Keep Us Moving: 

Your Support Transforms Lives

Dear Friend,

As 2024 comes to a close, we’re filled with gratitude for the support of our community and inspired by the incredible milestones we’ve achieved together this year. Your engagement has powered Dance for PD’s mission to bring movement, joy, creativity, and connection to individuals living with Parkinson’s and their families around the world. 

Over the past year, you helped us:

• Expand opportunities: We worked with our partners to launch programs in 20 new communities in 6 countries.
• Expand access: We launched new Spanish-speaking classes in NYC, released Spanish and Mandarin versions of our At Home instructional videos, and partnered with Mediflix to drive new audiences to our resources.
• Expand Knowledge: We trained over 200 teaching artists across nine countries and launched NIH-funded research with Northeastern to study our program’s impact on physical activity.

For more than two decades, our program has been about supporting people in 30 countries who rely on Dance for PD to manage symptoms, enhance well-being, and foster community. Behind the numbers are individual lives transformed by joy, connection, and hope. Every day, Dance for PD programs remind our global community that they are more than their diagnosis.

Meet Carol and Bill...

Community members like Carol and Bill inspire us to plan ambitious goals for 2025, and we need your help to make them a reality:

• Offering hundreds of free classes for people living with Parkinson's in NYC and around the world
• Training 125+ new teaching artists dedicated to sharing the joys and benefits of dance with their local communities on six continents
• Distributing 10 microgrants to help newly trained teachers jumpstart Dance for PD programs in new and underserved communities worldwide through the Bowen Fund for Growth
• Building new partnerships in healthcare, academia, and social service sectors to share the benefits of dance with more people

Your generosity makes it possible for us to dream big and deliver programs that truly transform lives - for people like Carol to “be active and live a creative life”. With your support, we can continue to innovate, expand, and inspire in 2025 and beyond.

Will you help us bring the joy of movement to even more individuals with Parkinson’s in the year ahead?

Make your year-end gift today with a charitable gift of $30, $60, $120 or more, or join Dance for PD as a Member.

Thank you for being an integral part of our Dance for PD family. Together, we’ll keep moving forward—one step at a time.

With deep gratitude and best wishes for the new year,
David Leventhal
Program Director, Dance for PD