The Beautiful Brain Campaign
Advancing women’s brain health through research, policy, and care
The Vision
Today, women make up two-thirds of Alzheimer’s patients—but currently NIH invests only 3% of its Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia funding in work that is relevant to women’s health.
We want to change that. So we’re building the connections, backing the research, and fighting to make women’s brain health a national priority.
Our Philosophy
Dementia won’t be solved by one breakthrough, one bill, or one caregiver support group. It will be solved by the ecosystem of research, policy, and care working together.
The Beautiful Brain Campaign exists to build—and fund—the ecosystem it actually takes to change women’s brain health for good. Whether it’s the policy fight in Washington, the science behind prevention and early diagnosis, or the caregivers holding families together, we’re investing in what the future can and should look like for women and families everywhere.
Three Pillars, One Goal
By investing in each lever of women’s brain health, we believe we can make the fastest impact.
Policy: We’ll fight to ensure that federal funding for medical research includes investments into the unique biological differences and life experiences that shape women’s brain health. This work will inform outcomes for both men and women, because understanding sex-based differences will lead to more precise and effective treatments for all.
Research: We’ll back scientists who are already closing in on prevention, early diagnosis, and treatment. We’ll champion their work, and help them do it on their terms.
Care: We’ll support the families and caregivers navigating this in real time—making visible the often invisible labor, financial burden, and emotional toll that too often goes unrecognized.
Our Partners
The Beautiful Brain Campaign formed after two years in the field, meeting researchers, policy leaders, and caregiver advocates already making meaningful progress toward women’s brain health.
UsAgainstAlzheimer’s: a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit patient and advocacy organization focused on driving policy change, accelerating research, improving early detection, and promoting health equity for those facing Alzheimer’s and other related dementias.
CaringKind: the leading expert on Alzheimer’s and dementia caregiving, developing the tools and training to support families affected by dementia, the 100 Women of Impact movement, and the advocacy behind of UsAgainstAlzheimer’s
The Clelland Lab: Led by Dr. Claire Clelland, MD, PhD, MPhil · John D. French Alzheimer's Foundation Endowed Chair, UCSF Neurology
Claire cares for patients with dementia and cognitive symptoms at the UCSF Memory & Aging Center. Her lab at the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences is revolutionizing the way translational research is conducted. She develops first-in-class therapies for neurodegenerative disease, including novel CRISPR gene therapies for genetic forms of dementia and ALS. She co-chairs the NIH Somatic Cell Genome Engineering Consortium Steering Committee. She is a two-time national award recipient in neuroscience, including the Alzheimer's Association & NACC New Investigator Award and the American Neurological Association's Grass Foundation Award.
Project ALS: working at the intersection of dementia and ALS, Project ALS’s medical advisory board reviews and funds the most promising scientific research for effective treatments and a cure for ALS.
Join the Ecosystem
Groundbreaking science, meaningful policy work, and caregiver support already exist. But they’ve not yet worked in harmony towards one, unified goal: fundamentally transforming women’s brain health.
Every gift—at every size—funds our ecosystem of change.
Donations to the Beautiful Brain Campaign are distributed to the above organizations. All gifts are tax deductible.
The Beautiful Brain Campaign is a restricted initiative of the Corky & Rick Steiner Family Foundation, a registered 501 (c)(3) private foundation. For DAF contributions, please contact us directly.