A Funny 
Thing 
Happened ...
… when Michael J. Fox founded an organization to eradicate Parkinson’s disease. By flying 
in the face of convention in many ways, it became a fundraising powerhouse.
The organization's board underwrites the cost of the event, she adds, so all the money raised — typically around $5 million a year — goes to Parkinson's research.
MJFF also hosts a golf tournament each September and a poker tournament each March. Every other year it presents a smaller version of the New York gala on the West Coast called "A Sunny Thing Happened on the Way to Cure Parkinson's."
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