National Multiple Sclerosis Society

MS stops people from moving. The National MS Society exists to make sure it doesn't. We help each person address the challenges of living with MS through our 50 state network of chapters. We fund more MS research, provide more services to people with MS, offer more professional education and further more advocacy efforts than any other MS organization in the world. The Society is dedicated to achieving a world free of MS. Join the movement.

History:
The National Multiple Sclerosis Society was founded in 1946.
Sylvia Lawry, an extraordinary ordinary citizen whose brother suffered from the disease, placed a classified advertisement in The New York Times asking to hear from anyone who had recovered from MS. But all the letters she received came from others who also sought help and hope.
Instead of being discouraged, Ms. Lawry mobilized a group of friends, including some who had answered her ad. From this the National MS Society was formed to promote contacts among neurologists around the country who treated MS and to raise money to fund a search for answers.

Contact person: Jessica McNabola, Development Coordinator, (phone), (email)

Office fax number: (203) 831-2973

Address:

659 Tower Avenue, First Floor Hartford, CT 06112 (See a map)

Web Site: http://www.ctfightsms.org

Miscellaneous Information

Does your agency have weekend volunteer opportunities?
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Does your agency have evening volunteer opportunities?
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Does your agecny accept court ordered communituy service volunteers?
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Does your agency accept and coordinate group projects for corporate volunteers?
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Does your agency accept and coordinate group projects for youth volunteers?
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Does your agency accept youth volunteers ages 8-13 with adult supervision?
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Does your agency accept youth volunteers ages 14-18?
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Last updated on February 9, 2009