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Join us on Friday, April 20, 2012, for this year's golf tournament at Verdict Ridge Golf and Country Club! The entry fee for the 4-person scramble is only $150 and will include a box lunch from Brooklyn South Pizzeria, BBQ dinner, silent auction, and prizes for the longest drive, longest putt, hole-in-one, and other contests. Sponsorship opportunities such as holes, driving range, tournament title, and other options are available. Click here for more information or to register.

You can now lead your own fundraising campaign to support the Joe Martin ALS Foundation with our peer-to-peer donation tool. This tool is an online application, requiring only an internet connection to create, manage and donate, that enables our supporters to setup and promote donation pages to help people with ALS. With this tool anyone can design their own page by adding photos, text, and establish a fundraising goal. Raising funds in honor of someone's birthday, wedding anniversary, and sponsorship for a race or competition are examples of events that can be used as campaigns. You can be creative! The golf teams in this year's foundation golf tournament can use this tool to raise funds and win the challenge of the highest fundraising team. Please call 704--332-1929 or visit JoeMartinALSfoundation.org for more information. Click here to lead a campaign.

You can now show your support for the Joe Martin ALS Foundation and raise ALS awareness by purchasing a sterling silver pendant crafted by the Karat Patch. Every purchase helps provide support to families battling ALS in the Charlotte metro region. Each pendant is $50 with a $5 shipping and handling fee on every order.

 

              

THE JOE MARTIN ALS FOUNDATION RECEIVES QUALITY OF LIFE GRANT FROM CHRISTOPHER & DANA REEVE FOUNDATION

Charlotte, North Carolina - February, 10 - The Joe Martin ALS Foundation is proud to announce that it has received a $7,728 Quality of Life grant from the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation. The Reeve Foundation awarded $520,000 in Quality of Life grants to 75 non-profit organizations within the United States and Canada. Created by the late Dana Reeve in 1999, the Reeve Foundation's Quality of Life Grants are awarded twice a year to non-profit organizations that provide services and programs to individuals living with paralysis. Close to 1,600 grants totaling nearly $13 million have been awarded to organizations since the program's inception.

The Joe Martin ALS Foundation is honored to receive this very competitive award from the Reeve Foundation. The therapy equipment purchased with this grant will be used to improve participants' quality of life by increasing blood circulation, reducing edema, averting contracture, and helping to prevent kidney stones and blood clots. The Joe Martin ALS Foundation is the only organization to provide these, and other services, at no cost to those battling Lou Gehrig's disease.

"The Quality of Life program that Dana Reeve created eleven years ago is based on freedom," said Peter T. Wilderotter, president and CEO of the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation. "We are happy to be able to support The Joe Martin ALS Foundation to create more independence, increase opportunities, and provide support for those living with paralysis along with their families and caregivers."

The Reeve Foundation's Quality of Life grants are divided into three categories, Actively Achieving, Bridging Barriers and Caring and Coping. Some grants are funded through a cooperative agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and are awarded to nonprofit organizations that address the needs of people living with paralysis caused by spinal cord and other injuries, diseases and birth conditions.

About the Reeve Foundation

The Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation is dedicated to curing spinal cord injury by funding innovative research, and improving the quality of life for people living with paralysis through grants, information and advocacy. For more information, and to review the entire list of Quality of Life grant recipients, please visit our website at www.ChristopherReeve.org or call 800-225-0292.

About the Joe Martin ALS Foundation

The Joe Martin ALS Foundation is committed to helping families face the challenge of living actively with ALS by providing free home care services. For a complete list and description of the services provided at no cost to those battling Lou Gehrig's disease, or for more information, please visit WWW.joemartinALSfoundation.org or call 704-332-1929.