IN FOCUS THIS ISSUE:
	The Diabetes Summer Surge

The Quartier Vanier Merchants Association. We are your merchants.
The Quartier Vanier Merchants Association started in 1985. We represent 350 businesses located just east of the downtown core. We are dedicated to enhancing our commercial zone and increasing visitors to shop in the Vanier area.

What is the Diabetes Summer Surge?

The Diabetes Summer Surge is a nation-wide movement to raise $1 million this summer to help end diabetes. Raise awareness, raise money and have fun with your fellow members of the Quartier Vanier Merchants Association.

Between now and August 15th, the Canadian Diabetes Association is asking our friends, partners and colleagues to join the fight to end diabetes and to take action. Here’s how:

• Join our Canadian Diabetes Web Ottawa Office Flameless BBQ event
• Encourage your friends, colleagues and partners to hold their own events and spread the word to their friends
• Hold your own event

How do we hold an event?
Simply add a fundraising component to your existing plans or plan a new Summer Surge Event. The Surge fits in easily to anything you are planning. Why not hold a one of the following events:

• a barbeque
• dress down day
• a silent auction
• % of day’s sales
• walk‐to‐work challenge
• create your own unique event!

Go to diabetessummersurge.ca for more information and to register your event. The Diabetes Summer Surge online site provides great fundraising suggestions, tools to set up your own event page and invitations, and allows you to track your fundraising targets and donations.

How can you promote the event?
There are many ways that you can promote your event to generate excitement and participation:

• Forward a copy of this email to your friends, colleagues and staff
• Create a link on your email signature to your Surge event or to diabetessummersurge.ca
• Challenge your merchants and competitors to a fundraising
• Post events to your organization/office intranet to celebrate progress
• Put up our poster and display our buckslips in your office

What will the Canadian Diabetes Association do with the donations raised?
They will use the money raised from the Diabetes Summer Surge to:

• Invest in diabetes research to find a cure!
• Provide essential programs helping those with diabetes live as healthy a life as possible
• Help Canadians with diabetes manage their disease and lower their risk of serious complications

Where can I get more information?

• Call Mark Bowman at 613-688-5928 email: mark.bowman@diabetes.ca
• Visit diabetessummersurge.ca and our webpage Web Ottawa Office Flameless BBQ
• Check us out on Facebook and Twitter
• Download the PDF