March of Dimes Drive Moves From Letters to E-Mail

By NICOLE WALLACE

A 50-year-old fund-raising tradition is going online.

The March of Dimes Mothers March started out in 1950 as a campaign in which volunteers went door-to-door asking their neighbors to contribute to the group's efforts to find a cure for polio; eventually it evolved into a neighborhood letter-writing campaign as the March of Dimes expanded its mission to fight birth defects.

Now, volunteers can also use the White Plains, N.Y., organization's Web site