Showing posts with label Mind Your Head. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mind Your Head. Show all posts
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Mind Your Head Progress...
Working on Mind Your Head Co-op -- the website tool is now in place, which means I have to get my act together and work with our web guy to make it do what we need it to do. The plans here are amazing. We will have a tool for creating your own custom long-term recovery plan as well as connecting you with an assortment of possible and appropriate products and services to implement that plan. I'm very excited!
Plus 13 miles (10 yesterday, 3 the day before)
Total Mileage: 440.3
Plus 13 miles (10 yesterday, 3 the day before)
Total Mileage: 440.3
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Mind Your Head Logo Contest!
Design the new logo for Mind Your Head and win $200.
Deadline:
Submissions must be received by February 22 extended to March 1, 2010, and include the 2 versions described below.
Specs:
2 logos (as described below), each 10 inches at it's widest or tallest point (whichever is larger) if in print form, or equivalent size at 200dpi if digital form, with a white background (paper) or transparent background (digital). Submission not meeting these requirements may be disqualified.
Legal:
Deacon Patrick is the judge and his decision is final. The winner will be selected by March 1, 2010, and the award given thereafter. All logos submitted become property of Mind Your Head, a ministry of the Diocese of Colorado Springs. By submitting your work, you grant Mind Your Head sole and exclusive copyright.
What I'm looking for
1) Mind Your Head Logo: Connotes hope for long term recovery and living life to the fullest. Vibrant color, artistic style. Maybe it has a head, maybe it doesn't. Have fun, and show the vibrant zest for life that we live despite (and perhaps because of) our brain injury! Do not include text.
(Most "brain injury" logos show a head, usually very clinical looking, perhaps showing gears for the brain. This is not what I'm looking for.)
2) Shoot the Moon for Brain Injury logo: Some element (or the entire logo) of the Mind Your Head logo, along with the moon. The rest is up to you.
How to Submit your Entry:
Include your name, complete contact information (mailing address, phone, email) and send to:
By email: Deacon Patrick
(I can accept files up to 20mb, so if your file is larger, submit via cd or DVD or file download service)
By mail (for paper and CD/DVD artwork):
Mind Your Head
c/o Office of the Bishop
Diocese of Colorado Springs
228 North Cascade Avenue
Colorado Springs, CO 80903
Deadline:
Submissions must be received by February 22 extended to March 1, 2010, and include the 2 versions described below.
Specs:
2 logos (as described below), each 10 inches at it's widest or tallest point (whichever is larger) if in print form, or equivalent size at 200dpi if digital form, with a white background (paper) or transparent background (digital). Submission not meeting these requirements may be disqualified.
Legal:
Deacon Patrick is the judge and his decision is final. The winner will be selected by March 1, 2010, and the award given thereafter. All logos submitted become property of Mind Your Head, a ministry of the Diocese of Colorado Springs. By submitting your work, you grant Mind Your Head sole and exclusive copyright.
What I'm looking for
1) Mind Your Head Logo: Connotes hope for long term recovery and living life to the fullest. Vibrant color, artistic style. Maybe it has a head, maybe it doesn't. Have fun, and show the vibrant zest for life that we live despite (and perhaps because of) our brain injury! Do not include text.
(Most "brain injury" logos show a head, usually very clinical looking, perhaps showing gears for the brain. This is not what I'm looking for.)
2) Shoot the Moon for Brain Injury logo: Some element (or the entire logo) of the Mind Your Head logo, along with the moon. The rest is up to you.
How to Submit your Entry:
Include your name, complete contact information (mailing address, phone, email) and send to:
By email: Deacon Patrick
(I can accept files up to 20mb, so if your file is larger, submit via cd or DVD or file download service)
By mail (for paper and CD/DVD artwork):
Mind Your Head
c/o Office of the Bishop
Diocese of Colorado Springs
228 North Cascade Avenue
Colorado Springs, CO 80903
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Mind Your Head
Mind Your Head is a cooperative for brain injury survivors and caregivers to find support and therapy that promotes more fully entering life.
What does this look like? We're an innovative and living cooperative by brain injury families for brain injury families which uses physical locations, the internet, and home delivery to provide:
Ongoing, innovative, cost effective therapy (cognitive and otherwise)
Support of community
Business incubation and micro-loans for survivors and caregivers
Research via the above for better ways to accomplish therapy, incubation, and support
Funding for all the above
... all for TBI families by TBI families.
If you would like to be involved in creating some aspect of this, right now, please email Deacon Patrick! You can also help us create this vision by donating here (tax deductible).
What does this look like? We're an innovative and living cooperative by brain injury families for brain injury families which uses physical locations, the internet, and home delivery to provide:
Ongoing, innovative, cost effective therapy (cognitive and otherwise)
Support of community
Business incubation and micro-loans for survivors and caregivers
Research via the above for better ways to accomplish therapy, incubation, and support
Funding for all the above
... all for TBI families by TBI families.
