August 2018 Donations

August meant another 4Ocean bracelet (I can't help myself!) plus new donations to Team Fox and the World Wildlife Foundation. All wonderful organisations - see below for more info on them and links to their sites so you can donate, too!

4Ocean

Team Fox

The Michael J. Fox Foundation is dedicated to finding a cure for Parkinson's disease through an aggressively funded research agenda and to ensuring the development of improved therapies for those living with Parkinson's today.

Our Core Values
We are 100% patient-focused.
Our team works tirelessly every day with one urgent goal in mind: Accelerating breakthroughs patients can feel in their everyday lives. We strive to make progress in the following key areas by evaluating risk, opportunities, and challenges through a patient-focused lens:
-Speed treatments that can slow, stop or reverse the progression of Parkinson's disease
-Speed better treatments for the currently unaddressed or under-addressed symptoms of Parkinson's disease
-Speed treatments to address or avoid the debilitating side effects of current Parkinson's disease drugs

We are obsessed with efficiency.
We operate with a focused sense of optimistic urgency to find a cure for Parkinson's and to ensure the development of improved therapies for people living with Parkinson's today. We won't stop until a cure is found. We're on it.

We won't stop until a cure is found.
We take pride in all our accomplishments so far. But ultimately we have only one definition of success: Scientific solutions that produce tangible improvements in patients' lives.

We are risk-takers and problem-solvers.
From inception, MJFF has invested in high-risk, high-reward research targets; an approach that in 10 short years has transformed the broader approach in the PD research field.

Our model is different.
It is accepted practice among private disease research funders that the most important decisions -- how to allocate donor-raised dollars -- are made by external scientific advisors and boards. We bucked this model from day one in favor of building an in-house team of formally trained PhDs and business-trained project managers.

World Wildlife Foundation

Our work is focused around 6 ambitious goals with people at the center.
WWF’s work has evolved from saving species and landscapes to addressing the larger global threats and forces that impact them. Recognizing that the problems facing our planet are increasingly more complex and urgent, we have refined the way in which we work around an ambitious new strategy. Our new strategy puts people at the center and organizes our work around six key areas: forests, marine, freshwater, wildlife, food and climate. By linking these six areas in an integrated approach, we can better leverage our unique assets and direct all our resources to protecting vulnerable places, species and communities worldwide.

People are at the center of our work because together we can change the trajectory of the threats to nature, and help ensure nature’s ability to provide—for the sake of every living thing, including ourselves.

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