
Double Your Impact This Month
Double Your Impact This Month
Make 2x the difference during Alzheimer’s & Brain Awareness Month. Your gift, up to $30,000, can go twice as far to help advance research and provide care and support — but only until midnight on June 25.
Give NowToday I am driving two hours to reach Prince William Forest Park in Northern Virginia. At over 16,000 acres, this refuge is the largest protected natural area in the Washington, D.C. metro region.

Today, on The Longest Day, I am running through the night for 14 hours to support the people I work with every day.
I am a bilingual caregiver at a care facility that is home to people who are living with Alzheimer's and dementia, many of whom survived the Holocaust. I run for these residents because they are important people who need someone to be their voice. I am so proud to be one of those voices.
I will run through the night, and finishing my run as daylight breaks will symbolize hope for all of these men and women.

I've contacted friends, family and colleagues, reached out to my email contacts and have used social media along my ultramarathon training journey to work toward my fundraising goal.
The fight to end Alzheimer's is not over, and my fundraising isn't either! I am in this fight to bring the Alzheimer's epidemic to light, and out of the darkness.
About Heather: You can follow Heather as a 'Season 7' runner on the Becoming Ultra podcast. Visit her team page.