Please send the following information to your friends and colleagues, with your email explaining why it’s important. Ask them to send it on. Let’s reach as many and as far as we can:
Letter writing campaign:
Save the NYS Spinal Cord Injury Research Program! Attached here Reinstate SCIRP funding Letter is a letter to use as a guide, addresses to send the letters to here addresses for SCIRP letter , a fact sheet about the spinal cord injury research program Fact Sheet SCIRP 2013 and two of the press articles NYPost Feb 13 2013 and TU Feb 14 End sweep of spinal cord funds. Snail mail is most effective, headed paper is great if you can. Please send letters right away, this week through Feb 22nd is critical!
Take these steps:
1) Open the attached letter and read it. If you want, edit it. Perhaps add your personal reasons why SCIRP should be reinstated.
2) Print, sign the letter and address the envelope to those on the attached list, and especially:
Hon. Andrew M. Cuomo
Executive Chamber
State Capitol
Albany, NY 12224
Hon. Nirav Shah, M.D., MPH
Office of the Commissioner
NYS Department of Health
Corning Tower
Empire State Plaza
Albany NY 12237
3) Stamp and Send the letter.
Three easy steps and you will have given us a wonderful gift.
Phone-in campaign:
To call Governor Andrew Cuomo, call the CITIZEN SERVICES UNIT at 518-474-1041 and say “My name is xxxxxx, I am calling to urge the governor to amend his 2013-2014 budget to include funding for the NYS spinal cord injury research program.” You can add more, but that is sufficient.
And to reach the Commissioner of Health, Dr. Nivav Shah, at the Department of Health, the phone number is 518-474-2011 and the email address is dohweb@health.state.ny.us
We will have a Facebook page up and running soon.
Thank you again for your continued support! It means the world to us!
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