Mission & History: The 1940's

1940's Timeline

1940 Leonard and Isabelle Goldenson worked with Mary Lasker, Anna Rosenberg and Florence Mahoney to help establish the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke, part of the National Institutes of Health. The Goldensons were each appointed to four-year terms on the advisory board for this Institute.

1945 An ad in the New York Herald Tribune recruiting parents of children with cerebral palsy who were interested in improving services for their kids generated 350 responses from families in New York City and surrounding area.

1948 The organization was incorporated as the National Foundation for Cerebral Palsy.

12,000 people assembled from the United States, Canada, Europe and South America to attend the first Cerebral Palsy Conference.

1949 The name of the organization was changed to United Cerebral Palsy and affiliates across the nation were formed.

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