Bally Total Fitness Flexes Fundraising Muscle to Fight ALS

CHICAGO, July 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Last year, Bally Total Fitness members raised over $230,000 for Augie's Quest, the fast-track research arm of the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA). As one of the leading fundraising donors in 2008, Bally is dedicated to beating the previous goal ...

JBFCS Surpasses Fundraising Goal For Hudson Valley Bike Ride Despite Difficult Financial Times

NEW YORK, July 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today JBFCS ( www.jbfcs.org ) announced that it beat its original goal for first time fundraising event -- the Hudson Valley Bike Ride. The human services agency started with a target of $250,000. To date, it has raised more than...

Video: CVS/pharmacy Kicks Off 8th Annual ALS Fundraising Campaign in Stores Nationwide

National Campaign runs from June 7 - 27 WOONSOCKET, R.I., June 8 /PRNewswire/ -- CVS/pharmacy has kicked-off its annual in-store fundraising campaign to support the fight against amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Since 2002, CVS/pharmacy has partnered with the ALS Therapy Alliance (ATA) ...

Hire More Fundraising Rain-Makers During Recession, New AHP Study Concludes

Major Gifts & Planned Giving Held Their Own as Downturn Took Hold WASHINGTON, May 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As the recession's grip tightened on nonprofit hospitals and health care systems in the U.S. and Canada, high performing philanthropic fundraisers in charge of major gifts and p...

Operation Smile To Launch Groundbreaking 140 Smiles Fundraising Campaign at TWTRCON SF 09

Twitter-centric Campaign to Raise Funds for Children's Reconstructive Facial Surgery in a Live Case Study for TWTRCON SF 09 Participants SAN FRANCISCO, May 7 /PRNewswire/ -- TWTRCON SF 09, the first conference focused on the use of Twitter in business, today announced that Operation Smil...

Bone Marrow Registry to Launch Groundbreaking Fundraising Technology to Overcome Madoff Crisis

Out of adversity comes opportunity.” Benjamin Franklin’s significant words uttered more than 250 years ago ring true for the Gift of Life Bone Marrow Foundation today. New York, NY (Vocus) May 5, 2009 -– “Out of adversity comes opportunity.&rdquo...

Maryland Mystery Author Organizes Fundraising Ride for Rare Neurological Disorder

LAUREL, Md., April 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following was released today by Dystonia Medical Research Foundation: WHAT: Freedom Ride for Dystonia - Debbi Mack and the Dystonia Medical Research Foundation (DMRF) -- www.dystonia-foundation.org -- host the first Freedom Rid...

American Airlines Applauded for Its Fundraising to Support Susan G. Komen for the Cure(R), Promise Grant to The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center

Collaboration to Fight Inflammatory Breast Cancer Already Making Gains in First Year of Funding DALLAS, April 14 /PRNewswire/ -- The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center and Susan G. Komen for the Cure(R) today lauded thousands of American Airlines AAdvantage(R) members, employe...

Safeway Slated to Top $100 Million Contribution Mark to Easter Seals and Families Living with Autism and Other Disabilities with Launch of Fundraising Campaign

April campaign notes Autism Awareness Month and offers a challenge to businesses Chicago, IL (PRWEB) April 2, 2009 -- Today, executives from Safeway (NYSE:SWY), Easter Seals and Special Olympics launched the grocery retailer's annual fundraising campaign for people ...

Safeway Slated to Top $100 Million Contribution Mark to Easter Seals and Families Living with Autism and Other Disabilities with Launch of Fundraising Campaign

April campaign notes Autism Awareness Month and offers a challenge to businesses CHICAGO, April 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, executives from Safeway (NYSE: SWY ), Easter Seals and Special Olympics launched the grocery retailer's annual fundraising campaign for people with d...

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Cardio3 BioSciences Raises EUR13.7 Million in Series B Fundraising and Grant Funding

MONT-SAINT-GUIBERT, Belgium, January 19 /PRNewswire/ -- - New Funds to Drive Clinical Development of C-Cure(R), a Second-Generation Cell-Based Therapy for Heart Failure Cardio3 BioSciences, a leading Belgian biotechnology company specialising in cell-based therapies for the treat...

Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, the Most Common Childhood Cancer, Is Curable Without Preventive Cranial Radiation

...r pays for treatments not covered by insurance, and families without insurance are never asked to pay. St. Jude is financially supported by ALSAC, its fundraising organization. For more information, please visit www.stjude.org . ...

Families of Spinal Muscular Atrophy Announces Latest Developments on Three SMA Drug Discovery Programs

...rams. Families of SMA has created hope for our community that did not exist in 1984. Our support comes from generous individual donations and numerous fundraising events held by volunteer families and our chapters. Our successful results and progress from basic research to drug discovery programs to clinica...

Stand Up To Cancer Awards $73.6 Million for Novel, Groundbreaking Cancer Research

...pe of donation opportunities on the SU2C website ranges from naming a star in honor of a loved one to web team challenges that encourage collaborative fundraising efforts by groups of various sizes all over the country. A novel Facebook application enables users to share their personal connections to cancer. Th...

