I am hoping that some of you can help by passing this link on to your friends and contacts. A lot of you use Facebook a lot and anything you can do will really be appreciated.

Grace is such a wonderful giving person and I know she is a valued member of ned. It breaks my heart to see her going through such an ordeal.

Thank you all so much for anything you can do to help.

Will do! Thanks for passing this on, Evvy, we will all be praying for Grace.

Thank you so much Shawn. Can you put this on Facebook?

I put a link to my blog on facebook--chipin and facebook don't play well together. :( But the chipin is on my blog.

Hey it looks like we already pulled in $280! Be sure to let me know who donated so I can thank them. (I think it lists donors on the chipin manager somewhere.)

Actually we are over $300 ($305 to be exact) Linda Nowakowski was kind enough to send an echeck which doesn't show in the chip in. Thank you so much Linda! In addition to me and You we also received donations from Pam Omidyar and Ashley Adamson.

I have sent out a ton of emails and am hopeful that this evening and tomorrow will be great.

Thank you to everyone who is helping to promote this.

This is really what community is all about.

I kind of copied Shawn's Facebook notice and modified it sending people to her blog. The son of one of my high school friend's challenged his friends to act. Will be interesting to see if they do.

Wow, thank you Linda. What a great idea. I just collected from some of my neighbors and raised another $25 in person. With Linda's echeck that makes us at $450. Fantastic.

Evvy, Shawn and Linda , I cant just wait to say THANK YOU to all of you for acting this fast, It's unbelievanle how you pople are so amazing! It has been a real hard time for me for the past 2 months with most it being sleepless nights, but now all of a sudden at just knowing that so many people care about me I felt a deep relief inside me.

May you all be BLESSED !

Hang in there Grace.

Posted this page to Facebook and Twitter. Grateful for the fast response so far.

Sally Duros has reposted this thread on Facebook (thanks so much Sally).

I also sent an inbox message on facebook to a list of folks who've met or worked with Grace over the years and asked them to join us in helping Grace get through this.

Cynthia Gentry just showed her support on facebook, and set a good reminder of an example by giving points to this thread. I had forgotten! More points from the rest of you here will give it maximum visibility on the homepage at ned.

thank you so much Cynthia

So sorry to hear about this Grace, my thoughts are with you and your family. I will help out when I get back to the US and can get a good online connection. Thinking of nothing but the best.

I've added another $20, but it hasn't shown up yet in the Chipin total. On my screen, that total now reads as $500.

It's no surprise to find that so many people are thinking about Grace, her daughter and her family, but it is very good that they are!

Thanks Evvy for alerting us to this and for explaining the situation so clearly. I hope all will now go well for Grace.

Good suggestion from Christina re visibility points. It should be on the top of Ned's front page very shortly.

It is 5:30 am here and this is a wonderful way to start my day. Thank you all so much for all your caring, support and donations. I think we will reach our goal by end of day.

Grace is just in awe over this outpouring of love and she is so relieved.

I am thrilled that people are responding so quickly. I wish I could do more, but I'm one of the millions of unemployed Americans.

I will say a prayer of mercy. Grace has been close to me

Got a tiny bit of twitter buzz going, but the people I'm connected to there really don't know Grace or I very well - I'm not seeing the chipin change at all after 7 related tweets from me and 3 re-tweets by @PamO @SOLVEcoop and @ayllu.

I am happy to be doing this. Thank you so much Evvy, for setting this page up.

Thanks to every body for whatever effort put to see that this little girl gets well!! with these combine efforts , am sure Judith will get well. Thank you Evvy for putting this up.

Peter, make sure Grace gets Judith to the hospital as soon as possible.

Evvy, maybe Peter could help by picking up the money instead of making Grace do that.

Matt Flannery just reposted the link on facebook. People are wonderful. So happy to have networks to reach out to. Thanks everyone.

I couldn't get to Chip In from home, but I got there from work, finally. I left a message to Grace but then realized it will go to the coordinator and that probably isn't Grace. So, God Bless You Grace. You are in my prayers. You are an old friend.

Fingers crossed for a successful operation. Best wishes to Grace, Peter and most of all Judith.

If more medical treatment is need afterwards, then please don't hesitate to ask for more support.

Please keep us updated of how Judith is.

What Ben said.

As above.