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Share Your Story: an online community for NICU families

jsoohoo — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 14:27:07 -0400

March of Dimes Launches Flickr Contest

Britt Bravo — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 12:12:25 -0400

Do you know where the name March of Dimes comes from? According to the March of Dimes web site, in 1938 FDR created the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis to fund research for a vaccine for polio. A comedian named Eddie Cantor asked his radio listeners to send their dimes directly to the White House and created the phrase March of Dimes. The Foundation changed its name to March of Dimes in 1979.

Almost 60 years later the March of Dimes has changed their focus from children with polio to premature births. (1 in 8 babies born in the US are premature). Now they collect dimes to fund research and public education about prematurity.

Recently, they launched a new campaign called, "Be a Coin Star!" Supporters are asked to take a photo of where they keep their change and upload it to the Be a Coin Star Flickr group. Starting October 24th at 3 PM the photo with the most votes will be the daily Coin Star winner and highlighted on their web site.

There aren't too many photos up yet so if you have your coins stored in a fun container, take a photo and send it to their group. Give 'em a little Flickr love.

Webby Awards Nominees announced - Congrats to Nancy White and "Share your Story"

fmarks — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 16:14:00 -0400

It's the 10th year for the Webby Awards, who just announced this year's nominees . And in the Community category, we are proud to say, one of our Net2 case studies is listed: the March of Dimes" Share your Story blog community. One more reason to read the interview with Nancy White, who was instrumental in building it! And to check out her post about this great news. But most importantly: Vote for them to help them win!

Lars K — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 12:59:42 -0500

Project Screenshot

Supporting organization

March Of Dimes

URL

www.shareyourstory.org

Project Description

Sponsored by the March of Dimes, Share is an online community for families of infants who were born prematurely or spent time in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Members are encouraged to participate in online discussions, meet other families and build support for each other. Share has over 7400 registered members and is one of the most powerful web-based social support sites for NICU families available.