Welcome to the Second Annual Trek Toy.com
Fundraiser for Autism Research.

With Support from The Plasma Infusion and Diamond Select Toys

      The Fundraiser for Autism 2009 is now OVER. Thanks to those that donated!!

A receipt for the donation to Autism research Institute
will be posted in the next few days.

  For this second year I want to start off by thanking Bill Phelan (owner of The Plasma Infusion) and Chuck Terceira (of Diamond Select Toys) for their help.  When I come with my hand out, these guys always come through.
 
  That's my daughter Sarah in the photo with me, and she has Autism.  I'm very lucky that she is not nearly as severe as some of the children that my wife works with as a special needs assistant. Still, she has huge problems to overcome in areas where she needs to communicate with others. Her understanding of what she hears is good, but communicating outward to the world around her is difficult for her. She never spoke a word until she was a little over 4 years old and the first thing she said was an entire sentence. After that it was a word here or there like a child of 2 or so. She's 14 now and still has much work to do, but she is very lucky to have caring people around her that work with her everyday.

  Part of the idea behind this fundraiser (beyond the obvious fundraising) is to also raise awareness about Autism. It is currently estimated that 1 in 150 children born today have some form of Autism. If you care to do some reading on Autism, please do a search and you will find many sites for information. 

  All the funds (less PayPal fees which we cannot control) raised from this fundraiser will be donated to the Autism Research Institute. We invite you to read about them and the great work they do at http://www.autism.com

My thanks go out to you for taking the time to consider helping this worthy cause.
Mark Williams
 

Additional thanks go out to...

 First, I would like to thank Slayerone76 / Jeremy from the Trek Toy.com forum.  It was Jeremy who first wondered if something like this was possible. My family, who have learned to share me with my geek side. The toy collector, the prop collector, SciFi conventions... And last but not least, the many many people that donated last year. You together, and individually, inspired me to do this again.

  Each dollar spent will equal one chance at winning. The number of chances will be based on the dollar amount donated, not the left over amount after PayPal fees are removed. One dollar equals one chance, ten dollars equals ten chances, ect...

 The drawing will be held on Saturday July 4th. The winning numbers will come from the random number generator at http://www.random.org/  The first number generated will be the first place, the second number generated will be second place, and so on.

  The winners will be contacted by the fastest means possible. The winner's prizes will be shipped out to their PayPal confirmed address.

Grand Prize!!!

  From the Trek Toy.com forum we have a John Long TOS Communicator kit. This is an amazing kit and you can read about it right at John's website. HERE

Second Place!!

  Our thanks go to Bill Phelan for his generous donation. Bill donated a Back to the Future Flux Capacitor!!

Not to forget...

 Last, but not least, thanks go out to Chuck Terceira and Diamond Select Toys for sending both a Enterprise D and a TOS Science Tricorder for auction on the forum. Those items brought in the first $325.00 dollars!!

  Money donated to the Autism09 Fundraiser is not refundable. The only money that will be refunded are donations that are received after the deadline date of 11:59 Eastern Time on June 30th^,  2009. Those will be refunded minus any fees charged to receive and return it.  We are sorry about this, but we cannot control PayPal’s fees.

  Drawing will be held July 4th, 2009.

  Each participant may only win one prize.

  All money donated to this fundraiser (after any processing fees from Paypal etc.) will be donated to the Autism Research Institute, which can be found at http://www.autism.com/index.asp

  Donations must be made through PayPal. We feel this is the safest way to conduct this. This way, everyone has a receipt for all money received and money donated to the Autism Research Institute.

  A link to the receipt for the total amount sent to the Autism Research Institute will be posted on this page once the amount is forwarded on to the Autism Research Institute.

  To be eligible for the drawing, you must donate through us so that we can keep records of the transactions and have a verified address to ship the prizes to, should you win. This also gives us the number of tickets to make out in your name for the drawing. If you do not care to be entered in the drawing, then by all means please donate directly if that is your wish. If not to the Autism Research Institute, then some other Autism charity. You might even consider donating your time to something local to you? 

  Donations made to the Trek Toy / Trek Prop Zone Second Annual Charity Fundraiser are not tax deductible. We are NOT a Not For Profit Org. If you must have the tax deduction (and that is understandable) please donate directly to Autism Research Institute (or perhaps a local institution where you live) however you will not be in the drawing.

   If you are under the age of 18, we insist that you get your parents’ or your guardian’s permission.
 
  Please do not donate more than you can afford. If you can't afford to donate, then please do not.

  We do not know the laws concerning donations or drawings of this kind where you live. If you are in doubt, then please check, and if it breaks laws where you live, DO NOT donate.

  If you have any questions about anything, then please email us at Click Me before you donate.  

We have our drawing winners. The winning ticket numbers are 190, Our John Long Com kit winner and number 22 our Flux Capacitor Winner!!   Click here to see how they were drawn.

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