Help us End CTE

Become a Race to End CTE champion! Walk, run, ride, climb, or swim to raise funds that directly impact programs and research like:

• Stop Hitting Kids in the Head, which aims to prevent CTE in youth sports
• The CLF Global Brain Bank, an international network of experts focused on learning how to cure CTE
• The CLF HelpLine, providing 1-on-1 support for patients and caregivers battling suspected CTE

Fundraise and compete from March 1st - May 21st. Download our TOOLKIT here and get started!

Email Morgan Hicks at mhicks@concussionfoundation.org to learn more.

Register for the race here!

CTE is caused by repetitive traumatic brain injuries. That means it is preventable, and we can End CTE.

For years, members of the global sports community have refused to recognize that their sports can cause CTE, which has slowed reforms that can prevent CTE. In 2022, the Concussion Legacy Foundation and our global collaborators published a groundbreaking review of the world’s CTE research and concluded that the evidence is overwhelming that CTE is caused by repetitive head impacts. We recruited some of the most prominent global experts to co-sign a letter petitioning the National Institutes of Health to consider the evidence and update their public statement to recognize causation – and they did. They join the CDC, NHS, NFL, Football Association, and Professional Footballers’ Association in recognizing causation.

CLF is now engaging the global sports and scientific communities to share the latest CTE evidence and imploring them update all position papers and public-facing statements to reflect the current scientific understanding in an urgent effort to educate the public.

You can track our progress on this dashboard.

The opportunity to prevent CTE has inspired our education program Stop Hitting Kids in the Head, which aims to eliminate repetitive head impacts in youth sports. Our hope is that if we can dramatically reduce the number of head impacts in sports - and anywhere else they occur - we can make significant strides to End CTE.

We also can’t End CTE without brain bank and clinical research, as they provide our best chance to learn how we can diagnose, treat, and cure the disease by 2040. Right now, we’re funding or supporting research programs to better understand how CTE impacts women, the military community, and contact sport athletes. Through the CLF Global Brain Bank, we’re uniting researchers around the world on this shared mission. Through our Clinical Research Registry, we are connecting former athletes to clinical research studies led by top scientists. Why are we working so hard to End CTE? Take it from the families below, who all lost their loved one to CTE.

We need you to help us End CTE! Below are the top six ways you can get involved: