What is YAMS?
YAMS, Inc. is a nonprofit organization that started out in 2000 as an MS Walk team in the Southern California National MS Society’s Chapter of the National MS Walk. The team started with a couple of motivated 13 year olds – Joel Dinin and Kaley Zeitouni who were walking for Joel’s father, Michael Dinin, and because of Kaley’s recent diagnosis at the time. They had 48 people on their team in the first year – classmates, teachers, and family members and raised over $5,000! Kaley continued to captain the team the next year when it expanded to 277 walkers raising over $17,000! One year later, in 2002, there were 200 YAMS members raising $37,000. In the fall of 2002, a Board of Directors was established along with the decision of the committee of 2002 to become a non-profit organization as opposed to just an MS Walk team. This decision was a life changing decision for the founding Board of Directors and allowed YAMS to make a larger impact on the MS community. While YAMS started having its
