For more than a decade, in a town in northern Wisconsin, on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, you can guarantee that hundreds of people gather around one cause: finding a cure for spinal cord injuries. The …
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Holiday Cards for Autism 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 …
Busta benefit has record-setting year, generates $55,000
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 …
Giizhik’s holiday cards for autism research available
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 …
Boy with autism funds research with hand-drawn holiday cards
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.
Dylan’s Run/Walk for Autism
Over two thousand people participated in Dylan’s Run on September 11th, 2011 in Milwaukee.
Spanish mother’s search leads to the Waisman Center
“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.”
Grad Raises Money For Research
$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 …
Evening of Hope Benefits ALS Research at the Waisman Center . . .
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 …