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Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Announces New Philanthropy Initiative for Type 2 Diabetes in the U.S. - Together on Diabetes

Together on Diabetes®  is a five-year, $100 million initiative by the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation to improve health outcomes of people living with type 2 diabetes in the United States by strengthening patient self-management education, community-based supportive services and broad-based community mobilization.  In line with the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation’s mission to reduce health disparities, this initiative will target adult populations disproportionately affected by type 2 diabetes.
 
Through its groundbreaking $150 million SECURE THE FUTURE® initiative to fight HIV/AIDS in Africa, the Foundation has gained deep experience in supporting community-based, non-medical support services that complement medical care and improve health outcomes.  This approach helps to remove barriers to diagnosis and care and empowers patients to understand their role in managing their disease and reducing the risks it can pose to their health. The Foundation and its partners have also broadly engaged and mobilized community partners to join and sustain the fight against chronic disease and for better health and wellbeing.
 
Grants and Partnerships
Funding will be awarded through two processes -- formal requests for proposals, which will be issued each November during National Diabetes Month, and ongoing opportunistic partnership development. The initiative will target diagnosed and undiagnosed adult Americans living with uncontrolled type 2 diabetes.  There are three focal points for funding and partnership:
 
•      Help adults living with type 2 diabetes to better self-manage their disease and navigate care with sustained and relevant support for the course of their disease journey
 
•      Integrate and coordinate medical, non-medical and policy efforts at the community level, and swell the base of individuals and organizations actively involved in and bringing their know-how, reach, influence and assets to the fight against type 2 diabetes
 
•      Innovation Fund to radically rethink and test new ideas about how diabetes control efforts are approached given the current and future scale of the epidemic         
 
Information about our first 4 partners and projects can be found in the attached press release and on our web site www.togetherondiabetes.com.