F U N D R A I S E R
presents
girls with grit
Girls With Grit Team
Team Leader: Liz Lawler
Megan Olsen
Monika Kaplan
Carol Tagliaferri
Julie Neff
Caroline Dowd
Erin Wendt
Bryn Powell
Deena Pontious
Lora Anderson
Date: September 19-20th
Twelve amazing women will be running the
Ragnar 24 Hour Relay from San
Francisco to Napa Valley on behalf Hayden's Hope.
Hayden’s Hope raises funds to benefit the International FOP Association (IFOPA) for FOP RESEARCH
& AWARENESS. The IFOPA is a 501c3 non profit organization.
What is
FOP?
FOP
is one of the rarest genetic conditions known to medicine. Currently there are 285 confirmed cases in the United States and 800 confirmed cases
worldwide. This disabling genetic condition causes bone to form in
muscles, tendons, ligaments and other connective tissues, progressively
restricting movement and forming a second skeleton that imprisons the body in
bone.
Fundraising for FOP
The annual budget of the FOP Research Lab is $1.5 million. About $500,000 of that amount is provided by the IFOPA and is raised by donations and family fundraisers such as Hayden's Hope.
Facts about
Hayden, FOP Research
& the IFOPA
September 2002 – Hayden is diagnosed with FOP
November 2003 – First Hayden’s Hope Fundraiser for
FOP Research is held in Sausalito raising $75K
April 2006 - The ACVR1 gene that causes FOP,
discovered at the FOP Lab, is announced in Nature Genetics Magazine
June 2013 – 25th anniversary of the
founding of the International FOP Association
June 2014 - Hayden's Hope receives IFOPA Jeannie Peeper Award for Outstanding Community Involvement
July 2014 – Clinical Trail announced for Clementia Pharmaceutical’s
Palovarotene.
You may also donate by mailing a check
made payable to "IFOPA".
In the memo write “Hayden’s Hope Girls With Grit”.
Mail Check to:
IFOPA
101 Sunnytown
Road, Suite 208
Casselberry, FL 32707