Ride For America
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I wanted to introduce myself and give you some history and information on my fundraiser run “Ride For America”. My name is Angel Miller. I’m from Oklahoma and I organize rides every year to help raise money for our veterans and military that have sacrificed for our country and our freedom.
Ride For America is a 501 c(3) non-profit organization founded in 2010 and had our first successful run in 2011. Our first run was small and organized at the last minute but still successful. Our sponsors helped us tremendously last year in purchasing t-shirts to help with the fundraiser. We raised $1300.00. I find this outstanding for a last minute run. We raised money for our Wounded Warrior Rusty Dunagan and his family. He is our 23rd surviving triple amputee since the Vietnam War. Rusty sacrificed a lot to serve his country and funds came from all over to give to Rusty. We had very little time to raise this money but this year we are hoping to get more sponsors and with more organization get more people involved. We have also made him a member of our National Combat Veterans Motorcycle Association.
We would like to add you to our sponsor list for the 2012 Ride For America Run. We will have our run June 16-28, 2012. All sponsors will be added to the t-shirts and/or banners depending on the level of sponsorship packet you select. Last year we sold over 100 shirts and 60 bandannas. We are hoping to double that this year. T-shirts are a great way to get your name out there and advertise and show the community you are a supporter of our veterans and military. We travel all over the United States.
Our selection this year run will be the Patriot Paws Program. The Patriot Paws program is a women’s prison that trains these dogs for 3 years and the dogs are given/donated/sold to veterans as service dogs. The inmates are strictly selected to participate in this program. Not only is this program helping the veterans, its also helping rehabilitate the women in the prison. This program has a high success rate in the women not returning to the prison and continuing to be a great help and becoming successful in their communities.
I’ve researched this program and find it to be a great program not only for our veterans but also for the rehabilitation for the women in the prison system and our community. The community has frowned upon felons/convicts and we must be able to get them back into the community with support and the community must be aware of these programs to show their support to our rehabilitated convicts, women and men. There are very little chances for them to get jobs and or get back in school if they are convicted felons and I believe this to be unfair in some cases. This program teaches them and helps them rehabilitate back to society.
In 2009 and 2010, I put on 23 successful fundraisers. We have donated all funds to the veterans associations in our community. Not one cent was kept for our benefit. I’m also the President of the Oklahoma City Charter and part of the Board of Directors in the National Combat Veterans Motorcycle Association. http://nationalcvma.org. Although this fundraiser is not part of the National Combat Veterans M.A. (NCVMA), I still would like to use you in the future as a sponsor for some of our runs for the NCVMA or keep you and your establishment for business for products, sponsorship and/or a stop for our runs.
Donations are welcome as in money, products and time in organizing. These types of events take a lot of time to organize and money to advertise for them. All help and donations are very much appreciated. We support our American owned businesses.
Thank you and I appreciate your time and your consideration.
Angel "Hannibal" Miller
Ride For America
405-408-0337
