The Elena Delle Donne Foundation

The Elena Delle Donne Charitable Foundation works to raise funds for and awareness of Lyme disease research, special needs programs, and animal welfare work. The foundation believes that individuals and animals have the right to be treated with compassion, respect, and dignity and seeks to improve the quality of life for all. It’s so easy to forget to be giving. Too many of us are so busy studying, working, running from one place to another, doing activities, staring into our phones, or collapsing on our couches to watch TV at the end of the day that we often feel we don’t have time to help another person. Worse, we often forget how precious—and endangered—the world we live in is. We pollute, we don’t recycle, we don’t volunteer, and we spend our money rather than giving it to someone who needs it more than we do.