Annual Report --2008

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Each year FOCC publishes an Annual Report in which it summarizes financial information about the charity and also describes FOCC’s objectives, activities and achievements during the past year.

Shown below is the Annual Report for the year 2008:

 

2008 ANNUAL REPORT

Mission

Friends of the Clinical Center (FOCC) provides financial assistance to patients, and their families, faced with emergencies triggered by participation in research protocols at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center.

 

 

Funding Summary 2008

In 2008, FOCC supported 35 funding requests from eight NIH Institutes for a total of $51,545.49.  Requests from families of pediatric patients made up 15% of the recipients and received 17% of the funds disbursed. Requests from adult patients made up 85% of the recipients and received 83% of the funds disbursed. Many of these adult patients support children and other family members.

 

 

Category	# of patients requesting help*	Average amount per patient request, per category	Total by Category
Housing	33	$1,260.69	$ 41,602.47
Utilities	9	$214.86	$ 1,933.71
Transportation	4	$838.06	$3,352.25
Other	1	$300.00	$ 300.00
Medical	5	$871.41	$4,357.06
TOTA L			$51,545.49

                                                              * Some requests were for payments in two or more categories

 

The majority of requests were for assistance with housing expenses, i.e., rent and mortgage payments. Transportation requests included airline tickets and payments towards auto loans, insurance, and repairs. Medical expenses include assistance with insurance premiums and other medical-related expenses. Other includes expenses for storage, shipping personal items, and funeral expenses.

 

The chart below summarizes financial support to patients by Institute:

 

number of requests Institute $ totals % of $ total 9 National Cancer Institute (NCI) 19,827.51 38.5% 10 National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Disease (NIAID) 16,882.95 32.75% 7 National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) 9,496.67 18.4% 3 National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIDDK) 2,705.13 5% 2 National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) 1,222.23 2.4% 4 National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism    (NIAAA) 1,411.00 2.7%     $51,545.49

Activities and Events

 

· The eleventh annual Premiere Night at Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, held March 26th, raised $5,000 for FOCC and brought over 3,000 children from area hospitals and social service organizations to the circus free.

·  The 15th Annual Mark Moseley Celebrity Golf Tournament, held in June , raised $110,000 for NIH Charities Special Love and FOCC. FOCC accepted a check for $55,000 at GE’s Washington Offices in October.

· FOCC participated in the first annual Washington Kastles tennis tournaments in Washington, DC.

Headliners Venus and Serena Williams, Anna Kournikova and John McEnroe played for the crowds at the GEICO sponsored event where FOCC and several other charities sold raffle tickets and had a wonderful opportunity for community outreach.   

· FOCC participated in the third annual Bikers for Tykes event held in Fredericksburg, VA.  This event, sponsored and hosted by GEICO, brought together motorcycle enthusiasts and families in the area for free concerts plus amusements. The event benefited the NIH Charities including FOCC, Children’s Inn and Special Love. The three day event raised $10,000 for Friends of the Clinical Center.

· The Comcast Film Festival, held in August 2008, attracted approximately 80,000 attendees over the course of ten evenings, and raised $6,500 for FOCC.

· For the fifth consecutive year, the NIH Charities received the proceeds from Bethesda Arts Row, an art festival in downtown Bethesda featuring artist from around the world. The NIH Charities shared money raised at a silent auction of art donated by artist and by a “hands-on art booth” for children.

· FOCC participated in many of the fall 2008 CFC campaign events at the NIH. (Information about the amount donated to FOCC through the CFC will be available in spring 2009.)

· FOCC, with the help of the R&W Association, held is Annual Holiday Bazaar in November. The event raised $3,000 for FOCC.

· The 2008 Annual Appeal Letter was mailed in December.

· FOCC, along with Special Love and the R&W Association, hosted a Holiday Gift Wrap booth at White Flint Mall, raising $4,500 for FOCC and $1,500 for Special Love.

Treasurer’s Summary

 

Funds	Value 12/31/08	Value 12/31/07	Value 12/31/06
GNMA Fund (bonds)	$60,613.44	$56,533.57	$52,832.50
Windsor II Fund	$116,648.40	$184,061.99	$179,890.51
Health Care Fund	$140,332.46	$171,959.19	$164,553.86
500 Index Fund	$86,454.48	$137,161.98	$130,048.05
Strategic Equity Fund	$59,074.81	$101,170.89	$103,071.37
Total	$463,123.59	$650,887.62	$630,396.29

 

 

Board Members as of December 2008

 

         1.  Dr. Tom Gallagher, President            

         2.  Charles Butler, Vice President

         3.  Kevin Fox, Co-Vice President

         4.  Therese Clemens, Treasurer/Secretary

         5.  Steve Bergstrom

         6.  Ann Brewer             

         7.  Kip Fenton  

         8.  Monica Hanson

         9.  Janie Kuhn

        10. Steve Levin

        11. Randy Schools

        12. Maria Stagnitto

 

Heidi S. Grolig, Executive Director

Lawrence Eldridge, Federal Liaison