Southern California LGBT Cancer Programs to Launch

On Wednesday, March 10, 2010, the new getavision programs of Metropolitan Community Charities will be launched at an exciting open house celebration from 6pm to midnight from the balconies and penthouse of Hollywood's premiere Sunset Vine Tower at 1480 Vine Street in Hollywood. 

Partnering with New York City-based National LGBT Cancer Network, Metropolitan Community Charities is spearheading the Southern California-wide expansion of programs to bring getavisionFUND financial assistance to cancer patients and the development of prevention programs spanning from Los Angeles and Palm Springs to Long Beach, Orange County and San Diego. Working together with RBS WorldPay and Retail Data Systems, this first-of-a-kind program brings together credit card processing companies with businesses to redirect money into the getavisionFUND program. Funds are dispersed to those in need through debit cards issued by Visa and MasterCard.

"It's a monumental win-win for everyone.  Nobody loses.  We are uncovering unlimited recurring revenue that just has no threshold," stated Atlanta-based financial services industry consultant Richard Roscher, who has developed the getavisionFUND microfunding program. "This new funding source has the potential to touch literally millions of lives as we expand the reach and depth of the program and get the getavisionFUND debit cards into the hands of those who are in their most desperate struggles."

Other getavision programs which will be showcased at the March 10^th event will include the LaughMD getavisionFUND for patients and families at Hollywood's Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center and the LymeAID getavisionFUND, providing assistance and for victims of Lyme disease, a growing epidemic threatening individuals around the USA.

The evening will also highlight two new visionTRADE programs: visionTRADE TimeBank and the Barter Exchange Trading Marketplace.  These programs connect individuals, organizations and businesses with opportunities to generate income and exchange goods and services through TimeBank and the Virtual Barter global trading exchange network systems. 

Collaborating with the Washington, DC-based TimeBanks USA, the visionTRADE TimeBank community will join a global social change movement in 22 countries and six continents, which is revolutionizing neighborhoods and communities, creating a system that connects unmet needs with untapped resources.

The launching of the getavisionFUND and visionTRADE programs is part of the Metropolitan Community Charities revolution in charity and social justice. "We're calling for a revolution of love and redistribution of wealth that directly reaches the health challenged and those who are the most vulnerable and helpless, no matter what sexual orientation, race, age or economic class.  If not you and me, these people are our friends, loved ones or family members," said John Boswell, Director of the getavision programs. Boswell himself has been fighting his own financial and physical battle against an advanced stage of cancer and HIV.