In recognition of National Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month November 1-30, 2024, ������Ƶ’s Charities is celebrating the following members who are making a difference in the fight to end Alzheimer’s Disease.

One of the most cost-efficient ways you can support these nonprofits��is to donate to them via payroll deduction through your employer’s workplace giving program (Don’t have a program?����to have your employer contact our team.) Click on each charity’s name below to learn more about their work, and to make a donation now!

Alzheimer’s – Insight Memory Care Center
Provides care, support, and education for individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and other memory impairments, their families, caregivers, and the community, through their adult day health and resource center.

Alzheimer’s Disease Research
Advances research to better understand, treat, and prevent Alzheimer’s. Founded in 1985, Alzheimer’s Disease Research has awarded nearly $120 million to innovative projects aimed at ending the disease.

FNIH (Foundation for the National Institutes of Health)
Generates and implements new research models that lower the cost and accelerate the progress of biomedical research through public-private partnerships. One of the many groundbreaking initiatives FNIH manages is the Alzheimers Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI).��The��, is a landmark partnership and study that for years has profoundly influenced our understanding of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) by identifying the earliest changes in brain structure and function that signal its onset and progression.

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In recognition of Diabetes Awareness Month November 1-30, 2024, ������Ƶ’s Charities is celebrating the following members who are making a difference in the fight to end diabetes.

One of the most cost-efficient ways you can support these nonprofits��is to donate to them via payroll deduction through your employer’s workplace giving program (Don’t have a program?����to have your employer contact our team.) Click on each charity’s name below to learn more about their work, and to make a donation now!

Diabetes Research & Wellness Foundation
Funds scientific research into treating and curing diabetes, as well as providing��screenings and��education programs to save lives from blindness, kidney failure, and amputations.

Diabetes Research Institute Foundation
Funds and supports research aimed at developing��a biological cure by restoring natural insulin production and normalizing blood sugar levels without imposing other risks.

Feeding ������Ƶ
A��nationwide network of 200 member food banks that provide food to more than 46 million people, including 12 million children and 7 million seniors, through 60,000 food pantries and meal programs and engage more than 2 million volunteers monthly in communities across the U.S.��Feeding ������Ƶ has conducted deep research into Diabetes and focuses on nutrition to prevent Diabetes and other diseases tied to poor quality diet.

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In recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month October 1-31, 2022, ������Ƶ’s Charities is celebrating the following members who are making a difference in the fight to end breast cancer.

One of the most cost-efficient ways you can support these nonprofits��is to donate to them via payroll deduction through your employer’s workplace giving program (Don’t have a program?����to have your employer contact our team.) Click on each charity’s name below to learn more about their work, and to make a donation now!

Breast Cancer Coalition��– Since its inception in 1991, The National Breast Cancer Coalition (NBCC) has had a mission to end breast cancer through the power of grassroots action and advocacy.��NBCC links hundreds of organizations and tens of thousands of individuals into a dynamic, diverse coalition that gives breast cancer a meaningful voice in Washington, DC, and state capitals, in laboratories and health care institutions, and in local communities everywhere. NBCC’s member organizations range from small support groups to statewide and regional nonprofits to organizations with a national reach. They come together under NBCC’s umbrella for public policy, education and training, and new models of science.

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In recognition of #ChildhoodCancerAwareness Month��������Ƶ’s Charities is celebrating the following agents of change who we are proud to call our members. These nonprofits are dedicated to funding research to find treatments and cures for children’s cancer, as well as providing programs that provide hope, joy, housing, and other types of support and resources for families with children facing cancer.

One of the most cost-efficient ways you can support these nonprofits��is to donate to them via payroll deduction through your employer’s workplace giving program (Don’t have a program?����to have your employer contact our team.) Click on each charity’s name below to learn more about their work, and to make a donation now!

��ܰ��𳧱𲹰�����:��There is an urgent unmet need for new and better children’s cancer treatments.��With your support, CureSearch funds the most promising and impactful research. They do this through comprehensive project screening and monitoring progress to ensure patient centered results. to learn more about CureSearch and��hear why research matters for CureSearch advocates and patient families.

