Shopping ... and helping VHL!

Discounts for you and commissions for VHL

May I ask you a favor? Are you doing any online shopping this season?

Here's an easy way to help VHL with no cost to you.

At the website http://www.igive.com there is a commission paid to charities when people shop through that site. Think of it as a shopping mall, with nearly all the stores you know.

If you install their toolbar, they will alert you when you go to a participating website and let you know what commission will be paid by that vendor. For example, if you buy something from L.L. Bean, iGive will pay VHL a commission of 2%. You can do your normal online shopping but with iGive collecting commissions for us in the background. Here is how...

• Go to http://www.igive.com
  
  
• Choose to install the iGive toolbar. Run the installation. Reboot your system before using it.
  
  
• Set your browser to allow pop-ups from www.igive.com (Tools, Internet options, Privacy, Pop-up settings)
  
  
• Choose "VHL" as your charity. We are listed both as VHL Family Alliance and as Cancer Research Fund VHL Alliance.
  
  
• Then just shop as usual.

Avoid the crowds, and help VHL at the same time.

Similarly, iGive pays us one penny for each search you do through their search engine, http://isearch.igive.com

*All offers are valid for U.S. shoppers; offers for other countries vary from vendor to vendor.

Happy shopping! Thank you.

Joyce Graff, Executive Director