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View this interactive graphic; watch videos about progress in research, care services and advocacy; and read stories about how ALS Association chapters are making a difference in your community!
Note: these numbers reflect money raised during the 2014 Ice Bucket Challenge, learn about the work we’ve been doing since.
We are forever grateful for the generous outpouring of support we received from the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge.
The ALS Association is leading the fight to find treatments and a cure for ALS – through robust research, care services, and public policy programs.
Research
You are helping to reenergize global ALS research, ensuring the most promising projects are funded to accelerate the search for treatments and a cure.
DetailsPatient & Community Services
You are helping to provide more support to people living with the disease, and increasing access to multi-disciplinary cary at ALS Association Certified Treatment Centers of Excellence.
DetailsPublic & Professional Education
You are helping to encourage Congress to expand support of ALS research and care.
DetailsFundraising
You are helping to engage more people in the movement to defeat this disease.
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Raised from 2014 ALS
Ice Bucket Challenge
Research
67% DetailsPatient & Community Services
20% DetailsPublic & Professional Education
9% DetailsFundraising
2%External Processing Fees
2%View how The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge has accelerated The ALS Association’s work to find treatments and a cure for the disease through research, care services and public policy initiatives.
Learn how your support has helped to triple the amount spent on research each year; facilitate partnerships with university scientists and drug industry leaders; and fund new global collaborative research initiatives.
Learn how your support has helped to double grants to ALS treatment centers; expand patient access to care in underserved areas; and improve education materials for those fighting the disease.
Learn how your support has helped to further advance legislative and regulatory priorities; rally record numbers of people to advocate in Washington, D.C.; and create guidance and remove barriers so that companies can develop drugs faster.
The extraordinary outpouring of support during the 2014 ALS Ice Bucket Challenge has opened a new chapter in the fight against ALS, enabling The ALS Association to pursue new programs, collaborative efforts and scientific ideas. Recently, we brought all our research programs under one umbrella, The ALS Association ALS Research Institute, to accelerate advances in ALS research.
In just one year, The ALS Association has committed millions of dollars to support ALS research around the globe, including nine collaborative research initiatives to build understanding of the disease, target new therapies, expedite clinical trials, and make DNA and RNA sequencing data available to the entire ALS research community. Your generosity has enabled The Association to fund ALS scientists just starting out in their careers and other investigators who are pursuing some of the most cutting-edged research happening in the world.
Learn more about researchFrom harnessing novel innovative ideas, to translating concepts to therapies, to advancing treatments to people living with ALS – while continuously championing patient care. All categories of exploration are essential to expediting the discovery of treatments and a cure, while putting patients in the center of everything we do. Learn more here.
Across the research pipeline, The ALS Association is supporting a wide breadth of 13 scientific focus areas that are critical to advancing ALS research. Learn more here.
With 39 chapters in communities across the U.S., volunteers and staff are helping people living with ALS and their families in a variety of ways, including providing respite care to caregivers, offering loaned medical equipment or assistive technology devices, supporting local ALS Association Certified Treatment Centers of Excellence, and more.
Equipment Loan Closet Restocked and Expanded
Oregon and SW Washington Chapter
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Equipment Loan and In-Home Care Programs Expanded
Greater Philadelphia Chapter
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Equipment Learning Lab Expanded
Rocky Mountain Chapter
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Clinic Hours Expanded to Allow More Appointments
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Care Services Expanded for Underserved Region
Evergreen Chapter
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Care Management Program Expanded to Better Serve Patients
Golden West Chapter
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Your generosity accelerates the pursuit of a cure for ALS by funding the integration of collaborative research, personalized patient care, and robust public policy programs.