The Best Stories of 2017
By The CCM Team
As 2017 drew to a close, our Storytellers compiled a list of the year's "Top 10" stories. Woven with the common threads of health and philanthropy, confronting topics that will continue to be of...
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January-February Health Awareness Events
By The CCM Team
January:
Cervical Health Awareness Month
National Birth Defects Prevention Month
National Glaucoma Awareness Month
National Radon Action Month
National Stalking Awareness Month
Thyroid...
Branding: Why is Skeletor getting so much work these days?
By Steve Smith
Here’s a fun story from AdAge about some beloved cartoon characters from the 80’s making a comeback in ad campaigns for cars, insurance and other things their fans, now all grown up,...
November-December Health Awareness Events
By the CCM Team
November:
National Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month
American Diabetes Month
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Awareness Month
Diabetic Eye Disease Month
National Epilepsy...
How Three Companies Created Win-Win Partnerships with Nonprofits
By Steve Smith
The most successful corporate sponsorships provide meaningful benefits for all parties: the company, its customers, the nonprofit organization and ultimately, the community. This story from Tampa...
A Culture of Collaboration
By David Chesnick
Cancer isn't grounding these snowbirds. Treating them – and sometimes just keeping up with them – requires a coordinated effort.
When snowbirds Jean Harnish and Linda Ann Turk flock to...
September-October Health Awareness Events
By The CCM Team
September:
National Atrial Fibrillation Awareness Month
Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
National Food Safety Education Month
Healthy Aging Month
Blood Cancer Awareness Month
National...
Life Insurance & Philanthropy: A Professional Analysis and Review Can Provide Leverage to Meet Philanthropic Goals
By Tom Cannizzaro
(RE-POSTED FROM JOURNEY MAGAZINE FOR LIFE INSURANCE AWARENESS MONTH)
Many readers of Journey have investment professionals working for them. If you fall into that category, you most likely will...
Glen Campbell: “I’m still here, but yet I’m gone.”
By Steve Smith
8/8/17: I’m re-posting this in memory of Glen Campbell. Diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2011, he died today at 81. His journey – from discovery and disclosure of his condition, to...
UF Health researchers receive $2.6M NIH grant to pursue MS vaccine
According to a report from Becker’s Hospital CFO News, two researchers at University of Florida Health in Gainesville received a $2.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to...
As Government Retrenches, Philanthropy Booms
Last year, as Kalamazoo, Mich., struggled with a budget deficit and other economic woes, two local philanthropists stepped forward, pledging $70 million to improve the city’s fortunes....
Seeking the Cure for Escalating Cancer Costs
By David Chesnick
Value-based care is changing the paradigm from “sick care” to “health care.”Increases in the cost of traditional fee-for-service medical care have become unsustainable....
Florida Cancer Specialists’ Maria Ramos-Person Named 2017 Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Woman of the Year
By Steve Smith
Please join CCM in congratulating our friend Maria Ramos-Person for being named 2017 Woman of the Year by the Suncoast Chapter of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS). Maria is Florida Cancer...
HIV Disparities in the South
By Richard Wolitski, Ph.D., Director, Office of HIV/AIDS and Infectious Disease PolicyU.S. Department of Health and Human Services
May 23, 2017
Why did it take us so long to focus our...
Trump’s huge cuts to science, medical research and disease prevention: An “unprecedented assault on research in the United States.”
By Steve Smith
President Trump's 2018 budget request, delivered to Congress on Tuesday has roiled the medical and science community with a call for massive cuts in spending on scientific research, medical...
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