Comic Books For Kids in Hospitals - please help 0

[mark71517]

Board members and with sincere apologies if I have broken any rules here.

About three years ago, I wanted to donate some comics to medical facilities and then it hit me, there was no major initiative that really was in place to help children in hospitals, medical facilities and cancer centers across the US. This is not to say that there aren't sites out there-there are. But there was nothing that I could see that brought the industry, publishers, shops and all of us into this endeavor.

It has been my experience that as collectors, many are some of the nicest people you can meet. Exceptons exist everywhere but still, many have asked how they could help.

To that end, http://www.Comicbooksforkids.ORG was created. This is a new initiative whose only goal is to provide comic books to kids in hospitals, cancer centers, etc. We started a few months ago but really waited to announce this until we had all the legal paperwork in place.

Each of you can help. We are a 501(C) 3 organization which means we are authorized by the IRS as a charity. Our document stating this is on our web site and you can look us up as well.  What that means is that whenever you make a donation, you receive a letter from us documenting your donation for tax purposes.

Please let others know about us.  From our web site you can friend us on Facebook or follow us on twitter. Please ask your comic shop to contact us. This site relies on donations of all types to ship comics to medical facilities. In the past week, we had the pleasure of shipping over 200 comics to 5 hospitals. That is 200 more kids who can be kids again while they  are in the hospital.   Last week, Diamond highlighted us in their weekly e-blast to retailers, also reposted on our comic store button on our site.  You can also see that Marvel, DC, Image, Dark Horse, Lion Forge, Archie, Boom, Oni Press and IDW are already working with us.

And this is wonderful because it is an opportunity for all of us.

Let me state in closing that I dont have all the answers.  This all started with a desire to help out kids and to perhaps for a period of time, they can imagine themselves soaring through the sky, being Superman, Thor, Batman or any other of the many wonderful characters that we ourselves appreciate.

If we do nothing else but perhaps bring some cheer to these children, then we have done our jobs. And to that end, my favorite page on the web site is the community page where we share the feedback. https://www.comicbooksforkids.org/community

I know $$$ are tight, seriously but on our donate page I state that even a $25.00 donation allows us to ship comics to three hospitals and for those who actually contribute $100, you go on our wall of heroes page where your name is posted underneath a picture of your favorite character.  And for those who want to contribute comics or even donate to your local hospital, we will work with you on that (although some hospitals are very strict on what they receive-but we can help here).

Thanks for reading, sharing the vision and supporting any way that you can.

 

Mark

[mark71517]

recreated this in the general section-mods please erase with my apologies.