Happy New Year!

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.

1. We attended many events this year: Athens FanFest 2023, Free Comic Book Day at Syndicate Comics & Collectables, and Comic Fiesta 2023 at Syndicate Comics & Collectables.
2. We organized and hosted our first annual Lung Girl Day! Our community showed up for us and helped us raise $500 in 4 hours! 
3. We relaunched our care package program last year. This year, we began sending out care packages to lung transplant patients around the world.
4. We sold more Lung Girl comics than ever before! Because of all the events we were able to attend this year, we made record sales.
5. We were finally able to connect with our community in person by attending and hosting events. Nothing compares to meeting you all in person and hearing your stories. Thank you for showing up and supporting us!
6. Trader Joes began to sponsor our events again this year by providing snacks. 
7. We received the S&S Activewear grant again! They are once again sponsoring our Lung Transplant Care Package Program as well.
8. Raised the highest amount of funds this year since the pandemic. 

2024 Goals
We are aiming even higher for our goals for 2024.

1. Continue participating in community events.
2. Host the second Lung Girl Day event.
3. Continue to increase Lung Girl comics sales.
4. Prepare another 25 care packages to send out to lung transplant patients around the country.
5. Share more stories of individual lung transplant patients and hold fundraisers to help them pay medical bills.
6. Apply for more grants. We were very excited to receive more grants in 2023. We will continue to apply for more grants to help us fund our work.
7. Donate to lung transplant research programs around the country again. We had to pause this program due to pandemic. Our goal is to restart this program in 2024. 
8. Increase individual donations and corporate sponsors.

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. ​

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