THANK YOU to Gate City Rotary Club of Greensboro (NC-D7690) for their donation of $2,363.52 from a CART challenge fundraiser with the Downtown Greensboro Club. Gate City has contributed $2,802.91 YTD to CART. The Downtown Greensboro Club also raised $1,300 in the fundraiser.

Who was the winner? CART, Coins for Alzheimer's Research Trust, where 100% of donated funds go to research.

Pictured: District 7690 CART Chair Tom Fitzgerald, Club Treasurer Glen White, Club CART Chair Guy Ribando, and Club President Brad Gile.

The John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics (HIHG) at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine has received a $28.6 million grant from the National Institute on Aging to launch a comprehensive study over the next five years that will offer new insights into the genetics behind Alzheimer’s disease in people of African descent.

Dr. Margaret Pericek-Vance, one of our 2024 grant recipients, is one of the co-principal investigators on this important study!

You can read about this study here!
 

A group of volunteers from The CART Fund spent the day with Dr. Karl Herrup, one of our esteemed researchers (& a member of our Scientific Review Panel) on the University of Pittsburgh campus recently.

We heard his thoughts on Alzheimer’s/Dementia, toured his lab, discussed future opportunities for our organization, and enjoyed important networking and fellowship time too!

Thank you to everyone who attended and supported CART!

THANK YOU to Mureleen Benton (RC of Coeur d'Alene Sunrise), a brand new CART volunteer, who hosted a table at the recent Rotary Zones 26 & 27 Institute in Spokane, WA.

We appreciate the opportunity to introduce #TheCARTFund to an entirely new set of friends!

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.
 

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???????

Great job by the Rotary Club of City Center Greenville (SC-D7570) on their CARS for CART fundraiser that netted $560 to help fund Alzheimer's research! They had 22 entries and lots of guests who learned more about Rotary and CART!

Congratulations to the Rotary Club of Camden County, GA-District 6920 who recently raised $2600 for The CART Fund with their 0.0k race!  Great job, folks!

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!

CART was honored to be the recent recipient of a one million dollar donation from a Rotarian in North Carolina. The gift, made from a donor-advised fund, will be used to support research grants to be awarded in May of 2024. The donor, who wishes to remain anonymous, indicated his interest in helping find a cure for Alzheimer's and was willing to commit valuable resources to help the cause.

If you are interested in making a major gift to fund research for the prevention, treatment or cure for Alzheimer's Disease, or would like to discuss leaving a gift to CART in your estate, please contact Executive Director Tiffany Ervin.

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)