If you would like to be involved in creating some aspect of this, right now, please email Deacon Patrick! You can also help us create this vision by donating here (tax deductible).
Saturday, September 19, 2009
I'll Donate!
Fantastic! Thank you for helping Mind Your Head Brain Injury Cooperative achieve it's fullest potential! We greatly appreciate your donations, and they are tax deductible, according to the laws where you live.
For each participant, we have a suggested donation of $50 or more. If you are a brain injury survivor or caregiver and that is prohibitive, we are happy to waive the suggested donation.
Donate via PayPal:
If you prefer to mail your donation, please mail to:
Diocese of Colorado Springs
Chief of Staff
c/o Mind Your Head (this must be on checks note for them to be designated properly)
228 N. Cascade Ave.
Colorado Springs, CO 80903
Mind Your Head Brain Injury Cooperative is a non-profit ministry of the Diocese of Colorado Springs, headed by Deacon Patrick Jones.
For each participant, we have a suggested donation of $50 or more. If you are a brain injury survivor or caregiver and that is prohibitive, we are happy to waive the suggested donation.
Donate via PayPal:
If you prefer to mail your donation, please mail to:
Diocese of Colorado Springs
Chief of Staff
c/o Mind Your Head (this must be on checks note for them to be designated properly)
228 N. Cascade Ave.
Colorado Springs, CO 80903
Mind Your Head Brain Injury Cooperative is a non-profit ministry of the Diocese of Colorado Springs, headed by Deacon Patrick Jones.
What's this all about?
Our vision: brain injury survivors traveling 1.4 million human-powered miles to raise $100 million for brain injury research and rehabilitation through Mind Your Head.
Human Powered Miles?
Yup. walking, hiking, running, cycling, wheel chairing, swimming, and perhaps a few I don't know of yet.
1.4 Million Miles?
Absolutely. Every year in the United States, 1.4 million people receive a brain injury. That's 6 times more people effected by brain injury each year than MS, spinal cord injury, HIV/AIDS, and breast cancer combined -- which is why brain injury is often referred to as the "silent epidemic."
$100 Million? How will it be used?
Yes, $100 million is an ambitious goal. Big challenges require ambitious endeavors. We want to ensure that it all goes to fund research and innovative rehabilitation techniques for brain injury. Patrick Jones is in the process of founding Mind Your Head, a non-profit for this specific purpose. All money raised will benefit brain injured through Mind Your Head.
How Long Will 1.4 Million Miles Take?
We don't know. Patrick's motto for life with brain injury is "as fast as we can, as slow as we must." Because of variable brain fatigue (where the brain's energy bank is at zero-ballance), we often don't know how we'll be doing on any given day. Some days I'm able to hike for miles, while other days my brain is recovering from something overwhelming it and I struggle to get to the bathroom. We've intentionally not set a time line for reaching 1.4 million miles because that's how life with brain injury is. We get there as fast as we can and as slow as we must.
I'm Brain Injured and Want to Include My Human Powered Miles!
Wonderful! I look forward to journeying with you, completely separate. And isn't that how we experience life with brain injury? We can support each other, yet we travel our own road with our own unique challenges because brain injury effects us each so differently.
Sign up here.
I Want To Donate!
Fantastic! Here's how...
Are There Other Ways I can Help?
You Bet! We have a variety of needs and are always open to ideas. Please see our wish list.
Human Powered Miles?
Yup. walking, hiking, running, cycling, wheel chairing, swimming, and perhaps a few I don't know of yet.
1.4 Million Miles?
Absolutely. Every year in the United States, 1.4 million people receive a brain injury. That's 6 times more people effected by brain injury each year than MS, spinal cord injury, HIV/AIDS, and breast cancer combined -- which is why brain injury is often referred to as the "silent epidemic."
$100 Million? How will it be used?
Yes, $100 million is an ambitious goal. Big challenges require ambitious endeavors. We want to ensure that it all goes to fund research and innovative rehabilitation techniques for brain injury. Patrick Jones is in the process of founding Mind Your Head, a non-profit for this specific purpose. All money raised will benefit brain injured through Mind Your Head.
How Long Will 1.4 Million Miles Take?
We don't know. Patrick's motto for life with brain injury is "as fast as we can, as slow as we must." Because of variable brain fatigue (where the brain's energy bank is at zero-ballance), we often don't know how we'll be doing on any given day. Some days I'm able to hike for miles, while other days my brain is recovering from something overwhelming it and I struggle to get to the bathroom. We've intentionally not set a time line for reaching 1.4 million miles because that's how life with brain injury is. We get there as fast as we can and as slow as we must.
I'm Brain Injured and Want to Include My Human Powered Miles!
Wonderful! I look forward to journeying with you, completely separate. And isn't that how we experience life with brain injury? We can support each other, yet we travel our own road with our own unique challenges because brain injury effects us each so differently.
Sign up here.
I Want To Donate!
Fantastic! Here's how...
Are There Other Ways I can Help?
You Bet! We have a variety of needs and are always open to ideas. Please see our wish list.
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