The Chordoma Foundation is deeply grateful for the generosity, support and collaboration of these partner organizations.

Philanthropic Partners

Echoing Green
To accelerate social change, Echoing Green invests in and supports outstanding emerging social entrepreneurs to launch new organizations that develop new solutions to society’s most difficult problems. Since 1987, Echoing Green has supported nearly 450 organizations with bold ideas for social change.

The Chordoma Foundation was selected from more than 1400 applicants as one of only twenty 2008 Echoing Green organizations for pioneering a system to rapidly translate advances in biomedical research into meaningful knowledge and effective treatments for patients with overlooked cancers. This highly competitive award is a signal that some of the worlds brightest entrepreneurs from the business and nonprofit sectors believe in the Chordoma Foundation's innovative big-picture approach to accelerating research for a neglected cancer like chordoma.

Donate Games
Donate Games is a California-based nonprofit that funds orphan disease research by collecting and selling used video games. It was started by seasoned technology executive Jim Carol after is then 11 year-old son Taylor was diagnosed with a rare form of Leukemia. Taylor was blessed with a full recovery, however he and his whole family were left with an unshakable urge to make a difference in the lives of others suffering from orphan diseases. The Chordoma Foundation was chosen as one of the first three recipients of Donate Games funding and Josh Sommer has become a spokesman for Donate Games.

Academic Partners

Duke University Program on Global Health and Technology Access
To complement and support his work with the Chordoma Foundation, Josh Sommer has become a fellow in the Program on Global Health and Technology Access (GHTA) in the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University. Led by Dr. Anthony So, this program is known for developing and evaluating new models for innovation, sharing, and access to health technologies and information, particularly with respect to neglected or orphaned diseases.

Advocacy Partners

 
Alliance for Taxpayer Access
Access to the latest medical and scientific literature is crucial to help patients and their physicians make the most informed medical decisions. Unfortunately, at $30 to $50 per article, access to this information - which is generated at the taxpayer's expense - is cost prohibitive for many patients, physicians, and scientists alike.

To help combat this injustice, the Chordoma Foundation has joined the Alliance for Taxpayer Access (ATA), a coalition of patient groups, physicians, researchers, educational institutions, publishers and health promotion organizations that support barrier-free access to taxpayer-funded research. Taxpayer access removes barriers to scientific knowledge by making the peer-reviewed results of taxpayer-funded research available online, and for no extra charge to the American public.

Corporate Partners

Novel Projects
A full service web development and multimedia design firm located in Raleigh, North Carolina, Novel Projects is the Chordoma Foundation's pro-bono online technology partner. Their talented and professional developers custom designed, built and maintain the Foundation's website.

Celebration Cottage
Located in Morrisville, North Carolina Celebration Cottage partners with the Chordoma Foundation for an array of printing, graphic design, and multimedia projects. Celebration Cottage consistently delivers professional, on-demand products and services to meet the Chordoma Foundation's needs.