{"id":13588,"date":"2021-11-19T12:10:40","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T20:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mr66givry2.onrocket.site\/?p=13588"},"modified":"2026-01-01T12:11:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T20:11:30","slug":"2021-virtual-gala-was-spectacular-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myotonic.org\/de\/2021-virtual-gala-was-spectacular-success\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2021 Virtual Gala was a Spectacular Success!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"date-of-publication\"><strong>MDF is thrilled to announce that our biggest fundraising event of the year has raised over $1,000,000 to help fund critical programs and services for individuals and families living with myotonic dystrophy!<\/strong>\u00a0A special thank you to all of our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/myotonic.ejoinme.org\/MyEvents\/MDF2021VirtualGala\/Thankyou\/tabid\/1248453\/Default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gala Donors and Sponsors<\/a>\u00a0who have helped advance\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.myotonic.org\/myotonic-dystrophy-foundation-mission\">MDF&#8217;s mission<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0<strong>Community<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Care<\/strong>, and a\u00a0<strong>Cure<\/strong>. We are truly\u00a0in awe\u00a0of your incredible\u00a0generosity and support!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>We would like to extend a huge thank you to our incredible Co-Chairs of the 2021 Virtual Gala: Martha Montag Brown, Erica Kelly,\u00a0Leslie Lynch &amp; Elizabeth Florence! With the assistance of our Special Projects Manager, Kate Beck, these passionate women were able to organize and execute our most successful fundraising event\u00a0in MDF\u00a0history \u2013 and all through the uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic!<\/p>\n<p>We hope you had an unforgettable evening and thank you\u00a0for taking us one step further on our journey to empower our community, improve care, and drive research to a cure!<\/p>\n<p>Couldn\u2019t make it to the Gala but still want to contribute? It\u2019s not too late!\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.myotonic.org\/donate-towards-myotonic-dystrophy-care-and-cure\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to Donate now!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Save the Date for the 2022\u00a0MDF Gala!<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.myotonic.org\/2022-mdf-gala\">We hope you can join us on\u00a0Thursday, October 20th, 2022\u00a0at Sony Hall in New York City.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-sm-6 col-md-6 col-lg-4\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/myotonic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/erica-jeremy.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-sm-6 col-md-6 col-lg-4\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/myotonic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/full-team.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-sm-6 col-md-6 col-lg-4\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/myotonic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_20211022_161034.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-sm-6 col-md-6 col-lg-4\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/myotonic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/kate-team.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-sm-6 col-md-6 col-lg-4\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/myotonic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Leboeuf.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-sm-6 col-md-6 col-lg-4\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/myotonic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lisa.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-sm-6 col-md-6 col-lg-4\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/myotonic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/monckton.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-sm-6 col-md-6 col-lg-4\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/myotonic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/zan-green.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MDF is thrilled to announce that our biggest fundraising event of the year has raised over $1,000,000 to help fund critical programs and services for individuals and families living with myotonic dystrophy!\u00a0A special thank you to all of our\u00a0Gala Donors and Sponsors\u00a0who have helped advance\u00a0MDF&#8217;s mission\u00a0of\u00a0Community,\u00a0Care, and a\u00a0Cure. We are truly\u00a0in awe\u00a0of your incredible\u00a0generosity and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":13589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sin-categorizar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myotonic.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myotonic.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myotonic.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myotonic.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myotonic.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/myotonic.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myotonic.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myotonic.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myotonic.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myotonic.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}