Imagine a world without heart disease or stroke. Many say this is unattainable, considering heart disease kills more Americans than the next four leading causes of death combined. But this vision — for a world free of heart disease and stroke — drives the lifesaving mission of the American Heart Association. Open Your Heart gives donors the opportunity to make a direct impact on the AHA’s mission by making a personal gift.
Your generosity enables the American Heart Association to fund groundbreaking research, develop guidelines to improve patient care and help people lower their risk factors for heart disease and stroke. As long as heart disease continues to be the nation’s No. 1 cause of death, the importance of our work will only grow.
Research is only one way that your gift can make a difference. Your gifts can also impact your community locally through our national wellness initiative, Healthy For Good, locally sponsored by Mercy Medical Center and nationally sponsored by Subway. Ways that you can get involved:
- Sign up for Healthy for Good at https://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/HealthyLiving/GettingHealthy_UCM_001078_SubHomePage.jsp
- Share the healthy living tips you discover with your family, friends, co-workers, and anyone you meet in all of your walks of life.
- Encourage your HR department to contact Nicole Freeman Nicole.freeman@heart.org and learn more about how Healthy for Good can be used to supplement your company's wellness program. The program can be customized to impact wellness for anywhere from 1-12 months based upon your company's goals.
- Volunteer. Contact Nicole and ask how you can get involved in areas of your interest to make a difference in your local community.
Please consider making a gift to Open Your Heart.
Together, we can change lives and saves lives!