Thursday, June 4, 2026 | 6:00 PM

48 Wall Street Events
48 Wall Street
New York, NY 10005

Over the last 25 years, Wings Over Wall Street has raised over $13.4 million to fund critical research for ALS. Each year, the Wings committee enlists the help of corporate sponsors and individual donors to assist in the major undertaking to bring awareness to this tragic illness and to fund various ALS research initiatives.

This event began as the vision of a newly diagnosed ALS patient in late 2000. Toni Diamond, a United Airlines flight attendant, was diagnosed with ALS in September 2000. Rather than give up hope and live out her remaining life in utter despair, she decided to live and fight the disease that was soon to take away all her freedom. Hoping to help in some small way, she told her caregiver-husband, Warren Schiffer, also a United Airlines flight attendant, that she wanted to find a way to raise funds for ALS research to help find treatments and a cure.

Along the way, another recently diagnosed ALS patient, Michael Beier, Director of Equity Trading at Credit Suisse First Boston, heard about Wings and joined the effort by obtaining sponsorships from the Wall Street community at a feverish pace. For his efforts, Mike was named a co-chair of the event and Wings Over Wall Street was born.