Raise the fun(ds)! Supercharge the movement through healthy fundraising
Whether it’s building our next gen website, growing activists in community epicenters across Colorado, getting the word out through events and expanding social media, the need for universal health care demands we expand this movement to achieve our mission: Quality affordable health care for all for life.
So what’s in the way? All too often, creative efforts are stymied by lack of the funding needed to realize short and long-term goals.
Join the Foundation’s fun(d)raising dream team, the catalytic supercharger that will take us up and expand us out. Folks with some time to dedicate and fundraising experience are especially encouraged to join the team. Take the fun and funds to the next level!
Facilitators:
Ivan J. Miller, Ph.D, the Colorado Foundation for Universal Health Care’s executive director, has worked to reform the broken U.S. health care system since 1994. Throughout his career as a psychologist, Dr. Miller has seen first hand how the system hurts both patients and providers. In 1996 he founded the Patient Advocacy Coalition to help individuals overturn denials from health insurance companies and access affordable health care. When it became apparent that the insurance industry system was broken, and no amount of advocacy could overcome its fatal flaws, the PAC board voted in 2011 to change the organization’s name to the Colorado Foundation for Universal Health Care and embrace a universal health care financing system.
Sara Wright, Foundation director of communications, wrote her first story on health care—an investigative report on Boulder’s nursing homes—at age 17. In addition to writing and editing for newspapers and websites in Colorado and in South Carolina, she has worked in the health care field in marketing for a group purchasing organization; in insurance billing for a physician; and in patient care as a certified massage therapist. Her roles as small business entrepreneur, mother, and Type I diabetic all give her first-hand understanding of the need for quality, affordable health care available to all.
