it doesn't cost you anything but can have a significant impact.

EMAIL FRIENDS

The more people know about The Michael Coss Brain Injury Foundation and are aware that they can definitely help us give hope to those who are living with traumatic and acquired brain injury, the more money we can raise to help pay for Hyperbaric Oxygenation Treatments that are often the last solution towards a better quality of life and more dignity, the more brain injury survivors we can help.
A simple email to spread the word can go a long way!
Please feel free to customize the following message:

Subject: because this could happen to myself or you or a family member!

Hello [first name]
I've decided to support a new Foundation that has a a great and noble mission. And I'd truly like you to join me. You can spread the word around you and send this email to family members, friends, anybody you know and who knows you.
The Michael Coss Brain Injury Foundation, a new Foundation located in BC - Canada has for mission to help survivors to regain hope, dignity and a better quality of life.
Do you know that HBOT ( Hyperbaric Oxygenation Therapy ) can save lives and give hope to thousands of people who sustained traumatic brain injury ( car accident, ski accident, fall...)or acquired brain injury (stroke, cardiac arrest...)?
Whether it is traumatic brain injury or acquired brain injury, in many cases, portions of previous activity in damaged brain can be restored thanks to oxygen under pressure (HBOT) that serves to re-oxygenate dormant neurons in the area surrounding the immediate damaged area.
Many people living with disabilities caused by brain damage could regain a part of their functionality and live a more normal life, but because of the cost of the treatments that aren't covered by MSP and any private insurance, these same people are left with nothing but NO HOPE!
The Michael Coss Brain Injury Foundation would like to change this by giving a touch of hope for more dignity and a chance for a life back...step by step

You can visit their website at http://www.SecondChanceStepbyStep.org and read what I'm talking about.
This could simply happen to me, to you, to a loved one. Just imagine that every year in Canada over 11,000 people die as a result of a traumatic brain injury caused by a car or motocycle accident, a ski accident, a simple fall from the roof, from a tree!
It is estimated that winter sports such as skiing and skating accounts for about 20,000 brain injuries each year in the United States! What about the acquired brain injury like a hemorrhagic stroke caused by the rupture of a blood vessel inside of the brain, an ischemic stroke caused by a blood clot or cholesterol deposit, a cardiac arrest, a tumour. This is very sad to say but that can happen to anybody, even if you are healthy, that can happen without warning, while you're driving, watching TV, cooking or sleeping.
Now, HBOT is the last hope, the hope that most doctors never tell you about but instead they will tell you that there is nothing they can do.

Like me, spread the word, spread awareness, because people need to know what is HBOT and need to know that they need help, The Michael Coss Brain Injury Foundation is here to help.

ADD A FOOTER TO YOUR EMAILS

Certainly one of the best way to promote The Michael Coss Brain Injury Foundation's cause and our website " http://www.SecondChanceStepbyStep.org" is to add a message to the bottom of your outgoing emails. It costs absolutely nothing but raises awareness of the good cause you support.
Here is how you can have this happen automatically everytime you send an email:

HotMail:
1. Login to your HotMail account
2. Go to the Mail category
3. Click on Options
4. Follow the Personal Signature link
5. Type your message in the text field. We suggest:
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The Michael Coss Brain Injury Foundation's mission is to help people who sustained traumatic and acquired brain injury to regain their life back, their dignity, a better quality of life by funding HBOT treatments (Hyperbaric Oxygenation Therapy). Please, visit their website at http://www.SecondChanceStepbyStep.org. Also, everytime you purchase online through their website, a portion of the revenue is given back to The Michael Coss Brain Injury Foundation, 100% of which will be use to cover the costs for HBOT treatments.
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6. Click OK.
7. Send an e-mail to yourself to test it out.

Yahoo Mail:
1. Login to your Yahoo! Mail account
2. Select Mail Options from navigation bar
3. Follow the Signature link (under Personalization)
4. Enter your message in the text field. We suggest:
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The Michael Coss Brain Injury Foundation's mission is to help people who sustained traumatic and acquired brain injury to regain their life back, their dignity, a better quality of life by funding HBOT treatments (Hyperbaric Oxygenation Therapy). Please, visit their website at http://www.SecondChanceStepbyStep.org. Also, everytime you purchase online through their website, a portion of the revenue is given back to The Michael Coss Brain Injury Foundation, 100% of which will be use to cover the costs for HBOT treatments.
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5. Check the box Add Signature to All Outgoing Messages
6. Click Save
7. Send an e-mail to yourself to test it out.

Outlook Express:
1. Launch Outlook Express
2. Select Tools, then select Options
3. Click the Signatures tab
4. Click the New button to add a new message
5. Click in the Edit Signature text field and type your signature text. We suggest:
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The Michael Coss Brain Injury Foundation's mission is to help people who sustained traumatic and acquired brain injury to regain their life back, their dignity, a better quality of life by funding HBOT treatments (Hyperbaric Oxygenation Therapy). Please, visit their website at http://www.SecondChanceStepbyStep.org. Also, everytime you purchase online through their website, a portion of the revenue is given back to The Michael Coss Brain Injury Foundation, 100% of which will be use to cover the costs for HBOT treatments.
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6. If you would like to automatically add the new signature to all outgoing messages, check the option for Add Signatures to All outgoing messages
7. Click OK to return to the message list
8. Send an e-mail to yourself to test it out.

