The Foundation’s resources owe largely to the involvement of our founders in the health care industry, and since our beginning we have encouraged efforts at improving the delivery of health care. At present, we support medical training at the Angkor Hospital for Children in Cambodia and a program for the humanities and medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York.
Many well-run organizations in the health field deserve respect and support. Among these we have chosen are: Gay Men's Health Crisis, supporting people living with HIV-AIDS; the Adaptive Design Association, which creates customized equipment that children with disabilities need to participate fully in home, school, and community life; and Kidsave, for its programs giving kids living in foster care a chance for a real and supportive family life.
Grants for public health and sanitation projects, especially those concerned with clean water, often seem to us particularly cost-effective. We support the Acumen Fund’s entrepreneurial strategy aimed at problems of global poverty and have particular interests in their health, water, and housing projects.
Most of the Foundation’s resources in this area will be committed to continuing projects, but we remain interested in new and experimental initiatives aimed at low-cost solutions to the health problems of large numbers of people.
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