What's New
AFTD Invests $2.5 Million in ADDF’s Diagnostics Accelerator Program to Develop FTD Biomarkers
Leveraging generous support from our donors, AFTD’s FTD Biomarkers Initiative is expanding. We are investing $2.5MM in the Diagnostics Accelerator program, an initiative announced earlier this year by the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF) with initial funding from Bill Gates,…
2020 AFTD Annual Education Conference
AFTD’s 2020 Annual Education Conference will be held in Baltimore, MD, on Friday, April 17, 2020. Stay tuned to AFTD’s website, Twitter and Facebook for more details!
Philadelphia Marathon
Join select AFTD staff and members of the local community as we bring greater FTD awareness to the surrounding Philadelphia area and raise funds to help people affected by FTD. The AFTD-Team will participate in the Philadelphia Marathon on November…
AFTD’s 2019 Hope Rising Benefit
AFTD’s 2019 Hope Rising Benefit will be held on October 23 at the Pierre Hotel in New York City. Reserve your ticket by following this link.
Food for Thought 2019
Food for Thought is a grassroots fundraising and awareness campaign focusing on food and FTD education. Held the last week of September through the first week of October, FFT encompasses World FTD Awareness Week. During this time, people across the…
World FTD Awareness Week 2019
World FTD Awareness Week, a week of events, activism and engagement, is organized each year by World FTD United, an international coalition of which AFTD is a member.
3rd Annual Crusade for a Cure Golf Tournament
Midwest Regional Coordinator, Deb Scharper, will host the 3rd Annual Crusade for a Cure Golf Tournament on August 31, 2019 to benefit AFTD Research. The tournament will be held at Sunny Brae Golf Course (Osage, IA) and will feature a…
2nd Annual Buffalo Trace Charity Open
The 2nd Annual Buffalo Trace Charity Open will be held on August 24, 2019 at the Colorado National Golf Club. The event includes 18 holes of golf, bourbon tastings with Buffalo Trace Bourbon Ambassador, auction for rare bottles of bourbon…
Spotlight on… Kimberly Pang Torres, AFTD Board of Directors
Jackie Pang was diagnosed with FTD in 2017, less than a year after her daughter, Kimberly Pang Torres, first noticed changes in her behavior. The diagnosis understandably rattled the family: “We knew this was not going to be a good…
Giving a Hand to Our Helping Hands!
AFTD Volunteers: Kati Woodford and Marlene McKian AFTD offers a young-adult Facebook group for people in their 20s and 30s who have a family member or loved one with FTD. This group is “secret,” meaning it cannot be found through…
Your Support Brings Help and Hope…
“What a hopeful day…I’m left with the image of so many families who you brought together sitting out on that sunny patio finding connection and support in one another…” 2019 AFTD Education Conference Attendee An FTD diagnosis can take years…