Challenge Yourself to Change a Life!
Team Challenge is the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation's new endurance training program. This exciting new fundraising program trains you to run or walk a half marathon while helping the Foundation raise funds to find a cure for ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease.
Click Here for more information or to join the Cleveland Team Challenge team forming now!
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Take Steps for Crohn's and Colitis is the nations largest event dedicated to findng cures for digestive diseases. One in every 200 people suffer daily with digestive diseases. Throughout the year, Take Steps enables patient families to join together with their local community to build visibility and awareness about Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis while raising critical funds. Participants will enjoy a casual 2-3 mile stroll and raise money for crucial research that wouldn't even have been possible a few short years ago, bringing us closer to a future free from Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis.
Many of the 1.4 million Americans with these diseases suffer in silence. Take Steps brings together this community in a fun and energetic atmosphere, encouraging them to make noise and be heard.
To register for the Take Steps walk, or for more information
please visit www.cctakesteps.org/cleveland today!
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Northeast Ohio Research Initative
September 1, 2008 - August 31, 2009
CCFA's Northeast Ohio Research Initiative, established in 1995 by volunteers in cooperation with the local IBD medical community, has secured almost $800,000 in support of CCFA sponsored researchers. This funding has helped Northeast Ohio become one of the foremost research centers for ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease. Furthermore, CCFA sponsored grants which originated with our chapter's Initiative, have been continued with funding from The National Institutes of Health (NIH). For every $1 CCFA has invested, the NIH invests $6.
The Northeast Ohio Research Initiative is committed to propelling other CCFA sponsored researchers. For the 2008-2009 year our chapter continues to fund Lopamudra Das, Ph.D. of Case Western Reserve University and Christine McDonald, Ph.D. of Cleveland Cinic -Lerner Research Institute.
Each year we are challenged to raise more money to fund promising projects. It is rewarding to see the tangible results of important local research being taken to a national level. The Northeast Ohio Research Initiative has taken action! Help us get another step closer to a cure for Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis by becoming a member of CCFA's Northeast Ohio Research Initiative. Contact the Northeast Ohio chapter at 216-831-2692 for more information.
