Check out the 1st place winning video, which also won the "Fan Favorite" award!  Also, check out the 2nd place winning video!

It was another FABULOUS National Meeting for the Foundation! THANK YOU to everyone who stopped by our booth and made a donation and/or volunteered/supported/participated in our National Meeting events! You are our ROCK STARS!!

Here are the final winners of the "Guitar Animal Hero" contest!

"Fan Favorite" - #018 - Research Triangle Branch - Decorators: RTB Executive Council

Thanks to all who donated auction items and/or purchased auction items at the AALAS Foundation’s 2017 Silent & Live Auction. Your generosity helped the AALAS Foundation raise over $29,000!  We appreciate everyone’s support!

Sound Check...One, Two, Three!

Tune up your guitars and gather up your paint brushes!  The "Guitar Animal Hero" contest - to benefit the AALAS Foundation and its mission - is continuing to receive entry photos! 

Austin, Texas is known for its live music scene - country, blues and rock. We know all the people and animals working in laboratory animal science are ROCK STARS - strumming to a fast beat to achieve medical discoveries! 

This year, the AALAS Foundation has designed a "Guitar Animal Hero" contest to be held at the 2017 AALAS National Meeting in Austin, Texas!   We're challenging contestants to creatively paint/ decorate a wooden 10" guitar! 

Don't worry - you don't have to know how to play a guitar to enter the contest! Simply show off your imagination and talent by creatively painting/decorating an official contest guitar! 

Click here to view contest entries on the AALAS Foundation Facebook page!  Be sure to "like" your favorite guitar photo to help it win the "Fan Favorite" Award!

"Votes"/donations are now open and end October 18th at 11:00 am CST - click here to add your "vote"/donation for your favorite guitar entry today! 

A "vote" is actually a donation to the AALAS Foundation on behalf of a guitar entry! The guitar entry receiving the most "votes" on its behalf will be declared the winner of its Category. There will be one winner for each category - Individual, Branch, Corporate/Company and Institution/Organization categories.

The guitars will be on display at the Foundation's booth in the Austin Convention Center during the 2017 AALAS National Meeting. "Votes"/donations may be made on site at the Foundation's booth beginning Sunday, October 15,  2017.

Calling 5th through 12th grade students!

Enter the “Celebrate the Mouse Video Essay Contest” and share your knowledge about how
mice have helped advance major medical discoveries.

Eligible contestants will have the opportunity to earn CASH AWARDS by creatively producing a
video essay to show how mice in research have helped the lives of people and/or animals.

The Challenge: Create an original video essay explaining how you, a family member, friend, or
pet have benefited from medical discoveries made possible thanks to work conducted with
mice in biomedical research.

Click here for Official Rules and how to enter.

Contest begins September 1, 2017. Entries must be received by December 31, 2017.
This contest is open to all legal residents of the United States or District of Columbia who are registered
students in grades 5 – 8 or grades 9 ‐12. Every student is eligible: public, parochial,
private/independent, home‐school. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER CONTEST.

Questions: Email foundation@aalas.org

Share Your Passion about the important work being done in biomedical research and the important role mice (and other animals) have in the development of new treatment options for catastrophic diseases!

Request the free, fully scripted, speaker-ready, Power Point presentation - "Celebrate the Mouse" - "What's Happening in Breast Cancer Research?" and reach out within your local community for opportunities to present this informative program - it's perfect for presenting to breast cancer survivor/support groups and their friends/families.  Other Power Point presentations available are "Celebrate the Mouse" - "What's Happening in Heart Disease Research?" and "Celebrate the Mouse" - "What's Happening in Diabetes Research?". 

"Celebrate the Mouse' lapel pins are also available for distribution at eligible public outreach events. (See details and eligibility guidelines at http://www.aalasfoundation.org/outreach/Celebrate-the-Mouse or email us at foundation@aalas.org)

AALAS Foundation's biggest fundraising event of the year is our annual Silent and Live Auction to be held at the AALAS National Meeting in Austin, TX.  You can help supprt this event by donating auction items.  View our online auction item donation form for more information and to make your auction item donation pledge today!!

Auction donations and/or auction donation pledges recieved by August 1, 2017 will be recognized in the AALAS National Meeting Program.

Mail your auction item donations to us at the following address no later than September 1st: (Alternatively, drop them off at our booth at the National Meeting in Austin)

AALAS Foundation
ATTN: Silent & Live Auction
9190 Crestwyn Hills Drive
Memphis, TN 38125

Questions? Email us at foundation@aalas.org  

Congrats to all the "100 ALL STAR Race" contest winners!

Individual Category Winner - # 23, Owner/Decorator: Carolyn Pelham

Branch Category Winner - #20; Research Triangle Branch. Decorator: RTB Members

Start your engines - the Race is on! 

Do you want to be part of an exciting and creatively challenging contest that's sure to be loads of fun and also benefit the AALAS Foundation?

We know all the people and animals working in laboratory animal science are SUPER STARS - helping in the RACE to achieve medical discoveries!   

Charlotte, North Carolina, the setting for this year's AALAS National Meeting, is known for the NASCAR ALL STAR Race.  That's why, this year, the AALAS Foundation has designed a "100 ALL STAR Race" and we are challenging contestants to paint/decorate a wooden 6" race car.

Don’t worry – you don’t have to drive fast to participate! The deadline to enter the Race has ended, but, you can still participate by  “voting” for your favorite Race Car entry! (A “vote” is actually a donation to the AALAS Foundation made on behalf of Race Car entry.)

There will be four category winners - Individual, Branch, Corporate/Company and Institution/Association. Plus, we'll have "Facebook Fan Favorite" and "Best of Show" awards. 

Don't miss out on all the fun! 

Click here to view photos of the entries in our “100 ALL Star Race” Facebook photo gallery

Online “voting”/donating is set to begin October 3^rd – click here for more details and to cast your “vote”! 

Questions? Contact us at foundation@aalas.org