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10 Year Anniversary Celebration

3/29/2025

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The Sid Foundation is 10 years old!

How Are  We Celebrating 10 Years?
You're all invited to celebrate 10 great years with us!
To celebrate 10 years of raising over $75,000 helping lung transplant patients and funding lung transplant research, we are planting a memorial tree for Sid Vahal. 

Why a Tree?
By planting a tree, we can help our community breathe a little better and plant some roots for Sid's legacy. The park will maintain the tree forever so that Sid's memory can live forever. 
 
Where and When?
The Tree Planting and the Tree Planting Party will take place on Friday, May 16th. 
We will provide more details about the event in the coming weeks. 
Follow us on Instagram or FB for more details about the event. 

How Can I Participate?
You can participate in Sid's memorial tree planting in several ways:
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1. You can attend the tree planting or the tree planting party on May 16th. 

2. You can purchase a t-shirt of the tree planting event to help us fundraise.

3. You can donate to help us with the event. 
Donate Now
Follow us on IG and FB to stay up to date on the details of this event. 
We hope to see you there!
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Free Comic Book Day 2025

3/29/2025

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Free Comic Book Day is almost here!
As always, we'll be at Syndicate Comics & Collectibles for Free Comic Book Day on May 3rd. 
We'll be in good company with other talented local artists. We'll have comics, merchandise, stickers, and giveaways. 
We'll share more details on social media. Stay tuned. 

Come get your free comics! See you there! 
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Happy 2025!

1/1/2025

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Happy New Year and Happy Birthday Sid!
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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 40 years old. To learn more about his story, click here.
In celebration of the new year, we would like to recap our 2024 accomplishments and share our goals for 2025 with you. 

2024 Accomplishments
We had a very exciting year with many accomplishments.
  1. We attended some events this year: Athens FanFest 2024 and Free Comic Book Day at Syndicate Comics & Collectibles. Thank you to our community for showing up and supporting us!
  2. We also organized and hosted our second annual Lung Girl Day! Once again, we were humbled by the support of our community for this event.
  3. We sent out several care packages to lung transplant recipients around the country.
  4. We sold more Lung Girl comics this year which helped us raise funds for our lung transplant patient program. 
  5. Trader Joes sponsored our events again this year by providing snacks and water for our staff, volunteers, and guests. 
  6. We received the S&S Activewear grant again! They provided merchandise for our staff, volunteers, and supporters for the third year in a row.
  7. Last, but not least, we donated $1000 to support lung transplant research at the University of Kentucky Hospital Lung Transplant Program. 

2025 Goals
We are aiming even higher for our goals for 2025.
  1. Continue participating in community events.
  2. Host our third annual Lung Girl Day event.
  3. Continue to increase Lung Girl comics sales.
  4. Prepare and ship more care packages to lung transplant patients around the country.
  5. Share more stories of individual lung transplant recipients and hold fundraisers to help them pay medical bills.
  6. Apply for more grants. We're very grateful for the grants we received in 2024. We will continue to apply for more grants to help us fund our work.
  7. Donate more funds to lung transplant research than we did 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, corporate sponsors, and community for continuing to support our work. 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 now.

We hope the new year brings peace, joy, and prosperity to you all!
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S&S Activewear Grant Recipient

12/19/2024

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We're excited to share that we received the S&S Activewear grant again for the third year in a row!
S&S has a great program that supports nonprofits like ours around the country by providing merchandise to support our work. 


This is the third 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.​ We are so grateful for their donation!

Take a look at our previous S&S blog to see the merchandise they donated to us.
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Giving Tuesday 2024

11/25/2024

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Tuesday, December 3rd is Giving Tuesday!
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This Giving Tuesday, consider supporting lung transplant patients and lung transplant research by donating to our organization.

Our charity is a registered 501(c)(3) so your donations will be tax deductible. 

We wish you all a happy holiday and giving season!
Donate Now
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Lung Girl Day 2024 recap!

11/25/2024

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Our second annual Lung Girl Day was a blast!

How It Went
We spent time with our community, collected donations, sold comics, and got our crew of artists to participate in #commissionsforacause to raise funds with their art commissions. 

Sponsors
In addition to Syndicate Comics & Collectibles and Prime Vice Studios, we were, once again, sponsored by Trader Joes! They donated tons of snacks and water bottles for our staff, volunteers, and visitors. Our branded clothing was sponsored by S&S Activewear who continue to donate merchandise to our nonprofit. 

Thank yous

We want to give a HUGE thanks to our community for coming out and supporting us again!
We want to thank Syndicate Comics & Collectibles for hosting us again, Prime Vice Studios for providing artists and commissions, and Trader Joes for the snacks. 
Finally, thank you to the artists that showed up to support our cause:
Loso Perez
Jorge Santiago
Jermaine Mims 


Take a look at the photos and videos below to see some of the art that was commissioned to help us raise funds and to see how the event went.

If you would like to support our work, click here:
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Lung Girl Day is Back!

10/26/2024

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Lung Girl Day is Back!
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Lung Girl 👧🏾 works hard to keep us safe and help lung transplant patients. She deserves her own day. 

Join us again on Saturday, November 16th 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].
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Fanfest 2024 Recap

8/23/2024

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Fanfest 2024 was a blast! We met some great people in our community and had a great time.
​Check out the video below to see how it went.
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FanFest 2024

7/24/2024

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We are getting ready for Athens FanFest 2024! 

Once again, we'll be there selling Lung Girl comics and merchandise. We'll have giveaways, trivia, and other goodies. 
Most importantly, this is another opportunity for us to spend time in our community and bring more awareness to lung transplant research and what it's like to live with a lung transplant. 

Here are the details about Athens FanFest 2024:
When: August 17th 10-6pm
Where: Oconee Civic Center
How much?: FREE


We can't wait to see you there!

To get more details about this event, check out this link. ​
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Free Comic Book Day Recap

5/29/2024

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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.
See you at the next one!
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