Ronald McDonald House Charities® (RMHC®): RMHC creates, finds and supports programs that directly improve the health and well-being of children and their families. Through its global network of Chapters in more than 64 countries and regions, RMHC programs (the Ronald McDonald House®, the Ronald McDonald Family Room® and the Ronald McDonald Care Mobile®) provide access to quality health care and enable family-centered care around the world, ensuring families are fully supported and actively involved in their child’s care. Click here to learn more.

The Children’s Inn at NIH:��The Children’s Inn at NIH is a “place like home” for children, and their families, participating in ground-breaking medical trials at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Each year, more than 1,700 children call The Inn “home” as they battle life-threatening illnesses in NIH trials that change the face of medicine for the entire world. The Children’s Inn brings together courageous children who participate in NIH trials; their loving families and caregivers who provide unwavering support; and the world-renowned NIH clinicians and staff who make ground-breaking medical discoveries. These are the individuals driving discoveries that will be the first steps to eradicating diseases and making better lives possible. The Children’s Inn is where we bring people together to make childhood possible today and a cure possible tomorrow. Click here to learn more.

Make-A-Wish Foundation® of ������Ƶ:��Wishes can change the odds for children fighting their illness. A wish helps kids look past their limitations, families overcome anxiety and entire communities experience joy. Most importantly, wishes can improve a child’s quality of life.��Make-A-Wish wants to help every single family enduring this struggle to discover hope, strength and joy. Click here to learn more.��

Make-A-Wish Foundation of the Mid-Atlantic:��Make-A-Wish® Mid-Atlantic grants the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions who reside in Maryland, Washington, DC, northern Virginia and central and southern Delaware.�� Since the chapter’s foundation in 1983, they have given the gift of a wish to over 8,700 local children fighting life-threatening medical conditions such as cancer. Click here to learn more.

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In recognition of World Alzheimer’s Day��������Ƶ’s Charities is celebrating the following agents of change who we are proud to call our members.

One of the most cost-efficient ways you can support these nonprofits��is to donate to them via payroll deduction through your employer’s workplace giving program (Don’t have a program?����to have your employer contact our team.) Click on each charity’s name below to learn more about their work, and to make a donation now!

Alzheimer’s Disease Research (a program of BrightFocus Foundation):��

Alzheimer’s Disease Research is a leader in funding innovative science that is the key to unlocking the mysteries of this disease. Many scientists get their first grant from Alzheimer’s Disease Research, which validates their work and opens the door for more grants from other sources.�� to learn more.��

Insight Memory Care Center (IMCC)

Serving Northern Virginia since 1984,��Insight Memory Care Center��is a nonprofit adult day health and resource center providing specialized care, support, and education for individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and other memory impairments, their families, caregivers, and the community.�� IMCC offers a spectrum of holistic care, with a vision of a community where those affected by memory impairments can achieve the highest quality of life. to learn more about their work.

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Click below to learn how each of these nonprofits are helping people prevent, treat, and survive melanoma,��and for ways you can support their work.��

One of the most cost-efficient ways you can help��these nonprofits��is to donate to them through your employer’s workplace giving program Don’t have a program?����to have your employer contact our team, and��click here��to learn more about what employee workplace giving is and how it works.

Melanoma Research Alliance:��The Melanoma Research Alliance (MRA) is the largest non-profit funder of melanoma research.��Since its founding in 2007, MRA has committed $101 million in funding to end suffering and death due to melanoma by collaborating with all stakeholders to accelerate powerful research, advance cures for all patients, and prevent more melanomas.��Since MRA’s founding, an unprecedented 12 new therapies have been approved by the FDA to treat melanoma, bringing the total number to 14. Advances in melanoma research are having a ripple effect across the field of oncology. Melanoma has been called the case study for state-of-the-art cancer drug development, precision medicine, and immunotherapy. In fact, therapies that were pioneered in melanoma are now being tested in more than 30 different tumor types. MRA has directly funded 372 investigators at 126 different institutions in 15 countries. to learn more.

