Fundraising is the most important part of your participation in Walk MS. Your efforts will help us create a world free of MS.
Online Fundraising
- Start by logging in to your account to access your Participant Center. If you have forgotten your username and/or password please click here to retrieve it.
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Once you access your Participant Center, you can update your personal fundraising page (and your team page if you are a team captain), track your progress, and reach out to your friends and family with the email templates. Each time you send an email from your Participant Center, a link to your personal fundraising page (and team page) is automatically added.
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From your Participant Center home page, you can download our Walk MS Facebook application. The application will feature your fundraising goal, track your fundraising progress, and allows others to donate, on your behalf, for Walk MS.
Download the 2012 Fundraising Toolkit:
Here is how your fundraising dollars will be put to work:
Programs and services:
- $25 will pay for a member to attend a counseling series
- $25 will fund for a member to attend a social program, such as Family Fun Night
- $100 will pay for round trip ambulette transportation
- $250 will pay for a window air-conditioning unit for someone living with MS
- $500 provides assistance to help pay for a wheelchair, scooter or other piece of essential durable medical equipment
- $1,000 provides a ten week session of a wellness program for up to 25 members
- $2,000 provides funds to assist/pay for a ramp for an individual with MS
- $5000 provides respite/companion care funds service for up to five individuals living with MS
- $45,000 funds an innovative research grant that will help take us one step closer toward a world free of MS.
Research:
In 2010, The National MS Society committed $14.6 million to support 34 new MS research projects as part of its $36 million international investment this year alone to spur momentum in cutting-edge MS research. This investment comes despite a challenging economic environment, and is the latest in the Society’s relentless research effort to find a cure for, restore function, and end this disease.
The new projects include exploring the role of the immune system in the development and progression of MS to find ways to stop the immune attack on nervous tissues, and a project to understand how MS effects cognitive functioning and other aspects of quality of life. Your fundraising dollars enable the Society to fund these research projects, which we hope will lead to a cure.
We have all kinds of great resources and online tools right here at your fingertips. So, what are you waiting for? Check out our fundraising related pages linked above and login to your online account to get started!