Events

Over 400 attendees joined us at the eighth annual Hope Rising Benefit, held on April 4, 2024, at New York City’s Ziegfeld Ballroom. More than $1.9 million was raised to drive AFTD’s work to help those affected and advance research to a cure.

Bruce Miller, MD, director of the Memory and Aging Center at the University of California, San Francisco, received the Susan Newhouse & Si Newhouse Award of Hope for a career spent supporting all affected by FTD. Sisters Sandra and Diana Gonzalez-Morett delivered the keynote address, speaking about their late mother’s diagnosis, its effect on their family, and the currently unmet need for quality, affordable dementia care. Lea Michele provided the evening’s entertainment, performing three songs, including “Don’t Rain on My Parade” from her critically acclaimed Broadway run as Fanny Brice in Funny Girl.