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Cart Fund presents 2007 grant to
Mayo Clinic - Jacksonville
On May 2, 2007 at the annual meeting of the CART Board of Directors
held in Columbia, SC, Dr. Todd Golde of the Mayo Clinic in
Jacksonville, Florida was awarded the eighth CART Fund grant for research
into Alzheimer's Disease.
Pictured left to right are PDG Jim Puryear - CART Vice President and CART Grants Chairman, Eric Puckett - CART Secretary, Karen Shore - CART President, PDG Bruce Baker - CART President Emeritus, Dr. Todd Golde - Mayo Clinic and Grant recipent, Roger Ackerman - CART Treasurer, and PDG Glenn Hood - CART Vice President
This makes the total CART grants $1,850,000. Rotarians and
others have now donated over $2 million for Alzheimer's research.
The Cart Fund
Established in 1995, the Coins for Alzheimer's Research Trust has
raised over $2 million for research that will lead to a prevention or
cure of Alzheimer's Disease. The program was initiated by the
Rotary Club of Sumter, then adopted by District 7770 and now has spread
to all the Rotary Districts in South Carolina, North Carolina and
Georgia. The program simply asks Rotarians to donate their loose
change at their weekly meetings. Through these efforts, the CART
Fund has made grants to:
- Emory University's Alzheimer's Research Center (April 1999,
$100,000)
- Case Western University (May 2001, $250,000)
- Johns Hopkins University (April 2002, $250,000)
- University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (March 2003,
$250,000)
- University of Connecticut Health Center (May 2004, $250,000)
- University of California Los Angles (May 2005, $250,000)
- University of Texas Medical Branch (May 2006, $250,000)
- Mayo Clinic - Jacksonville (May 2007, $250,000)
South Carolina Governor proclaims Carroll Campbell Cart Fund Day
April 2006 - South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford proclaimed
April 22, 2006 as Governor Carroll Campbell Cart Fund Day, honoring
the late SC statesman and the Rotary effort to defeat the disease that
claimed his life. (Read press release)
The Cart Fund named SC Angel
November 19, 2003 - The Rotary CART Fund was named an
"Angel" by South Carolina Secretary of State Mark Hammond.
The Secretary annually names organizations that are extremely effective
at giving a high percentage of their total expenditures directly to
their designated cause. (Read press release)
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