CART News
Gate City Rotary Donates To CART
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.
Looking for New Insight into the Genetics of Alzheimer’s Disease in Diverse Populations
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!
CART Site Visit To University of Pittsburgh
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!
CART in Rotary Zones 26/27
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!
NIA Awards $6.9 Million Grant to CART Researcher
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!
CART is now on Instagram!
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!
I'm A Rotarian Podcast
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.
Forget-Me-Not Painting Raises Funds for CART
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, and then George will MATCH that donation with another $100! 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!
CART Giving Leaderboard
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 Oct!
1st Place: Rotary District 7670 (CART Chair Andie Dent Taylor)
2nd Place: Rotary District 7770 (CART Chair Rod Funderburk)
3rd Place: Rotary District 6920 (CART Chair Glenda Kessler)
And THANK YOU to these Rotary Clubs leading the way:
(Giving through Oct 31, 2024)
1st Place: Rotary Club of Asheville Biltmore (NC-D7670) $43,919
2nd Place: Rotary Club of Albemarle (NC-D7680) $12,150
3rd Place: Rotary Club of Macon (GA-D6920) $5355
Cabarrus County Rotarian (NC) Shares CART in Canada
THANK YOU to Rotarian Don Seitz - RC of Cabarrus County (D7680) - for sharing about #TheCARTFund during his recent vacation in the Pacific Northwest & Canada. He raised more than $1000 to help us #EndALZ & then some of his fellow club members MATCHED some of the District 5050 club donations!!
Pictured are left to right: DG Kevin Kendrick, Charter member and CART Fund chairman Steve Morris, Club president Woody Hathaway, Don Seitz, and Club member Alan Goodman. Both Steve and Alan matched the $544 in donations made by Canadian Rotarians!
Have you introduced #TheCARTFund to the Rotary clubs you visit?
CART Fund Awards Record Grant Totals in 2024
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."
Two additional grant awards of $250,000 each were presented to:
Margaret Pericak-Vance, Ph.D. (University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine): “Understanding the complex interplay between genetic factors and social determinants of health in AD risk."
Nicholas Tonks, Ph.D. (NCI Cancer Center, Cold Springs Harbor Laboratory (New York, NY): “ A new
approach to treatment of Alzheimer’s disease through inhibitors of PTP1B”.
The five grant recipients attended The CART Fund's Annual Meeting in May in Columbia, SC, to receive the first installment of their grant and each gave a brief presentation on their research. These videos will be added to our YouTube channel soon, so be sure to subscribe!
Online Rotary Club To Support CART
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???????
Greenville (SC) City Center Rotary CARS for CART
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!
Camden County (GA) Rotary 0.0 Supports 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!
Partnership with Civic Swag
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 Receives Million Dollar Donation
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.
Roger Ackerman Circle - Recurring Donor Program
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)