The CDC Foundation helps CDC do more, faster by forging partnerships between CDC and others to fight threats to health and safety. The CDC Foundation helps CDC and the public health system save and improve lives by unleashing the power of collaboration between CDC, philanthropies, corporations, organizations and individuals to protect the health, safety and security of America and the world. The CDC Foundation is the go-to nonprofit authorized by Congress to mobilize philanthropic partners and private-sector resources to support CDC’s critical health protection mission. Since 1995, the CDC Foundation has raised over $1.6 billion and launched more than 1,200 programs impacting a variety of health threats from chronic disease conditions including cardiovascular disease and cancer, to infectious diseases like rotavirus and HIV, to emergency responses, including COVID-19 and Ebola. The CDC Foundation managed hundreds of programs in the U.S. and in more than 160 countries last year.

The CDC Foundation’s vision is to save and improve lives by unleashing the power of collaboration.

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Goal One: Health Equity: We are committed to supporting and working with communities to eliminate health inequities, improve health for all and realize our vision of vibrant and resilient communities.

Goal Type: Grow, expand, scale or increase access to the existing programs and services.

Goal Two: Climate Health: We recognize urgent opportunities to expand our partnerships and capacities to mitigate the effects of climate on human health and to build climate resilience among local communities.

Goal Type: New program(s) based on observed changes in needs among our constituencies/communities served.

Goal Three: Strengthening the Public Health System: We are working with partners to help strengthen the nation’s public health system following decades of under investment and challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Goal Type: Grow, expand, scale or increase access to the existing programs and services.

Describe an investment in leadership

In February of 2022, the CDC Foundation engaged in Leadership Development Training and Executive Coaching for the leadership team to develop their leadership capacity and effectiveness. A series of three, full-day training sessions of customized sessions over a 5-to-6-month period were presented. Topics included: • Structuring effective communication and strategies for resolving individual or inner-group conflict • Leading with Emotional Intelligence • Adaptive Leadership and Alignment • Strategic Triangle: Legitimacy and Support. Operational Capacity and Public Value We also provide training in leadership development in our programmatic teams for project management skills and certifications. In addition, training and development in our technology areas for our tools along with ongoing cultural training, sexual harassment training, unconscious bias training and cyber security training for managers and leaders of the Foundation.

This organization mobilizes for mission in the following ways:

• Strategic Partnerships

• Networks of Collective Impact Efforts

• Thought Leadership

• Raising Awareness

• Community Building

What are this organization’s external mobilizaton efforts?

The CDC Foundation is a catalyst for unleashing the power of collaboration between CDC and philanthropies, private entities and individuals to protect the health, safety and security of America and the world. We believe that people, groups and organizations have greater positive impact and can accomplish more collectively than individually. By aligning diverse interests and resources and leveraging all parties’ strengths, we help create greater impact than any one entity can alone. To advance strategic partnerships, community building and collective impact, the CDC Foundation has created a number partnership networks to build capacity and scale up the public health infrastructure, including a community-based organization network, a state and jurisdictional health department network and many other cross-sector collaborations.

In January 2020, the CDC Foundation activated its Emergency Response Fund to support the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s relief and recovery efforts in response to the novel coronavirus, the greatest public health threat over the last century. During FY2020 and FY2021, through incredibly generous donor support, the Foundation was able to mobilize more than $581.9 million in emergency response funding (as of April 2022) and in-kind contributions from a wide variety of donors—foundations, corporations, government agencies and individuals—to extend COVID-19 response efforts. CDC Foundation staff worked throughout the country to ensure the rapid and effective deployment of support and to fill gaps in public health infrastructure. In addition to providing more than 8 million pieces of personal protective equipment (PPE), more than 335 COVID-19 emergency response projects were launched in 94 states, territories and countries. We also hired more than 3,000 health department surge staff to support the public health work across the United States. While the COVID-19 emergency response was central to our impact, critical work continued on programs taking place across the globe to address health challenges. Prior to the COVID-19 response, we were fortunate to have already begun a technology transformation to improve and modernize our systems, and on March 13, 2020, the CDC Foundation’s core staff in our Atlanta headquarters office began working remotely. Foundation staff working from home leveraged our new Financial and Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) systems. We were able to hire additional staffing across the organization to support all areas of the Foundation. We also connected our Financial ERP system and our CRM to access real-time fundraising and financial data to quickly work to deploy public health resources where it was needed most.