| Public Awareness and Vaccine Research Support. Working Together to Eradicate Congenital CMV Disease. Member of the External Partner Group, in conjunction with the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (NCBDDD) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) |
| The Brendan B. McGinnis Congenital CMV Foundation is a non-profit 501 (c) (3) dedicated to for CMV, and to affect change in the medical community so that physicians will begin to test women for CMV prior to pregnancy. Ultimately, our mission is to save babies yet to be born from suffering the often devastating consequences of congenital CMV by eradicating this common but potentially life-altering virus. |
The Brendan B. McGinnis Congenital CMV Foundation is a non-profit 501(c)(3) established in 2007 by Tracy McGinnis, whose son Brendan is severely disabled and developmentally delayed due to congenital CMV. The primary goals of the foundation are to raise public awareness about congenital CMV, to raise donations to support research for a vaccine for CMV, and to affect change in the medical community so that physicians will begin to test women for CMV prior to pregnancy. Ultimately, our mission is to save babies yet to be born from suffering the potentially devastating consequences of congenital CMV. |
Where do the funds go? All funds raised via product sales, donations and public awareness campaign events go to fund our public awareness campaign costs (such as PSA distribution, printing informational materials, T-shirts, and other CMV Awareness items we offer), to our annual Award for Innovation in CMV Vaccine Research and to certain administrative expenditures such as postage, office supplies, advertising (awareness) and professional fees such as insurance and accounting. Approximately 10% of our current budget goes to CMV vaccine research. It is our hope to increase this percentage in the near future. Approximately 80% of our current budget goes to CMV Awareness activities & events, CMV informational publications that we distribute worldwide, Public Service Announcements for national television broadcast and internet awareness ads. As a non-profit 501(c)(3) foundation, our financial matters are transparent. In keeping with that transparency, below we provide our annual financial reports. Annual financial reports |
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