Fight Alzheimer’s Into 2025 and Beyond
Fight Alzheimer’s Into 2025 and Beyond
Don't miss your chance to make a generous gift to our 2025 Annual Fund Drive. Your donation today helps fund essential care and support to those who need it most, while also advancing critical Alzheimer's research.
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Together, We Have Raised Over $10 Million to End Alzheimer's!
Once just a vision, The Judy Fund has evolved into a movement dedicated to eliminating Alzheimer’s disease.
Marshall M. Gelfand established the family fund in 2003 at the Alzheimer’s Association in loving memory of his wife. The Judy Fund, now chaired by his daughter, Elizabeth Gelfand Stearns, remains the largest and fastest-growing family fund at the Alzheimer’s Association. Marshall’s goal was to raise $1 million; today, with your help, over $10 million has been raised across the country.
Your gifts have advanced care and research, bolstered advocacy efforts and increased public awareness. Your generosity will be a part of the solution.
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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
— Margaret Mead
Your Donor Dollars are Making a Difference
OVER $10 MILLION GIVEN BY 3,000+ DONORS
THE JUDY FUND RALLIES SUPPORTERS NATIONWIDE TO HELP FIGHT ALZHEIMER'S
30 RESEARCH PROJECTS
THE JUDY FUND SUPPORTS ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION PEER-REVIEWED RESEARCH PROJECTS
500+ AMBASSADORS
THE JUDY FUND SUPPORTS ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION AMBASSADORS WORKING WITH LEGISLATORS NATIONWIDE
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"Our father has shown us all what one family can do to help change the world. Our father's ultimate battle, his fight against Alzheimer's disease, is a very personal one — it's one that honors our mother and is a way to protect us, his children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and the future generations of our family. His fight is an example of leading from the heart."
— Elizabeth Gelfand Stearns
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"I remember when Judy first exhibited signs of Alzheimer's and how my heart broke in a thousand pieces. She was the most competent, capable person. If there were 100 hours in the day, there were 107 for Judy. She did everything with her iconic smile, great joy and great love, humor and sweetness."
— Susan Mendelson Stein
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The kind of person Judy was, and that Liz is, makes it deeply meaningful to be part of this crusade to end Alzheimer’s disease.
Let's end Alzheimer's for future generations.
The Judy Fund donors are making progress in the fight. We continue to move closer to breakthroughs that may change the course of this disease — every day, together, we're changing the future of Alzheimer's.