Want to get involved? Email teamfox@michaeljfox.org!

Dr. Lawrence Zlot (“Dr. Z”) is a chiropractor and one of our newest Team Fox members. He recently opened his own practice in Beverly Hills, CA, called Z Wellness & Pain Center – and there’s a twist. A portion of his new patient first visit fees will be donated to The Michael J. Fox Foundation. He was inspired to add this charity component after treating a Parkinson’s patient in Toronto, Canada.  Dr. Z recalls, “In my years of practice, I have never met anyone so committed to their health. So ready to face the challenges of life. So determined to staying positive.”

That determination and positive attitude inspires Dr. Z every day, and has helped him establish a philanthropic business. Visit Dr. Z’s Team Fox page or go to www.ZWellnessAndPain.com to learn more.

"Just by becoming a patient at Z Wellness & Pain Center, you will help to support an important cause. It's as simple as that." -Dr. Z

• Your full name (and, the full names of anyone else spinning with you)

• # of bikes you want to reserve and how much you want to donate per bike

• Additional donation amount

• Total donation amount

Event Details:

Date: Sunday, February 12th

Location: Flywheel-201 East 67th street, 3rd Floor

Time: Arrive by 2pm, 2:30pm ride

Cost: $150 minimum cost per bike; bikes assigned on first come, first serve basis

-The Sensational Soul Cruisers with J.T. Bowen and Jake Clemons, performing a special 70th birthday tribute to Clarence “The Big Man” Clemons.
-Legendary NY Singer-Songwriter Willie Nile
-Rich Pagano and the SugarCane Cups
-Israel Nash Gripka
-James Maddock
-Joe D’Urso and Stone Caravan

..And other special guests appearances!

Team Fox member and mentor Gene Gurkoff is co-promoting this event with Light of Day Founder Bob Benjamin!  All proceeds go to Team Fox and The Light of Day Foundation to help cure Parkinson’s Disease!

Click here to purchase your tickets!

In August, the Hollers were involved in a national campaign for electronics chain, Garbarino with their DeLorean Time Machine and actor Christopher Lloyd.  The ‘Back to the Future’ themed commercials were such a success, the Hollers were invited back to the country to embark on a three month tour with their unique automobile.

“We saw an opportunity to spread awareness of the foundation in a part of the world that might not have been reached yet,” says Oliver.  Terry continues, “Pesos can also finance research, and we didn’t want to abandon an important part of our current lifestyle just because we were going outside of the U.S. for an extended time.”

The Hollers have aligned themselves with Sergio Saluzzi, Meli Godoy and other Argentine citizens who share an interest in Team Fox and, like the Hollers, are fans of ‘Back to the Future’.  “Everything we do, we do it with enthusiasm,” says Sergio.  Meli adds, “We’re happy to help.”  Their invaluable support includes help with translations, custom designed graphics, videos, as well as daily updates to their Argentine website to craft a clear and effective message for a Spanish speaking audience.

The Hollers journey is taking them through eleven provinces across the country and they are distributing over 70,000 pieces of literature along the way.  An 8 minute bi-lingual video repeats the Team Fox mission statement along with Parkinson PSA’s and other captivating video.

For photos and daily information about their ‘time travels’, visit the Holler’s website ToTheFuture.org and ‘like’ the same on Facebook.

Though you are still hard at work to wrap up your 2011 fundraising, we are busy preparing for 2012.  Starting January 3rd, 2012, we are excited to offer a new online fundraising platform that should enable better communication with your donors and participants. The new system will allow every member to have a unique fundraising page that displays Lifetime Fundraising Totals, Year-to-Date Fundraising Totals and Event Fundraising Totals. In order to make this transition seamless, we need your help!

At the beginning of each calendar year Team Fox officially launches a new fundraising year each January.  For accounting purposes, the Team Fox fundraising total and each of your individual 2011 fundraising totals will go back to $0 on the Web site. This enables us to set and reach our 2012 goals.

The re-launch of our Web site also gives you the opportunity to refresh and update the language on your personal page for 2012. THERE IS NO NEED TO RE-REGISTER. However, all personal pages will revert to default language and the “Reports” section that tracks all of your 2011 donations will be erased.

Please take the following steps by January 1st in preparation for the site’s re-launch: Login to www.teamfox.org and go to your “Headquarters.”

– To save the language on your personal page — Click on “Build/Edit Your Personal Page,” highlight the text that you would like to save, copy the text, and open a Word document (or other word-processing document), and paste the text there. Save this document to your computer so that if you wish to reuse your original fundraising language, you can copy the text and paste it into your new page.

– To save records of all donations/donors from 2011 — Click on “Reports.”  “Choose Columns” to be sure that all of the information you would like to save is included in the report.  “Export XLS” to save all data in an Excel document on your hard drive for future reference, or click to print.

– If you have been fundraising in the later months of 2011 toward a 2012 event and want your supporters to continue to see the success you have had thus far, we encourage you to put your full total in the personalized text portion of your web page once we officially complete the re-launch.

– If you are a Team Leader, please follow these steps for your Team page as well.

Please feel free to contact us at teamfox@michaeljfox.org with any questions about this process. Thank you for all that you have done to make 2011 a huge success!

We will be sending follow-up emails with more information about our new online fundraising platform. Please stay tuned.

One might assume that Kerry is an experienced climber—summiting Mt. Kilimanjaro is no small feat. However, she’s never even climbed before! Instead, she spontaneously agreed to join her friends when they invited her this past November. They will be accompanied by a team of guides, cooks and porters.

For the last month, Kerry has been mentally and physically preparing for the 35-mile hike in tremendously high altitude. She and her team will embark on Tuesday, December 27 and finish on New Year’s Day.

Kerry explained: “It’s a once in a lifetime opportunity to take on one of my biggest personal challenges for something even bigger—raising money to find a cure for Parkinson’s.” Kerry set a goal of $10,000 and so far she’s already raised more than $9,000!

Please join us in wishing her good luck on this incredible adventure.