Andrew I guess that's one way to get comments, pay for them.  (lol)  Good luck on your contribution and WELCOME to Active Rain too! 

I am always up for helping a good cause!  Plus, I always had a crush on Micheal J. Fox as a kid...  Don't know if that ever went away.

Good for you and doing it for a great cause.

How many times can we comment?  How deep are your pockets???? :)  Welcome to AR!!!

Andrew-

This is an excellent idea and such a great cause.  Wishing you the very best of luck : )

Thank you for your willingness to help support research for Parkinson's Disease.  I'm sure Megan appreciates it as well. Best of luck to you and to her. Get ready to shell out the big bucks!

Great idea, and thank you for donating to such a worthy cause.

Hi Andrew & Welcome,

Great idea and we wish you success with it.  Hope you get lots of comments!

What a nice thing to do!

Thanks for the comments. I think I am going to be upping the amount to $5 per comment otherwise it just won't be much of a donation at this rate. (Hmm...maybe I won't have to with the response I am starting to receive.) 

Shanna, my girlfriend tells me how she had a crush on him as well growing up - I think a lot of girls did. We had a chance to meet him and see him speak at an event for the Foundation not too long ago. He's a pretty amazing guy and it was great to hear him talk about how much the medicine and research has done for him. He has written a great book, Lucky Man, about his life that will make you like him even more. 

Good idea, thanks for donating!

Andrew-

This is a fantastic way to get donations.  Much luck to you. 

Andrew, throw one in for me.

lol, sounds good Andrew. Best of luck to you! The moderators that it was a worthy enough cause to make it featured!

I'm impressed!  Do good and it will always come back to you. 

Andrew,

It's a great thing you're doing, send them one (or five) for me.  

This is very generous on your part.  It is great to see the help for a good cause.

Wow this is great Andrew, this will be a huge success for you

Eddy

Andrew....   this is a great idea. Good luck with it. Also...welcome to Active Rain...

On another note, CONGRATS on your 1st featured post.

Add another dollar to your donation! Good luck with your efforts.

ChaChing!!!! Awesome idea.

What a generous, heartfelt way to help others!  Best Sue

Andrew, what a great thing to do on your part! Way to go! A wonderful charity to give to also. Thank you for getting involved! I work hard for St. Jude Childrens Hospital, I promise this is something you will remember the rest of your life, there is no better feeling in the world. Good Luck to you and your friend!

Andrew, You make a great first Impression...

Do you count it double if we comment here and on your other blog? I think this is generous of you and I know the Active Rain community will rain comments upon you. You might just find that $5 a pop is going to feel really good..

Well this comment will cost you a buck!!  I like the idea and I hope you get a good response. 

You've chosen a very noble thing to do to help your friend raise money!  I hope you get tons more comments!

Be careful you never know - this could really get a steam going and you could have 1000's of comments.  Great way to help a worthy cause.  Kudos to you

Great idea. gotta love spending someone else's money, especially for a great cause.

O.K... I'm in with a comment.  My husband has Parkinson's and I'm all for anything that contributes to the cause.  By-the-way, have you read Michael J. Fox's book.... Lucky Man?  Very good.

Great idea and tell your friend goodluck for the marathon. I too had a crush on Michael J. Fox.....still do....hehe...don't tell my husband...LOL

Spend a Buck  for me =)

I'm in-and I look forward to the followup where you tell us how much you spent on good causes!

Excellent idea, Andrew - you're doing something unique and contributing to a good cause as well.

Andrew,

Fork over another dollar!  Great idea and good luck.  I hopeyour donation is huge! 

Very cool idea to support a great cause!  Good job Andrew...hopefully it works out!

i'll buy that for a dollar!

What a great idea -- I think this is a great cause. Thanks for bringing this to everyone's attention and good luck.

Great idea and best wishes on your fund raising.   My office contributes a percentage from each closing to Childrens Hospital.    Its a volunteer program you aren't required to do but if you tell your sellers what your doing they appreciate it also.

Good luck with your goal.

Did you send this post to Michael J. Fox? He might  like more publicity..

Great cause and great use of the Active Rain.

My grandmother died of Parkinson's Complications.  I think it is a great cause.

My wife's great uncle has Parkinson's and even the doctors aren't all aware of how it changes their ability to help him with his ailments.

I hope you get to your goal...

I may come back and comment a few hundred more times :)

Good job Andrew! I look forward to hearing back from you in regards to the California Only Real Estate Blog :)

Scott

Toss in another one- great idea.

Thanks everyone so much. I am happy to see such a strong response. I am more than happy to be contributing to such a worthy cause and would like to encourage others to contribute just $1 each to Megan's cause, which can be done here. Of course, I'll still be contributing for every comment on this post or on my own website. 

Geordie Romer, of course i count double for commenting on both blogs. Honestly, I'd like to see the comment total keep on rising. And I don't mean to bug people, but I'd really be happy with just $1 per commenter it'd go a long way to help towards my friend's goal. 

Thesa Chambers -if that happens so be it. At least it's going to something worthwhile and helps raise some awareness.       

Carol Williams - I have read "Lucky Man" and I really enjoyed it. I saw him speak at an event in NYC for his Foundation as well. It was something I'll remember forever. It really seems as though he believes his purpose is to help fight Parkinson's and it's hard not to be inspired by him.    

David A. Podgursky, please do keep coming back and commenting more! I'll be happy to keep contributing.     

Again, thanks to all. I just picked out a few specific comments to respond to, but I appreciate every one of them! Of course, I'd still like to see more.

This is very much like an open house in my area-in exchange for comments, the listing agent gives us a couple of bucks. Hope everyone beats a path to your post!

Andrew,

Please post this in Share because YOU Care group as well. Thanks : )

What a great idea/cause.  Maybe we'll work on Alzheimer's next.  Happy to do my part.

Hope the comments keep coming.  Good luck with your fundraising.

I am new on AR, but I am already impressed by your "class act". Great cause... keep up the good work. Keep on bloggin'.

Hey Andrew,

Welcome to AR and be prepared to write a big check!  It appears progress is really being made in Parkinson's at this time and continued support with go a long way.

As a fellow marathoner myself, please give my best regards to your friend Megan.  She's at Stanford? I'll try to follow her progress (via tv) on Patriot's Day in Boston.  My own marathons (ten) have been non-qualifiers, anyone could do one.  But to do Boston, that's the real deal.  

Thanks for the comments everyone! I've got over 60 comments so far between this post and the comments on my own blog. Jay Thompson mentioned that he made his own donation using PayPal, and I'm sure there have been a few others well. 

Lynda - Qualifiers or not, 10 marathons is impressive! Megan graduated from Stanford last year and works the Michael J Fox Foundation in NYC now. Seems like quite a change in training climate.

WOW!  This is fantastic!  Thank you so much to everyone who is posting in response to Andrew's great challenge - and to Andrew for the creative and incredibly generous idea!  I've increased my goal to $18,000 thanks to the amazing support I've received and am so appreciative of your help in this effort.   I'm not savy enough to put my link in here, but see Andrew's post above to visit my fundraising site and contribute on your own....take some of the pressure off Andrew (and his wallet!).  Also, if you have an interest in learning more about the work of MJFF feel free to contact me. 

Thank you so much for the support and your help in getting me to Boston and us one step closer to a cure!