EHCF announces Team: 500, an influential group of former campers leading fundraising teams of 5 or fewer, in an effort to link old friends while taking advantage of the fact that friends motivate friends and family members to donate in ways no one else can match. Click here to view up-to-date stats (as of 12/8/03).

Here's how it works: You commit to raise and/or donate $500. You, then, reach-out to friends and family to help obtain that dollar figure. Upon receipt of the donation, the team leader will be recognized and worshipped in an upcoming newsletter and on www.EHCF.org's Web site as a Team: 500 member. Each member of your team that donates $100 will be recognized as a member of Team: 100, a sub-set of Team: 500. A little convoluted? Sure. But we'll try anything.

As you know, we want this organization to be self-sufficient. That means a fund whose interest alone pays for our annual commitment to our campers. The sooner self-sufficiency is achieved, the sooner this newsletter becomes funnier and less focused on asking you for money. So, we are asking each of you to join Team: 500 and really make a difference in this, your organization, and the lives of individual campers.

Trying to think of ways to become a member? How about all those friends that asked you to sponsor them in a bowl-a-thon for Leukemia? Or the people that asked you to sponsor their marathon for breast cancer? Get your mom and your best friend to support you and you're almost there!

If each reader committed to finding a few friends and family to each donate $100, EHCF would achieve self-sufficiency right away, with a fund worth more than $500,000. That would be a revolutionary achievement. Truly remarkable. Something each of us could rightly feel very proud of accomplishing. But, for now, we'll try not to get ahead of ourselves.

Please become a Team: 500 member. Your hard work and commitment will create an important and lasting legacy.

If you have any questions or want a little help building your team, please contact fill out the form on your left.