Ice Bucket Challenge Gallery
Coeur d'Alene Press | UPDATED 10 years, 8 months AGO
<p>Department heads and residents at North Star Retirement Community in Coeur d'Alene got soaked for ALS Wednesday. Sitting from left to right: Lori Bowman, Jamie Church, Whitney Frazier, Tambra Maple, Chef James Mitchell, Christie Robinson, Rex Atkinson and Gail Wallace-Wolk.</p>
<p>Employees of Coeur d'Alene's Advanced Benefits office in west Riverstone, take the ALS ice bucket challenge</p>
<p>Century 21 Beutler agents and staff accepted the ALS ice bucket challenge from their broker, John Beutler.</p><p>In turn, they have challenged Coldwell Banker Schneidmiller agents and staff.</p><p>Pictured: Nicole Walls, Taylor Fore, Jenna DeLong, Kelly Bender, Angie O’Steen, Walt Wardak, Roland Mueller, Michael Wendland, Cole Turnbull, Kelsey Hood, Duane Oliver, Kayci Sampson, Tami Nearing, Kelly Tuntland, Mark Parisot, Kurt Lundblad, Bud Sbicca Back: Jared McFarland</p>
<p>From the Kootenai County Sheriff's Office's Facebook page:</p><p>The Sheriff's Office took on the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge at the Kootenai County Fair. The ice water flowed over numerous deputies, including Sheriff Wolfinger, who got doused with several buckets.</p>
<p>The team at Rehabilitation Hospital of the Northwest in Post Falls took the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge on Tuesday. </p>
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Has your organization taken the chilly challenge?
The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge - which took off July 29 - isn't just filling social media feeds with video footage of people dumping buckets of ice water on their heads.
It's raised nearly a billion dollars for the nonprofit ALS Foundation.
Here's the latest Ice Bucket Challenge update from the organization:
As of Wednesday, August 27, The ALS Association has received $94.3 million in donations compared to $2.7 million during the same time period last year (July 29 to August 27). These donations have come from existing donors and 2.1 million new donors. The ALS Association is tremendously thankful for all of the generous support and awareness that this summer phenomenon has generated for the cause.
“The ALS Association has been given a great deal of money and with that comes tremendous responsibility,” said Barbara Newhouse, President and CEO of The ALS Association. “We are absolutely committed to transparency and will be communicating regularly with the ALS community, our donors, the media and the public about progress to invest these dollars wisely in areas that will have maximum impact on the fight against this devastating disease.”
The ALS Association’s mission includes providing care services to assist people with ALS and their families through a network of chapters working in communities across the nation and a global research program focused on the discovery of treatments and eventually a cure for the disease. In addition, The Association’s advocacy efforts empower people to advance public policies in our nation’s Capital that respond to the needs of people with ALS.
For inquiries regarding the use of these funds or other information about the Ice Bucket Challenge, please emailinquiries@alsa-national.org.
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Send your ice bucket challenge photos of groups of 10 or more and donation information to City Editor Maureen Dolan at mdolan@cdapress.com
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