We are grateful to The Legacy Society members who have agreed to share their inspiring stories below. Each shows the diversity of the ALS community and how legacy gifts can help further our life-saving mission. We hope you join them, as many others have already done, by making a legacy gift of your own to help us eradicate this disease.
The ALS Association is committed to urgently finding new treatments and a cure for ALS. That means supporting a robust drug development pipeline and maximizing participation in clinical trials.
August is ALS Advocacy Action Month, an opportunity for you to join with other advocates in your own home state and push for changes in policies that affect the lives of people with ALS. Throughout this month, advocates will share their personal experience with ALS and urge members of Congress to increase funding of critical research to find new treatments and a cure.
On June 2, 1941, the U.S. lost one of its greatest heroes, Lou Gehrig, to a disease that would become synonymous with his name. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), thereafter, would also be known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. Gehrig played with the New York Yankees for 17 years and received the moniker “The Iron Horse” due to his ability to play baseball despite suffering from a variety of injuries.
Mildred established a charitable lead trust to equally benefit The ALS Association and another favorite charity of hers. Under this arrangement, the Association will receive payments from the trust for 10 years, after which the assets remaining in the trust will transfer to her son.
“My father’s life paralleled Lou Gehrig’s in a lot of ways. They both had humble beginnings and were hard-working, selfless men who thought of others first,” says Jeff Rowe. In 1988, Jeff’s father Frank lost his battle with ALS at 62 years young, just nine months after his diagnosis.
One of the easiest ways you can make a long-term difference — without writing a check today — is by designating The ALS Association as a beneficiary of a financial account beyond your lifetime.