Your Sponsorship At Work

MDA Uses Donations Efficiently:

• Almost all funding comes from voluntary private donations raised throughout the year. The Association seeks no governmental funding, United Way funds or fees from those it serves. MDA is consistently rated one of the most efficient of national voluntary health agencies. 77% of every dollar MDA spends goes directly to research, health care services and education.

• MDA spends $74 a minute in its worldwide research program, supporting more than 330 projects.

• MDA maintains some 200 clinics, including more than 35 MDA/ALS
  centers across the country

• MDA Clinics are staffed by teams of top health professionals skilled at diagnosis and medical management of neuromuscular diseases. Services provided at MDA clinics may include occupational therapy, selected diagnostic tests, respiratory therapy and more.

• MDA annually sponsors nearly 80 weeklong summer camp sessions, serving more than 4,000 children across the country and in Puerto Rico.

• MDA’s equipment program accepts donations of gently used durable medical equipment, repairs these items as needed, and provides them to individuals with neuromuscular disease to enhance mobility, independence and quality of life. 

MDA in southwestern Pennsylvania: Funds raised at the 2012 Pittsburgh Muscle Team Event will help local families living with neuromuscular diseases. MDA provides the following services to families in the southwestern Pennsylvania area.

• MDA funded clinics at:
• University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
• A designated MDA/ALS Center of Excellence at UPMC
• Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
• MDA Summer Camp
• Local monthly MDA/ALS Support Group
• Funding for flu shots
• MDA funded research