~Posted on the loft by Debbie~


It's that time again….Time for the annual Charity Birthday Project for Alex. This will be the 7th year and we have raised lots of money over the years. Thank you all for participating. This year's charity, of course, will be Donate Life and all money will be added to The Alex Band Education Fund for Donate Life. For those of you new to this project, it is a birthday scrapbook of pages designed by each of you and placed in the book. The only stipulation is that you make a donation to Alex's charity through me. This is a project that means a lot to Alex and he told me it is always the best gift he could ever get.

Over the years, through various projects, we have sent over $25,000 to charities in the name of Alex and The Calling. I really appreciate the way everyone participates and I know Alex is so proud of how his fans support the charity he believes in. Alex does read every single page of the Birthday Book every year and it really means the world to him. He has told me many, many times that it is his favorite gift and he really looks forward to receiving it. You can watch a few of the video clips he has made by visiting the Extra's section here and by checking out youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1I9-LukAe4..
I am starting now in order to give everyone all over the world time to get their donations in. You can send them to my home address or send a donation through paypal. Just like the last six years, I will be compiling all the messages and giving Alex a birthday book from everyone who donated to the charity. The book this year is the same size as last year since that is easy to ship. It measures 8 and a half x 11 inches (A standard size sheet of paper) or 21,5 x 27,9 cm. If in doubt on the size make it a bit smaller than you think so none of your message has to be cut off. Since so many of you have pictures with Alex, it's always nice to include that if you can so he can remember all the great people he met. You can email or snail mail your page to me. If you want to see pictures of past birthday books, just go to my Gallery and look under my live pictures.

Feel free to get started on your page and your donation as soon as possible. I like to work on it as I get them so it's not too much work at the very end. Listed below are all the ways you can send money….Let's make this years Birthday Project the HUGEST one yet!!!

US Currency only - can be mailed to my home address. Also, if you pay by other means, your page can be mailed here as well or you can email it. I do have a paypal account set up under my email address of ..debhag@hotmail.com...

Debbie Hagerman
13 Ellen Street
Binghamton, NY 13901 USA

I am really counting on all the great Street Teams to get the word out and to handle the money for their country so I have added a lot of you below. Please note, if you have paypal you don't need to go through a Street Team and you can send your money and your page directly to me. If you want to help out in your country, let me know and I will add you.

Fans in the UK can contact Lula at ..email@alexband.co.uk..

Fans in Australia can contact Paula or Anna from the Aussie Street Team and they will coordinate donations there. They can be reached at ..alexbandaustralia@yahoo.com..

Fans in France can contact Julien at ..alexband@hotmail.fr.. or Karima at ..TheCallingVibe@aol.com..

Fans in Canada can contact Nature at ..nature@alexbandcanada.com..

Fans in Germany can contact Agnes at ..team@alexmaxband.de..

Fans in Italy can contact Luisa at ..webmistress@alexband.it..

Fans in the Philippines can contact Lucky at ..redsapphire17@yahoo.com..

Fans in Portugal can contact Sandra at ..alexband-allthelove@hotmail.com..

Fans in Japan can contact Sally at ..s_shirai@hotmail.com.. 

Fans in Brazil can contact Roberta at roberta@alexband.com.br or Nina at miiiirna@gmail.com

Fans in the Netherlands can contact Ingrid at ..webmaster@alexband.nl..

Fans in Europe that don't have a team listed above can write to this email - ..team@alexband.eu.. Please feel free to add this information to your AlexBand/Calling websites, myspace pages, etc. Thanks!

DEADLINE IS MAY 28, 2009.

The names of all those participating will be put into a drawing for two prizes I will award on June lst.