Partners: Foundations

“Legacy is committed to building partnerships with organizations to ensure tobacco prevention is top-of-mind.”

- Lyndon Haviland
Executive Vice President
American Legacy Foundation

Since its creation, the CDC Foundation has worked closely with foundations to build programs that address specific health threats. Among these foundation-supported initiatives is a program to improve health care and water safety in war-torn Afghanistan and programs to train disease detectives in developing nations like India and Kenya. Foundations may also help advance the mission of the CDC Foundation and improve public health by providing unrestricted support.

Featured Foundation Partnerships

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Helps CDC Foundation Prepare Business, Government and Nonprofit Leaders for Public Health Emergencies

CDC Foundation and Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Partner to Improve Child Abuse Prevention Programs

Programmatic Support

The following foundations supported CDC Foundation programs that were initiated or active between July 1, 2005 and June 30, 2006. Click on the links below to learn more about the programs currently supported by each foundation.

Unrestricted Support

  • Community Foundation for Southeastern Michigan
  • Hover Family Trust
  • Kansas Health Foundation
  • The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
  • National Foundation for Infectious Diseases
  • Pennington Biomedical Research Foundation
  • Arthur S. and Norma J. Shufro Family Foundation

Together the CDC Foundation and its foundation partners are striving to enhance CDC’s impact around the world. To learn more about how foundations can get involved in the work of CDC contact Julie Rodgers at 404-653-0790.