Meet Our Partners

Transformer

$5 million+ annually

CITGO

CITGO, corporately based in Houston, TX, is a refiner, transporter and marketer of transportation fuels, lubricants, petrochemicals and other industrial products. As MDA’s largest corporate sponsor, CITGO raises funds in a variety of ways, including golf events, galas and the iconic MDA Shamrocks fundraising campaign. Since 1986, CITGO employees, and its Marketers have raised more than $200 million to help find treatments and cures, rally communities and support families with services like MDA Care Centers, MDA Summer Camps and support groups.

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International Association of Fire Fighters

The International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) is the driving force behind nearly every advance in the fire and emergency services, representing more than 303,000 full-time professional fire fighters and paramedics in more than 3,200 affiliates. As MDA’s largest national partner, IAFF members support this lifesaving mission in many ways, including their dedicated involvement in MDA’s signature Fill the Boot program. We are grateful to all the devoted IAFF members who go above and beyond the call of duty to help families in hometowns across America live longer and grow stronger.

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Visionary

$1 million+ annually

Harley-Davidson

Since 1980, Harley-Davidson Motor Co. continues its rich relationship with MDA through its values of independence and corporate responsibility and its long-standing alliance to help MDA families live longer and grow stronger. The Harley-Davidson family of dealers, customers, employees, suppliers and H.O.G. chapters have raised more than $100 million for MDA. Each year, riders visit MDA Summer Camps to give side-car rides to the kids and help make their camp experience one to remember.

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Acosta

Acosta is the sales and marketing powerhouse behind most of the trusted brands seen in stores every day. In 1985, when an Acosta associate discovered that his son had muscular dystrophy, the company created the Aisles of Smiles program to support MDA.

Aisles of Smiles is a top sales and marketing program that brings together grocery retailers, top consumer brands, and valued customers to support MDA's mission and families through the simple act of grocery shopping. Since 1985, Acosta has raised more than $82 million for MDA through Aisles of Smiles and special events.

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Dutch Bros

Each May, coffee giant Dutch Bros hosts its annual Drink One for Dane campaign. For one day, Dutch Bros donates proceeds from the sales at all locations to MDA in support of ALS research and family services. Drink One for Dane will always be a way the Dutch Bros family honors its late co-founder, Dane Boersma, who passed away from ALS in 2009. Since 2007, over $7.5 million has been raised in Dane’s memory. Cheers to the Wiseman!

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Albertsons

Albertsons Companies and the Albertsons Companies Foundation continues its over 20 year tradition of putting muscle behind MDA’s mission and the families it serves. The Albertsons Companies Foundation, which includes Safeway, ACME Markets, Shaw’s, Star Markets, Tom Thumb and Randalls, shows its dedicated support through in-store fundraising campaigns. Albertsons Companies’ stores provide the opportunity to mobilize funding and create awareness in neighborhoods through the generous contributions by their customers, their employees' passion and partnerships with vendors.

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NALC

The National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) is the representing union of 277,000 professional letter carriers of the United States Postal Service who deliver mail to homes and businesses across the U.S. Pledging its support to MDA back in 1952, the NALC represents one of MDA’s first national sponsoring organizations. Since that time, the NALC has remained faithful to its commitment to support MDA’s mission, raising over a million dollars each year and organizing countless special events, including Bowl-a-Thons, Satchel Drives, MDA Muscle Walks, letter writing campaigns and more.

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Leader

$500k — $1M annually

7-Eleven

A classic part of this country’s retail landscape, 7-Eleven is a part of the lives of many Americans. Since 1980, 7-Eleven has been a vital member of the MDA family as well – as a national MDA sponsor. With more than 7,400 store locations nationwide, 7-Eleven shares the MDA mission to their guests through MDA Shamrocks and an MDA Summer Camp promotion. The tradition has continued for more than four decades, as thousands of 7-Eleven franchisees and employees work together with their guests to save and improve the lives of kids and adults with muscular dystrophy.

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Burn Boot Camp

Burn Boot Camp’s company mission is to transform lives and communities through challenging 45-minute cardio and strength workouts. Each year, the “Be Their Muscle” campaign is a day dedicated to raise funds for MDA at Burn Boot Camp locations around the country. This event is designed to give children with muscular dystrophy and related neuromuscular diseases the opportunity to participate in a physical fitness activity and become part of the Burn family. Funds raised provide programming options and activities which promote youth development, risk-taking and exposure to new experiences for the hundreds of children who attend MDA Summer Camp.

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Eastern Harley-Davidson Dealer Association

The Eastern Harley-Davidson Dealer Association (EHDDA) is an association of Harley-Davidson dealers who bring centuries of accumulated knowledge of the Harley Davidson brand and experience. The EHDDA is focused on providing H-D rider experiences of the highest level of integrity, and brings the riding public together with its dealers for a number of charitable causes, including MDA.

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Jiffy Lube

Participating Jiffy Lube service centers across the U.S. show their strength during the month of August as they ‘Drive to Do More’ for MDA. Customers who donate $3 to MDA, receive a savings book containing over $100 in discount coupons. 100 percent of the proceeds benefit MDA’s efforts to find treatments and cures as well as send children to MDA summer camp. Jiffy Lube doesn’t just change oil – they change lives!

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MDA Ride for Life

In a field 33 years ago, the Eastern Harley-Davidson Dealers Association (EHDDA) decided to do something about the neuromuscular disorders that were claiming the physical strength, independence, and lives of people all over the country and the world. They didn’t know then that the event they created would span three decades, host over 50,000 participants and – most importantly – raise over $25 million dollars to fight degenerative muscle diseases. In 2017 for the first time the event was relocated to western Pennsylvania because of the support of the Western PA Harley-Davidson Dealers Association and their participants. Over the years Ride for Life has become the world’s largest Harley-Davidson fundraising event to benefit MDA. Each Ride for Life event brings riders and H.O.G. Chapter members together, partnering them with families and kids living with neuromuscular diseases. The weekend-long celebration is the culmination of the year of fundraising by Harley-Davidson dealerships; it’s a chance for MDA Ambassadors to be rock starts and for client families to spend an unforgettable, action-packed weekend with friends and supports.

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