Press contact:
Kathelene Weiss
Trust and Foundations Fund-raising Coordinator, Cochrane
E kweiss@cochrane.org or pressoffice@cochrane.org
Match Funding to support Cochrane’s ‘Podcasts for Parents’
For one day only, Wednesday September 9, ‘Podcasts for Parents’ can attract match funding from GlobalGiving.
On September 9, 2015 go to Child-Health-Podcasts-Parents and your support for Cochrane Child Health and ‘Podcasts for Parents’ can attract match funding. Make your support go further as on this Bonus Day GlobalGiving will be matching online donations between $25 and $1,000 at 20% while funds last. Your support can help us to meet our goal to deliver high quality support to child health.
Materials created by Cochrane Child Health are valuable tools to support parents in making health care decisions. Letters from parents attest to the value of resources created to offer advice on croup, a common childhood illness. You can help to expand these types of resources by supporting ‘Podcasts for Parents’. This project will help parents and carers address the complexities of child health information by creating a series of audio streams which will provide high quality, scientific evidence relating to common childhood conditions, such as bronchiolitis, RSV and asthma.
Director of Cochrane Child Health, Denise Thomson says, “This is hugely exciting opportunity for Cochrane Child Health to develop a series of infomative easily accessable resources that can be used by any parent or carer to help understand how to assess scientiic information and make more confident decisions as related to their childrens’s health. “
Cochrane is a global independent network of researchers, professionals, patients, carers and people interested in health. The organization gathers and summarize the best evidence from research to make informed choices about treatment. Cochrane contributors - 37,000 from more than 130 countries - work together to produce credible, accessible health information that is free from commercial sponsorship and other conflicts of interest. Many contributors are world leaders in their fields - medicine, health policy, research methodology, or consumer advocacy - and our groups are situated in some of the world's most respected academic and medical institutions.
GlobalGiving is an online fundraising platform that gives social entrepreneurs and nonprofits from anywhere in the world a chance to raise the money they need to improve their communities. Since 2002, GlobalGiving has raised $190,578,082 from 478,191 donors who have supported 12,638 projects. On September 9 2015, GlobalGiving will be matching online donations at 20% to projects starting at 9am EDT and providing $2,000 in additional prizes. See the full terms here. The ‘Podcasts for parents’ project will be online until 15th September and is hoping to raise a minimum of $5000 from at least 40 donors. To find out go to http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/evidence-child-health-podcasts-parents/
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For further information, please contact,
Kathelene Weiss
Trust and Foundations Fund-raising Coordinator, Cochrane
E kweiss@cochrane.org or pressoffice@cochrane.org
About Cochrane
Cochrane is a global independent network of researchers, professionals, patients, carers and people interested in health.
Cochrane produces reviews which study all of the best available evidence generated through research and make it easier to inform decisions about health. These are called systematic reviews.
Cochrane is a not-for profit organisation with collaborators from more than 120 countries working together to produce credible, accessible health information that is free from commercial sponsorship and other conflicts of interest. Our work is recognised as representing an international gold standard for high quality, trusted information.
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