Why Your Gift Matters

Your donation matters because …

Your gift will support nationwide programs that help improve epilepsy care, connect people affected by epilepsy to information and to each other, increase awareness about epilepsy and seizures, advocate for rights, prevent epilepsy and early death, educate about seizure first aid, and support research.

Epilepsy and seizures affect you or someone you love or someone you know. Epilepsy affects men and women of all ages and all races and ethnic groups. It is far more common than most people realize.

Epilepsy affects the entire family and can change lives, impede development, affect learning, cause accidents, impact livelihoods, cause injury, and even result in early death.

There are thousands of reasons to consider making a generous gift to the Epilepsy Foundation. My son, Ben, is one of them. He was born perfect in every way. I had no idea that by Ben’s first birthday, my perfect baby would be having seizures every six seconds. We finally got a diagnosis: infantile spasms, a catastrophic form of epilepsy. Our race against time began. And so did our understanding of just how important the Epilepsy Foundation is to families like ours who are desperately trying to help our loved ones with epilepsy. – Lisa S., Ben’s Mom                                                                                                                                                                                         Ben S