Trisomy 18 Foundation is among 100 charities that earned a $25,000 grant during Round 1 of the Chase Community Giving Challenge on Facebook. Now in Round 2, Chase Bank is offering Trisomy 18 Foundation the opportunity to compete for an additional $1 Million prize and five $100,000 prizes, to be decided by public vote from January 15-22, 2010.
We produced the below video to help Victoria Miller, Trisomy 18 Foundation’s Founder and Executive Director, make her case for the winning prize.
Victoria was overwhelmed by the show of support for Trisomy 18’s mission to make Trisomy 18 a preventable and treatable condition.
“Making it to Round 2 is evidence of how common and devastating this chromosomal condition can be to parents around the world,” she said. “When my husband and I lost our son Isaac in 2001, just 11 days after he was born, the Trisomy 18 community was unimaginably small. I started the Trisomy 18 Foundation so these children are just not forgotten, and now we have a real chance to turn our passion into positive and lasting change for all children with Trisomy 18 who have touched our lives—yesterday, tomorrow, and in the years to come”.
