Michael McGinnis

Dear Family, Friends and Associates,

As I have done for the last decade I will be serving as Co-Chair of The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation’ 2024 Great Strides Walk which will be held on May 18, 2024 at the Houston Zoo. It may seem that I just recently asked for your help because we conducted the walk in November 2023 but we are moving it back to May this year to align with the national walk. Our family has been involved with the Texas Gulf Coast Chapter of the Foundation for almost thirty years. We have no direct connection to cystic fibrosis but we have witnessed the enormous progress that has been made in working to find a cure for this dreaded disease. When we were asked to sponsor a water station for the Great Strides walk in 1994 I believe that the life expectancy was just mid teens today the life expectancy is 56 years of age.

I am once again asking you to please help by registering to walk with our team, M&M’s Find A Cure to help raise funds to support the ongoing research that will one day lead to finding a cure for cystic fibrosis. If you are unable to join us at the walk I ask that you consider making a donation. Any amount that you are able to contribute will be appreciated by all of the wonderful people that are affected by cystic fibrosis.

As I have written to you in the past I always indicated that this disease affects about thirty thousand children and adults in the United States but today I am pleased to say that it affects about forth thousand people because many are living much longer.

In recent years because of your generosity the foundation has made unbelievable progress in developing new treatments to help those with cystic fibrosis lead more normal lives. Our commitment is that we will not leave anyone behind-while the recently developed therapies have helped more than ninety percent of the CF population, there is still a large number of folks that still need our help.

Donating is very easy and safe! Simply click the link”CLICK TO DONATE” button at the bottom of this page to make a donation. Your donation of any size will be credited to our team.

I am very grateful that you have taken the time to read my message. I hope that you will find it appropriate to donate whatever you can to help find a cure for CF. We all know that one day CF will stand for “CURE FOUND”!!

Respectfully,

Mike McGinnis