Final week to preorder Invention Is a Mother and to donate to Team Gleason!
If you're the kind of person who works best under pressure, your moment is now! Please donate to Team Gleason and preorder your copy of Invention Is a Mother on Kickstarter while you still have the chance! Both campaigns end this Sunday, June 19, and I'd love to see a strong finish in the final week.
161 copies of Invention Is a Mother have been preordered so far, and the Team Gleason fundraiser sits at $8,728. Finishing with 200 copies sold and $10,000 for Team Gleason would be amazing, and we are incredibly close!
Remember! If you donate $100 and also preorder a copy of my book, you'll get your name listed in the acknowledgments. If thirteen more people generously donate $100 this week, we'll hit $10k! Who wants to be immortalized for a good deed?
All donations, no matter the size, are a huge help to someone living with ALS. Here are some examples of what your contribution could mean:
$7 covers a smart switch for home automation.
$30 buys a headset microphone, which is used to record and digitize the voice of someone with ALS while they are still able to speak.
$50 funds approximately 2 hours of respite care.
$100 pays for home automation software.
$350 is enough for an iPad that will help a patient with ALS to communicate when they have difficulty speaking.
$500 purchases a Surface Pro that can be mounted to a wheelchair and controlled by eye movement.
$1,000 buys a wheelchair mount for a communication device.
$2,000 provides an iLevel seat elevator for a wheelchair.
$5,000 enables a bucket-list adventure.
Your individual contributions will help people living with ALS, and our combined giving can have a life-changing effect. Team Gleason helped me personally by funding my wheelchair seat elevator. They funded my digital voice so I can continue to communicate with my loved ones and bark commands at my caregivers. ALS can try, but with Team Gleason's help, it won't take that away from me!
If you've already donated or are uncomfortable donating to charities, you can still help by sharing my campaigns with a friend or posting on social media, it would mean a lot to me.
Thank you again to everyone for your amazing support of Invention Is a Mother and my Team Gleason ALS fundraiser! It's been a wild ride.