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The Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation is a charitable organization headquartered in Short Hills, New Jersey, dedicated to finding treatments and cures for paralysis caused by spinal cord injury and other neurological disorders.

The organization's mission statement states, "The Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation is dedicated to curing spinal cord injury by funding innovative research, and improving the quality of life for people living with paralysis through grants, information and advocacy."[1] Since 1982, it has distributed over $138 million to spinal cord researchers,[2] and $28 million to nonprofits that aim to support better quality-of-life for people with disabilities.[3]

History

The foundation was started in 1982 by Henry Stifle, whose son had been injured in a motor vehicle accident. Its original name was the Stifle Paralysis Research Foundation, and it was later renamed the American Paralysis Association (APA).[4] In 1995, the actor Christopher Reeve became a quadriplegic as a result of a horse riding accident. Reeve sought out the help of the APA and lent them his name and funding, In 1996, the foundation was renamed the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation and then the Christopher Reeve Foundation.

After Reeve's death in October 2004, his widow, Dana Reeve, assumed the chairmanship of the Foundation. Dana Reeve herself died 17 months later, in March 2006, of lung cancer.[5]

On March 11, 2007, the Foundation announced that it had changed its name to the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation on the first anniversary of Dana Reeve's death. As of 2020, all three of Christopher and Dana Reeve's children serve on the foundation's board of directors.[6]

References

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See also

  1. ↑ Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation Press Kit. Archiviert vom Original am 3. April 2007; abgerufen am 22. März 2007.
  2. ↑ Our approach to research. In: Reeve Foundation. Abgerufen am 11. September 2020 (amerikanisches Englisch).
  3. ↑ Funding for nonprofits. In: Reeve Foundation. Abgerufen am 11. September 2020 (amerikanisches Englisch).
  4. ↑ History of the Reeve Foundation. In: Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation. Abgerufen am 18. Oktober 2020 (amerikanisches Englisch).
  5. ↑ Dana Reeve Brave to the End. In: PEOPLE.com. Abgerufen am 27. März 2020 (englisch).
  6. ↑ Board of Directors. In: Reeve Foundation. Abgerufen am 11. September 2020 (amerikanisches Englisch).
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