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center:��Melanoma is among the most serious forms of��skin cancer. If you or someone you care about has been diagnosed with this condition, you may be coping with a lot of difficult questions and concerns — plus the stress of the unknown. Where should you go for care? What are your treatment options? from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center is a good place to begin.

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This year’s National Cancer Research Month theme is “Close the Care Gap” and we’re celebrating the work our nonprofit members are doing to do just that. Cancer research saves lives and��one of the most cost-efficient ways you can help��these nonprofits��is to donate to them through your employer’s workplace giving program Don’t have a program?����to have your employer contact our team, and��click here��to learn more about what employee workplace giving is and how it works.

Click below to learn how each of these nonprofits are contributing to cancer research and for ways you can support their work.��

Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance (OCRA):��OCRA works every day to fund cures, foster community, further conversations and, ultimately, the cause. OCRA is the largest global organization dedicated to fighting ovarian cancer.�� They advance research to prevent, treat and defeat ovarian cancer.�� We support women and their families before, during and beyond diagnosis. And they work with all levels of government to ensure ovarian cancer is a priority. A��$100 donation can help fund a day of research. to learn more.

Melanoma Research Alliance:��The Melanoma Research Alliance (MRA) is the largest non-profit funder of melanoma research.��Since its founding in 2007, MRA has committed $101 million in funding to end suffering and death due to melanoma by collaborating with all stakeholders to accelerate powerful research, advance cures for all patients, and prevent more melanomas.��Since MRA’s founding, an unprecedented 12 new therapies have been approved by the FDA to treat melanoma, bringing the total number to 14. Advances in melanoma research are having a ripple effect across the field of oncology. Melanoma has been called the case study for state-of-the-art cancer drug development, precision medicine, and immunotherapy. In fact, therapies that were pioneered in melanoma are now being tested in more than 30 different tumor types. MRA has directly funded 372 investigators at 126 different institutions in 15 countries. to learn more.

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center:��Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) is the world’s oldest and largest private institution dedicated to the care and control of cancer.��Memorial Sloan Kettering was the first institution to successfully perform a bone marrow transplant from an unrelated donor, a breakthrough that dramatically increased the number of patients for which this lifesaving procedure is available. Memorial Sloan Kettering has also produced more FDA approved drugs for the treatment of cancer in the past four decades than any other single academic institution. Most recently, MSK spearheaded efforts that led to the FDA approval of ipilimumab (Yervoy) and vemurafenib (Zelboraf) for the treatment of advanced melanoma. These drugs represent the first new treatments for this type of cancer in nearly two decades. Each year, MSK counts more than 24,000 inpatient and 500,000 outpatient visits to its main campus in New York City and regional sites. While many of their patients reside in the tri-state area of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, many others travel from across the country and around the globe to seek MSK’s care. to learn more.

CureSearch:��Research is the only way to end childhood cancer. But we cannot pursue this goal at the cost of a child’s quality of life or long-term survival. We also cannot wait for the federal funding system to rise above its own bureaucracy in order to spur innovative new treatment options. We need innovative approaches now if the children of tomorrow are going to live long and healthy lives.��This is why CureSearch is committed to transcending the broken system by addressing its challenges head on. By accelerating the pace of cancer research via large, long-term commitments to the most novel and promising science, we are driving ever faster to clinical use with patients—not in ten years, not in five, but right now. CureSearch is building the kind of transformative partnerships that will eliminate silos, increase collaboration, encourage invention, and help develop targeted therapies to reduce toxicity and improve quality of life for survivors. Finally, CureSearch is closely measuring and communicating its impact on children and families—every single day.����Accelerate the search. End childhood cancer. Join CureSearch today.�� to learn more.��

