Your Support Goes A Long Way

$500 Allows us to recognize and thank our many office volunteers. 

  
$1,000 Provides additional activities for our Juvenile Arthritis programs: Camp Milagros, Family Education Day, Teen Retreat.

$2,500    Helps us to recruit, orient, train and recognize Speakers Bureau volunteers and publicize the availability of this valuable and free community education resource.

$3,500    Provides the necessary training of up to 20 course leaders for our Arthritis Foundation land and warm water exercise program known as The Life Improvement Series, held in 70 Northern California sites.

$5,000    Underwrites continuing education activities for our Life Improvement Series certified leaders/instructors.

$7,500    Allows the Chapter to annually reach out to 70 health fairs and seminars and supports our Information & Referral Service in response to the over 30,000 annual requests.

$10,000    Underwrites 2 years of 200 + free exercise classes developed by the Arthritis Foundation and the Center for Disease Control.  

$15,000    Provides stipends and lab fees for our 8 High School Summer Science Interns working at Stanford and UCSF.

$25,000    Helps us provide one year of awareness and outreach to seniors with our Physical Activity Campaign, encouraging exercise in the treatment of arthritis.

$40,000    Educates Northern California rheumatologists, orthopedic surgeons and researchers on cutting edge information on research and treatments for arthritis and autoimmune related diseases through our prestigious Knowles Lecture.

$50,000    Helps provide the requisite matching funds for a $250,000 grant given by an anonymous donor to support our Life Improvement Series.

The Arthritis Foundation, Northern California Chapter is an I.R.C. 501(c)(3) public charity and California non-profit public benefit corporation.   Tax ID # 94-1212126