ALS ACV 2014 Final. ALS 2014 Pre Video. Striking Out ALS: Ice Bucket Challenge Brings Flood of Donations. If you’ve logged onto Facebook, Twitter or Instagram this week, chances are your newsfeeds have been flooded with videos of people dumping buckets of ice water on their heads.
No, your friends aren’t doing this to cool down from hot summer temperatures. The challenge is a viral movement called the “Ice Bucket Challenge” designed to raise awareness for Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease. The challenge started in Massachusetts with former Boston College baseball player Pete Frates, who was diagnosed with the disease in 2012.
Ice Bucket Challenge Leads To 1,000% Spike In Donations To ALS Association. BOSTON (AP) — The idea is simple: Take a bucket of ice water, dump it over your head, record it and post the video on social media.
It's cold, it's fun and it's contagious. But these ice bucket challenges and similar social media-powered stunts also are raising awareness and money for causes such as Lou Gehrig's disease, breast cancer and a camp for kids who have lost their fathers to war. Martha Stewart has been doused. So has Matt Lauer. And pro golfer Greg Norman. The fundraising phenomenon asks those willing to douse themselves to challenge others to do the same within 24 hours. The months-old movement has taken the Boston area by storm over the last 10 days, since friends and relatives of former Boston College baseball player Pete Frates used it to raise awareness about Lou Gehrig's disease. On Thursday, his parents, Nancy and John Frates, joined 200 people who doused themselves in Copley Square. ALS - Lou Gehrig's disease. A Day In Our Life With ALS. Facts About Als.
We have seen a lot of celebrities doing the Ice Bucket Challenge by soaking their self in cold icy water!
People being involved in this will do the challenge or else make a donation to ALS Foundation that fights against Lou Gehrig’s disease. There are a lot of celebrities we have seen doing this challenge. Most of them are the famous stars and athletes like Lebron James, Marks Zuckerberg, Chris Pratt, Lady Gaga, The Rock, Bill Gates and more. Even the President Barack Obama was also being challenged but refused to do so. There are a lot of questions in our mind by the time we have watched it for the first time. 1. 2. 3. Here is the video that will tell you facts about this latest trend! This Man Has ALS, And His Ice Bucket Challenge Will Make You Laugh. Then It'll Make You Cry. Over the last few weeks, social media has gone berserk with the #ALSIceBucketChallenge, as celebrities, tech moguls, politicians, and people everywhere grab buckets of ice water and dump them on their heads — all in the name of raising awareness for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease.
You can help here. Story continues below. There's been such a deluge of videos made of these ice bucket challenges (some of which have been hilarious, others more serious) that you might be tempted to skip this new video that was uploaded Monday by a man named Anthony Carbajal. But as Upworthy put it, this is one clip that “you really should see. " The video begins humorously as Carbajal, a photographer, dresses up in a neon bikini top and soaps up a car before being doused with ice water. But the clip, at around the two-minute mark, takes a somber turn as Carbajal explains why he chose to take the challenge. Please do. What An ALS Family REALLY Thinks About the Ice Bucket Challenge. Well, we are on week two of the very-viral very-everywhere ALS ice bucket challenge.
I know, I know, I can hear the groans…it started out cute and now it’s out-of-control. Played. Clogging up social media sites everywhere. I even read this charming article in which the author called the challenge (that has raised an unprecedented amount of money for one of the most outrageously underfunded diseases) a waste of fresh water. Another headlined whined, “Is the Ice Bucket Challenge Going to Cure ALS?” I get that they’re cranky, but I think maybe they don’t realize what it’s like to face this insidious disease and then realize that it’s nearly invisible to the rest of the world. Because here’s the deal: We are in for the fight of our lives with this monster, and the very LAST thing I want is for people to give quietly, anonymously, and then slink away.
So, fear not, dear reader, this too shall pass and your Facebook newsfeed will go back to cat videos and kids singing Let It Go. P.S. Fb thank you dad. Fb video pic. Cincinnati Walk: Kids4Cure - Walk to Defeat ALS® With our Mom, Lorri.
Kids4Cure Thank you for coming to our Kids4Cure page. Gifts to The ALS Association - The ALS Association. Video Hub. Kreg Palko. Why This Matters. A minute and a half video of dad and I is all of a sudden plastered all over the internet.
At first we were excited about getting 100 likes on Facebook and having people call us out in their videos, then a few days later dad bursts into tears because he sees his face and his message on the Huffington Post. The ice bucket challenge is social media activism reaching unprecedented levels, and I’m witnessing it all first hand. Not only are ALS organizations across the nation receiving massive increases in donations, but the Palko family is as well. Complete and total strangers are reaching into their pockets to help out a family they don’t even know. Strangers are reading this right now because of the amazing power of social media. Before all of this social media madness, I didn’t know anybody else in my shoes. Now what would the internet be without comments of criticism?
Here in the Palko house we have good days and bad days, just like everybody else. #tbt. The Best Ice Bucket Challenge Yet [VIDEO]