Two families set up a lemonade stand on a street corner in southern California several years ago. Their goal: raise money to help find a cure for Juvenile Myositis (JM), a potentially debilitating and life-threatening rare autoimmune disease affecting their children. This is how the story of the Cure JM Foundation begins. I hope you can help us give it a happy ending!

Since 2003, Cure JM Foundation has raised nearly $2 million dollars. These funds, from generous donors like yourself, and the efforts of our all-volunteer organization have helped to establish JM research programs at Children’s Memorial Research Center in Chicago and George Washington University in Washington, D.C. and to publish the first reference book on the disease. Funding for these programs gives thousands of JM children and their families hope for a disease-free future; a life without daily shots, pills and treatments to keep their own immune system from attacking its own cells and tissues. Medications can help alleviate the symptoms of JM, but there is no known cure. It is through research and awareness that we hope to someday, hopefully soon, find this cure!