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Fundraiser

2015 Spring Benefit Concert raises more than $25,000

Posted on May 8, 2015

The Friends of the Waisman Center held its 20th annual benefit concert on Friday, May 1. This was a milestone event celebrating not only the 20th concert, but also the 40th anniversary of the Friends of the Waisman Center.

Posted in 2015, Friends, OutreachTagged Friends of the Waisman Center, Fundraiser, Spring Concert

Holiday cards for autism 2014

Posted on November 13, 2014

Giizhik Klawiter has autism and began drawing at six years old as a therapeutic outlet. For the last five years, Giizhik and his brother Mino have designed holiday greeting cards and sold them in their …

Posted in 2014, Autism, NewsTagged Autism, Fundraiser, Giizhik Klawiter

Busta benefit has record-setting year, generates $55,000

Posted on December 3, 2013

The 11th annual David Busta Basketball Tournament and Silent Auction once again proved successful as the benefit attracted many families, friends and community members to the Chetek-Weyerhaeuser High School Saturday, Nov. 30. After raising $26,000 …

Posted in 2013, News, Stem Cells, YearTagged David Busta, Fundraiser, Spinal Cord Injury, Stem Cells, Su-Chun Zhang

Giizhik’s holiday cards for autism research available

Posted on October 30, 2013

Giizhik Klawiter has autism and began drawing at six years old as a therapeutic outlet. For the last five years, Giizhik and his brother Mino have designed holiday greeting cards and sold them in their …

Posted in 2013, Autism, News, YearTagged Fundraiser, Giizhik Klawiter

Boy with autism funds research with hand-drawn holiday cards

Posted on December 12, 2012

Giizhik Klawiter has never been so much as a visitor to the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Waisman Center, but the 10-year-old boy with autism from Hayward, Wis., is one of the most faithful supporters of the center’s developmental disabilities research.

Posted in 2012, Autism, NewsTagged Fundraiser, Giizhik Klawiter

Dylan’s Run/Walk for Autism

Posted on September 15, 2011

Over two thousand people participated in Dylan’s Run on September 11th, 2011 in Milwaukee.

Posted in 2011, News, OutreachTagged Fundraiser

Spanish mother’s search leads to the Waisman Center

Posted on October 31, 2008

“Don’t give up, my love, or I’ll give up with you, because I only live to see the fulfillment of this dream: that you may continue to live. Yours is a life sentence, not a death sentence.”

Posted in 2008, Neurodegenerative, News, Research, WoWTagged Albee Messing, Alexander disease, Fundraiser, Juanma

Grad Raises Money For Research

Posted on December 12, 2004

$20,000 Will Go Toward Stem-cell Research Karen Rivedal, Wisconsin State Journal UW-Madison’s Waisman Center will get about $20,000 to help pay for stem-cell research from a fund-raiser organized by a UW-Madison graduate who was paralyzed …

Posted in 2004, News, Outreach, Research, Stem CellsTagged David Busta, Fundraiser, Spinal Cord Injury

Evening of Hope Benefits ALS Research at the Waisman Center . . .

Posted on June 10, 2003

Proceeds of $105,000 from the Evening of Hope, a fund raiser held in Milwaukee earlier this year, will support the ALS research of Clive Svendsen, Ph.D., a UW-Madison professor of neurology and anatomy and an …

Posted in 2003, News, Outreach, Research, Stem CellsTagged Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Evening of Hope, Fundraiser, Jeff Kaufman
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