Join other influential community and business leaders and enjoy a wonderful event to celebrate the lives of loved ones impacted by dementia and raise funds to underwrite the Alzheimer’s Association’s support, education, advocacy and research initiatives.
You will enjoy an elegant, black-tie optional evening at uptown’s The Westin Charlotte that features a welcome reception, seated dinner, powerful mission moments, auction, as well as, dancing and live entertainment.
CHARLOTTE MEMORY GALA
Saturday, May 18, 2024
6:00-11:00 p.m.
The Westin Charlotte
Introducing the 2024 Award of Excellence Honorees – Fowler Family & Friends
The Fowler Family and Friends are the 2024 Award of Excellence Honorees recognizing their outstanding efforts in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease. Their passion for the cause is especially personal in that after their mother Pauline passed away from Alzheimer’s disease, additional family history research determined each generation had multiple cases of the disease diagnosed including theirs. The high prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease within the family led them to become involved in the Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer’s Network (DIAN) study , which works to identify families that carry gene mutations for younger-onset Alzheimer’s disease and involve them in drug and observational studies. Subsequently, all three sisters were tested for the dominantly inherited gene that causes younger-onset Alzheimer’s disease. Two of the three sisters carry the gene which means they will develop Alzheimer’s disease – the question is when. Their journey was chronicled in this national NPR Story . Through developing their mother’s hobby of canning jam into a fundraiser for the Alzheimer’s Association’s The Longest Day campaign, the Mountain Jammers, as they are now known, were born. This broad, but tight knit group of friends and family have acted as fundraisers, volunteers and donors to Association chapters in the Midwest and here in North Carolina. Their involvement has included conducting their own fundraising activities — to leading teams for Walk to End Alzheimer’s — to being active committee members for the Association. To date, the Fowler family has raised an estimated $150,000 to move our mission forward and has no plans to stop these activities before a cure is found.
Visit CharlotteMemoryGala.org to reserve your tables (of eight guests) now for early bird rates, as they expire February 28!
Special Pricing for Young Professionals (YPs): A limited number of tickets/tables are available at a young professional rate for individuals 35 years or younger. The deadline in which to secure YP seating is February 28, 2024. Please contact Sally Kay sfkay@alz.org or (980) 498-7733 for details.
For more information on patron opportunities, tables and tickets, contact:
Sally Kay, Gala Director | sfkay@alz.org | (980) 498-7733
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