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Your Invitation to Sleep In 2018 for Sleep Awareness Week!

[rev_slider_vc alias=”SleepIn2016″]   YOU’RE INVITED! Project Sleep is thrilled to launch the fourth annual Sleep In 2018 (#SleepIn2018) to raise awareness of sleep health and sleep conditions during Sleep Awareness Week. Over the weekend of March 9-11, 2018, we challenge you to stay in bed for 12 – 48 hours and invite your friends and family to join you or support your Sleep In. Sleep is the misunderstood and often-overlooked pillar of health.…

Project Sleep Board of Directors Announces New President and CEO

LOS ANGELES — February 12, 2018 — The Board of Directors of Project Sleep, a non-profit organization dedicated to raising awareness of sleep health and sleep conditions, proudly announces the selection of Project Sleep’s Founder, Julie Flygare, J.D., as the organization’s new President & Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Flygare is an internationally recognized patient-perspective leader,…

Scholarship Program Enters 5th Year! Call for Applications

Project Sleep is thrilled to launch the fifth annual Jack & Julie Narcolepsy Scholarship supporting students with narcolepsy while fostering awareness of narcolepsy in high school and collegiate settings. In 2018, Project Sleep will award seven scholarships of $1,000 each, including one scholarship to a student with idiopathic hypersomnia, supported through a collaboration with the Hypersomnia Foundation. High school seniors…

Launching our #BeTheLight campaign

With the global day of giving, #GivingTuesday approaching on November 28, Project Sleep is proud to launch the #BeTheLight Campaign to support the organization’s bold goal to raise $25,000 by December 31, 2017. To open people’s hearts and minds to sleep and sleep disorders, the campaign invites supporters to donate $100 or raise $100. This past year,…

Giving Thanks! 2017 Narcolepsy Scholarship Recipients Report Back From College

Courage, awareness, support, motivation, and community. These are just a few words describing the impact you made with Project Sleep this year. In 2017, you joined Project Sleep in awarding eleven Jack & Julie Narcolepsy Scholarships to students across the country. Today, the recipients share their gratitude, exciting highlights and how they’re managing narcolepsy in college! “Courage to…

Raising Our Voices for Sleep Research on Capitol Hill

On Wednesday, November 15, 2017, sleep experts and people living with sleep disorders joined together on Capitol Hill to educate policy makers about the importance of sleep research and to help ensure critical funding for sleep research. The day kicked off with an educational Congressional Briefing co-hosted by the Sleep Research Society and Project Sleep…

Educating Future Nurses About Narcolepsy

Guest Post by Shannon Burkoth, Rising Voices of Narcolepsy Trained Speaker On the forty-five minute drive to the hospital where I’d be speaking to nursing students about narcolepsy for my first presentation as a Rising Voices of Narcolepsy speaker, I tried to rehearse my speech that was engrained in my head by now, and there was…

Share Your Journey with Congress Today

Sleep disorders impact millions of Americans (including veterans), and it is essential that Congress continue to support vital funding for sleep research. Right now, Congress is deciding on federal funding for various programs and activities in FY2018, including programs that distribute funding to talented researchers at leading academic medical centers. However, it is up to us to…

Meet the 2017 Jack & Julie Narcolepsy Scholarship Recipients

Project Sleep is proud to announce the 11 recipients of the 2017 Jack & Julie Narcolepsy Scholarship, a national scholarship program supporting students with narcolepsy while also raising narcolepsy awareness in high school and college settings. In just four years, the program has awarded 36 scholarships of $1,000 each to 36 students with narcolepsy entering college. 0Years0Scholarships$0,000Given Out Cassandra…

Rising Voices of Narcolepsy Kicks Off Summer 2017

Rising Voices of Narcolepsy Workshop – Los Angeles, CA On Saturday, May 27, Project Sleep kicked off the Rising Voices of Narcolepsy training program with a public speaking workshop in Los Angeles, California. Rising Voices of Narcolepsy trains people with narcolepsy to spread awareness through speaking or writing. This serves the dual purpose of improving…