Subject: RE: Excellent News
From: "Sparrow, Robin" <[email-masked]>
To: "Skip Lockwood" <[email-masked]>, "Mr. Jonathan Schwartz" <[email-masked]>, "Mr. Mitch Laurance" <[email-masked]>, "Mr. Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>, "Mr. Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>, "Sherry Galloway" <[email-masked]>, "Jill O'Donnell-Tormey" <[email-masked]>, "Mr. Tom Quinn" <[email-masked]>, "Mr. Michael Milken" <[email-masked]>, "Sanford Siegel" <[email-masked]>, "Dr. Thomas Moody" <[email-masked]>, "Concepcion, Raoul S." <[email-masked]>, "Mike Smith" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Anne Marie Person" <[email-masked]>, "Mr. Michael Milken" <[email-masked]>, "Nancy Cromwell" <[email-masked]>, "Sherry Wilson" <[email-masked]>, "Jamie Bearse" <[email-masked]>, "Kathy Costigan" <[email-masked]>, "Betsy London" <[email-masked]>, "Kevin Johnson" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:02:51 -0400

WOW!!!  Congratulations to ZERO and the entire team.

Sherry....great work!!!!!

Peace all....

Robin L. Sparrow
Director, Project Management Services

Studley
1600 Tysons Boulevard
Suite 200
McLean, VA 22102
t  703.827.6279
f  703.847.9038

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From: Skip Lockwood [mailto:[email-masked]] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 3:59 PM
To: Mr. Jonathan Schwartz; Mr. Mitch Laurance; Sparrow, Robin; Mr.
Hunter Biden; Mr. Hunter Biden; Sherry Galloway; Jill O'Donnell-Tormey;
Mr. Tom Quinn; Mr. Michael Milken; Sanford Siegel; Dr. Thomas Moody;
Concepcion, Raoul S.; Mike Smith
Cc: Anne Marie Person; Mr. Michael Milken; Nancy Cromwell; Sherry
Wilson; Jamie Bearse; Kathy Costigan; Betsy London; Kevin Johnson
Subject: Excellent News

All,

I have the honor of informing you that ZERO has received a $1 million
grant for the Drive Against Prostate Cancer program.  The money has come
from an anonymous donor and will be wire transferred to our bank account
early next week.  The money is to be used to support the testing program
as well as to purchase/refurbish another vehicle to replace the aging
vehicle number 1.  

We are thrilled to have been selected and are eager to put this grant to
excellent use.   Special thanks to Jamie Bearse for handling the
negotiations and to Betsy, Tracy and Amanda for operating an excellent
program that is very deserving of this money.  We will update you
shortly with more details concerning how we will move forward.

In other excellent news Robin Sparrow has sold out his golf tournament
and Sherry Galloway has secured the local television station and its
celebrity weatherman/prostate cancer survivor as a sponsor of the Jeremy
Paster Memorial Great Prostate Cancer Challenge.  Also, the Know Your
Score golf tournament is coming along nicely.  This year we will be at a
new course (Pawley's Plantation Golf and Country Club in Pawley's
Island, SC) with a new set of sponsors and we hope to have news of a new
celebrity spokesperson shortly.

Finally, we continue to work to protect the CDMRP as Congress tries to
figure out how to get a budget for 2011 passed.  We are working
diligently with a coalition of other CDMRP program stakeholders as well
as with the prostate cancer community to ensure the survival of this
program.  Kevin has been in negotiations with the AUA and the
Congressional sponsors of the Prostate Act.  He has successfully pushed
them to make significant changes to the bill which we hope will improve
its chances of passage as well as correcting some serious defects in the
structure (i.e. the Veterans Administration does NOT need to be the
coordinating entity of prostate cancer research).  We. will keep you
apprised of any new information. 

Finally, this short article from Politico, shared by Mike Smith should
give you a flavor of the atmosphere here in DC:

THE $93,000 QUESTION - If anything is too expensive for Medicare, it
just might be a prostate cancer therapy that costs $93,000 and gives
men, on average, an extra four months to live. The decision is due March
30, when CMS must decide whether Medicare will pay for Provenge, a
cancer therapy. If CMS decides not to cover it, the agency could open
itself up to the "government rationing" charges again (because Don
Berwick was really missing those). And if the agency decides to cover
it, the Obama administration will lose a lot of its talking points about
controlling health care spending. The POLITICO Pro Story.
http://politico.pro/euyY9f

It is amazing how cavalier people can be with other people's lives.

Please feel free to give me a call if you have any questions.

--Skip
-- 
Skip Lockwood
President and CEO
ZERO -- The Project to End Prostate Cancer
10 G St., NE
Suite 601
Washington, DC 20002
202-463-9455 (main)
202-463-9456 (fax)

Virginia Office:
515 King St.
Suite 420
Alexandria, VA 22304

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