment was present to discuss the importance of good follow-up care and staying local.   We had a question and answer session that went on for a half hour.  

The room was excited and energized and many came up to us afterward with ideas for fundraising, public relations, documentary films, connections in the medical field and how to spread the word.   There were invitations from friends to come into their homes and do the presentation for their community.

We believe it will be this type of personal connection that will continue to create the grass roots movement in CCSVI research.  If you are interested in hosting a similar type of function in your home, please contact us at joan.beal@ccsvi.org for party ideas.  CCSVI Alliance will provide printed material, including brochures and donation cards.  But it will be your own creativity, personal story and outreach into your community that will generate the "buzz"  and help us in opening veins and minds- 

Thanks again for all of the support--

Jeff and Joan Beal