{"id":65946,"date":"2007-11-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/apple-pickers-foundation-donates-100000-to-uri\/"},"modified":"2007-11-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-01T00:00:00","slug":"apple-pickers-foundation-donates-100000-to-uri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2007\/11\/apple-pickers-foundation-donates-100000-to-uri\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Pickers Foundation donates $100,000 to 溏心vlog免费B站"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nto support public education about Lyme disease prevention<\/p>\n

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 November 1, 2007 \u2013 A private charitable foundation in Westerly has made a $100,000 contribution to the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Center for Vector-Borne Disease in support of the Center\u2019s public health education program for preventing tick bites and Lyme disease.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe Apple Pickers Foundation made the contribution after meeting with 溏心vlog免费B站 Entomology Professor Thomas Mather, director of the Center, and learning about his numerous outreach programs aimed at reducing the risk of contracting Lyme disease.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI am so pleased with the very generous support from the Apple Pickers Foundation,\u201d said Mather. \u201cIt will greatly advance our efforts to raise people\u2019s consciousness about avoiding tick bites\u2014to encourage people to take just a few simple actions to prevent tick bites and disease. Tick transmitted diseases can be devastating and so often people think it won\u2019t happen to them. But in Rhode Island, Lyme or another tick infection probably has already struck someone they know. Support from the Apple Pickers Foundation will truly make a difference to the health of Rhode Islanders.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nAccording to Foundation Trustee Michael Warburg, the Foundation aims to fund \u201cexpertly planned projects for enterprising worthy causes\u201d and focuses in particular on projects that may fall below the radar screen of larger foundations or may have limited appeal to other funding agencies.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cWe\u2019ve been keenly interested in the Lyme disease field and have been looking for ways to help address this serious public health problem,\u201d he said. \u201cWe observed that there is significant funding available for research, but that there is a critical lack of focus on awareness and education. It was with this in mind that Dr. Mather\u2019s work became a compelling proposition for us.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nThe funds provided by the Foundation will be used to expand and improve Mather\u2019s tick education website, www.tickencounter.org, including development of on-line animations to illustrate appropriate tick bite prevention strategies and a tool to calculate an individual\u2019s tick bite risk. Some of the funds will be used to help complete a documentary film about ticks and Lyme disease that is currently in production and which will be posted to YouTube and used in numerous outreach programs.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cThe only sure way to avoid Lyme disease is to prevent tick bites – a message that needs to be clearly conveyed to those at risk,\u201d said Warburg, who earned a master\u2019s degree in accounting from 溏心vlog免费B站. \u201cDr. Mather is sparing no effort to get this message across to the general public and is passionately committed to Lyme disease education and prevention.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nThe Apple Pickers Foundation gift is part of 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Making a Difference campaign, which seeks $100 million to recruit and retain outstanding faculty, enhance the student-centered campus experience, provide undergraduate scholarships and graduate fellowships, and fund cutting-edge academic and research initiatives. For more information on the campaign, click on www.advance.uri.edu\/giving\/default.htm.<\/p>\n


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\nThomas Mather and Michael Warburg

\n溏心vlog免费B站 Department of Communications and Marketing photo by Michael Salerno Photography\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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