Honoring ALS Awareness Month

A Letter from the President and CEO of MDA [Muscular Dystrophy Association]( Dear {NAME}, Did you know that Eleanor Gehrig, the widow of famed New York Yankees slugger Lou Gehrig, worked with MDA’s founders in the 1950s to establish a worldwide ALS research program? Like you, Eleanor believed deeply in the promise of emerging science to conquer ALS and stop it from ravaging families. Since Eleanor’s decades of dedicated service to raise money and awareness to advance ever more effective treatments for the disease, MDA has invested over $176 million in global ALS research. That research has resulted in the first and only therapies currently available to treat ALS, including the first treatment for a genetic form of ALS. While these therapies have a modest effect on progression or other complications of this always fatal disease, treatments that will stop progression and save lives still elude us. This is where we urgently need your help. Every 90 minutes, someone is diagnosed with ALS. In that same 90 minutes, someone else dies from it. Imagine, in the course of your average workday, as many as six people will die and six more will learn that they will soon lose the ability to walk, to talk, to swallow and to breathe. Those are mothers, fathers, siblings, best friends, community heroes, beloved sons and daughters. Until there is a cure, MDA will not stop its global pursuit of new science to arrest the disease that has taken too many, too soon. It’s not a secret that this level of research is costly. [But we cannot stop now](. This is why we need you to make a generous gift today to MDA in honor of ALS Awareness Month in May. It’s only with your help that we can continue to carry on Eleanor Gehrig’s legacy of service and commitment to the ALS community: funding breakthrough research, providing access to multidisciplinary care, and amplifying the voices of our community to inform health policy. Will you support our goal of raising $300,000 for ALS research this month? Your gift of $100 or more will get you this collector’s item Lou Gehrig #4 jersey. This jersey will tell the world that you stand with MDA and the Gehrigs in their history-making work to rid the world of ALS. With deepest appreciation, Donald S. Wood, PhD President and CEO Muscular Dystrophy Association To learn more about ALS and other ways you can get involved during ALS Awareness Month, please visit [MDA.org/EndALSwithMDA](. [Give Now]( [MDA.org]( [Donate Now]( © 2024 Muscular Dystrophy Association, Inc.. All rights reserved. 1016 W Jackson Blvd #1073 Chicago, IL 60607 1-800-572-1717 --------------------------------------------------------------- [BBB Accredited Charity.]( [View Online]( | [Privacy Policy]( [Unsubscribe]( | [State Fundraising Notices]( The Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) is a qualified 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization.