2023-24 LLL Impact Report - Flipbook - Seite 35
GENEROSITY
AT WORK
CHAPTER
PHILANTHROPY
ALS took the life of baseball Hall of Famer and Phi Delt Lou
Gehrig, who initiated into the Fraternity at Columbia University
in the 1920s. The disease bears his name, and he remains a
beacon of courage for those living with Lou Gehrig’s disease
even today, more than 83 years after his death from ALS.
Phi Delta Theta named ALS as its charitable focus in the
1980s and has honored Lou Gehrig’s Major League Baseball
legacy since 1955 through the Lou Gehrig Memorial Award.
For nearly seven years, the Live Like Lou Foundation, which is
led and supported by Phis, has been the Fraternity’s partner in
the 昀椀ght against ALS.
In late 2017, Phi Delta Theta made a remarkable,
strategic choice to establish and expand the Live Like Lou
Foundation whose purpose is aligned with the long-term
efforts of the Fraternity to make a difference in the lives of
those affected by ALS. The Fraternity’s nearly 200 chapters
across college and university campuses in North America
have since served as volunteers for ALS families through
Live Like Lou and have helped raise funds to support our
programs.
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