Thanks to the commitment of our corporate partners who are sponsoring MS Awareness Week. With their support, we are Moving It even faster toward a world free of MS.
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Biogen Idec, makers of Avonex® and Tysabri®, is one of the Society’s longtime supporters. The company is actively involved both nationally and with chapters, through education and awareness programs including Knowledge Is Power, MS Workplace, and the Professional Resource Center. Biogen Idec is a key partner on the MS Awareness Week campaign helping the Society “get the word out” about MS nationally. |
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Clear Channel's support of the National MS Society and raising awareness for MS spans many years and includes donated advertising time and creative expertise, as well as personal involvement from employees across the company. As a national media partner for the Society’s annual MS Awareness Week campaign, Clear Channel has committed millions of dollars in time and talent to the MS cause. Further, Clear Channel has a dedicated cycling team of employees who have raised over a half million dollars for the MS movement by participating in Bike MS events around the country. The commitment of Clear Channel’s people to the communities in which they live and work is exemplified by the company’s President and Chief Financial Officer, Randall Mays, who rides every year in his local Bike MS ride. |
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Developers Diversified, the nation’s leading owner, developer and manager of community shopping centers, has been a key partner in the annual MS Awareness Week campaign for several years. They displayed campaign signs, door clings and brochures in all of their centers nationwide, while also holding awareness raising events at many properties. Additionally, Developers Diversified Realty is a national sponsor of the Society’s student scholarship program, which provides support to families impacted by MS. |
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EMD Serono and Pfizer are longtime supporters of the Society, sponsoring education programs and initiatives, including MS Awareness Week and the Society’s new e-communication strategy. Additionally, EMD Serono and Pfizer have continued to partner with the Society on a webcast series for young adults living with MS called “Real Talk, Real Answers: Living with MS in Your 20s and 30s." |
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Genentech has been an important part of the MS movement for nearly a decade. Genentech has supported the Society by sponsoring a variety of educational and awareness campaigns concerning primary-progressive MS, as well as a unique project called Quality Indicators in Health Care, led by the Society’s own research team. |
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Teva Neuroscience, which makes Copaxone®, is an active partner with the Society at both the national and chapter levels. These initiatives have focused on patient and caregiver information resources, professional education, studies on trends in managed care, and the newly launched MS Learn Online. In addition, Teva’s teams raised over $380,000 for the Society this year. |
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Vitamin Shoppe, one of the nation’s leading vitamin and nutrition supplement retail stores, is a longtime partner of the MS Awareness Week campaign. Their stores around the country hang door clings promoting the campaign in hundreds of locations. Team Vitamin Shoppe also participates in Bike MS and Walk MS events in dozens of locations and continues to Move It closer to a world free of MS. |
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Westfield Shopping Centers, with dozens of locations throughout the country, have supported the National MS Society for many years. They continue to participate in the annual MS Awareness Campaign by displaying campaign signs and brochures in their shopping malls. In 2007 Team Westfield was formed as an official national Walk MS team, and raised over $50,000. They also initiated a series of joint promotional events with the Society including the "Westfield Works Wonders" shopping event, MS team captain rallies and special MS awareness programs. |