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Are you interested in helping patients and families of patients affected by a rare disease?

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How You Can Help

Thanks for your interest in making a difference. On behalf of anyone living with a rare disease, we thank you.

1. Help a Friend or Relative: if you know someone with a rare disease, forward them our web site or ask them to contact us at info@bensfriends.org

2. Connect Us: if you have a connection you think would be interested in helping us or partner with us (PR consultants, reporters, medical professionals, hospitals) please let us know at info@bensfriends.org.

3. Help Spread the Word: help us spread the word about BensFriends.org or a specific patient community. Follow us on Twitter at (@bensfriends). If you have marketing or PR expertise, we would love to hear your ideas about ways to spread the word and help more people. Contact us at info@bensfriends.org.

4. Start a Patient Community: if you have a rare disease and aren't happy with the support available to you, help us fix that with a new patient community. Contact us at info@bensfriends.org.

5. Help Us with PR: our biggest need is to get this story in front of reporters and bloggers. If you have a blog, blog about us. If you know a blogger, send them a link to our web site.

6. Help Us Increase Our Google Rank: most people find us via Google. If you operate a web site, linking to BensFriends.org helps make our patient communities easier to find for the patients who need us.


Sponsor a Community

Ben’s Friends is made up of an army of volunteers and relies on donations to fund operations.

Make a One-Time Donation

Your one-time donation goes directly towards supporting our patient communities.

Read more about our mission.

4 Quick Ways You Can Help

1. Tell a friend or relative that we may have a community for them. Our communities are listed on the left side of this page.

2. Tell journalists and bloggers about our story and our mission.

3. Help us launch a new patient community for someone you know. Email info@bensfriends.org.

4. Help our Google rankings by linking to BensFriends.org or any community from any web site you can.

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