We are pleased to welcome Dr. Tsuneya Ikezu as our guest speaker for the Feb 26 "Lunch & Learn" series to provide an update on Alzheimer's Research.

Dr. Ikezu was the recipient of a $100,000 CART grant in 2014.

We will meet via zoom from Noon-1pm, EST.

Register in DACDB (select "multi-district events" to find CART events) or click the zoom link included here to join. You can also find the zoom link on the "calendar" page of our website, www.cartfund.org. 

THANK YOU to everyone who has made contributions to #TheCARTFund to help us #ENDALZ!

Congratulations to the following Rotary Districts at the top of the "leaderboard" at the end of Dec!

1st Place: Rotary District 7670 (CART Chair Andie Dent Taylor)
2nd Place: Rotary District 7770 (CART Chair Rod Funderburk)
3rd Place: Rotary District 7750 (CART Chair Cara Hamilton)

(Giving through Dec 31, 2024)

A multidisciplinary team of scientists led by Carlo Ballatore, Ph.D., at University of California San Diego and Kurt Brunden, Ph.D., at the University of Pennsylvania has been awarded a $6.9 million grant from the National Institute on Aging (NIA) to prepare a potential disease-modifying Alzheimer's treatment for future clinical trials. In a recently published study about the new compound, called CNDR-51997, the team found it was effective in restoring brain health in mouse models of Alzheimer's disease. CNDR-51997 was identified through a joint drug discovery program at Penn and UC San Diego that was supported by grants from the NIA.

You can read more here!

We are excited to join INSTAGRAM!

Be sure to follow us @TheCARTFund and tag us or send collaboration requests!  We can't wait to see your posts, including #littlebluebuckets and #FromPocketChangeToLastingChange!

We are honored to be spotlighted on the I'm A Rotarian podcast!

Producer and Rotarian Gwen Jones interviews some of the many men, women, famous or under the radar Rotarians that live all around the US, and even the world. She talks to them about the history of Rotary, how each became a Rotarian, and where they see Rotary International going in the 21st century and beyond. 

Click here to listen to her episode about CART where she interviews Executive Director Tiffany Ervin.
 

Rotarian George Lewis, RC of Venice-Nekomis Beach, FL (D6960) is well-known for his commitment to funding water projects and cleft palate surgeries for children, mostly by selling his original oil paintings with proceeds going to the Rotary Foundation and Water Team International.

George has painted this beautiful design of "forget me not" flowers to support The CART Fund and is offering original paintings for purchase! The painting is 11" x 14" oil on canvas, unframed, and the cost is only $150 including shipping!

$100 of every purchase will be donated to The CART Fund! What a great way to  purchase original art work by a dedicated Rotarian AND help us #EndALZ!

To order your painting, contact George at [email protected] and tell him you want a Forget Me Not painting for The CART Fund!

 

Have you seen these new t-shirts promoting The CART Fund? They are available for purchase on our website by clicking on the MERCHANDISE tab.

Thanks to our partnership with Civic Swag, a portion of the sale of all CART items will be donated back to TRAC to support administrative expenses for us!

Civic Swag is also a licensed Rotary vendor if you need items for your Rotary Club or District!.

After a record fundraising year and an increased number of grant applications, the Executive Committee of The CART Fund, under the direction and advice of the Scientific Review Panel, has announced the organization awarded a record $1.4 million in Alzheimer's research grants in 2024.

The top award, the Roger Ackerman Memorial Grant for $300,000, was presented to Ana Griciuc, Ph.D., from Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Her project is titled “Utilizing CD33-targeting antisense oligonucleotides to reduce Alzheimer’s Disease Pathology.”

The next award, the Dr. John Trojanowski Memorial Grant for $300,000, was presented to Amy Nelson, Ph.D., from Gulf Coast Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. Her research will focus on “Determining the role of caldesmon in MCI/AD pericyte vascular function."

 

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Would you be interested in joining an online-only Rotary club dedicated to supporting Coins For Alzheimer's Research Trust (CART) and Alzheimer's Association to find a cure for Alzheimer's disease?

They are looking for more "People of Action" to help them create this cause-based club!

The group meets the 3rd Tuesday of every month at 5pm (EST) via zoom. You can join them online to learn more at www.alzclub.com???????

We are excited to partner with Civic Swag in Georgia to provide additional CART branded items for our volunteers. Additionally, Civic Swag, a business owned by a Rotarian in Milledgeville, GA, has agreed to be an in-kind donor of social media tools and marketing services to assist us in sharing our message.

You can visit their website and learn more here!

THANK YOU to everyone who continues to support The CART Fund as a recurring donor and as a member of the newly-created "Roger Ackerman Circle." 

We are so excited to offer this limited-edition lapel pin for donors who commit to a recurring donation of a minimum of $5/month via our online donor portal!  If you have already enrolled but haven't yet received your pin, please let us know so we can make arrangements to present it soon!

If you haven't signed up yet, you still can! Just go to mycartfund.org to make a contribution & select “recurring gift” (monthly, quarterly or annually)