Breast Cancer Coaltion:��Breast Cancer Coalition is dedicated to knowing how to end breast cancer by January 1, 2020 through the power of grassroots action and advocacy.��NBCC is quite different from other breast cancer organizations. They are about challenging the status quo, catalyzing research and science, leveraging existing resources and giving those diagnosed and those at risk of breast cancer the tools to make decisions for themselves. NBCC’s achievements range from generating more than $3.3 billion of federal funding for breast cancer research to creating a system of access to health care for uninsured women with breast and cervical cancer to launching international training programs in science and health care; but it’s simply not enough.��While the vast majority of resources are focused on finding the next treatment, NBCC is doing something very different.�� They are bringing together unprecedented collaborations among scientists, visionaries, and advocates to catalyze, plan and implement work in two major areas: how to prevent metastasis to save lives and how to prevent the disease from developing in the first instance.�� to learn more.�� �� ��

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1. Health and Development: advocate for greater recognition of the bidirectional links between poverty and poor health, and strengthen intersectoral work to address health risks and socio-economic determinants
2. Health and Security: taking steps to reduce health risks from outbreaks of new, existing and mutating diseases, and providing assistance to countries in strengthening trauma care and mass casualty management systems
3. Health Systems: Bridging the prevention and treatment gaps, and integrating management of chronic conditions, nutrition services,��and mental health into primary healthcare, including prevention and community-based rehabilitation
4. Information and Knowledge: Devising guidelines on evidence-based interventions for health promotion and risk reduction
5. Partnerships: promote partnerships for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases, nutritional deficiencies, mental and substance use disorders, violence and injuries, and disabilities.��
6. Performance: Monitor noncommunicable diseases, nutritional deficiencies, mental and substance use disorders, violence and injuries, and disabilities, and their determinants and to evaluate progress at the national, regional and global levels

In honor of #WorldHealthDay, ������Ƶ’s Charities is celebrating our member charities whose programs and health care services ensure that everyone, everywhere, can realize the right to good health.

Click on the nonprofit’s name to learn more about what they do.

• AIDS Fund
• Alzheimer’s Disease Research (BrightFocus Foundation)
• Alzheimer’s – Insight Memory Care Center
• ������Ƶn Red Cross Serving Central Texas��
• Breast Cancer Coalition
• Capital Caring
• CMT Research Foundation
• Diabetes Research Institute Foundation, Inc.
• Diabetes Research & Wellness Foundation
• FNIH (Foundation for the National Institutes of Health)
• Hope Connections for Cancer Support
• International Planned Parenthood Federation, Western Hemisphere Region
• Melanoma Research Alliance
• The Marfan Foundation
• Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
• Montgomery Hospice, Inc.
• Multiple Sclerosis Association of ������Ƶ
• NARAL Pro-Choice ������Ƶ Foundation
• National Down Syndrome Society
• Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance
• Ronald McDonald House Charities®
• The Caring Foundation of Texas
• The Children’s Inn At NIH
• YMCA of Metropolitan Washington

On April 7th and all year round through workplace giving, we encourage you to:

• Join us in celebrating World Health Day! Follow us on and as we share how our members’ specific programs and impact.

• One of the most cost-efficient ways you can support these nonprofits is to donate to them via payroll deduction through your employer’s workplace giving program (Don’t have a program? to have your employer contact our team.) Click on each charity’s name above to learn more about their work, and to make a donation now!

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While November is National Diabetes Month, and today in particular, researchers and nonprofits around the world unite to commemorate World Diabetes Day, the need for continued research towards treatments and cures remains strong.

Stand together with leading researchers and charities worldwide to help cure diabetes. In recognition of World Diabetes Day on November 14, 2023, ������Ƶ’s Charities is celebrating the following members who are making a difference in the fight to end diabetes.

One of the most cost-efficient ways you can support these nonprofits��is to donate to them via payroll deduction through your employer’s workplace giving program (Don’t have a program?����to have your employer contact our team.) Click on each charity’s name below to learn more about their work, and to make a donation now!

Diabetes Research & Wellness Foundation
Funds scientific research into treating and curing diabetes, as well as providing��screenings and��education programs to save lives from blindness, kidney failure, and amputations.

Diabetes Research Institute Foundation
Funds and supports research aimed at developing��a biological cure by restoring natural insulin production and normalizing blood sugar levels without imposing other risks.

