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Tuesday, October 13, 2009

If a Man Risked His Life for You, Would You Give Him a Dollar? Here’s Your Chance.

This Veteran’s weekend, ReMIND.org, a Bob Woodruff Foundation initiative, will raise $1.9 million for injured troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan and you’re going to help. Co-founded by the ABC news correspondent injured by a roadside bomb while reporting from Iraq, ReMIND.org has launched the Tweet to ReMIND campaign to raise a dollar for every service member deployed since September 11, 2001. 

Sign up and pledge now at TweetToReMIND.org, then join tweeters like ABC News chief Washington correspondent George Stephanopoulos in spreading the ReMIND.org message: “Just back from Tehran. Help Bob Woodruff Foundation support injured service members from Afghan and Iraq at http://tweettoremind.org/ 

People can sign up and contribute online at TweetToReMIND.org, then use their own Twitter accounts to send messages to family and friends about the needs of U.S. service members. The messages can highlight data and statistics about veterans or encourage others to get involved locally with veterans’ issues. Supporters are asked to use the hashtag #tweettoremind when they send their tweets.

More than 35,000 service members have been physically wounded, and it is estimated that more than 320,000 have sustained traumatic brain injuries and more than 300,000 have psychological wounds. Tweet to ReMIND empowers Twitter users to spread this message and raise money to give injured service members, veterans and their families the local support and resources they deserve as they heal and reintegrate into their communities. 

The project has given ReMIND.org’s Lee Woodruff—a former Porter Novelli staffer, wife of Bob Woodruff and co-founder of the foundation—a new view of the power of Twitter for social good, and has led her to rethink some of her earlier impressions of it.

For more information—and to SIGN UP for Tweet to ReMIND!—go to TweetToReMIND.org.

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