Last week we organized a meeting attended by leaders from The Craig H Neilsen Foundation, United Spinal, The Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation, The North American SCI Consortium, Paralyzed Veterans of America, Wings 4 Life and The Shepherd Center. We met to share information, strategize and mobilize our community to fight back. At the time, there was no formal path forward. Now there is an emerging strategy...

Andrew knows this program well and we discuss how the program worked, what made it so successful, what set it apart from other Federal research grant programs and the damaging fallout that will ensue if we can’t get it reinstated. We hope that you will share our sense of urgency on this matter, that you will contact your Congressional Representatives in the House and Senate. And we hope that this conversation

We’re excited to announce that we’ll be upgrading to a new donor management system starting in early April. We’ve been working on migrating all the data from our old provider to our new provider for a few months, and will be finalizing the transition in the next week. Donor management software helps U2FP...

You may have heard, but spinal cord injury research just took a MAJOR blow and we need to do something about it, NOW. What Happened? On March 15th, The 119th Congress passed and POTUS signed into law a continuing resolution bill, H.R. 1968. This bill cut about $850 million dollars in medical research funding being conducted for veterans, with civilians benefiting as well. As part of the collateral damage, arguably the most effective Spinal Cord Injury Research program in the world was eliminated. The $40M program made up roughly 1/3 of the entire Federal allocation of funding toward SCI Research and there’s a good chance...