The 2025-2026 District Project will once again be chosen by the New York District membership.  This year, finalists for your consideration are:

• • The Epilepsy Foundation

    The Epilepsy Foundation is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of people affected by epilepsy through education, advocacy, research, and connection. For more than five decades, the Epilepsy Foundation has shone a light on epilepsy to promote awareness and understanding, and to advocate for laws that matter to people with epilepsy, while also funding epilepsy research and supporting epilepsy investigators and specialists in their early careers. In partnership with the CDC, the Epilepsy Foundation has helped to improve access to care for people with epilepsy and trained more than 600,000 people in seizure recognition and first aid. The Epilepsy Foundation continues to focus on serving the epilepsy community through advocacy, education, direct services, and research for new therapies.

• • Tackle ALS

    Tackle ALS was started in 2018 by former Atlanta Falcons Linebacker Tim Green in partnership with the Sean M. Healey & AMG Center for ALS at Massachusetts General Hospital. Every dollar donated goes directly to Mass General, to fund ALS research.  Tackle ALS and the Healey & AMG Center are dedicated to the critically important global initiative to accelerate the delivery of scientific discoveries to ALS patients through innovative trial approaches. Identifying effective therapies during trials brings us closer to FDA approval and the opportunity to make a difference for individuals with ALS, and our ultimate goal of finding treatments and cures. 

• • The International Justice Mission

    Right now, children, women and men are being enslaved, abused and exploited.  People living in poverty are uniquely vulnerable because local justice systems are not equipped to protect them. Every day, they are at risk of brutal violence like trafficking & slavery, violence against women & children, and police abuse of power.  We partner with local justice systems around the world to build safe communities, where all are protected from violence and slavery.

• • Smile Train

    Smile Train is a global charity focused on providing free cleft care to children in over 75 countries.  Their mission is to transform the lives of millions of children by empowering local medical professionals to deliver 100% -free cleft surgery and comprehensive cleft care.

• Read more about each charity via the links above and be on the lookout for your opportunity to cast your vote!!