Corporations
Corporations, businesses and corporate foundations play a major role in helping CDC address national and global health threats. Many corporations partner with the CDC Foundation to support specific programs, as in the examples below. Often funding partners become engaged early on in a project to clearly understand its objectives or participate in the program design. Several partners may jointly fund a program to provide adequate resources to ensure its successful completion.
Corporations may also help advance the mission of the CDC Foundation and improve public health by providing unrestricted support through the Annual Alliance.
How does your corporation’s mission relate to CDC’s work? To learn more about creating a program with CDC to protect health and safety – including addressing chronic and infectious diseases, injuries and violence, and environmental and occupational health concerns – contact the CDC Foundation's Office of Advancement.
If you are looking for opportunities to do business with the CDC Foundation, please review our open requests for proposal. If you are looking for opportunities to do business with CDC, please visit fedbizopps.gov or grants.gov.
School Health Mini-Grants
Step 1: Opportunity
Address the childhood obesity epidemic and encourage schools to use CDC's School Health Index to assess and improve their overall health policies and programs.
Step 2: Solution
Cargill funds a grant program to help elementary schools in Cargill communities boost student health. Applicants are required to complete CDC School Health Index to be eligible for mini-grants.
Step 3: Impact
Approximately 600 schools complete School Health Index as part of the grant application process and complete action plans to implement low-cost improvements to existing programs. 47 mini-grants ranging from $1,000 to $10,000 help elementary schools improve student health through components such as building walking tracks, improving physical education curricula and increasing healthy food choices in lunchrooms and classrooms.
National Surveillance for MRSA
Step 1: Opportunity
Leverage an existing collaboration between CDC and state health departments to investigate drug-resistant skin infections in healthcare and community settings
Step 2: Solution
Pfizer Inc. and Astellas Pharma Inc. support supplemental surveys to the National Surveillance for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Surveys enable CDC to compare and evaluate outcomes of MRSA infections acquired in both healthcare and community settings.
Step 3: Impact
Unbiased CDC surveys provide credible proof that invasive MRSA is a high priority public health issue.
Success lays groundwork for national MRSA prevalence study, similar to surveys conducted in Europe. Pfizer and Astellas step up to support CDC pilot survey to evaluate the prevalence of healthcare-associated infections. Survey will be crucial to future development of U.S. infection surveillance infrastructure.
Responding to Infectious Disease Threats
Step 1: Opportunity
Build international public health capacity and improve countries’ ability to detect and respond to emerging infectious disease threats.
Step 2: Solution
Eli Lilly and Company work through the CDC Foundation to sponsor Lilly International Laboratory Fellowships to train a network of laboratory leaders around the world.
Step 3: Impact
Over five years, 36 Lilly Fellows from 17 countries were recruited by the Association of Public Health Laboratories and trained at CDC. A strong global network of laboratory leaders strenghtens capacity and facilitates rapid, multinational responses to infectious disease threats.
