Thank you for taking time to visit the foundation website named in my honor. My name is Ryan Cooper Bonsett and Sam & Sheree Bonsett are my parents. I was born on Febuary 17, 2009 in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. I was born 11 weeks premature and survived all the complications that come with it. But at the age of four months, I was diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA)-Type 1. SMA is an incurable and terminal disease. Even though this disease is the No. 1 genetic killer of children under two years old, not many people know about it. Because my dad has already lost his only daughter to Down's syndrome, I cannot let him and my mom lose me, their only living child, to a potentially curable disease. There is hope; hope that a cure is found that will not only help me, but all the other families out there affected by this horrible disease. The hope is in the research privately funded by individuals and companies like you. My foundation was set up to help accelerate these funding efforts because my time is limited. We need to find a cure NOW. Please help my mom, dad, and all those other parents find a cure. Would you please donate today?

Hope is NOT a strategy.  "The question clearly and powerfully before us is not what we hope for, but rather, what are we going to do to make our hopes actually happen. We need to act.  Now." (Jake Brewer)