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PROUDLY SERVING THE FM COMMUNITY PROVIDING: INFORMATION, AS*ISTANCE, RESOURCES, EDUCATION & SUPPORT FOR. I’ll never forget the day in September 1997 when I got the call that said, the “National Fibromyalgia Awareness Campaign” had been chosen to become a project of an incubator program, which would allow us to serve the fibromyalgia community as a non-profit organization. Within a short amount of time we had decided to re-name ourselves the “National Fibromyalgia As*ociation” (NFA) and we had been granted our own independent non-profit status! Although the NFA’s operations started on a card table in my family room, over time we became the largest and most influential NPO representing people with fibromyalgia in the world. Karen Lee Richards, my co-founder and myself, along with a group of dedicated women with FM worked as much as our painful muscles and joints would allow us and met regularly to plan conferences, write letters to the media, prepare a newsletter and answer thousands of letters and phone calls from others with FM who were desperate for information. The mission of the National Fibromyalgia As*ociation (NFA) is to develop and implement programs to improve the quality of life for Founded in Orange County, Califonia in 1997, the NFA works to build national awareness, provide patient as*istance and support, educate the medical community, facilitate and implement research, and build collaboration between the patient and medical community. The NFA is supported by its volunteer’s efforts and the generosity of its donors. Your contribution can help insure a better future for The NFA has worked tirelessly to support, as*ist, and help improve the quality of life of millions of people in the US and around the world. People with fibromyalgia make up a large part of the 100 million people in America who suffer with Chronic Pain. On June 29, 2011 the Institute of Medicine published a docu*ent, which said these millions of people and the cost for servicing these people, is one of the most,