The Ronnie James Dio Stand Up And Shout Cancer Fund

[NijiDean]

A lot of Dio fans have been interested and asking about the Ronnie James Dio Stand Up And Shout Cancer Fund, so I thought I would try to get you up to date on some of the things that we have been doing. First of all, the SUAS Cancer Fund and the Niji Entertainment Group are two separate organizations and have nothing to do with each other!

Niji is the Record label that both Ronnie and Wendy Dio started and The Ronnie James Dio Stand Up And Shout Cancer Fund is a non profit Cancer Fund run by 15 volunteers.

To date the Ronnie James Dio Stand Up And Shout Cancer Fund has raised over $450,000 from donations from fans just like you and from some of the biggest bands in the world!

We just donated $100,000 to the T.J, Martell Foundation for Cancer, AIDS and Leukemia research and have pledged $100,000 for the next 3 years to them!!!! We have also donated $117,000 to the M.D. Anderson Cancer Facility for Gastric Cancer, this is where Ronnie received most of his Chemo research. We have pledged $117,000 for the next 3 years to M.D. Anderson as well.

We donated $10,000 to the Phil Kennemore Foundation and unfortunately he passed away on January 7th from Lung Cancer.

We are planning 3 major events to help raise even more money for Cancer Research and awareness in Ronnie's memory. We are planning a major guitar and bass auction that will take place at Christie's later this year! So far we have autographed guitars from Slash, Metallica, No Doubt, Lit, Slayer, Tom Morello, Aerosmith, As I Lay Dying, Gwar, Tony Iommi, Geddy Lee, Billy Sheehan, Paul Gilbert and many, many, many more top bands!

Next year we are doing 3 charity concerts in Los Angeles, New York and London and last but not least, we will be doing an Official Ronnie James Dio Tribute CD with the biggest names in music singing their favorite RJD songs!

If you would like to make a donation to the Ronnie James Dio Stand Up And Shout Cancer Fund, please go to www.ronniejamesdio.com and in the lower left corner of the main page is a donate button. We know times are tough, even if you can give $1.00, every penny helps to save lives! Men!!!!! If you are over 50 years old, please go get a complete Cancer Check-Up. If not for you, do it for you wife, your children, you family! I did it and it was painless and quick! My results were negative!!! Thanks- Dean

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