When I was a junior in high school, my father was diagnosed with ALS. At the time, I didn’t know what it was or what it meant, and Icould hardly imagine that I would make a career working for an organization whose mission is to find treatments and cures for ALS and other related muscle-debilitating diseases. . . .
Pat Loewi’s daughter, Sammy, felt invisible at school. Powering through the halls at her big, urban high school, she was ignored. The kids didn’t look at her. They didn’t smile at her or make eye contact, even when Sammy had her adorable service dog, Annie, by her side. “Kids just looked right past her,” Pat . . .
“November 1, 2011 was the day that everything changed for our family. We were sitting in a room with no windows and seemingly no air to breathe and the news came like a bulldozer: Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a muscle wasting disease with no cure that is 100% fatal. I couldn’t believe it. All I wanted to do . . .
MDA Summer Camp is often described as the “best week of the year” for campers. But those are just words — to truly appreciate the magic, the community, the joy of MDA Summer Camp, you have to go there in person. That’s why we partnered this summer with Women Online to invite 10 incredible mommy bloggers to see . . .
Halie, who attended MDA Summer Camp, shares the impact the experience has made on her, thanks in part to sponsors like Casey’s.
This summer, as thousands of you joined our #LiveUnlimited campaign… With your support, the urgent work we do continues every day. In the coming months, the thousands of dollars raised during the #LiveUnlimited campaign will help MDA fund more new initiatives such as… And there’s much more in the works. Led by MDA families living . . .
For nearly 25 years, Plano Fire Captain Scott Mallen has taken part in the MDA Fill the Boot campaign — a program in which fire fighters in hometowns across America take to the streets to fill their boots with donations and raise funds to help kids and adults with muscular dystrophy live longer and grow . . .
Longtime MDA partner Acosta Sales & Marketing has been committed to helping families live unlimited for more than two decades ago through MDA’s Aisles of Smiles program. The program began as the brainchild of Hank Lautrup, a food broker employed by Southern California-based Kelley-Clarke Inc. At the time, Lautrup’s son had been recently diagnosed with . . .
The distinctive sound of a Harley-Davidson motorcycle is widely recognized and loved by many MDA Summer Camp campers and counselors. For them, that sound is synonymous with freedom and that’s because of the ongoing support and commitment of Harley-Davidson and their dealer network or dealers. In 2015 alone, more than 59 Harley Owners Group (H.O.G.) . . .
For companies like Casey’s, supporting their community and giving back is not only part of their mission, but it also helps define them as a company. Over the past nine years, Casey’s has supported MDA and the MDA Summer Camp program by raising more than $6.6 million. Their support has helped kids with muscular dystrophy . . .
