We are committed to linking arms with
others who share our vision as we do policy
research, public education, media relations and
coalition building to create a more sane
health system…

As a 501c3 nonprofit organization that receives its support largely from foundations and individuals it is unrestricted dollars give Health & Medicine the flexibility to direct funds to those areas where they are most urgently needed.  But we would also like to make it possible (and easy) for both institutional and individual funders to support any area of our work that speaks to you.

In a recent interview with Quentin Young and Margie Schaps that appeared in our blog and was excerpted on Beth Kanter’s blog  Beth’s Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media Health & Medicine’s work was described in an interesting way:

“The issues that we work on are emblematic of the larger social injustice that needs to be addressed. We create “small movements’ around “hunks of oppression” that are mapped onto the larger social and health trends and issues.  Free standing birth centers are a good example…. We worked for 20 years on the issue of giving medically underserved women in Illinois access to choice in childbirth.  It’s a w omen’s reproductive rights issue. There’s a sexual/gender equality dimension. There is a need to oppose vested interests that continue to oppress the public– in this case the obstetrical specialties. It took 20 years to get legislation passed to allow the building of these centers in Illinois. There is now public acceptance of the idea. So the small movement we built within the health policy sphere, to leverage change, is now broadening as we make the next step public, garnering broader support from the public to demand these options in their communities…

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