--- title: How Much Has the Ice Bucket Challenge Raised description: More than a week after the Ice Bucket Challenge first went viral, people keep dumping ice, and the ALS Association keeps collecting money. canonical: https://time.com/3111699/ice-bucket-challenge-als-donations/ author: Justin Worland article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-08-14T17:17:55.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-01T08:58:05.416Z article:section: Health og:title: Here's How Much Money the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Has Now og:description: More than a week after the Ice Bucket Challenge first went viral, people keep dumping ice, and the ALS Association keeps collecting money. og:url: https://time.com/3111699/ice-bucket-challenge-als-donations/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here's How Much Money the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Has Now twitter:description: More than a week after the Ice Bucket Challenge first went viral, people keep dumping ice, and the ALS Association keeps collecting money. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Here's How Much Money the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Has Now > Sponsored content. 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The Ice Bucket Challenge is ironically one of the hottest things on social media as it tries to raise money for ALS charities._  by [Justin Worland](https://time.com/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Senior Correspondent Aug 14, 2014 5:17 PM UTC If you’ve seen people all over your newsfeed dumping buckets of ice water on themselves, you’re not alone. The Ice Bucket Challenge is ironically one of the hottest things on social media as it tries to raise money for ALS charities.  by [Justin Worland](https://time.com/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Senior Correspondent Aug 14, 2014 5:17 PM UTC More than a week after the [Ice Bucket Challenge](http://time.com/3100272/als-ice-bucket-challenge/) first went viral, people keep dumping ice on their heads, and the ALS Association keeps collecting money. The organization’s national office has received $5.5 million for Lou Gehrig’s disease research since July 29, compared to $32,000 in the same period last year. ALS Association spokeswoman Carrie Munk said earlier this week that the organization is “thrilled and completely amazed” at the sum they continue to raise and the public awareness the campaign has generated. Nearly 150,000 new donors have given to the cause as of Thursday. The challenge, if you haven’t seen it already, features [people dumping cold water](http://time.com/3101166/als-ice-bucket-challenge-fundraising/) on their heads and then nominating friends to do the same. If nominees don’t accept the challenge, they’re asked to donate money instead. A number of high profile figures have dumped ice on their heads, like [Chris Christie](http://time.com/3107529/chris-christie-als-ice-bucket-challenge/) and [Mark Zuckerberg](http://time.com/3110357/mark-zuckerberg-chris-christie-als-ice-bucket-challenge-bill-gates-sheryl-sandberg-netflix-facebook/). Others, like [President Obama](http://time.com/3104483/obama-declines-ice-bucket-challenge/), opted to donate instead. ## Transcript [00:00] If you've seen people all over your news feed dumping [00:02] buckets of ice water on themselves, you're not alone. [00:05] The ice bucket challenge is ironically one of the hottest [00:09] things on social media as it tries to raise money for ALS [00:12] foundations. The challenge went viral thanks to former [00:15] Boston College pitcher Pete Frates, who was diagnosed [00:18] with a neurodegenerative disease also known as Lou [00:21] Gehrig's disease disease in 2012. So what does the [00:24] challenge entail? A person dumps ice water on [00:27] themselves and then challenges six other people to do [00:30] the same in 24 hours or donate $ 100 to an ALS [00:37] charity. Celebrities such as The Fault in Our Stars actor [00:40] Ansel Elgort and Martha Stewart have joined in on the [00:42] challenge. Boston. com and. Frank's parents organized [00:46] a mass ice bucket challenge last Thursday, after which, [00:49] the website challenged New York City, Los Angeles, [00:52] and Chicago. Some questioned the effect of the ice [00:54] bucket challenge with the Boston Herald quoting a [00:56] Twitter user as saying. I don't see how dumping a [00:59] bucket of ice water over your head can cure a disease. [01:01] Meanwhile Frates told the paper, via Facebook, that [01:04] exposure like this is what the ALS community needs so [01:08] we can even attempt to find a cure and reversal for [01:11] people living with this insidious disease. The challenge [01:14] has led to a spike in donations for the ALS Association. [01:17] The foundation's president, Barbara Newhouse, told [01:20] CBS's WBZ News Radio that the organization raised [01:24] more than $ 168, 000 in online donations in the past [01:27] week, compared to just $ 14, 000 over the same time [01:31] frame last year. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3111699/ice-bucket-challenge-als-donations/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3111699/ice-bucket-challenge-als-donations/"},"headline":"Here's How Much Money the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Has Now","datePublished":"2014-08-14T17:17:55.000Z","dateModified":"2026-10-01T08:58:05.416Z","description":"Nearly 150,000 have donated so far, including some high-profile names","url":"https://time.com/3111699/ice-bucket-challenge-als-donations/","keywords":["Research","Chris Christie","Barack Obama","Mark Zuckerberg","Lou Gehrig's disease","ALS","Ice Bucket Challenge","als ice bucket challenge"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Justin Worland","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/justin-worland/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/tag/research/","name":"Research"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3111699/ice-bucket-challenge-als-donations/","name":"Here's How Much Money the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Has Now"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"It’ll Be A Cold Day: The Ice Bucket Challenge","description":"If you’ve seen people all over your newsfeed dumping buckets of ice water on themselves, you’re not alone. 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