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Despite significant reductions across the nation, tobacco use is still the number one cause of preventable death in the United States, killing more than 400,000 people every year. Since being established in 1999, the American Legacy Foundation (Legacy) has developed a comprehensive understanding of the tobacco crisis and the many issues that surround it. Legacy is the nation's largest and most effective independent public health charity dedicated to tobacco use prevention and smoking cessation. Our mission is to build a world where young people reject tobacco and anyone can quit. By giving young people the facts and information they need to reject tobacco and adult smokers the tools they need to quit and stay quit, Legacy is helping people live longer, healthier lives. Legacy employs community intervention and population-based public education strategies to reach current and potential tobacco users, customizing our approach to recognize, respect and address cultural differences.

To engage, educate and empower people to prevent bone loss, osteoporosis, and fractures and to keep strong bones for long and independent lives.

Our mission is to mobilize a community for patient support and advocacy, as well as drive and support impactful research that translates into advances for patients with migraine and other disabling diseases that cause severe head pain. Our core beliefs guide everything we do, from the research we promote to our efforts to build a supportive, welcoming community for all people living with migraine. Advocacy and education is the only way we will increase awareness and recognition of migraine for the disabling disease it truly is.

American Muslim Health Professionals (AMHP) is a non-profit organization with an outreach of over 7000 health professionals and students working to leverage the educational background and skills of Muslims in the health care sector to improve the health of Americans.

The American Respiratory Care Foundation is dedicated to promoting respiratory health through the support of research, education, and patient-focused philanthropic activities in respiratory care.

The American Sleep Apnea Association (ASAA) is a nonprofit organization that works to improve the lives of those affected by sleep apnea and leads the search for the elimination of this syndrome in future generations.

The American Hearing Research Foundation serves two vital roles: to fund significant research in hearing and balance disorders, and to help educate the public about hearing loss and balance disorders related to the inner ear.

The American Medical Women’s Association is an organization which functions at the local, national, and international level to advance women in medicine, advocate for equity, and ensure excellence in healthcare. We achieve this by providing and developing leadership, advocacy, education, expertise, mentoring, and strategic alliances.

The American Bladder Cancer Society's function is to raise awareness ofbladder cancer among the general public and the medical community, toadvocate through all means available the advance of research into acure, treatment, early diagnosis and quality of life issues ofsurvivors, to support bladder cancer survivors by providing communityas well as by encouraging the concept of informed medical consumerism.

THIS CORPORATION IS ORGANIZED FOR CHARITABLE AND EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES INCLUDING FOR SUCH PURPOSES, THE FUNDING OF TARGETED SCIENTIFIC AND MEDICAL RESEARCH WHICH IS DEDICATED TO THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL QUALITY OF LIFE FOR PERSONS WITH A SPINAL CORD INJURY AND THOSE WITH RELATED NEUROLOGICAL DEFICITS AND THE FUNDING OF AWARENESS AND PREVENTION PROGRAMS FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC WITH THE GOAL OF REDUCING THE INCIDENCE OF SPINAL CORD INJURIES

"Our goal is to provide up-to-date and credible information, dispel myths and misconceptions, and serve as a resource for anyone with questions about Lyme disease and other tick-related illnesses."

ACCO's mission is to provide information and support for children and adolescents with cancer and their families, to provide grassroots leadership through advocacy and awareness, and to support research leading to a cure for all children diagnosed with this life-threatening disease.