Sentences with phrase «awareness ice bucket challenge»

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A look at this week's ice bucket challenges to raise awareness and donations for the ALS Association.

CNBC's Jon Fortt accepts the ice bucket challenge to raise awareness for ALS, and nominated Michael Dell.

But after a summer of ice bucket challenges, the devastating motor neuron disorder now has an astonishing level of awareness.

The challenge involves people getting doused with buckets of ice water on video, posting that video to social media, then nominating others to do the same, all in an effort to raise ALS awareness.

The aim of the Ice Bucket Challenge is to raise awareness of the neurodegenerative disease, motor neurone disease.

The «Ice Bucket Challenge» is a social - media craze that has swept the nation in raising awareness for ALS,... more

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.

Awareness of MND has spiked in recent times due to the social media campaign supporting the «Ice Bucket Challenge», and the Oscar winning biopic about cosmologist Stephen Hawking, The Theory of Everything.

Bin Bag Challenge - #binbagchallenge We all remember the famous and viral «Ice Bucket Challenge» to raise awareness for the neurodegenerative disease ALS.

Thanks to the viral phenomenon of those ubiquitous ice bucket challenge videos, I think it's safe to say that awareness for ALS is at an all - time high.

And when the Ice Bucket Challenge to promote ALS / MND awareness swept the country, Prof. Hawking took part.

There's been no star - studded telethon, no ironic facial hair campaign aimed at hipsters to raise awareness, no viral ice - bucket challenge videos popping up on social media feeds.

For example, the Ice Bucket Challenge, which raises awareness for ALS, is a great cause and a good way to add some personality to your Facebook presence.

The #ScrapBucketChallenge is imitating the Ice Bucket Challenge: asking participants to dump food scraps on their heads to raise awareness of food waste.

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.

We've seen several celebrities and tech industry leaders like Apple's CEO Tim Cook, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and many more take the Ice Bucket Challenge to raise awareness and donations towards the disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or 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.