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Spread the word: Conductive Learning Center is in the running for grants up to $50,000 In the Art Van Charity Challenge

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The Conductive Learning Center (CLC) is asking for you to help spread the word. The CLC needs public support - not in dollars, but in votes! Beginning Friday, May 18 and running through May 31, the community is asked to vote for the Conductive Learning Center Art Van Million Dollar Charity Challenge organization from among 150 Michigan based charities. The top three charities with the most votes will win grants of $25,000, $15,000 or $10,000.

It's easy, to cast a vote supporters must simply visit www.artvancharitychallenge.com. Participants may cast only one vote. Art Van Furniture will announce the winners on Friday, June 1, 2012.

Parents of children with motor disorders, such as cerebral palsy and spina bifida often wonder; “Isn’t there something more I can do for my child?” The Conductive Learning Center serves children birth to age 26 with motor disorders related to complications of prematurity, Cerebral Palsy, Spina Bifida or brain injury. For these children with motor disorders, even the smallest tasks – eating, buttoning a shirt, sitting in a chair –can be monumental. The Conductive Learning Center (CLC) can change that. With increased mobility, strength, problem-solving skills, confidence, and self-esteem, the child’s quality of life be improved.

Vote for CLC and help a child reach their full potential!

The Art Van Million Dollar Charity Challenge is an innovative program presented by Art Van Furniture that awards challenge grants from $5,000 to $50,000 to support Michigan-based nonprofit organizations that focus on children, health and human services programs. Within the last three years, 150 Michigan charities have been awarded a total of $3 million dollars. Through the challenge component, $10 million has been raised since the program began in 2009.  For a complete list of Art Van Million Dollar Charities visit artvan.com.

About Art Van Furniture

Art Van Furniture is Michigan's largest furniture retailer and America's largest independent furniture retailer. The company operates 34 stores in Michigan, a full service e-commerce website, plus six freestanding Art Van PureSleep bedding stores in Canton, Troy, Rochester Hills, Brighton, Ann Arbor and New Hudson, Michigan. Founded in 1959, the company is family-owned and headquartered in Warren, Mich. Check out artvan.com for more information.

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