Sentences with phrase «ice bucket challenge by»

Kevin Skipworth and David Peerless, broker / owners at Dexter Associates Realty in Vancouver, were nominated to do the Ice Bucket Challenge by Jerry Jackman of Verico Versa Mortgages.

Last week Rogers Insurance was challenged to take part in the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge by Sherif at Sharp Insurance.

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I took the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge last week, after being challenged by a Facebook friend.

The video is part of the Ice Bucket Challenge, launched by the ALS Foundation to raise money for fighting ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.

For example, the ALS Association raised over $ 100 million dollars simply by asking people to dump a bucket of ice water on themselves and to «challenge» their friends to do likewise, all for a social cause.

British model Anara Atanes did the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge on Saturday after being nominated by her boyfriend, Manchester City midfielder Samir Nasri.

Dutch Eredivise outfit PSV Eindhoven accepted rivals Ajax's nomination to take on the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge — and did so in spectacular fashion, by calling in a police water cannon.

Wanting the «next» Ice bucket challenge - hopefully by now the powers that be in our lives finally understand why that isn't a worthy goal to set Vanity metrics - maybe this one is more a prayer but a gal can dream right?

By now most of you will have seen the latest nonprofit fundraising effort to catch the moment and ride a wave of attention, the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge.

A new study by a team of scientists from the University of Malta and the Institut de Génétique Moléculaire de Montpellier (CNRS / Université de Montpellier) could help develop treatment strategies for a crippling disorder that was the focus of the Ice Bucket Challenge, the world's largest global social media phenomenon.

Despite being classified as rare disease, public awareness is very high, fueled by celebrity patients like Stephen Hawking and culminating in last years» Ice Bucket Challenge, the first charity campaign with global impact.

«Global collaboration among scientists, which was really made possible by ALS Ice Bucket Challenge donations, led to this important discovery,» said John Landers of the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

A prime example of the value of «social contagion» effects is illustrated by the 2014 ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, which went into history as one of the largest and most successful online viral social causes.

Now, many months after the Ice Bucket Challenge, the science made possible by a thousand dunks is beginning to take shape.

While people may have written off the «ice bucket challenge», used to raise money and awareness for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) or Lou Gehrig's disease, as just a social media flash in the pan, the money raised by people participating in the challenge and their supporters funded the research that led to the discovery of the gene (NEK1) that causes ALS.

The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is so last week in the celebrity world... now it's all about #FeelingNuts, which raises awareness for testicular cancer by encouraging men to check their testicles for abnormalities.