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Will A. Kuipers wrote: > > Laura Wallencheck writes: > > <My family has received many generous tributes to honor my mother who died > <Sunday. > > <Can anyone suggest here or by private note which of the three main PD > <organizations best serves the interests of PD patients and research? We > <particularly want the largest portion of each dollar to be spent on > <providing services/research and =not= on administration/administrators. > > <Our candidates are: > < American Parkinson Disease Association > < National Parkinson Foundation > < Parkinson's Disease Foundation > > <Many thanks, > > < ljw > > Dear Laura, > > My sincere condolances on your loss. > Not to disparage the excellent organizations on your list, I nevertheless would > like to mention the organization that I have been a member of since I was > diagnosed. I find that it gets very little mention, maybe because it does not > spend money for purposes of publicity. Possibly for that reason they also don't > have an 800 number. > Until I found out about this ListServ, their excellent quarterly newsletter was > almost the only source of PD information I had. > This organization is: > > United Parkinson Foundation > 833 West Washington Boulevard > Chicago, Illinois 60607 > 312 / 733-1893 > > This may make a choice more difficult, since I don't have a way to compare, but > I would like to urge consideration of my suggestion. > > Will A. Kuipers ( 75 / dx '91 ) > INTERNET:[log in to unmask] This is also my favorite (UPF) because of the many research reports in each issue. ---Milo