Free Comic Book Day was blast! We had a great time with our community, raised funds, and got Lung Girl comics into the hands of old and new fans. Thank you all for coming out and supporting us. A huge thank you to Syndicate Comics and Collectibles for hosting us. Watch the video below to see what we were up to.
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My name is Arian Granillo. I'm 24 years old and I was born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona. I studied marketing at Arizona State University and graduated in spring 2023. I’ve been a marketing intern at The Sid Foundation since November 2023. I’ve had the privilege to combine my passion for marketing and helping people during their lung health journey. Through creating social media posts and flyers, reaching out to lung transplant patients, creating a care package campaign, and utilizing google ads. I’m genuinely filled with gratitude for the opportunity to make a meaningful impact with this organization. The Sid Foundation resonated deeply with my values and aspirations. Prior to interning at The Sid Foundation I interned remotely for a restaurant helping run their Instagram by creating and posting weekly content to help build foot traffic and online engagement. My long term career goal is to work as a creative director for a company that shares the same values as I do. My objective is to craft advertisements that not only capture attention but also capture hearts, that leaves a lasting impact on both individuals and businesses. When I’m not planning or working on projects for The Sid Foundation, I’m working in an office at a delivery and logistics company and I am also a nanny! When I’m not juggling work commitments, I love being outdoors and doing activities such as hiking. I’m a coffee enthusiast since I spent my college years being a barista so I love to try new coffee shops around the valley in my free time. Additionally, I love going to concerts to see some of my favorite bands and artists. Learn more about my work here. Arian has been a great help at our organization. She has jump started our TikTok page, brought new life to all our social media platforms, and created an ad that helped us greatly increase our care package requests from lung transplant patients all over the country. Thank you for your fantastic work, Arian!
If you are interested in interning or volunteering with The Sid Foundation, please email us at [email protected]. Free Comic Book Day is on May 4th, 2024!
We will be at Syndicate Comics and Collectibles again for Free Comic Book Day. Join us for our first in-person event of 2024 for: Free Comics! Signed copies of Lung Girl The Sid Foundation Merch A Good Time with Our Community! It's going to be a great time! Follow us on social media for more details coming up. See you there!
We've been busy shipping out care packages to lung transplant patients around the country all year!
Check out the TikTok below to see everything included in the care package. If you or someone you know is a lung transplant patient or waiting for a lung transplant patient, please email us your name and shipping address at [email protected]. We still have a few left!
Happy New Year and Happy Birthday to Sid! As many of you know, at The Sid Foundation, we begin each year by celebrating Sid Vahal’s birthday on January 2nd. Today, Sid would have been 39 years old. To learn more about his story, click here.
We hope the new year brings joy and prosperity to you all. In celebration of the new year, we would like to recap our 2023 accomplishments and share our goals for 2024 with you. 2023 Accomplishments We had a very exciting year with many accomplishments.
2024 Goals We are aiming even higher for our goals for 2024.
We are excited to get to work on these goals and have full confidence that we can achieve them with your support. Once again, a huge thank you to our individual donors and corporate sponsors for continuing to support our work and our community. Thank you for helping lung transplant patients breathe a little easier. If you would like to help us grow and continue supporting lung transplant patients, please donate. We're excited to announce that, once again, we are the recipients of the S&S Activewear grant!
This is the second time we've received this grant with up to $2000 in merchandise from S&S Activewear. They donated merchandise for our employees and volunteers such as hats, hoodies, and t-shirts. Also, once again, they are sponsoring our lung transplant patient care package program by donating 25 drawstring bags, socks, and face masks! We are so grateful for their donation. Check out the pics below to see some of the donated merch. This was our first annual Lung Girl Day so we didn't know what to expect. Our community showed up for us and blew all our expectations out of the water. We raised $500 in 4 hours! We had the support of Syndicate Comics and Collectables, our local artists, MM Comics and Collectables, Kennesaw State University faculty and students, Trader Joes, Prime Vice Studios, friends, family, and our local community. Thank you for playing your part in helping this become one of our most successful and fun events ever. Thank you for helping lung transplant patients with your hard work and donations. We could not have done this without you! Take a look at these videos to see what our local artists worked on. For more pictures and videos and to see finished art pieces, head over to our Instagram.
Lung Girl 👧🏾 works hard to keep us safe and help lung transplant patients. She deserves her own day.
Join us on Saturday, November 11th for Lung Girl Day at Syndicate Comics and Collectables. 2800 Canton Rd Marietta, GA 30066 We will be selling signed copies, doing giveaways and commissions, and spending time with our community all while raising funds and awareness for lung transplant research and patients. Mark your calendars and come hang out with us for Lung Girl Day! If you are interested in volunteering to help organize this day, please reach out at [email protected]. We were invited for an interview on an episode of Chezubatalks podcast. Chezuba is an organization that supports nonprofits around the world. We've had the pleasure of working with them this year. In addition to this interview, they helped us get remote volunteers for our organization to work with us virtually. Watch this interview of Ananya Vahal, President of The Sid Foundation, with Tej, the host of Chezubatalks to learn more about our organization and our mission. You can also listen to this interview on other streaming apps such as Spotify and Apple and Google Podcasts.
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