The Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Chevy Chase, Maryland, has announced that it is partnering with the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) in South Africa to establish an international research center focused on the co-epidemic of tuberculosis and HIV and the training of a new generation of scientists in Africa. HHMI has committed $60 million to the initiative over the next ten years.
The healthcare safety net is straining. Just look at Jeffrey Taylor's parking lot.
Despite a worldwide economic decline, the nine-figure gift is not dead.
In advance of Thursday's White House Health Care Summit, thousands of young adults are stepping up to answer President Obama's call for input. SHOUTAmerica, a non-profit healthcare reform organization, and the Roosevelt Institution, a multi-issue student policy organization, have partnered to launch an interactive, online think tank to give a voice to America's youth - a group that has much at stake but is often underrepresented in the healthcare debate.
City of Hope, a leading research, treatment and education center for cancer and other life-threatening diseases, has been selected by FOX Sports as one of four charities to be featured in FOX Sports Supports, the network’s on-air charitable initiative designed to raise awareness, provide funds and boost volunteerism for health-related charities. Final selection of the charities was determined by a vote of FOX Sports employees.
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) puts a "fresh face" on the fight against blood cancers today by becoming the first nonprofit in the world to offer an affinity credit card that can be personalized with a unique image, such as a patient's face, the faces of those who support the patient, or nearly any image that has special meaning to the cardholder. Free, personalized LLS Visa affinity credit cards are offered in cooperation with CardPartner, a New York-based company that helps non-profits of all sizes establish the kinds of affinity credit card programs once reserved for the largest groups.
In lean economic times, the message at yesterday’s UN Economic and Social Council’s special event on philanthropy focused on the power of partnerships in advancing the global public health agenda.
Today the Melanoma Research Foundation (MRF), the largest independent, national organization devoted to melanoma in the U.S., announced the recipients of five new research grants as part of its Career Development Grant Program and Established Investigator Grant Program. The MRF's Research Grant Programs support promising medical research that furthers the development of effective treatments and a possible cure for malignant melanoma, while encouraging scientists and clinicians to join in this mission.
Just three months after Children's Hospital Boston launched Generation Cures (www.kids.generationcures.org), an innovative online philanthropic community for tweens, the site has been honored with eight prestigious national awards. The awards recognize the site's kid-friendly content and interactive design, and demonstrate the much needed difference Generation Cures is making by empowering kids to positively impact each other and the world.
Dr. Kurt Amplatz invented a cardiac device that closes abnormal holes in children's hearts. Now, his daughter has donated $50 million to close a gap in the budget for the new University of Minnesota Children's Hospital.
