CSTAR

We have already formed an all-star team of site designer, site administrator, art director, finance officer, and marketing department. Their dedication is inspiring, and I feel blessed to have them on board.

This new charity will focus on the same two functions: building survivor teams and guiding survivors through the myriad of cancer resources. This new organization, however, will be truly groundbreaking in its delivery. We will be focusing almost exclusively on user generated web based content. Without giving away the details, here are some of the functions we will be featuring:

1. Cancer resource generator: a cancer survivor can enter specific information about their age, gender, diagnosis, and location, and the website will guide them through a personalized suite of support organizations that will address their unique needs from both the national and local level.

2. Survivor Team Wiki: similar to the Wikipedia concept, we will develop a basic how to guide for shaping the different roles of every unique Survivor Team. All users will have the ability to modify and add to the database, transforming it into a completely accessible comprehensive guide.

3. C.STAR forum: users will be able to post and respond to various questions about anything on their minds.

4. The cancer rant and rave section: tentatively titled “why I hate cancer” and “why I love cancer” this section will give users the opportunity to post anything on their mind. The rant section will surely be cathartic, and I am curious and excited about the rave section. Adversity is always an opportunity to grow.

There are more features under discussion, but these represent the foundation of what this project will deliver.

We have the site to develop, promotional materials to print, t-shirts to design and print, and other things to get done prior to the ASTRO convention.
We need your support to get this off the ground in time to take advantage of the media exposure.

HUMAN SACRIFICE: 2009 URBANATHLON                                                                                               

I am running the 2009 Men’s Health Urbanathlon on 17OCT2009. It consists of 11.76 total miles of running with six different obstacles including:

1. A stutter step tire drill: 70 tires
2. A wall of monster truck tires to climb: 10 monster tires
3. An actual wall: 1
4. Taxi hurdles (think Dukes of Hazzard or Magnum P.I. across the hood): 5 hoods
5. Monkey bars built out of truck frames: 12 bars
6. Marine Hurdles: Yep! They’re named after us (it’s the last log series on the o-course, Marines): 5 logs
7. The Soldier Field Stair Climb: don’t know what to say about this one, so here’s a picture:

536 stairs! and if you’ve ever had the quality seats at the top of Solder Field (unlike my spoiled brothers), you know they get progessively taller the higher up you go. It’s going to be a backbreaker, but hopefully you get an idea of how dedicated we are to C.STAR. Come up with your own mathematical equation, or use this one:

11.76e + 536x + 70y + 12z + 10a + 5b + 5c + d = your donation

I’ll run, climb, jump, hurdle, slide, and destroy these things, if you would donate to our amazing new nonprofit concept.

http://www.menshealthurbanathlon.com/course.cfm

For three years, I have been hearing “If you ever need anything, anything at all, just let me know”.

It’s time.

Help me to transform this experience that I have endured into a new concept in non-profit support. I have learned so much about how to deal with cancer, and the only responsible thing to do with this capability is find the most effective way to transfer this knowledge to other people. Instead of a website that describes a charity’s services, this will be a website that is the service. I am so confident that we are on to a truly amazing concept that has the potential to profoundly affect the quality of life of cancer survivors worldwide. I know that sounds grandiose, but I can assure you I am keenly aware of my responsibility to back up these bold words. I believe in this concept, and I believe in the people who have stepped up to make it happen.

Join us.

Donate to C.STAR, and consider it an investment in cancer support. You have the opportunity to be one of the people who made this possible, to have been there when this project began.

We are operating as a 503(c) charity, so your donations will be tax deductible. We will issue receipts as soon as we have them printed.

Here is the link to our donation site: http://cancerstar.bbnow.org/ This site uses paypal as its secure delivery method. If you do not have a paypal account, or wish to send a check, please email me at protonmarine@yahoo.com and I will send you the information. Please note this website does not represent the style or content of the C.STAR project, it is merely a temporary fundraising site in the interim before our project is launched.