Abundance Foundation
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Program 1 [2020]
HEALTH: Dr. Stephen Kahn, the Foundation's President, is a board-certified emergency medicine physician. Dr. Kahn has extensive experience working in global health ecosystems and he provides clinical and health system expertise for the Foundation's program partners. Having completed his medical training at Harvard Medical School (HMS), Dr. Kahn now serves on HMS's Board of Fellows and he is the Chair of the HMS Global Health and Service Advisory Council In 2020, the Abundance Foundation continued and built on its multifaceted global health commitment -- made in partnership with Harvard Medical School and Partners In Health -- that is called the Abundance Project for Global Health (APGH). For over a decade, this project has supported training global health leaders, researching tools to prevent the spread of epidemic disease, and addressing the social determinants of health. The APGH has provided longstanding, foundational support for the Better Evidence program at Ariadne Labs, which is a joint center for health systems innovation at Brigham & Women's Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. 2020 marked the 10th year of the Abundance Foundation partnering with Better Evidence and Wolters Kluwer to provide free access to the exceptional evidence-based digital clinical tools (known as UpToDate) to more than 24,000 providers serving vulnerable populations in over 120 countries around the world. This is a 38% growth in providers over 2019. 2020 was also notable for the continued expansion of the Better Evidence for Training Program - doubling the number of teaching facilities in Africa receiving free access to UpToDate, from 24 to 47 facilities, reaching more than 22,000 medical students, residents and faculty across 16 medical schools. Dr. Kahn's ongoing support has also allowed the Better Evidence team to nimbly respond to the pandemic. Early in the pandemic the team helped set the stage for thinking about COVID-19 vaccine delivery, with monumental pieces published in Health Affairs and Harvard Business Review. These early pieces were among the first to warn of "vaccine nationalismX and led to ongoing engagements in support of equitable vaccine planning and delivery - such as the Vaccine Allocation and Social Justice virtual conference in December 2020. Also in 2020, the Better Evidence team developed the COVID-19 Vaccine Allocation Planner. This tool, endorsed by the National Governors' Association and recommended by the CDC, supported decision makers with the data they needed to equitably allocate limited vaccine supply. It was accessed in 160+ countries around the world, processed more than 50 million transactions, and was used by the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Univision, NBC, and others to develop interactive tools to help the general public understand their place in the vaccine line. Over the last decade of the APGH, the Abundance Foundation has collaborated with Dr. Megan Murray and her colleagues to build research capacity in resource-poor countries and to control epidemic diseases including Cholera and Ebola. Dr. Murray is the Director of Harvard Medical School's Global Health Research Core (GHRC), and she hypothesizes that BCG, which has a century- long safe track record, had unique potential to offer an effective and equitable solution as the most widely used vaccine in the world. In March 2020, when COVID-19 started to spread more widely, the Abundance Foundation supported Dr. Murray's clinical research to evaluate the effectiveness of the BCG vaccine to prevent COVID-19 and a wide range of other respiratory infections. The Foundation worked to spread the word about Dr. Murray's work and connect with other funders to support a randomized, placebo- controlled clinical trial. In response to the COVID pandemic, the Abundance Foundation supported and made grants to the Haiti Clinic, where Drs. Kobel Dubique and Nadege Belizaire responded to their communities' pressing health needs. This year-as a new component of the APGH, the Abundance Foundation partnered with Dr. Eugene Richardson and his colleagues to explore moral, legal, economic, historical, and political evidence for various global claims to reparations and redistributive justice. Dr. Richardson is a co-author of the Lancet Commission on Reparations and Redistributive Justice and is an Assistant Professor at the Harvard Medical School Department of Global Health and Social Medicine. In solidarity with Black Lives Matter Week of Action, the Abundance Foundation made six $2,000 grants in 2020 to the following Black-led social justice organizations: Movement for Black Lives, Chicago Community Bond Fund, Black LGBTQIA Migrant Project, Okra Project's Tony McDade and Nina Pop Mental Health Fund, Black Mamas Bailout. On July 1, 2020, the Abundance Foundation's President Dr. Stephen Kahn moderated a conversation with Dr. Paul Farmer and Dr. Jim Kim, on overcoming the societal and health system disparities exposed by COVID-19. Jim Kim is the former president of the World Bank, co-founder of Partners in Health and - to address the COVID pandemic - special adviser to the Massachusetts Community Tracing Collaborative. Paul Farmer is Chair of Harvard Medical School's Department of Global Health and Social Medicine and co-founder of Partners In Health. Throughout 2020, as Chair of the HMS Global Health and Service Advisory Council, Dr. Kahn highlighted and worked to gain support for the work of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine (DGHSM). Their unique ability to respond to the multifaceted health equity challenges that the COVID- 19 pandemic presented was built on the Department's nearly 150 year history of responding to epidemic disease and addressing disparities rooted in the social determinants of health. The DGHSM's establishment in 2020 of two new Harvard Medical School Professorships of Global Health and Social Medicine is emblematic of the growing support of this work, and will ensure the legacy of this critical work for centuries to come.GeographiesNot indicatedDatesJan 1, 2020 – Dec 31, 2020Source990No causes providedNo populations provided–$471.2KProgram 2 [2020]