Outlook:
1. Launch Outlook
2. Select Tools, then select Options
3. Click the Mail Format tab
4. Click the Signatures
5. Click the New button to add a new message
6. Click in the Edit Signature text field and type your signature text. We suggest:
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The Michael Coss Brain Injury Foundation's mission is to help people who sustained traumatic and acquired brain injury to regain their life back, their dignity, a better quality of life by funding HBOT treatments (Hyperbaric Oxygenation Therapy). Please, visit their website at http://www.SecondChanceStepbyStep.org. Also, everytime you purchase online through their website, a portion of the revenue is given back to The Michael Coss Brain Injury Foundation, 100% of which will be use to cover the costs for HBOT treatments.
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7. Click OK
8. Click on the name of your new message to Signature for New Messages and Signatures for Replies and Forwards boxes
9. Send an e-mail to yourself to test it out.

America Online 9.0:
1. From the AOL menu select Mail, then click Set Mail Signatures
2. In the Set up Signatures window, click Create
3. In the Signature Name box, type a name for this signature
4. Type your message. We suggest:
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The Michael Coss Brain Injury Foundation's mission is to help people who sustained traumatic and acquired brain injury to regain their life back, their dignity, a better quality of life by funding HBOT treatments (Hyperbaric Oxygenation Therapy). Please, visit their website at http://www.SecondChanceStepbyStep.org. Also, everytime you purchase online through their website, a portion of the revenue is given back to The Michael Coss Brain Injury Foundation, 100% of which will be use to cover the costs for HBOT treatments.
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5. Click OK
6. Click the X to close the Set up Signatures window
7. Send an e-mail to yourself to test it out.

America Online AIM Web Mail:
1. Log into your AOL AIM account
2. Click on Settings
3. Type you message. We suggest:
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The Michael Coss Brain Injury Foundation's mission is to help people who sustained traumatic and acquired brain injury to regain their life back, their dignity, a better quality of life by funding HBOT treatments (Hyperbaric Oxygenation Therapy). Please, visit their website at http://www.SecondChanceStepbyStep.org. Also, everytime you purchase online through their website, a portion of the revenue is given back to The Michael Coss Brain Injury Foundation, 100% of which will be use to cover the costs for HBOT treatments.
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4. Check the box: Add this signature to messages sent using AIM Mail on the Web
5. Click Save
6. Send an e-mail to yourself to test it out.


Now, you're ready to spread the word and promote www.SecondChanceStepbyStep.org through out the internet. Thanks so much!

ADD A LOGO / BUTTON / BANNER on your website or blog

If you have a website or a blog, you could link to us using our logo, a button or banner. Links are valuable to us as they bring us traffic and income at absolutely no cost to you
> choose a text banner, logo, button or banner ( copy-paste the code )

Save the image onto your computer then upload it to your server. Copy-paste code below. Replace "img src" path by your own.
<a href="http://www.secondchancestepbystep.org" target="_blank"><img src="yourdomain.com/logo-125x125.gif" alt="A second chance for brain injury survivors with accessibility to HBOT treatments" border="0" /></a>

Copy-paste code below

<table width="234" cellpadding="0"style="background:#ffff66;border:1px dotted #219CA4;padding:3px;text-align:justify; ">
<tr><td height="52"><div align="center"><strong><font color="#009900" size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">THE MICHAEL COSS BRAIN INJURY </font></strong><font color="#009900" size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>FOUNDATION</strong></font> </div><div align="center">
<p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <font size="1"><strong><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Helping survivors to have access to Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy</font></strong></font></font></p><p><a href="http://www.secondchancestepbystep.org" target="_blank">www.SecondChanceStepbyStep.org</a></p></div></td></tr></table>

Save the image onto your computer then upload it to your server. Copy-paste code below. Replace "img src" path by your own.

<a href="http://www.secondchancestepbystep.org" target="_blank"><img src=yourdomain.com/banner-half-234x60.gif" alt="The Michael coss Brain Injury Foundation. Giving a second chance to brain injury survivors" width="234" height="60" border="0" /></a>

Save the image onto your computer then upload it to your server. Copy-paste code below. Replace "img src" path by your own.

<a href="http://www.secondchancestepbystep.org" target="_blank"><img src=yourdomain.com/banner-half-2-234x60.gif" alt="The Michael coss Brain Injury Foundation. Giving a second chance to brain injury survivors thanks to Hyperbaric Oxygenation Therapy" width="234" height="60" border="0" /></a>

Save the image onto your computer then upload it to your server. Copy-paste code below. Replace "img src" path by your own.

