A source tells PEOPLE Sandra Bullock has 'seen the incredible outpouring of support toward ALS research since Bryan’s passing.' The actress's longtime partner died Aug. 5. after a three-year battle with ALS, his family said
A spokesperson for the ALS Association tells PEOPLE they "saw an additional $50,000 raised from donors in honor of Bryan and an increase of over 100,000 new visitors to our website."
"We are grateful for everyone who has donated, and our hearts are with Sandra and Bryan's family," the spokesperson adds. "We still need support to make ALS livable for everyone, everywhere, until we can cure it."In their statement, his family shared that they "are immensely grateful to the tireless doctors who navigated the landscape of this illness with us and to the astounding nurses who became our roommates, often sacrificing their own families to be with ours.
"At this time we ask for privacy to grieve and to come to terms with the impossibility of saying goodbye to Bryan," the statement concluded, signed, "His Loving Family."Randall, who has an older daughter from a previous relationship, and Bullock, a mom of two, met in 2015. While onThe actress explained that she did not need to get married to feel their relationship was solid.," she said."I don't need to be told to be ever present in the hardest of times.
"He's the example that I would want my children to have. I have a partner who's very Christian and there are two different ways of looking at things. I don't always agree with him, and he doesn't always agree with me. But he is an example even when I don't agree with him."
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