ARTS & EDUCATION: Abundance has been a supporter of the Out of Eden Walk (OOEW) for nearly a decade. Our partnership began long before Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and National Geographic Society explorer Paul Salopek began his 25,000 mile on-foot journey following the path of human migration. The Abundance Foundation's President, Dr. Kahn continues to serve on the OOEW's Board of Trustees. By 2020, Out of Eden Walk has produced a total of over 425 in-depth articles on topics ranging from mass migration and cultural survival to environmental crises; and on National Geographic Digital, OOEW had published more than 400,000 words, 1,500 photos and 280 videos, with an archive of 50,000 unpublished images. Abundance was the original supporter and strategic partner for the creation of Out of Eden Learn (OOEL), a unique, custom-built social media platform for students aged 3-19, inspired by the Out of Eden Walk. OOEL is an initiative of Project Zero, a research institute at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The program provides collective learning experiences, grouping together students of similar ages from diverse geographical and socioeconomic settings. Since the platform's inception, Abundance Foundation staff has played a vital role in advising and supporting the core OOEL team in program and curriculum design, research, and development work. OOEL responded to the COVID-19 crisis by developing new resources and adapting old ones to meet an unprecedented moment for educators and learners everywhere. Two new learning journeys were created to accommodate students affected by the pandemic: Looking Closely at Objects with Other Generations, and Creating and Sharing Neighborhood Maps. Throughout the pandemic, the OOEL teacher and student community has remained robust. To date, this entirely free program has engaged well over 40,000 students in 62 countries and 43 states, inviting young people to (1) slow down to observe the world carefully and listen attentively to others; (2) share stories and perspectives with one another; and (3) make connections between their own lives and bigger human stories. In an exciting new development in 2020, Out of Eden Learn began the process of negotiating a partnership with the National Geographic Society so that National Geographic can integrate OOEL into their own educational offerings and extend the reach of this inspired learning approach to millions of students around the world. In partnership with the Abundance Foundation, Project Zero launched Agency by Design, which explores the practices and pedagogies of maker- centered learning; and resulted in the publication of the book "Maker- Centered Learning: Empowering Young People to Shape Their Worlds." In addition to research on K-12 maker-centered learning, the work included an action-research component based in Oakland, CA, involving dozens of teachers and administrators from a consortium of six public, charter, and private schools. These Oakland educators came to the project with a steadfast commitment to racial justice and equity. Abundance was the anchor strategic and operational partner from the initiation through to the launch of this dimension of the project as an independent non-profit, Agency by Design - Oakland (AbD-Oakland). In 2020, Abundance Foundation supported AbD Oakland to pivot during the pandemic and reach 3,766 Oakland youth, 30 educators in 12 schools. In response to the COVID pandemic, Abundance supported the Center for the Arts Port-au-Prince to provide tools for the girls involved in this program to create community handwashing stations amongst other activities. Additionally, in 2020 the Abundance Foundation continued to provide support for Voice of Witness, a non-profit that advances human rights by amplifying the voices of people impacted by systemic injustice. Since its founding, The Abundance Foundation has been a consistent supporter of Chapter 510. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Abundance supported Chapter 510's pivot to delivering books and supplies to 100 families.GeographiesNot indicatedDatesJan 1, 2020 – Dec 31, 2020Source990No causes providedNo populations provided–$186.2KAbundance Project for Global Health
Dr. Stephen Kahn, President of the Abundance Foundation, is a seasoned emergency medicine physician with extensive experience in global health ecosystems. He provides his clinical and health system expertise to the Foundation's program partners.2022 was the twelfth year of the Abundance Project for Global Health, a commitment made in collaboration with Harvard Medical School & Partners In Health. This project tackles epidemic diseases (Cholera, Ebola & COVID-19), enhances global health professional training, supports research, and widens medical information accessibility. Core Project endeavors included cholera vaccine research (Haiti), Human Resources for Health (Rwanda), & the Master of Medical Science of Global Health Delivery (Harvard), and the free distribution of Up to Date worldwide.GeographiesNot indicatedDatesJan 1, 2022 – Dec 31, 2022Source990No causes providedNo populations provided–$457.1K
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