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ST. BALDRICK’S

and

HERO 2 HERO. US

In another giant step for the FOOLS, the International E-Board has joined forces with two great charities. St. Baldrick’s Foundation and Hero To Hero.US

Most of you have probably heard of the St. Baldrick’s Foundation since they have been doing great work for children’s cancer research for a great many years. Many FOOLS from all over the country have participated in annual head shaving events for several years.

Hero To Hero.US is another non-profit organization that provides Fire Service T-Shirts to the Men and Women serving this great country overseas as part of the United States Military. H2H organizes shirt drives and facilitates the shipping of local shirts to local soldiers abroad.

So what does this mean to you? Well we are trying to get the word out to all of our local chapters so they can participate in St. Baldrick’s events in their area. Most events are held around St. Patty’s day (another day close to our hearts) so a formal “TEAM FOOLS” is going to be tough for 2009. But we still ask for your participation. Check out the St. Baldrick’s website at www.stbaldricks.org and try to find an event near you. Once you find an event get your members signed up and start getting donations.

While everyone is meeting for the St. Baldrick’s event, we thought it would be a great opportunity to help out our other partner Hero To Hero.US. We would like each chapter to organize a shirt drive from there local area that coincides with the St. Baldrick’s event. This way, we will have the chance to help out TWO great causes at once. Once the Shirts are collected then a chapter representative can go to the HeroToHero.US website http://www.herotohero.us  and Pledge.  Troops are requesting shirts by regions/hometowns, so make sure you are ready when your troops ask.

The International is very excited about the direction that we are all heading and look forward to a long and positive partnership with both of these great organizations. Please make us all proud by participating.

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