Thanks to my dear friend Danny Levine, 'The Project' Charity blog is live! This will become part of our website site - www.theprojectcharity.org - so stay tuned. I will provide updates as to progress as we finally get this amazing organization off the ground. A special thanks to Allison Young of Mintz Levin and her firm for taking on all the legal work necessary to make 'The Project' official.
The Project Charity will be a self sustaining granting organization that will focus on helping those families, their children and the organizations that support them. Each of these beneficiaries all have one thing in common - they have been diagnosed with or represent a rare/orphan disease. As part of our mission, we as an organization will also help educate the world about these varied diseases, because collectively, rare diseases affect almost 25 million of our friends and family. We have a responsibility to bring greater awareness to these ever increasing diseases.
We have a very unique and exciting program planned to help our fundraising efforts - this will be announced very soon.
I can be reached by phone 949.305.8656 or temporarily by email at nboice@hotmail.com , with any questions, comments or feedback.
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Mission Statement
To impact the lives of children with rare disease, their families and the organizations that support them by building greater awareness related to the prevalence of Rare Disease and by becoming a catalyst for funding their critical efforts.
Why we exist
A rare disease by definition afflicts less than 200,000 people. This can make it difficult to find a diagnosis and treatment. It can also create substantial financial burdens for families. Charities and researchers seeking funding often find it difficult to garner the attention the resources they need because the diseases they focus on may affect so few people. The reality, though, is that there is nothing rare about rare diseases. While individually they affect few people, there are more than 6,000 rare diseases affecting nearly 25 million people or one out of 10 people in the United States.
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About 'The Project'
- The Project
- The Project will create an online community where children with rare diseases, their families, and the organizations that support them will have the opportunity to communicate, collaborate, become educated and tap existing resources, helping them with their daily challenges. Introducing - The Children’s Rare Disease Network Children and their families need information, resources and a coherent voice to speak to issues common to people who suffer from a rare disease. The Network will seek to work collaboratively with other organizations and raise the profile of the problems faced by people with rare diseases so that more funding can be directed into this area of great need. The Network will work with skilled journalists to build and establish a central website with focused content about research, policy and other developments around rare disease initiatives for individuals and the organizations that support them. The Network will serve as an online home for people with rare diseases that will bring together families, organizations, physician & researchers to exchange information and help each other.
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