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LIVE AUCTION<br />
Open Your Heart<br />
Year after year, passionately-committed donors and volunteers like<br />
you have embraced the challenge of building healthier lives, free of<br />
cardiovascular diseases and stroke. You, our supporters, have been the<br />
driving force enabling groundbreaking advances in such areas as research,<br />
tobacco control, quality and availability of care, chain of survival and<br />
obesity prevention, as well as heart disease and stroke prevention.<br />
Now, more than ever, the American Heart Association has a sense of<br />
urgency to move the mission forward. Please join us as we make medical<br />
history, increasing the pace of science focused on our mission…only then<br />
can we hope to understand and prevent cardiovascular diseases and<br />
stroke.<br />
The funds we raise through Open Your Heart this evening go directly to<br />
fund research, e<strong>du</strong>cation, awareness and prevention initiatives <strong>with</strong> the<br />
direct goal of treating, and preventing cardiovascular diseases and stroke.<br />
We are not only helping those who currently suffer–but funding research<br />
that will ensure a healthier future for our next generations.<br />
Thank you to the companies and indivi<strong>du</strong>als who have already given to<br />
Open Your Heart to help us get a head start. We hope to have 100%<br />
participation in the room the night of Côtes <strong>du</strong> <strong>Coeur</strong>.<br />
Here’s how Open Your Heart works:<br />
• Auctioneers Wendy & Doak Lambert will call out funding levels at<br />
$50,000; $25,000; $15,000; $10,000; $5,000; $2,500, $1,000 and $500.<br />
• Simply raise your bid card high when you hear the amount at which<br />
you wish to make a purely philanthropic, tax-de<strong>du</strong>ctible contribution<br />
to the American Heart Association’s vital mission.<br />
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts!<br />
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