Today–the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and Cyber Monday–is known as “Giving Tuesday.” It’s an internationally recognized day of charitable giving and generosity, aimed at empowering people and nonprofits to make positive change for our communities and the world. This great day dedicated to the gift of change happens to coincide with the launch of the annual December fundraiser for the Fluoride Action Network’s 2022 budget, which will allow us to continue making progress with our scientific, educational, and advocacy campaigns.
The staff and volunteers at FAN work throughout the year–alongside hundreds of local volunteers in their communities–to protect our water from fluoridation chemicals. Our work has become more urgent with each passing year as a large and growing body of research, much of it government-funded, has exposed the dangers posed to our children, adolescents, and adults, especially with respect to fluoride’s impact on brain development, thyroid function, and hip fractures.
No one else is doing what FAN and its supporters and affiliated groups are doing to warn and educate the public, media, and policy makers about this danger. Why? Because the issue of fluoridation is so controversial that our brothers and sisters in non-profits veer away from it because they can’t generate large sums from government grants and corporations. We’re happy to be leading the way in empowering, connecting, and standing alongside citizens as they defend their communities and children against the pro-fluoridation lobby in city halls and before state or provincial legislatures. If we don’t, who will?
The World Health Organization, U.S Centers For Disease Control, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, American Academy of Pediatrics, American Dental Association, and their state level peers have not just failed to warn residents about the dangers posed by fluoridation, they’ve continued advocating for fluoridation expansion in spite of the science. With their reputations at stake after defending fluoridation for more than 75 years, they’ve sadly shown that they’ll likely be the last to act.
As I write this, millions of developing babies and infants are being overexposed to fluoride from their fluoridated tap water.
The research has shown that there is no safe amount of fluoride for the fetus or infant. All will be impacted, some significantly more than others. Please help us defend these vulnerable children and give them the gift of normal brain development. Help us also protect other vulnerable subpopulations, including those with hypersensitivities, dental fluorosis, bone brittleness, and kidney, liver, or thyroid impairment.
Unlike our opposition, we don’t have tax dollars or corporate sponsors to fund our work. FAN depends on individual donors and small family foundations to ensure we have the resources necessary to lead the worldwide campaign against fluoridation. Your donation to FAN–your gift to the public–will go directly towards these efforts.
Over the next five weeks, we will be sharing our progress from the past year and our plans for the coming year. Please stay tuned as we’ll be sharing a lot of important updates and exciting content. In 2021, we saw the publication of more studies and journal articles linking new harms to fluoridation and confirming others. We also saw a growing chorus of renowned international experts in toxicology, neurology, and environmental toxins warn the public about fluoridation. We’ve captured the CDC’s attention, made progress with our federal lawsuit, helped communities come together to fight fluoridation, and worked with state legislators to defeat mandate bills and support prohibition efforts.
In 2022, we expect to see another wave of fluoridation-damning research, a completed review by the NTP, and maybe more importantly, we also expect a precedent-setting verdict in our federal TSCA trial. Major battles will be decided in major cities like Spokane and Vancouver, in states like New Jersey, Hawaii, Kentucky, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire (among others), and in nations like New Zealand and the United Kingdom. It’s going to be a year for the history books.
But we need your help to give the world the gift of fluoride-free water. Please consider investing in an end to water fluoridation. All donations large and small are important to us and are tax-deductible. Your generosity will not just inspire action, it will facilitate it.
Our goal this December will be $150,000 from 1500 donors by midnight PT Dec 31st.
Recurring donations:
One way to make a fairly large donation manageable is to spread it over the year by pledging so much a month. A pledge of $10 a month gives us $120 a year and a pledge of $25 a month gives us a massive $300! These recurring donations also add a solid rock on which we can build each year.
How to Make a Tax-Deductible Donation:
- Online, using our secure server.
- If you should experience difficulty in donating online, or would like to donate over the phone, please call Network For Good at 1-888-284-7978 and press option 3 to make your donation.
- Or by Check, payable to the Fluoride Action Network. Mail your check to:
Fluoride Action Network
c/o Connett
105 Kingston Road
Exeter, NH 03833
*Please note that some corporations match tax deductible donations made by their employees to some non-profits. We qualify for this. This is the information to provide your corporation finance people, the parent body for FAN is the American Environmental Health Studies Project, Inc.
Thank you for your continued support and efforts to end water fluoridation throughout the world.
Also Support FAN While You Shop For The Holidays
Will you be using Amazon.com to shop this holiday season or throughout the year? When you shop using AmazonSmile, they will donate 0.5% of your purchase to the Fluoride Action Network through our parent group, the American Environmental Health Studies Project, Inc. While these donations aren’t large enough to fund our annual budget, it is an extra and easy way to support our work beyond a direct donation. Just bookmark and use this link each time you shop:
http://smile.amazon.com/ch/62-
The reason we suggest bookmarking or saving the link is because you must use it as your portal to Amazon each time you start shopping, otherwise they won’t contribute to FAN. Once you have it saved, you’ll have the same Amazon shopping experience, but you’ll get to support a cause you believe in with every purchase.
Thank you,
Stuart Cooper
Campaign Director
Fluoride Action Network
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