SCAD RESEARCH INC

Our goal is to increase our support of much needed research by expanding our fundraising efforts and to continue to build a stronger volunteer base of SCAD survivors, families of SCAD survivors and families of those who did not survive along with public supporters of SCAD Research, Inc.

We are currently working on increasing the number of our annual fundraisers as well as raise awareness about SCAD. We are currently investigating other ways to raise funds in addition to our 5K SCADaddle for Research run/walks and year end appeals.

Since 2012 we have been organizing 5K Walk/Runs. We are planning six 5K's in 2022. We have a SCAD Research, Inc. store on our website, www.scadresearch.org, we hold various individual fundraising events as the develop throughout the year. To date, 2/06/2022, SCAD Research, Inc. has donated over $1million to research with the vast majority going to Mayo Clinic's SCAD Research Program, Rochester, MN, Our 5K's are nationally known as "SCADaddles© ." We also send out end of the year solicitation emails/letters; participate in GivingTuesday and sell a variety of items through our SCAD Store. We receive a % of sales through the SCAD Store. We accept direct donations through our Website including donations in honor and in memory of someone. Individuals set up fundraisers through FB in honor of their birthday and occasionally survivors and families who lost someone to SCAD set up other fundraisers.

We have raised and donated almost a total of $1.2 million to research. The vast majority of our funds have been granted to Mayo Clinic SCAD Research Program. A significant portion of the money donated to Mayo Clinic has been used for genetic research on SCAD. In 2019, we also awarded a grant to Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation to study the long-term outcomes of SCAD patients treated with stents and bypass surgery compared to noninvasive treatment.

The results of Mayo Clinic SCAD research, funded in part by our support, are shared in published studies in medical journals and other publications. Mayo Clinic researchers also discuss their findings when they speak to cardiologists and other researchers around the world. The Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation presented their study on the Long-term Outcome After Emergency Revascularization for SCAD findings at the American College of Cardiology (ACC) 2020 World Congress, which was done virtually due to COVID-19.

Our goal is to continue to raise awareness and funds for research especially to better understand the relationship of genetics on SCAD. We would also like to expand grants to research to other programs to compliment research done to date.