This year’s walk will be held inside Northwest Mall in Houston, TX on Saturday, August 7, 2010 at 8:30 a.m.

Join us this year as we take our walk indoors. The controlled environment in the mall will certainly keep the hot Texas heat at bay. Tell your friends, family, and co-workers about the walk.  Invite them to participate and raise funds too. Tell everyone about scleroderma and why you want to raise money to help provide support for those afflicted with the disease and to fund research to find a cause, and ultimately a cure!

This event is in honor of patients of the Scleroderma Foundation’s Texas Chapter and others affected by scleroderma, as well as in memory of loved ones who fought this disease with hope and courage. The walk will be hosted by the Houston Area Support Group.

This year we will offer incentive prizes such as insulated lunch totes, umbrellas, roll-up blankets, water tumblers, can koozies, and other awareness items for your fundraising efforts. We will also have lots of door prizes at the walk. Door prize tickets will be available for $1 each or $10 for an arms length. You decide which prizes you enter to win! A Grand Prize Drawing is in the works. Details will be announced at a later date.  Check this site again for updates!

Sign-in will begin at 7:45 a.m., where pledges will be turned in and incentive prizes distributed.  Door prize tickets will be available for purchase as well. 

• Registration: Adults $10 each. Children 12 & Under $5 each. Registration fee includes a T-Shirt. Payment may be made by cash, check, or credit card.
• Mail-in Registration: Walkers can also register by mail (Download from the resources box on left). It is requested that mailed registration forms be postmarked by July 31, 2010 and returned to:

Scleroderma Foundation
Texas Bluebonnet Chapter
PO Box 1836
Allen, TX  75013 

• In-person registration: Begins at 7:45 A.M. at Northwest Mall on the day of the walk. 

• Fundraising: To assist walkers in signing-up donors and sponsors, the Chapter has arranged with FirstGiving to provide individualized online pledging pages for each interested participant. Walkers and other interested supporters can set up their own personalized fundraising page by selecting the “Register Online” link in the Resources section on the upper left hand side of this page. Walkers will be able to e-mail the link of their personalized fundraising page to potential sponsors they know throughout the world! 

If you would like to raise funds the old fashioned way you can download pledge sheets from the “Resources” box to assist you in your fundraising efforts. Make sure you contact us to let us know you are fundraising so we can include you in any updates.

Questions: If you have a question about the walk or how to raise funds or if you would like to volunteer, you may contact our walk Co-Chairs Peggy Brown or Michele Barrientez, at  SFTBCevents@scleroderma.org  or by calling 1-866-Learn SF (866-532-7673).