The Sarasota Herald Tribune featured this commentary in their business section.

The CDC Foundation

By David Kotok
Posted Mar 30, 2020

Dear readers. The CDC Foundation is not widely known. It’s a 501(c)3 that was created by Congress as a special charitable agency. The foundation works right alongside the CDC and other national health agencies but is an independent charity. It has a special-purpose charter. Its purpose is to respond rapidly to threats like COVID-19.

As part of our efforts to share information about COVID19, we want to bring attention to the CDC Foundation and ask readers to please consider supporting it. The details are contained in the following short Q&A with Judy Monroe. She was kind enough to take a few minutes to answer the questions I posed. We hope readers find this worthwhile. Please stay safe. Please forward this to anyone who might be willing to help the CDC Foundation at this critical moment in time.

DK: Judy, can the CDC Foundation put additional funding to work immediately during the COVID-19 crisis?

JM:Absolutely, there are incredible needs emerging, both on the public health front and in communities. While government support is absolutely essential to address this outbreak, no government, no organization and no individual can combat coronavirus alone.

Each of us can play a crucial role in ending the COVID-19 pandemic by providing support that can be used by frontline responders to meet rapidly emerging needs where government support may not be immediately available.

There are many immediate needs where the CDC Foundation, which is an independent nonprofit organization, and its donors can have true impact. Some of these include flexible support for:

– Creating education and awareness campaigns to advance prevention and reduce stigma;

– Deploying emergency staff with the skills required to meet needs at the state and local level;

– Meeting essential needs, such as food and medical requirements, for quarantined and individuals in isolation;

– Building capacity and infrastructure for global response efforts;

– And much more.

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