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Local Groups

If you wish to volunteer or start a local group, please use the contact form.

Our Volunteer History

“Meet Bob Beliizzi and Dorthy Action”

October 1998 – Dorothy Acton was diagnosed with Fuchs’ Dystrophy

November 1998 – Bob Bellizzi was also diagnosed with Fuchs’ Dystrophy

April 1999 – Each starts their own website about this genetic disease and fill viewers with information about Fuchs’

June 1999 – Bob and Dorothy connect and start the e-Circles group, an email list group where everyone gets a copy of each email that any member sends.

October 1999 – E-Circles was acquired by E-Groups who was then acquired by Yahoo Groups.  The next move was to take the forums to service, GroupsIO, where we are today. Since then we have grown rapidly and have logged over two million messages of support, help and knowledge to each other not to mention our success stories.

April 2004 – It became obvious that we needed to secure funding sources.

Dorothy and Bob could no longer to afford to pay all of the costs.  We started to work on the Foundation, incorporating in California and started the tremendous task of documenting and applying for an IRS 501C(3) Tax Exempt Status and a California Tax Exempt Status.  This was approved in 2004.

We celebrate over 20 years as a nonprofit foundation.  A true success story.