Mutant Genes in High-Risk Childhood Leukemias Identified

...r pays for treatments not covered by insurance, and families without insurance are never asked to pay. St. Jude is financially supported by ALSAC, its fundraising organization. For more information, please visit www.stjude.org . The Children's Oncology Group/CureSearch Children's Oncology Group (COG...

Circassia Begins Phase II Clinical Trial With Ragweed Allergy Therapy

...ia has a highly experienced management team with a proven track record in product development and commercialization. Having successfully completed two fundraising rounds the company is backed by a syndicate of world-class venture capital and institutional investors, including Imperial Innovations, Lansdowne Part...

BIOCOM's 4th Annual DeviceFest Honors Companies

...alifornia's life science community celebrated the 4th annual DeviceFest on May 7th, featuring panel discussions on product innovation, venture capital fundraising options, as well as showcasing the latest in medical device technology. The all-day event at the Fairmont Hotel was sponsored by BIOCOM, Southern Cali...

Circassia's Allergy Therapy Begins Phase II Clinical Trial in Asthma Patients

...ia has a highly experienced management team with a proven track record in product development and commercialization. Having successfully completed two fundraising rounds the company is backed by a syndicate of world-class venture capital and institutional investors, including Imperial Innovations, Lansdowne Part...

St. Jude Finds More Than 100 Gene Variations Linked With Response to Leukemia Treatment

...r pays for treatments not covered by insurance, and families without insurance are never asked to pay. St. Jude is financially supported by ALSAC, its fundraising organization. For more information, please visit www.stjude.org . Children's Oncology Group The Children's Oncology Group/CureSearch Childre...

Study Shows How Defective DNA Repair Triggers Two Neurological Diseases

...r pays for treatments not covered by insurance, and families without insurance are never asked to pay. St. Jude is financially supported by ALSAC, its fundraising organization. For more information, please visit www.stjude.org . ...

fundraising in Medical Dictionary

Prader

...er -Willi syndrome (PWS) is a rare and very complex non-inherited genetic disorder. ... Walking for Prader -Willi Syndrome Annual Awareness & fundraising Events ... Committed to funding research to find treatments and a cure for Prader -Willi Syndrome (PWS) The Foundation for Prader -Willi Res...

Morquio syndrome

...rview, Morquio syndrome is an inherited disease of ... There are two forms of Morquio syndrome : Type A and Type B. ... Site dedicated to fundraising and awareness about Morquio Syndrome (mucopolysacchridosis IV/MPSIV) ... people with Morquio Syndrome have normal intelligence. ... Online...

Mammary

...ds to occur in young, unspayed female cats ... A non-profit organization dedicated to providing awareness of canine cancer, education, support and fundraising to assist those get the treatment they desperately ... Thus, the mammary gland of these species are thin but broad in width and length. ... ...

fundraising in Biological News

Tufts students host Earth Day with groundbreaking ceremony for solar house

...eting in the bi-annual event with $100,000 in grant money. Project costs will be significantly greater than the DOE grant and Team Boston is actively fundraising to makeup the difference. Labeled as Curio House, Team Boston's design is both innovative and affordable. The project draws upon the strengths and ...

Safeway gives $685,000 to TGen for breast cancer research

...r, a major priority for us at TGen and a goal that would benefit everyone,'' Dr. Trent said. Michael Bassoff, President of the TGen Foundation, the fundraising arm of the non-profit biomedical research institute, described Safeway's contribution as a special tribute to TGen researchers as they work to conquer...

Healthy Minds Across America features 48 public forums on mental health research, Sept. 14

... even cures, if research can continue to flourish." With that concern and goal in mind, this fall NARSAD will announce the launch of a $200 million fundraising campaign which will also be called Healthy Minds Across America to increase the organization's capacity to fund innovative research on mental health...

Gift of $100 million to transform energy and environment research at Princeton

...at expertise with a greatly increased capacity in engineering to develop lasting solutions." The gift is part of the University's recently launched fundraising campaign, "Aspire: A Plan for Princeton," which includes a major emphasis on "Engineering and a Sustainable Society." "Gerry Andlinger's extraordi...

2008 ASABE Annual International Meeting

...he next fifty years?" On Tuesday evening, ASABE will welcome National Broadcasting Hall of Fame journalist Orion Samuelson, to the ASABE Foundation fundraising dinner. The event will take place at 8:00 p.m. at the Westin Hotel. ...

Netting mosquitoes to prevent malaria

...igan State community, inspired by the work of Walkers team, is rallying to raise funds to buy bed nets and have them distributed in Africa through the fundraising campaign Nothing But Nets. Theyve set a $10,000 goal. So far, Anopheles gambiae, the mosquito species that is responsible for transmitting malar...

4 GBIF-endorsed campaigns underway

...rsed four Campaigns, and awarded 30,000 to each for the planning stage. Of primary importance during that planning stage is of course identifying the fundraising activities that will be undertaken to sustain the Campaign. The four GBIF Campaigns that are currently underway focus on the following areas of con...

