Gifts help the North Central States Chapter fund programs that keep people with MS moving. These include educational programs, maintaining a lending library, financial assistance, scholarships, research towards a cure and many more. 83 cents of every dollar you give goes directly back to people affected by MS. Giving is one way you can join the movement.
Donate
Give a one-time general gift or a reoccuring monthly gift.
Tributes and Memorials
Gifts in memory or in honor of a loved one. See recent gifts received.
- Give a one-time gift.
- Create a Fund with a personalized web page that lets others make donations on their behalf.
- Donate to an existing Fund.
- Thank you to our supporters.
Learn more about creating a Tribute Fund (PDF)
Pledge
Sponsor a fundraising event participant.
Planned Giving
Gifts through a bequest, a charitable gift annuity, trusts, and other estate plans.
Workplace Giving
Sign up to have a portion of your salary dedicated to creating a world free of MS.
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The National MS Society is well-respected for its fiscal responsibility, its sensitivity to donor requests, and its responsiveness to the individual needs of the more than one million people it serves each year.
The National MS Society addresses the challenges of each person affected by MS by funding cutting edge research, driving change through advocacy, facilitating professional education, collaborating with MS organizations around the world, and providing programs and services designed to help people with MS and their families move their lives forward.
In 2007 alone, through our national office and 50 state network of chapters, the National MS Society devoted over $136 million to programs that enhanced more than one million lives. To move us closer to a world free of MS, the Society also invested over $50 million to support 440 research projects around the world.
The combined financial statements for the Society (chapters and the national office) indicate that it costs the Society about 15 cents to raise a dollar and that 22% of the Society’s income is invested in support services such as fund raising and Society management. General guidelines for non-profit organizations stipulate that fund raising costs should not exceed 35% of related contributions, and that total fund raising and administrative costs should not exceed 50% of total income.
*View the national and consolidated reports.
There are many organizations that monitor non-profit groups and the Society meets or exceeds the standards of each of them. Because individual rating organizations have different sets of criteria that they use to rate non-profits, and many charities’ structures don’t fit neatly into these criteria, it often becomes difficult to consistently rate across these various groups as well as to evaluate these rating group reports. For example, some rating systems consider having a reserve equal to a year’s operating expenses. At the Society, we believe that six months of reserves are adequate and allow for funding promising research and better serving the needs of people with MS.
The Society meets and exceeds all standards set forth by the Better Business Bureau a letter dated September 2007 from the Bureau confirms that the Society has received the highest ratings possible as set forth by the Better Business Bureau. This approval is valid thru September 2009.