Virtual Advocacy Day A Success!

As part of our first ever Virtual Advocacy day, more than 230 e-mails were sent through the Society’s website encouraging legislators to adopt a state budget that addresses the needs of individuals living with chronic illnesses and disabilities. Specific requests addressed maintaining appropriations for the Home and Community Block Grant which funds in-home and community-based services and the North Carolina Housing Trust Fund for additional independent and supportive-living apartments for people with disabilities. These emails reached eighty-eight of our state legislators at a time when they most needed to be reminded about MS needs.

Thank you to everyone that contacted their legislators and made Advocacy Day a success. Your help is invaluable to us in increasing the impact of MS Activists across the state.

Report ranks N.C. 7th in NIH funding

A recent study by Families USA, a group dedicated to affordable health care for Americans, found that North Carolina ranked seventh nationally in NIH grants in 2007, totalling $1 billion. Most of that money is spent at research universities in the Triangle. The report is part of an ongoing effort by universities and health care groups to pressure Congress to increase NIH funding. This report is especially relevent as the NIH is expected to reduce funding for MS research.

To read more about this issue, follow this link.

MS Virtual Advocacy Day!

The North Carolina chapters of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society are holding their first ever Virtual Advocacy Day tomorrow, June 17th. We are asking MS Activists from all across the state to email and call their legislators to encourage them to support a state budget that addresses the health care needs of individuals living with chronic illnesses and disabilities. This is also a good opportunity to share with your legislator your personal story about living with MS, and ask them to support MS priorities in the future.

Please follow the link below to find information about who your legislators are, learn how to join the Action Alert network, and take action to give a voice to the hundreds of people living with MS in North Carolina today!

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