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About The Goddess Fund

Accomplishments

In its first three years, The Goddess Fund has accomplished more than some organizations achieve in years. With your support, the best is yet to come.

  • Developed a world-class Medical Advisory Board of pre-eminent stroke professionals representing the country’s leading academic medical institutions.
  • Built a lay board of leading professionals in education, communications, government and business, each of whose lives have been personally touched by stroke in women.
  • Initiated a research grant program to fund young investigators pursuing basic and clinical research on compelling issues related to stroke in women.
  • Secured a $600,000 launch grant from Pfizer, one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies.
  • Reviewed multiple grant applications and selected five proposals with great potential to change stroke health care for women.
  • Advocated for and orchestrated Congressional Hearings on stroke in women and provided expert witnesses to testify about the need for increased research funding in this area.
  • Worked with key Senate staff to increase government funding for research on stroke in women and was instrumental in encouraging the U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services to provide, for the first time, a separate section on stroke in women in its 2001 and subsequent Appropriations Reports to the Senate in 2002 and 2003.
  • Initiated a Washington-based out-reach program aimed at business and government opinion leaders, which includes co-sponsoring an educational symposium with the Society for Women’s Health Research.
  • Created and distributed pamphlets with cutting-edge information, including "Stroke, Multi-ethnicity, and Gender" and "Women, Estrogen and Stroke".
  • Created and nationally distributed self-empowering wallet-size, laminated stroke awareness cards in English and Spanish, which were featured in the May 2002 issue of Ladies' Home Journal and through the web sites of LifeTime TV and Good Housekeeping in 2003.
  • Launched our web site (www.thegoddessfund.org). The site includes important information about new research on stroke in women and our on-line giving program.