Together, We Will Find a Cure

We Need You

We Can’t Do It Alone.

Your involvement is critical to every effort being made to find a cure for mitochondrial disease. Join the fight by giving your voice, generosity, time or energy. The United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation appreciates your interest in being a part of our community. We can work together to find a cure.

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Your Donations Make a Difference

Financial gifts support multiple programs that can help change the future of mitochondrial disease diagnosis and treatments.

Make a Donation

Make a gift to fuel the UMDF mission.
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Start Workplace Giving

Set up a payroll deduction, match plan or United Way pledge.
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GIVE A GIFT. GET A VOTE.

Join our accelerators program where engaged philanthropists are getting a first-hand look at promising research.
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Consider Planned Giving

Include UMDF in your estate planning to leave a lasting legacy.
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Honor a Loved One

Create a personal fundraising page to celebrate or honor a loved one affected by mitochondrial disease.
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See More Giving Ideas

Perform a simple act that will make a big impact.
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Ways to Fundraise

Get involved by fundraising with family and friends to support mitochondrial disease research, treatments, educational resources and a path to a cure.

Energy For Life

UMDF hosts Energy for Life Walkathons all across the country. Start or join a fundraising team today.

Find a Walk

Activate Your Mitochondria

Turn an athletic activity that gets your mitochondria moving into a fundraiser.

Get Active

DIY Fundraising

Create a web page for your fundraiser to drum up support online and across social media.

Get Started

PARTICIPATE IN AN EVENT

Visit our Events Calendar to support a UMDF fundraiser in your hometown.

Find an Event

Family Impact Funds

Establish a fund to honor or memorialize a loved one affected by mitochondrial disease.

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Our Team is at the Ready

Our special events team is here to help make your fundraising event a success. If you’re looking for more fundraising ideas, check out our “50 Ways to Fundraise” article or call our events team at 888-317-8633 about:

50 Ways to Fundraise

Budgeting guidance and timelines
Custom websites to sell tickets or collect registrations
Ready-to-use sponsorship material

Solicitation letters to collect donations and auction items
Publicity in the UMDF Events Calendar
Targeted email campaigns

Connecting with local families
Writing grants and gathering documentation
Navigating local raffle laws
Protocols for state regulation disclosures

Our Team is at the Ready

Our special events team is here to help make your fundraising event a success. If you’re looking for more fundraising ideas, check out our “50 Ways to Fundraise” article or call our events team at 888-317-8633 about:

Budgeting guidance and timelines
Custom websites to sell tickets or collect registrations
Ready-to-use sponsorship material
Solicitation letters to collect donations and auction items
Publicity in the UMDF Events Calendar
Targeted email campaigns
Connecting with local families
Writing grants and gathering documentation
Navigating local raffle laws
Protocols for state regulation disclosures

50 Ways to Fundraise

Participate in Research

Patients, family members and caregivers can help the global mitochondrial disease community by participating in research efforts.

labs funded across the globe

Join mitoSHARE: Mitochondrial Disease Registry

Help advance the development of treatments and cures.

Sign Up

Enroll in a Clinical Trial to Help Fuel the Research for a Cure

See if you’re eligible to participate in clinical studies.

Get Started

Volunteer

Join the fight by volunteering your time and talents to helping the cause. Because we can’t do it alone. Each year, UMDF honors the dedication of our volunteers. Nominate an individual for a UMDF Volunteer Award here.

support ambassadors deployed across the U.S.

Be a UMDF Volunteer or Ambassador

We count on UMDF volunteers every day, including our nationwide network of Support Ambassadors.

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Be an Advocate for Better Funding

Use your voice to impact legislation affecting the mitochondrial community at the federal and state level.

Take Action

Double Your Impact

See if your company matches your volunteer service hours!

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UMDF has been a light in our life. They have supported my family in so many ways and have offered so much hope to me and to thousands of mito families.

Hayley Leib

UMDF Ambassador

As an ambassador for the UMDF, I hope to give back what brought me back to life, understanding, empathy, encouragement, and hope.

Susan Schreer Davis

UMDF Ambassador

I Want to Volunteer

From fundraising and administrative duties to educating patient families, volunteers and Support Ambassadors are valuable assets to UMDF. Please complete the form below to request information and get started!