2009 Grow Your Cause Winner
With all votes counted for the 2009 Grow Your Cause effort, Cool Blue Interactive is proud to announce this year's winner, For Pete's Sake Foundation. The foundation is a volunteer-run organization that strives to maximize relief to families affected by the disease Wiskott-Aldrich Sydrome.
As the winner, For Pete's Sake Foundation will receive an enhanced web presence that will help strengthen their mission with benefits that include site strategy and a new homepage and inside page design as well as access to advanced email marketing solutions.
Remarkably, Cool Blue noted that the number of votes and nominations tripled from the previous Grow Your Cause effort!
Cool Blue will be sure to keep you informed on the status of the project throughout the year. However, please continue to check back on the continued development and production for this remarkable organization, For Pete's Sake Foundation.
About For Pete's Sake Foundation
Incorporated in September 2002, the For Pete's Sake Foundation is a volunteer-run organization that strives to maximize relief to families affected by the disease Wiskott-Aldrich Sydrome. Wiskott - Aldrich syndrome, also known as WAS, is a primary immune deficiency disease. The organization's goal is to distribute at least 90% of every dollar raised to support the present and future needs of families affected by the disease and to support WAS research.
Creating and growing the For Pete's Sake Foundation began as a personal crusade by the friends and family of P.J. Lyle. None of them had heard of the disease until it threatened to take the life of the young son of Peter and Beth Lyle. The Lyle's story is both inspiring and heartbreaking. Media coverage of their story brought a torrent of contributions to the foundation, but also caught the attention of WAS families who thought no one was out there to help. For more information about P.J's story, visit www.forpete.org.
About the Runner-up
Literacy Action Inc. is the largest community based adult education provider in Georgia and has been serving the metro Atlanta community continuously since 1968. The mission of LAI is to build better futures for its students by teaching undereducated adults literacy as well as life and work skills that empower them to reach their potential as self-sufficient individuals, parents, employees and citizens.
LAI provides free classes for adults who need to improve their literacy and workplace skills. Their programs help students reach their potential through learning basic and essential reading, writing, critical-thinking, math, computer, job readiness, and academic skills necessary to master the GED tests. LAI's curriculum is designed to teach their students "how to learn" as they develop into more versatile and qualified employees, educational role models for their children, responsible, participating citizens, and life-long learners. Their curriculum enables students to meet and exceed the literacy standard defined by the U.S. Congress in 1991.
Literacy Action Inc. primarily serves residents of the City of Atlanta (40%), Fulton/non-city (20%) and DeKalb (22%) counties. For more information on Literacy Action Inc., visit www.literacyaction.org.