Save Their Life
Your donation to the following organizations will save real lives.
Some of these diseases have cures on the horizon. Your donation helps make those cures come more quickly, and will save lives of those who currently have those diseases, and of those who would get them in the future.
Some of these are already curable. Your donation will save a life today.
donate...... to save
$360* ...... a life
$36 .......... a year
$3 ............ a month
10 cents .. a day
Donate to...
The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research--Their purpose statement: " The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research is dedicated to ensuring the development of a cure for Parkinson's disease within this decade through an aggressively funded research agenda."
The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International -- was organized by parents of children with diabetes, who are highly motivated to find cures for their children.
CureSearch -- unites the world's largest childhood cancer research organization, the Children's Oncology Group, and the National Childhood Cancer Foundation through their shared mission to cure childhood cancer.
National Multiple Sclerosis Society -- The mission of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society is to end the devastating effects of MS. The Society and its network of chapters nationwide promote research, educate, advocate on critical issues, and organize a wide range of programs—including support for the newly diagnosed and those living with MS over time.
ALS Association (ALSA)-- National not-for-profit voluntary health organization dedicated solely to the fight against amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (often called Lou Gehrig's disease.) The mission of The ALS Association is to find a cure for and improve living with ALS.
Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation
Leukemia and Lymphoma Society -- The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society is the world's largest voluntary health organization dedicated to funding blood cancer research, education, and patient services. The Society's mission: Cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families.
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Why not make your Christmas gift this year be a gift of life? For your birthday, anniversary, wedding, other special event, encourage gifts of life. Honor a friend with a gift of life.
*How we arrived at these figures. We took a very rough estimate of how much it would cost to find the cure for a disease, and divided it by how many people have the disease. For example, we estimated the cost to cure Parkinson's at a little over $2 billion. We divided that by the 6 million people worldwide who currently have the disease. That gave us the cost of saving one life. We then estimated how many years on average are lost to a disease due to early death or disability, and divided that into the life cost to get a year cost. We then divided it down to month and day. Not everyone can afford to save a life. But anyone can buy a day of life.
There are several factors that will affect these numbers.
1. We really don't know how much it will cost to find a cure. Medical research is unpredictable. The cost might be much more than our prediction. Or it might be less.
2. We were conservative on how many lives would be saved when a cure is found. We just counted those who currently have the disease. But that will be multiplied many times by those who will get the disease in the future, or would have got it had a cure not been found.
3. Also add to the effect of finding a cure the fact that breakthroughs in one disease usually impact other diseases. For example, breakthroughs in Parkinson's research also help in other brain diseases, in diabetes, and another conditions. So finding a cure for Parkinson's will quite possibly save not just 6 million people lives, but tens and even hundreds of millions of lives.
With all the variables and unknowns, and after realizing that the numbers for different diseases were similar, we decided to keep it simple and make all the donation numbers the same. However much it ultimately costs to find the cure, your donation will save real lives.