Bruce M. Fried, outgoing Chair of the Board of Trustees

Hello and welcome to United Cerebral Palsy’s fiscal year 2012 Annual Report. My name is Bruce Merlin Fried, and I was proud to be the Chair of UCP Board of Trustees during the period of this report.

Last year was an exciting one for UCP as we continued our work to ensure a life without limits for people living with disabilities. With a focus on transitions, we expanded our UCP family, we intensified our education and outreach efforts, strengthened our medical knowledge and support, continued our pursuit for civil rights through legislative involvement, built international connections, and introduced the first annual World Cerebral Palsy Day.

The UCP Family

But all of this would not have been possible without our affiliates—the network of UCP organizations across the country that are the heart of our organization. The incredible work that they do everyday drives the entire UCP network, indeed the disability community.

While my term as a Trustee and as Chair has concluded, I remain excited about the future of this organization—and a big part of that is our new Board Chair, Woody Connette. Woody has been a part of the UCP family for many years, and will be an extraordinary leader for the Board and UCP as a whole in the years to come.  

Getting Involved

On behalf of the Board of Trustees, I would like to thank each and every one of you who makes our work possible. For all of those who are new to the UCP family, or are simply interested in the work we do, I hope that you will consider becoming involved, either at the affiliate level or with UCP at the national level.

You can learn more about UCP at www.ucp.org, and in the following pages of our 2012 Annual Report. Thank you so much.