Brigance Brigade Foundation is Celebrating 15 years and Kicking Off ALS Awareness Month with its Annual Race for ALS
Oliver & Grimsley, LLC is very honored to sponsor the Brigance Brigade Foundation’s upcoming Race For ALS, which kicks off ALS Awareness Month. This is the 11th annual 5.7k Championship Race and 1.57 Mile Family Run/Walk, which takes place on April 29, 2023, at the Maryland Zoo. We also want to extend our congrats to Brigance Brigade Foundation as they celebrate 15 years in their mission in helping those battling with ALS.
O.J. Brigance is a former NFL football player for the Baltimore Ravens, Super Bowl Champion and currently a Baltimore Ravens executive. Upon O.J.’s diagnosis of ALS in 2007, he and his wife, Chanda Brigance created the Brigance Brigade Foundation which is dedicated to helping those individuals and families who are battling ALS – by providing support and financial grants to assist in increasing access to caregiving services, equipment and home modifications for all accessibility for people living with ALS. The Foundation has been going strong for 15 years in helping those living with ALS.
Happy 15th Year Anniversary Brigance Brigade!! All of us at Oliver & Grimsley are honored to have the opportunity to work with such an amazing organization, and to annually sponsor the Brigance Brigade Foundation’s Race for ALS.
Click on the link for more information on the race!
https://runsignup.com/Race/MD/Baltimore/BriganceBrigade57KChampionshipRace
Bridge the GapSci, LLC is a nonprofit organization that came to fruition in 2015 when five Ph.D. students at Penn State had a vision of helping younger generations in West Africa to learn about science by delivering research supplies to schools. In fact, they pitched this idea at Pennsylvania State University’s Ag Springboard competition and won the first place prize of $7,500 to fund their venture. They then traveled to Ghana, a country in the subregion of West Africa, to begin forming relationships with schools that lacked working equipment or any equipment at all, as is prominent throughout the country. By getting students tools they needed at no cost to the schools, the five then-doctoral students hoped that the opportunity to work hands-on in science could lead to more opportunities for the children in Ghana.
COVID-19 had a significant impact on Bridge the GapSci’s efforts in that travel was banned to various countries, including Ghana, but these delays did not discourage them. In June of this year, they were successful in their first shipment of school supplies and science kits to St. Gregory Senior High School in Budaburam, Ghana. They hope to continue their efforts with St. Gregory Senior High School and to expand to more and more schools in the region. Through their tremendous commitment and efforts, co-directors and present-day doctors Sarah Afua Owusu Cannon, Josephine Garban, Shawntawnee Collins, Jamaal James, and Kerry Belton have created an organization that will undoubtedly help make progress toward a better future.
Oliver & Grimsley would like to congratulate 
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