<a href="http://www.secondchancestepbystep.org" target="_blank"><img src=yourdomain.com/banner-rect-180x150.gif" alt="The Michael coss Brain Injury Foundation. Giving a second chance to LIFE, Step by Step...to brain injury survivors thanks to Hyperbaric Oxygenation Therapy" width="180" height="150" border="0" /></a>

Save the image onto your computer then upload it to your server. Copy-paste code below. Replace "img src" path by your own.

<a href="http://www.secondchancestepbystep.org" target="_blank"><img src=yourdomain.com/banner-skyscrap-120x600.gif" alt="The Michael coss Brain Injury Foundation. Helping Brain Injury Survivors access Hyperbaric Oxygenation Therapy for a Second Chance to Life" width="120" height="600" border="0" /></a>

MAKE SecondChanceStepbyStep.org YOUR HOMEPAGE.

And why not making it the Home Page on your computers at work or in your school?

Every time you start your web browser SecondChanceStepbyStep.org will automatically load and be the first site you see. Plus, no matter where you are on the web, you can always click your browser's home button and return to SecondChanceStepbyStep.org instantly.

Microsoft Internet Explorer users:
1. Select Tools | Internet Options
2. Select the General tab
3. In the Address textbox, type www.SecondChanceStepbyStep.org
4. Click OK

Netscape Navigator users:
1. Select Edit |Preferences
2. Select the Navigator category on the left side
3. In the Location textbox, type www.SecondChanceStepbyStep.org
4. Click OK.

Firefox users:
1. Select Tools | Options
2. Select the General tab
3. In the Location textbox, type www.SecondChanceStepbyStep.org
4. Click OK.

Safari users:
1. Open a Safari browser window
2. In the toolbar at the top of the window, click Safari > Preferences
3. In the Preferences window, click the General tab
4. In the "Home page" field, type www.SecondChanceStepbyStep.org
5. Click the red Close button.

Google Chrome users:
1. Go to the upper right hand corner of the screen and click on the Tools Icon
2. Select Options
3. Under the basics tab and under the Home Page section, choose "Open this page"
4. Add www.SecondChanceStepbyStep.org to the URL box and click close

That's it! Now SecondChanceStepbyStep.org will be your browser's homepage.

CREATE A SHORTCUT

directly on your desktop

Firefox:
click on tab, drag and drop onto your desktop

Explorer:
file / send > shortcut to desktop

WRITE ABOUT SecondChanceStepbyStep.org and The Michael Coss Brain Injury Foundation

ON BLOGS AND MESSAGE BOARDS, on your PERSONAL WEBSITE
One of the best ways to get the word out

TELL THE MEDIA ABOUT THE MICHAEL COSS BRAIN INJURY FOUNDATION

Write to your local newspaper, contact your local TV or local Radio station

PRINT OUR FLYER(S) ( 8.5"x11" ) AND POST IT(THEM) at your Workplace, at your school, around your neighbourhood...

You can even email it email it to friends, family members, co-workers...
click to download the Flyer No.1 (PDF )
click to download the Flyer No.2
If you don't have Acrobat Reader, download the latest version free

You need 10-20 or more 8.5x11" colour flyers? Contact us, tell us which one you need, why you need them and we will mail them to your address or any address of your choosing.

PRINT OUR POSTER ( 11"x17" ) AND POST IT at your Workplace, at your school, around your neighbourhood...

AVAILABLE SOON


You need 5, 10, 20 or more 11x17" colour Posters? Contact us, tell us why you need them and we will mail them to your address or any address of your choosing.

PRINT OUR iGIVE FLYER (Shop Smart for our cause) AND POST IT at your Workplace, at your School, around your neighbourhood, at your favorite grocery store...,

You can even email it email it to friends, family members, co-workers...
click to download the iGIVE.COM/MichaelCoss Flyer (PDF ).

BECOME A MICHAEL COSS BRAIN INJURY FOUNDATION AMBASSADOR

( NOT CURRENTLY AVAILABLE - THIS IS STILL IN PROJECT )
Want to help get the word out? We're looking for motivated ambassadors who experienced traumatic or non-traumatic brain injury, who lived or are still living with the effect of the injury, and who possibly underwent or are undergoing Hyperbaric Oxygenation Therapy (this is not mandatory), who want to help spread the word about The Michael Coss Brain Injury Foundation in their communities, in hospitals, on their college and university campus, who want to share stories of inspiration and courage to the general public and brain injury survivors and their families.
If you think you have what it takes to fulfill this mission, please contact us. We'll discuss options to help you achieve your mission like posters and flyers, brochures...etc.

DONATION BOX

( NOT CURRENTLY AVAILABLE / THIS IS IN PROJECT - come back for further info)
Where does your loose change go? Instead of leaving it in a jar at home or under the couch, send it to help us help brain injury survivors. May be it's not big money, but hundreds of people jars put together can make a difference.
Simply place one of the The Michael Coss Brain Injury Foundation donation boxes in your home, at your work place or business and turn your change into good deeds. When you think you've collected a fair amount, go to one of the Bank of Montreal (BMO) branches and .