Deadline For ‘Woman On The Move’ Nominations is Sunday

RICHMOND, Va. - April 4, 2014 - PRLog -- The Central & Eastern Virginia Chapter of the National MS Society (http://www.nationalmssociety.org/Chapters/VAR/Join-An-Event) will host two Women on the Move Luncheons this year: one in Virginia Beach (http://varmain.nationalmssociety.org/site/Calendar?id=330197&view=Detail) (June 10^th) and one in Richmond (http://varmain.nationalmssociety.org/site/Calendar?id=330088&view=Detail) (June 12^th). The Chapter is accepting nominations for the 2014 Woman on the Move honoree at both locations. The Richmond deadline for nominations is Sunday, April 6^th and the Virginia Beach deadline is Friday, April 25^th.

The MS Society’s Women on the Move Luncheon is a networking event that educates, motivates and inspires attendees to raise awareness and funding in support of the fight against multiple sclerosis. The Luncheon features a celebrity speaker who has a personal connection to MS.

The Women on the Move Luncheon also honors a woman in the community who has made important, unique, economic, social, cultural and/or humanitarian contribution(s) to her community and/or workplace. This woman is given the Woman on the Move Award.

To nominate a woman in your community for the Woman on the Move Award in Richmond and/or Virginia Beach, complete the form here: http://eventvar.nationalmssociety.org/site/DocServer/WOM_.... All nominations should be mailed to the National MS Society c/o Tiffany Epley, 4200 Innslake Drive., Ste. 301, Glen Allen, VA 23060. Forms can also be emailed to Tiffany Epley at Tiffany.Epley@nmss.org.

About Multiple Sclerosis

Multiple sclerosis, an unpredictable, often disabling disease of the central nervous system, interrupts the flow of information within the brain, and between the brain and body. Symptoms range from numbness and tingling to blindness and paralysis. The progress, severity and specific symptoms of MS in any one person cannot yet be predicted, but advances in research and treatment are moving us closer to a world free of MS. Most people with MS are diagnosed between the ages of 20 and 50, with at least two to three times more women than men being diagnosed with the disease. MS affects more than 2.1 million people worldwide.