Match it For Pratchett! Raising £500,000 for Alzheimer's research

Pat Cadigan has started a campaign to get 500,000 Terry Pratchett fans to donate £1 each to Alzheimer's research, matching the funds put up by Pratchett himself, who was recently diagnosed with rare, early-onset Alzheimer's -- the calls the campaign "Match it for Pratchett!"

Today, it was announced that Terry Pratchett has donated half a million pounds to Alzheimer's research. Hearing that, it occurred to me that if half a million of us all donated a pound to Alzheimer's research, we could match his donation and make it an even million.
So whaddaya say, guys? It's a pound. That's about 2 bucks US dollars, give or take a couple of (US) pennies. You can spare that much. Go here and make your donation. Tell them it's in honour of Terry Pratchett.
Let's do it!

Link (Thanks, Pat!)

(Image: Pratchett Himself, a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike photo from Myrmi's Flickr stream))

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

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fichter

Great idea and way to raise more funds for Alzheimer’s research. Just gave a few pounds.
madjo

I just donated 2 pounds to this cause. Every little bit helps.
Wickedashtray

My mom lies in a nursing home afflicted with late stage Alzheimers. For someone who worked her whole life for the comfort of others its particularly unfair and incredibly difficult to watch as she succumbs to it’s effects.

Being a huge sci-fi/fantasy lit fan this is a no-brainer (no pun intended) for me.
ghostofcain

Fantastic idea, TP has given me a lot of pleasure of the last 30 years, and i think any contribution that can help this insidious disease has got my backing
jitrobug

What a great idea – $1 per book seemed good to me.
Deb Geisler

We wanted to go beyond our earlier donation to the Alzheimer’s Association (the American research charity), so my husband and I have put one of Terry’s rarest books, Once More With Footnotes up for sale on eBay.

This is a charity sale, and 100% of the profits automatically go to the Association when the sale is complete (which is cool, because it means we don’t ever have to play with the money). We will ship internationally, of course.
soubriquet

Great idea.
I’ve linked to you, donated, and blogged it myself, with a suggestion that other bloggers spread the word too, maybe this really could work.
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All of us, I think, know someone who has lost their mind in some way.
uzusan

I’ll be donating in a few days.

Meanwhile, submitted to digg: http://digg.com/health/Match_it_For_Pratchett_Raising_p500_000_for_Alzheimer_s
tregenza

http://www.MatchItForPratchett.org went online this afternoon as a clearing house for news on fund raising efforts etc.