I'm posting the letter along with the contacts that we are starting with.
Please send 2 letters each week to these contacts by email, snail mail, fax or whatever means you have available and forward the information to family and friends who are wlling to help. I will be sending 2 letters each way starting today.
Also remember to personalize the letter and please post so that we know who will be joining in the letter writing campaign.
Thanks, Donna
I am the parent of ____________, age ___ who suffers daily, yet a beautiful stranger named Pat Furlong is trying to save him, and you should book her as a guest on your show. My son is one of the thousands of children in this country afflicted by Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. DMD is an incurable genetic disease that puts children into wheelchairs before they can drive and ends their lives while their peers attend college. Pat, who lost her two sons to this disease, co-founded a non-profit organization called Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy (
http://www.parentprojectmd.org ). Because of PPMD’s work public agencies, private research foundations, doctors and scientists have finally begun focusing their efforts on translating academic theory into experimental medications that, for the first time, show promise to end this terrible affliction which has plagued humans since time began.
Pat is a world respected expert on Duchenne, a brilliant public speaker and advocate. She can explain that Duchenne is the most common lethal hereditary childhood disease on the planet and not just some odd affliction that only happens to somebody else’s child. On the contrary, one third of the cases are spontaneous and it happens without warning. Pat is the voice for our brave boys and has created a place for Duchenne parents to connect, to learn. She has received awards like Research! America’s 2008 Gordon and Llura Gund Leadership Award, she’s been a finalist for the Nancy Grace Extraordinary Parent Contest and was profiled in the New York Times and Esquire. She can gracefully explain that the groundbreaking work of “Jerry’s Kids” isn’t enough, it's going to take more. It's going to take your effort, today, to help this beautiful stranger achieve her goal to save my son.
While I watch my child’s muscles die a little more everyday, please give Pat and DMD families all over the world a chance end the tragedy.
Thank you,
[Your Name]
[Your Address]
[Telephone or em address]
Maury Povich:
beaguest@themauryshow.com
http://www.mauryshow.com/be_a_guest.html
http://www.mauryshow.com/email.php?subject=undefined
Maury Povich Show
(212) 547-8400
401 7th Ave, New York, NY 10001 Map it | Get directions Cross Streets: Between W 32nd St and W 33rd St
Maury c/o Hotel Pennsylvania/ Grand Ballroom, 15 Penn Plaza, New York, NY 10001
ph: 212-547-8400 - fx 212-244-3548 -
www.mauryshow.com
Oprah:
http://www.oprah.com/ord/plugform.jsp?plugId=216
The show's mailing address is:
PO Box 909715
Chicago, IL 60690
Harpo Productions, Harpo Studios, 110 N. Carpenter St., Chicago, Il 60607-2146
ph: 312-633-1000 - fx: 312-633-1111 - owinfrey@harpo.com
asst: Lisa Halliday - ph: 310-278-5559
member staff: ph: 312-633-1000
Phil McGraw - The Dr. Phil Show, 555 Melrose Avenue, Mae West Bldg., Los Angeles, CA 90038
phone 323-956-3300 fx 323-862-1144 - email:
http://www.drphil.com/shows/page/contactdrphil/
Dr. Phil (with this one, may be good for Kim Innabis Reader Digest letter too):
http://www.drphil.com/plugger/respond/?plugID=10720
Dr. Phil show
5482 Wilshire Boulevard #1902
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Phil McGraw - The Dr. Phil Show, 5555 Melrose Avenue, Mae West Bldg., Los Angeles, CA 90038
phone 323-956-3300 fx 323-862-1144 - email:
http://www.drphil.com/shows/page/contactdrphil/
Ellen Degeneres - The Ellen Degeneres Show, Telepictures Productions, 3500 W. Olive Avenue 10th Fl, Burbank, CA 91505
phone 818-972-0777 - fx 818-972-8960 - email: ellendegeneres@warnerbros.com
http://ellen.warnerbros.com/show/respond/?PlugID=10
http://ellen.warnerbros.com/show/respond/?PlugID=26
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
PO Box 7788
Burbank, CA 91523
Whoopi Goldberg, c/o Bragman/Nyman/Cafarelli, Pacific Design Center, 8687 Melrose Avenue, Fl 8, Los Angeles, CA 90069
ph: 310-854-4800 - fx: 310-854-4848 - email: wgoldberg@bncpr.com,
www.bncpr.com
Montell Williams: Mountain Movers, Inc., 433 West 53rd Street, New York, NY 10019
ph: 212-830-0300 - fx: 212-262-4608
ALREADY SUPPORTING MD AS A CHARITY:
ZZ Top, Agency for the Performing Arts, Agency, 250 W. 57th St. Ste 1701, New York, NY 10106
phone 212-687-0092 fx 212-687-0176
Anthony Bourdain - talk show host, chef: Inkwell Management, 521 Fifty Ave., New York, NY 10175
phone 212-922-3500 - fx 212-922-0535 - email: info@inkwellmanagement.com
Kevin Costner - Creative Artists Agency, LLC, P.O. Box 240002, Los Angeles, CA 90024
no other info available
Jay Leno - NBS Studios, 3000 W. Alameda Ave., Burbank, CA 91523-0001
phone 818-840-4444
www.nbc.com