Overview

• The 2025 Leaders of Impact launches Sept. 18 as a seven-week campaign across almost 100 U.S. cities, according to the American Heart Association, while a Forbes commentary described the reach as “hundreds.”
• Participants lead community efforts to teach Hands-Only CPR and raise money for cardiovascular, cerebrovascular and brain-health programs and research.
• City campaigns kicked off with nominees named in Atlanta, Des Moines, Long Island and Colorado, with teams now beginning local outreach.
• Each city will recognize a local winner, and the top fundraiser nationwide will be named the 2025 National Leaders of Impact winner.
• The effort culminates Nov. 5 and builds on AHA’s reported record of more than $6.1 billion funded since 1949, about 2,200 active projects totaling roughly $584 million, and 22 million people trained in CPR this year alongside reported declines in heart and stroke deaths since 2018.