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Goal: $5,000
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Our mission is to improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth, and infant mortality. We carry out this mission through research, community services, education and advocacy to save babies' lives. March of Dimes researchers, volunteers, educators, outreach workers and advocates work together to give all babies a fighting chance against the threats to their health: prematurity, birth defects, low birthweight.
The first great polio epidemic in the U.S. was in 1916. The disease infected mostly children, killing thousands and leaving many more paralyzed. On a summer day in 1921, Franklin D. Roosevelt became one of its victims and the March of Dimes was born.
Through life saving research we beat polio, but we continue our efforts to help children today by working to save babies from the silent crisis of premature birth.
What the Future Holds
Just as we met the challenge of polio with determination – and succeeded in defeating this threat to our children’s health, so are we determined to win the fight against prematurity.
Since 1984, the foundation has funded at least 200 grants grants related to low birthweight and prematurity totaling more than $13 million. In 1998, the March of Dimes began its six-year Perinatal Epidemiology Research Initiative, investing more than $5.7 million in research to study how factors such as stress, infection, genetics and environment may trigger preterm labor.
No one is working harder than the March of Dimes to fight premature birth. We will continue the fight until we reach the day when every baby is born healthy.
THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT! |
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