Safeway Inc. and PCF to fund landmark prostate cancer research collaboration

... Jonathan Simons, M.D., CEO and President of the Prostate Cancer Foundation. "The S.T.A.R. Program is evidence of what can happen when you link the fundraising power of a major company like Safeway with the research vision of the Prostate Cancer Foundation," emphasized Simons. "This program would not have hap...

NARSAD presents 2007 prizes for outstanding achievement in neuroscience and psychiatric research

...30 p.m., followed by the awards program, dinner and dancing. Contributions to NARSAD go entirely to research, because its administration, overhead and fundraising costs have been funded by two family foundations. Tickets can be reserved by calling 516-829-0091 or 800-829-8289 In conjunction with its New York...

UC San Diego partners with Venter Institute to build marine microbial genomics cyberinfrastructure

...atasets, as the novel cyberinfrastructure enables research in other disciplines. The Moore Foundation grant, in part, contributes to the $1 billion fundraising goal of The Campaign for UCSD: Imagine What's Next. Background The goal of the CAMERA project is to create important advances in the knowledge...

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Volatile Economy / Fundraising Challenges Encourage Business Combinations Among Biotech Companies According to New Survey from CPA Firm Rothstein Kass

'Plumbing the Depths' White Paper Reports More Than 75% of Biotech Firms Expect to Establish or Enhance a Corporate Partnership in Next Three Years NEW YORK, Feb. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- More biotechnology companies will be compelled to explore business partnerships and strategic alliances in a mor...

Celebrities to Gather to Support the Ninth Annual Starkey Hearing Foundation 'So the World May Hear' Awards Gala

...ovac, a long-time supporter of Starkey Hearing Foundation. The "So the World May Hear" Awards Gala serves as Starkey Hearing Foundation's primary fundraising event. Last year, the Gala raised a record $5 million. Monies raised at the Gala help fund the Foundation's international hearing mission trips. Every...

Bay Area Youth to Represent ALS Patients at Giants' and Angels' Baseball Games on July 4th

... Men's and Women's Tennis Teams. Corey and his family have supported ALS TDI for the past 18 months and have raised more than $700,000 in that time. fundraising events organized by "Corey's Crusaders" have included a cocktail party in the Vancouver, Washington area, a running race in Boise, a bake sale in Oakl...

Gyros Raises SEK 80 Million to Accelerate the Commercialization of its Gyrolab(R) Systems for the Cost-Efficient Development of Biopharmaceuticals

...ated micro-immunoassays for therapeutic protein development, announces that it has raised SEK 80 million (approximately euro 7.5 million) in an equity fundraising led by SLS Invest, the Company's leading shareholder. The new funds will enable Gyros to drive the further commercialization of its Gyrolab technology...

EyeIC Receives FDA 510(k) Clearance for MatchedFlicker(TM) Retinal Aid Detection Technology

...a . In November, the company completed a Series A round of $1.9 million in fundraising from MentorTech Ventures, Ben Franklin Technology Partners, private investo...of Pennsylvania and recently completed a Series A round of $1.9 million in fundraising from MentorTech Ventures, Ben Franklin Technology Partners, private investo...

Americas on the Waterway Supports US Oncology Foundation

...Americas. "The foundation's advances in the cancer care arena are a great contribution to the community and we are happy to partner with them in their fundraising efforts." To make a donation, or for more information on the US Oncology Foundation, visit the organization's Web site at: www.usoncologyfounda...

Microbix Sales Grow Over 30% In The Second Quarter; Up 43% In The First Half '09

...ject. The Hunan Liuyang Biomedical Park under the supervision of Microbix financed the Study. A potential investor has agreed in principle to lead the fundraising efforts subject to finalization of the deal structure. Semen Sexing Technology (SST) In the SST program, Microbix focused on strengthening i...

ALS Therapy Development Institute, the World's Largest Non-Profit Biotech, Appoints Steve Perrin, Ph.D., as Chief Executive Officer

...Augie Nieto. Under Mrs. Lister's leadership, ALS TDI has increased its fundraising revenue to new highs each of the last two years. According to its most rece...est in the field, by focusing on creating more efficient administrative and fundraising operations under Mrs. Lister's guidance. In addition to these two appo...

Heptares Secures GBP21 Million in Series A Fund Raising to Accelerate Development of Pipeline of Small Molecules Against High-Value GPCR Drug Targets

...or, which is the site of action of beta blockers. Heptares' CEO, Dr Malcolm Weir, said: "We are very pleased to have completed this significant fundraising in the current economic environment. We are delighted to have attracted such a truly international group of blue-chip investors and see this as a real...

Pharmacyclics Announces Appointment of New Management Team and Board Director to Accelerate Its Future Growth

...des oncology, inflammation, neurobiology and cardiovascular diseases. Glenn's experience in regulatory affairs, international business development and fundraising will be an added plus as we evaluate opportunities to grow our business." Dr. Maky Zanganeh has been previously appointed as Vice President of ...