What it means to be a lifeline is well worth repeating!

AND ... it needs to be passed along to others by YOU. This is so easy to do ... SIMPLY CLICK ON FORWARD THIS E-MAIL TO ANOTHER FRIEND, EMPHASIZE THE IMPORTANCE OF KNOWING ABOUT THIS CHARITY ... AND YOU WILL HAVE POTENTIALLY GIVEN ADDED THRUST TO A WORTHY CAUSE. What is not generally known is that thousands of underfunded people have ONLY one place for critical treatment, and they live hundreds of miles from their dedicated place for treatment. That place for well over half of Virginia is the UVA Medical Center in Charlottesville. What can you say to introduce Interfaith Humanitarian Sanctum (IHS) to a friend? IHS is a totally independent, non-religious, 501(c)3, nonprofit, 24/7 public charity, accessed by all UVA Social Workers when no other charity, clinic, agency can be reached for assistance to assist indigent and underfunded patients and caregivers who MUST come to UVA Medical Center from great distances for treatment. That assistance MUST be directed as needed through the Office of Social Work, the responsible professionals who are fully acquainted with their patients and their ability to balance immediate physical needs for travel to and existence while in Charlottesville and away from home. These critical needs often include all of the following:   travel, lodging, food, prescriptions/co-pays, and other considerations. If these matters are not secured, that trip by far too many will be delayed. Time can be a factor regarding a possible diagnosis for life-saving treatment. This charity is a “silent partner,” working through UVA Hospital Social Workers ... a last lifeline YOU are among the approximately 650 contacts who receive this e-mail reminder no more than twice monthly. Among that number of recipients are the 50-60 Social Workers in the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville, along with a limited number of medical staff scattered throughout several clinics. The balance who receive these notes are friends made over the last eight (8) years as a small group of volunteers called and visited churches, businesses and other gatherings, explaining why we exist and what we are doing to sustain and strengthen our objectives. Those we assist directly through meeting their temporary immediate needs do not know us The only contact a patient or caregiver will experience is with their Social Worker. The Social Worker relationship allows this charity to know that a need truly exists. IHS does not have a way of knowing a patient or caregiver background ... but a Social Worker does. This allows IHS to move more quickly to respond and expedite a request. And - a decision was made from day one that this charity would be open for contact to ALL Social Workers 24/7. Invite your friends to access the IHS website and watch the 6 minute promotional video. The website is:  http://www.interfaithhumanitariansanctum.org Please remember that all of us at IHS are non-paid volunteers, and we are all donating what we can to IHS personally. Also remember - for transparency we hold the "Gold Seal of Approval" from the Guidestar.org national clearing house. Please do what you can. And, if you would like to donate now to our cause, please click the button below to go to our encrypted secure on-line donation form.   Thank you so much for your ideas and invitations to expose this charity's vital mission. NEVER shy away from seeking gift-giving from others when you know it will serve the needs of the least able. Much love, T. Wade Clegg III and Sam McLawhorn

A New & Convenient Way to Support IHS

Did you know that Interfaith Humanitarian Sanctum Inc has a unique AmazonSmile link that makes it easier for people to find and support our organization? Here is our IHS organization's unique link: http://smile.amazon.com/ch/26-3985605 What does our unique link do? When donors and supporters click on our organization's unique link, they skip the process to search for a charity to support among over 1 million eligible charities. Instead, they're taken to smile.amazon.com and are automatically asked if they want to support Interfaith Humanitarian Sanctum Inc. Can I just search for the IHS charity at smile.amazon.com? Yes. However, that makes it harder for you to find and select our organization. There are over 1 million eligible charities, and you may accidentally end up picking a different organization during the selection process. Sharing our charity link increases the likelihood that donors and supporters with automatically go to the page necessary for IHS to receive credit for your sales. Do you have to click on the IHS charity's AmazonSmile link every time I shop? No. Once you select our charity, IHS will receive 0.5% of the price of all your eligible smile.amazon.com purchases, regardless of whether they use your unique AmazonSmile link to return to the site. However, to make it easier for you in the future, I recommend that you bookmark to your Favorites and use this special link so you don't accidentally shop at www.amazon.com instead of smile.amazon.com. BEWARE: Only purchases made at smile.amazon.com are eligible for donations. What do donors and supporters do if they have already selected another charity previously  when they click on our organization's unique link? If someone is already supporting IHS, and they click on our unique link, they will simply be taken to smile.amazon.com so they can start shopping. You do not have to re-select our charity. If however you are supporting a different charity and click on our IHS link, you will be asked if you would like to switch to support IHS instead of the previous organization. I hope these instructions will make it easy for you to take part in this wonderful way to donate to IHS through one of the most popular e-Commerce sites on the internet. Please remember that all of us at IHS are non-paid volunteers, and we are all donating what we can to IHS personally. Also remember - for transparency we hold the "Gold Seal of Approval" from the Guidestar.org national clearing house. Please do what you can. And, if you would like to donate now to our cause, please click the button below to go to our encrypted secure on-line donation form.   Thank you so much for your ideas and invitations to expose this charity's vital mission. NEVER shy away from seeking gift-giving from others when you know it will serve the needs of the least able. Sincerely, T. Wade Clegg III and Sam McLawhorn