It's Giving Tuesday

I loooove the Giving Tuesday campaign.  I think it's awesome to be reminded that the holiday season is actually about giving.  After Black Friday and Cyber Monday comes #GivingTuesday which is a day to give back to your community.  It is only the 2nd year of the Giving Tuesday movement and some parts of the country are much more aware of this amazing day than others... 

I was so happy to see the FSH Society mention Giving Tuesday- they are receiving matching grants up to $300,000 for any donations made by December 31st.

The Muscular Dystrophy Association is also participating in the movement.

How will you give back?

FSH Society

~FSH Society partners with Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Cooperative Research Center~

"There are currently no clinical trials of novel therapeutics for FSHD ongoing in the United States because of a lack of relevant preclinical data to direct development of therapeutic targets to disease mechanisms. The Wellstone Center seeks to change that. 

'FSHD leads to severe muscle weakness and our Center's therapeutic approaches will focus on development of drugs that target disease genes, as well as drugs that improve muscle strength,' says Center Director Charles P. Emerson Jr, PhD, professor of cell & developmental biology and neurology. 'The therapeutic approaches being developed by our center will have broad application to the treatment of other muscular dystrophies and other debilitating medical conditions of muscle weakness including aging, muscle injury and confined bed rest.'"