#MuscleWalk • mdamusclewalk.org Muscular Dystrophy Association

Partner with MDA Muscle Walk to

inspire and strengthen your community.

WHAT IS THE MDA MUSCLE WALK?

MUSCLE WALK FACTS:

JOIN THE MOVEMENT

Activate your partnership at Muscle Walk events and through year-round promotional opportunities for your company.

Become a Muscle Walk Sponsor and:• Build a more positive corporate image.• Reach and engage your local community.• Improve sales potential and customer loyalty.• Help fight to free individuals from the harmful effects of these

debilitating diseases.• Form powerful connections through a shared cause.• Provide a great opportunity for employee engagement and

team-building.

MUSCLE WALK SNAPSHOT:

This is more than a walk. MDA Muscle Walk is a life-changing experience that brings together families to forge powerful connections. Muscle Walk, the largest event of its kind, provides an opportunity for friends, neighbors and businesses to take action, unite and bring strength to life for this important event. It’s a collective celebration of the strength of MDA families where the funds raised help transform hope into answers.

145 EVENTS EACH YEAR

35,000 PARTICIPANTS

5,200 TEAMS

$7.8 MILLION RAISED THROUGH MUSCLE WALK LAST YEAR

$41.7 MILLION RAISED SINCE MUSCLE WALK

BEGAN IN 2011

MORE THAN

FEMALE, MAINLY BETWEEN THE AGES OF 25 AND 54 $71,000

IS THE ESTIMATED MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME OF A PARTICIPATING MUSCLE WALK FAMILY

65%90%ARE MARRIED AND

TWO-THIRDS HAVE AT LEAST ONE CHILD

Bryant and Sarah Krieger’s son Fritz was diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy last February.Less than a month later, their family, along with dozens of other supporters, were walking to bring strength to life at the Muscle Walk of Phoenix as part of Team Fritz & Friends.

“Muscle Walk shifted our thinking from ‘I can’t’ to ‘We can.’ That day gave us hope, and much needed encouragement,” says Sarah. “Muscle Walk reminded us that people do care, people want to help, and that we are not alone.”

At MDA, we’re on a mission to save and improve the lives of individuals with muscle-debilitating diseases by finding research breakthroughs across disorders, caring for kids and adults from day one and empowering families with resources and support to live unlimited.

STRONGER TOGETHER

MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN YOUR COMMUNITY

150+ active research

projects worldwide

70 new grants awarded $16 million+

invested in all grants in 2016

150+ MDA Care Centers

nationwide

50,000 visits coordinated at

MDA Care Centers yearly

3,800 kids experience best week of the year at MDA Summer Camp at

no cost to their families annually

20,000 emails and calls answered annually by MDA’s National

Resource Center

YOU’RE IN GOOD COMPANY

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“Quantum Rehab feels privileged to be a national sponsor and participant in the MDA Muscle Walk series of events. The events are remarkable local opportunities to both raise awareness and generate support for MDA. In order to address a cause, we all must support the cause — and we encourage everyone to join us in supporting the MDA Muscle Walk.”

Destiny Sanders was nervous. At the age of 12, she was going to MDA Summer Camp for the first time. The counselors put her at ease, even telling her she could call home any time she wanted.

Then she met the other kids and felt the most unusual feeling — that she could just be herself. That for once, she wasn’t different. That the other campers actually understood. “I didn’t call home,” Destiny says of that first week at camp. “Not once.”

Destiny lives with dermatomyositis, a form of muscular dystrophy that causes rashes, muscle weakness and joint pain.

At MDA, Destiny found the support and community she needed to live fully as a 12-year-old, as a college student and now as a mom to two kids. That’s why she’s been a passionate Muscle Walk fundraiser for the past 15 years – so other kids and their families can receive support from MDA to go to camp, attend college and thrive as an adult.

“I support MDA because MDA has supported me so much in my life,” she says. “When someone gives to you on that level, you’ve got to give back,” says Destiny.

THE SUPPORT AND COMMUNITY OUR FAMILIES NEED

Your partnership and dedication will help us achieve a

world where no one has to experience the

harmful effects of muscle-debilitating

diseases.