Honor their memory with a charitable gift.

The Medicare Rights Center is a national, nonprofit consumer service organization that works to ensure access to affordable health care for older adults and people with disabilities through counseling and advocacy, educational programs, and public policy initiatives. 

To generate the resources to find a cure, to create awareness and to improve the quality of life for those affected by Charcot-Marie-Tooth.

Public Citizen Foundation is the 501(c)(3) arm of Public Citizen that advances consumer protection, government accountability, and public-interest policy through research, public education, and litigation. Its work focuses on making government and corporations more accountable, protecting health and safety, and defending consumers’ rights.

To raise and respond to ethical issues in health and healthcare.

Forward Together unites communities to win rights, recognition and resources for all families.We transform culture and policy to work for all of us nationwide. Since our founding in 1989, we have continually fought to dismantle the ways our society marginalizes us based on race, sexuality, and gender. Today, we build courage and foster connection among our multi-racial community of changemakers to secure the rights, recognition and resources all families need to thrive.

Since 1981, the John Wayne name has been committed by the Wayne family to groundbreaking cancer research and education in memory of their father who died of cancer. The John Wayne Cancer Institute at Saint John's Health Center is a cancer research institute dedicated to the understanding and curing of cancer in order to eliminate patient suffering worldwide. Our mission is accomplished through innovative clinical and laboratory research and the education of the next generation of surgical oncologists and scientists. In fulfilling its mission, the John Wayne Cancer Institute: * Conducts innovative research focusing on biological mechanisms to provide new understandings of the cause, diagnosis, control, and cure of cancer. * Provides training for new generations of surgical scientists who study and treat cancer. * Offers unique experimental treatment services to rapidly develop and test new forms of diagnosis and therapy in order to improve the quality of life and expected survival of those afflicted with cancer. The Institute has received worldwide acclaim for advances in melanoma (skin cancer), breast and colon cancer as well as immune therapy of cancer. Other areas of research include prostate and liver cancer. At JWCI, the close relationship between research and clinical care, combined with the multidisciplinary expertise of our specialists, produces the best science, the best medicine, and the greatest hope for our patients.

STAR works to improve sensory health and wellness by providing evidence-informed treatment, professional education, and research into sensory processing across the lifespan. Their programs deliver clinical therapy and training for clinicians, plus research and public resources to help individuals and families affected by sensory-processing differences.

Center on Addiction and Partnership for Drug-Free Kids have merged, bringing together the expertise of two the nation’s most prominent nonprofits committed to ending addiction. The Center’s mission is to transform how our nation addresses addiction by empowering families, advancing effective care, shaping public policy, and changing culture. Center on Addiction is the only national nonprofit committed to supporting the whole family as they address every aspect of substance use and addiction, from prevention to recovery.

Doctors for America mobilizes doctors and medical students to be leaders in putting patients over politics on the pressing issues of the day to improve the health of the patients, communities, and nation.

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