Firefighters launch virtual fundraiser for Muscular Dystrophy
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From staff reports
ALBANY – As the COVID-19 pandemic affects communities across the United States, it has also impacted in-person fundraising for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. For 66 years, firefighters have collected critical funds in the community – one dollar at a time – as part of the “Fill the Boot” program. But this year, due to social distancing, that’s not possible.
This summer, the Albany Fire Department’s Fill the Boot campaign will be conducted virtually at illtheboot. donordrive.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive. participant&participant ID=5294 or by texting “BOOT to 24325.
Donations collected by AFD and Professional Fire Fighters of Albany will help meet the urgent need for MDA’s Frontline COVID-19 Emergency Fund to continue services for people with neuromuscular diseases living in our community and across the country.
For six decades, firefighters have been at intersections across America with their fire boots to collect donations for MDA, but the COVID pandemic and social distancing make that an impossibility. Virtual Fill the Boot will let our firefighters continue to collect to help MDA meet their vital mission of finding treatment and cures for muscular dystrophy, ALS and other neuromuscular diseases.
Donate at filltheboot.donordrive.com/index.cfm? fuseaction=donorDrive.participant&participant ID=5294 or text “BOOT” to 24325. Follow @MDAorg on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
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