Feeding ������Ƶ
A��nationwide network of 200 member food banks that provide food to more than 46 million people, including 12 million children and 7 million seniors, through 60,000 food pantries and meal programs and engage more than 2 million volunteers monthly in communities across the U.S.��Feeding ������Ƶ has conducted deep research into Diabetes and focuses on nutrition to prevent Diabetes and other diseases tied to poor quality diet.

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In recognition of National Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month��November 1-30, 2022, ������Ƶ’s Charities is celebrating the following members who are making a difference in the fight to end Alzheimer’s Disease.

One of the most cost-efficient ways you can support these nonprofits��is to donate to them via payroll deduction through your employer’s workplace giving program (Don’t have a program?����to have your employer contact our team.) Click on each charity’s name below to learn more about their work, and to make a donation now!

Alzheimer’s – Insight Memory Care Center��
Provides care, support, and education for individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and other memory impairments, their families, caregivers, and the community, through their adult day health and resource center.

Alzheimer’s Disease Research
Advances research to better understand, treat, and prevent Alzheimer’s. Founded in 1985, Alzheimer’s Disease Research has awarded nearly $120 million to innovative projects aimed at ending the disease.��

FNIH (Foundation for the National Institutes of Health)
Generates and implements new research models that lower the cost and accelerate the progress of biomedical research through public-private partnerships. One of the many groundbreaking initiatives FNIH manages is the Alzheimers Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI).��The��, is a landmark partnership and study that for years has profoundly influenced our understanding of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) by identifying the earliest changes in brain structure and function that signal its onset and progression.

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In recognition of Diabetes Awareness Month November 1-30, 2022, ������Ƶ’s Charities is celebrating the following members who are making a difference in the fight to end diabetes.

One of the most cost-efficient ways you can support these nonprofits��is to donate to them via payroll deduction through your employer’s workplace giving program (Don’t have a program?����to have your employer contact our team.) Click on each charity’s name below to learn more about their work, and to make a donation now!

Diabetes Research & Wellness Foundation
Funds scientific research into treating and curing diabetes, as well as providing��screenings and��education programs to save lives from blindness, kidney failure, and amputations.

Diabetes Research Institute Foundation
Funds and supports research aimed at developing��a biological cure by restoring natural insulin production and normalizing blood sugar levels without imposing other risks.

Feeding ������Ƶ
A��nationwide network of 200 member food banks that provide food to more than 46 million people, including 12 million children and 7 million seniors, through 60,000 food pantries and meal programs and engage more than 2 million volunteers monthly in communities across the U.S.��Feeding ������Ƶ has conducted deep research into Diabetes and focuses on nutrition to prevent Diabetes and other diseases tied to poor quality diet.

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While November is National Diabetes Month, and today in particular, researchers and nonprofits around the world unite to commemorate World Diabetes Day, the need for continued research towards treatments and cures remains strong.

Stand together with leading researchers and charities worldwide to help cure diabetes. In recognition of World Diabetes Day on November 14, 2022, ������Ƶ’s Charities is celebrating the following members who are making a difference in the fight to end diabetes.

One of the most cost-efficient ways you can support these nonprofits��is to donate to them via payroll deduction through your employer’s workplace giving program (Don’t have a program?����to have your employer contact our team.) Click on each charity’s name below to learn more about their work, and to make a donation now!

Diabetes Research & Wellness Foundation
Funds scientific research into treating and curing diabetes, as well as providing��screenings and��education programs to save lives from blindness, kidney failure, and amputations.

Diabetes Research Institute Foundation
Funds and supports research aimed at developing��a biological cure by restoring natural insulin production and normalizing blood sugar levels without imposing other risks.

Feeding ������Ƶ
A��nationwide network of 200 member food banks that provide food to more than 46 million people, including 12 million children and 7 million seniors, through 60,000 food pantries and meal programs and engage more than 2 million volunteers monthly in communities across the U.S.��Feeding ������Ƶ has conducted deep research into Diabetes and focuses on nutrition to prevent Diabetes and other diseases tied to poor quality diet.

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