FUNDING AND RESOURCE ORGANIZATIONS Maintaining adequate
funds is a major challenge for charitable organizations. Generally it is a balancing act to deliver
the program services and generate the required funding. Consequently, they depend heavily
on community agencies to help generate the shortfall in program funding, conduct research,
provide training and lobby for policy reform. Funding agencies realize the need for the charitable
organizations and have become strategic partners. PGA Professionals also play a major role
because they help organize and manage golf outings to support charitable causes.
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY
The American Cancer Society combines an unyielding passion with nearly a century
of experience to save lives and end suffering from cancer. As a global grassroots force
of more than 3 million volunteers, we are working to create a world with less cancer
and more birthdays. We help people through early detection, healing after cancer
diagnosis and passage of legislative reform. As the nation’s largest non-governmental
investor in cancer research, contributing more than $3.4 billion, we turn what we
know about cancer into what we do.
MARCH OF DIMES
The March of Dimes was started in 1938 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to
find a cure for polio. On April 12, 1955 that dream was realized by Dr. Jonas Salk.
Their mission today is to improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects,
premature birth and infant mortality. They carry out this mission through research,
community services, education and advocacy to save babies’ lives. Researchers,
including 11 Nobel Prize winners, have brought about many important medical
advances such as the first successful bone marrow transplant to correct a birth
defect; the discovery that alcohol consumption during pregnancy causes birth
defects; first prenatal diagnosis of sickle cell anemia; the successful use of surfactant
to treat respiratory distress syndrome (RDS); successful use of gene therapy to treat
hemophilia and retinitis pigmentosa in the lab; and the list of achievements continues.
WISCONSIN UNITED WAYS
The mission of the 31 Wisconsin United Ways is to improve lives by mobilizing the
caring power of communities within the state to advance the common good. The
vision is that all individuals and families will achieve their human potential through
education, income stability and healthy lives. Chief Executive Officers from 10
Chapters participated in a special “United Way Community Day” to collaborate
on ways to improve youth education, healthy relationships with adults and increase
high school graduation rates across the State.
The United Ways are: Sheboygan and Plymouth Area, Brown County, Oshkosh
Area, Marathon County, Fox Cities, Manitowoc County, Dane County, Inner
Wisconsin, Green Bay and Fond Du Lac Area.
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