APS Foundation of America, Inc.

Continue to find more avenues for fundraising. Get back to publishing quarterly newsletters. Continue to collaborate with more organizations (both lay & professional). Attend or have materials available for more conferences. Apply for more grants. Continue to search for more medical advisors that truly want to help. Continue to attempt APS mentioned in more publications, including magazines. Continue to making more videos and learn how to make podcasts. Considering doing Facebook Live Chats. Consider going to a Board of Directors of 7, including one medical advisor & one public non-APS person. Consider making June 9th World APS Awareness Day formally via a bill through Congress. Consider making June APS Awareness Month formally via a bill through Congress. Consider making a Scholarship fund for those going into the Medical Field. Consider making a formal Scholarship fund for APS Research. Consider spending the money to get professional press releases written and sent out at $1000+ each. Consider working with the FDA and getting legislation making a Black Box Warning regarding the Finger Stick Machines and APS since the vendors and manufactures do not openly disclose this. Find dedicated volunteers. Find pro-bono Wisconsin Attorney

The APSFA's strategies for accomplishing its long-term goals of awareness, education and support of those with APS, include three main parts- fundraising, promotion/publication, and advocacy. For the first part- fundraising- we have implemented a full spectrum of options for our members, supporters, and volunteers to run their own fundraising drives, give individual donations, or to make a purchase of APSFA merchandise which the proceeds go back to the organization. We believe that by making fundraising a central part of involvement with the APSFA, we help spread our message on a more personal level as we also earn the funds which will lead us to new growth as an organization and advancing our primary goals as an organization. Our second strategy of promotion and publication is to get information on APS out to the media, the public and to those who have APS and their families. To this end our mission is to have APS become a household name in the coming years. By volunteers and members publishing articles, blogging, vlogging, being hosted on syndicated radio, the APSFA buying air-time for PSA's, and many more ends we believe we will accomplish this goal. Lastly, advocacy for our clients is the most important human impact the APSFA has. Because we were founded by members who have APS, we truly know the struggle of getting a correct diagnosis and treatment plan, and we currently help those with APS with emotional support, and while we do not give medical advice we do give practical advice on how to approach their diagnosis and share general information of our experiences with getting proper diagnosis and treatments for APS.

We currently have a relatively limited budget, but that being said, we have low overhead and an endless potential for growth. Our biggest assets are our human assets and our potential to grow these assets exponentially in the coming years. We currently are restructuring our staff and are also working on implementing an intern program with two local universities and coming out of that we should have an extreme increase in our capacity to fundraise and bring awareness to the APSFA and APS. Lastly, bringing on more dedicated medical advisers is going to be a critical part of our mission for advocacy and we are currently implementing a plan to bring more dedicated advisers on board with APSFA.

Continue to find more avenues for fundraising. Get back to publishing quarterly newsletters. Continue to collaborate with more organizations (both lay & professional). Attend or have materials available for more conferences. Apply for more grants. Continue to search for more medical advisors that truly want to help. Continue to attempt APS mentioned in more publications, including magazines. Continue to making more videos and learn how to make podcasts. Considering doing Facebook Live Chats. Consider going to a Board of Directors of 7, including one medical advisor & one public non-APS person. Consider making June 9th World APS Awareness Day formally via a bill through Congress. Consider making June APS Awareness Month formally via a bill through Congress. Consider making a Scholarship fund for those going into the Medical Field. Consider making a formal Scholarship fund for APS Research. Consider spending the money to get professional press releases written and sent out at $1000+ each. We thought our followers would help us so we could use our donated dollar towards research needs but without awareness we have nothing. Consider working with the FDA on getting a Black Box Warning regarding the Finger Stick Machines and APS since the vendors and manufactures do not openly disclose this. Find a webmaster to maintained our webpage better; consider paying for one. Find a graphic designer. Find volunteers that truly want to help. Discontinue WOWBB and just use Facebook for support group.