Fundraise Your Way with NBTS!
January is almost over — it’s time to start brainstorming your 2025 brain tumor fundraiser with NBTS!
Watch this video to learn more and help fuel the breakthroughs ahead.
Submit an interest form on our website, and Lauren or Ashlyn on our Fundraise Your Way team will be in touch: https://braintumor.org/events/fundraise-your-way/
Gray Nation Endurance®: Help Defeat Brain Tumors Once and for All
Kick off 2025 with a goal that challenges you to be part of something bigger.
Join Gray Nation Endurance and put meaning behind your miles!
Whether you sign up for one of our charity race teams, register for the National Brain Tumor Ride, or participate in your own endurance activity, you’re invited to become a GNE athlete and help fund critical research and support for those impacted by brain tumors.
Together, we’re one team with one mission to conquer brain tumors — once and for all.
Lace up and join us this year: BrainTumor.org/GNE
#GrayNationEndurance
Kick off 2025 with a goal that challenges you to be part of something bigger.
Join Gray Nation Endurance and put meaning behind your miles!
Whether you sign up for one of our charity race teams, register for the National Brain Tumor Ride, or participate in your own endurance activity, you’re invited to become a GNE athlete and help fund critical research and support for those impacted by brain tumors.
Together, we’re one team with one mission to conquer brain tumors — once and for all.
Lace up and join us this year: BrainTumor.org/GNE 🔗
#GrayNationEndurance #NationalBrainTumorSociety #braintumorcommunity #braintumorawareness #braintumorsupport #NBTSConnect
Laurence Shares What a Better Chance for Patients With a Brain Tumor Means to Him
After his beloved wife passed away from anaplastic astrocyoma, Laurence became a passionate advocate with the National Brain Tumor Society so that people diagnosed with brain tumors in the future would have a better chance.
As he shares, “Even though she isn’t here, she would want a better chance for others.”
When you give by Dec. 31, our board will DOUBLE your gift, up to $250,000, to accelerate the breakthroughs ahead to give patients and their families more time together and better outcomes.
Make your impact go twice as far: BrainTumor.org/BreakthroughsAhead
#NationalBrainTumorSociety #BreakthroughsAhead #braintumorcommunity #braintumorsupport #braintumorawareness
Mary Shares What a Better Chance Means to Her
What does a better chance mean to you?
For Mary D., whose father passed from a glioblastoma, “a better chance to me means being able to celebrate more birthdays, being able to have more backyard Father’s Day barbecues, being able to have those Christmas or holiday festivities together as a family. I want a better chance of having more memories.”
A better chance starts with you. When you make a gift to NBTS, you’re helping to empower a community of patients, caregivers, researchers, and advocates to create a better chance for those impacted by brain tumors.
Double your impact today: BrainTumor.org/BreakthroughsAhead
#NationalBrainTumorSociety #braintumorcommunity #braintumorsupport
Laurence Shares His Wife Julia's Brain Tumor Story - Anaplastic Astrocytoma
Join Laurence in giving the gift of hope this holiday season.
Your donation now through December 31 will be DOUBLED by NBTS board members, up to $250,000, to propel research and better treatments forward and to ensure a brighter future for those living with a brain tumor: BrainTumor.org/BreakthroughsAhead
Laurence’s wife, Julia, enrolled in a clinical trial following a recurrence. Of that time, Laurence said, “Hope was a moving target. We just had to keep surviving long enough to make it to the next breakthrough.” Sadly, Julia passed in November 2023.
Today, Laurence advocates with and fundraises for NBTS to extend hope as part of her legacy.
#NationalBrainTumorSociety #braintumorcommunity #braintumorsupport #braintumorawareness
NBTS Board Member Jigar R Shares His Brain Tumor Story - Grade 2 Astrocytoma
Jigar Raythatha, a grade 2 astrocytoma survivor, joined the NBTS Board of Directors earlier this year to turn his experience into action in service of the brain tumor community.
Remember, thanks to board members like Jigar, every dollar donated today through the end of the year will be matched up to $250,000!
Double your impact today and accelerate the breakthroughs ahead that will bring us closer to conquering and curing #braintumors once and for all: BrainTumor.org/BreakthroughsAhead
#NationalBrainTumorSociety #braintumorcommunity #braintumorsupport
Jean Shares the Importance of Brain Tumor Advocacy
Motivated by her daughter’s glioblastoma diagnosis, Jean Dalstad became a brain tumor advocate with NBTS.
After years of meeting with her congresswoman at Head to the Hill, Jean was thrilled when Rep. Susan Wild introduced the Bolstering Research And Innovation Now (BRAIN) Act — a landmark bill for our community — into Congress earlier this year with the support of other congressional co-sponsors.
As she said, “Meeting with representatives of the offices of our senators and congressmen and women at the Head to the Hill and Advocate From Your State events and being able to ask them for their support has made me feel like I’m really making an impact.”
#NationalBrainTumorSociety #braintumorcommunity #braintumoradvocates
Learn More About NBTS'S DNA Damage Response Consortium (DDR-C)
Your support for NBTS fuels groundbreaking research initiatives like our DNA Damage Response Consortium (DDR-C), a full-force effort to harness the latest evolution in our understanding of #braintumors into treatments designed to improve survival and quality of life.
Make a gift today at BrainTumor.org/BreakthroughsAhead — through December 31, your gift will have 2X the impact thanks to a match from our generous board of directors.
Watch to learn how DNA damage response disruption works and why this could be an Achilles heel for many brain tumors.
NBTS Board Member Leah Recht Shares Her Story
Leah Recht participated in her first Race for Hope DC after her father, Barry, died in 2007 from a chordoma brain tumor.
There, she found a supportive community who understood what her family was going through. Today, Leah serves on the NBTS Board of Directors, reflecting on her family’s experiences to help guide her work.
This month, you can join Leah and her fellow board members in making a difference. They’ve pledged to match every gift made by Dec. 31 up to $250,000.
Double your impact and make a gift today: BrainTumor.org/BreakthroughsAhead
#NationalBrainTumorSociety #braintumorcommunity
A Better Chance: Laurence’s Brain Tumor Advocacy After Loss
Laurence’s wife, Julia, was diagnosed with anaplastic astrocytoma in 2015. Their love story brought Laurence across the Atlantic Ocean to be with Julia, and he managed her care with strength and devotion for eight years until her passing in November 2023.
In his grief, Laurence became a passionate advocate with the National Brain Tumor Society.
As he shares, “A better chance would mean [Julia] being able to see her son grow up. Even though she isn’t here, she would want a better chance for others.”
Every gift made before December 31 will be DOUBLED thanks to a $250,000 matching gift opportunity by NBTS’s board of directors.
Together, we can give people living with brain tumors and their loved ones a better chance: BrainTumor.org/BreakthroughsAhead
#BreakthroughsAhead #NationalBrainTumorSociety #braintumorcommunity
Dr. Bindra Shares the Importance of Breakthroughs for the Brain Tumor Community
Breakthroughs can’t wait for people living with brain tumors and their loved ones.
NBTS’s DNA Damage Response Consortium brings together best-in-class researchers, including Ranjit Bindra, MD, PhD, at the Yale Cancer Center/Smilow Cancer Hospital, to expedite the process of translating research discoveries into the clinical setting.
NBTS funding drives the consortium’s work to cultivate a budding area of drug development targeting the DNA damage response networks in brain tumors. This research could transform the treatment landscape for many types of malignant brain tumors, both in children and adult patients.
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