UW Health 2008 Annual Report: Serving Community Needs

UW Health's overall commitment to the health of the community, including care provided to those without ability to pay and donations by employees through workplace giving programs, is reflected in the following 2008 summary:

• Charity care: $65,050,100
• Contributions to charitable organizations: $712,600
• Organizations contributed to: 212
• Total initiatives/events sponsored: 295
• Employee charitable contributions: $617,800
• Number of employees contributing: 1,611

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• Holiday Drive to Share (first 3 drives include public participation):
  • Toys collected through Toys for Tots: 2,500
  • Families supported through Adopt-a-Family: 154
  • Meals for Second Harvest Food Bank: 176,500

   

• Friends of UW Hospital and Clinics Love Lights:
  • People honored or memorialized: 1,431
  • Dollars raised: $16,000 

Community Organizations Receiving Financial Support from UW Health

Fiscal Year 2008:

Access Community Health Centers
African Association of Madison, Inc.
AIDS Network
All City Swim Meet
Alzheimer's Association
American Cancer Society
American Diabetes Association
American Family Children's Hospital
American Heart Association
American Lung Association
American Red Cross--Badger Chapter
American Society for Bariatric Surgery Foundation
American Society of Preventive Oncology
Arthritis Foundation
Association of Fundraising Professionals--Greater Madison Chapter
Autism Society of Greater Madison
Badger Aquatics Club
Bayview Foundation, Inc.
Beaver Dam High School
Belleville High School
Belleville Kiwanis Club
Benevolent Specialists Program
Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin
Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Dane County
Boys and Girls Club of Dane County
Breast Cancer Recovery Foundation
Bristol Blazers 4-H Club
Business Forum
Camp Shalom
Camp WIKIDAS
Capital Candlelighters
Capitol Square Sprints
Centro Hispano of Dane County
City of Madison
Colonial Club Senior Activity Center
Columbus High School
Combat Blindness Foundation
Court Appointed Special Advocates
Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America
Cross Plains World Fair
CSOW
Curl for a Cure
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
Dane County Coalition for Child Health
Dane County Committee on Aging
Dane County Department of Human Services
Dane County District #4 EMS
Dane County Immunization Coalition
Dane County Neighborhood Coalition
DeForest High School
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority
Divine Savior HealthCare
Domestic Abuse Intervention Services
Don Reilly Cardiac Walk/Run
Downtown Madison, Inc.
East High School
East Madison/Monona Coalition of the Aging
Family Service Credit Counseling (employee designated)
Fishing Has No Boundaries, Inc.
Fitchburg Farmers Market
Food Allergy Association of Wisconsin
Fort Memorial Hospital Foundation
Foundation for Madison Public Schools
Friends of Project Lifesaver
Friends of the Waisman Center
Friends of University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, Inc.
Friends of Waisman Center
Fort Atkinson Fire Dept.
Fort Atkinson High School
Gay Straight Alliance for Safe Schools
Gialamas Company
Gilda's Club
Girls on the Run of Dane County
Glaciers Edge Council
Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce
Gymfinity Gymnastics
Health Professionals Mentoring Program
Henry Vilas Zoological Society
Hopes
Horicon High School
Horicon Police Dept
Horicon Rock River Jam
HospiceCare, Inc.
Independent Living Evening Meals on Wheels / Dane County's Crime Response Program
Interfaith Hospitality Network
International Breast Cancer Research Foundation
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
Keep Wisconsin Warm
Kiwanis Club of Madison West
Kromey Elementary School
Kujichagulia--Madison Center for Self Determination
Latino Children and Families Council
Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
Lions Eye Bank of Wisconsin
Literacy Leadership, Inc
Madison Area Literacy Council
Madison Metro Lynx Hockey Team
Madison Metropolitan School District
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art
Madison Pride
Madison Spinal Cord Injury Group
March of Dimes
McFarland Family Festival
McFarland High School
Meals on Wheels
Medical Mission
Medical Students for Minority Concerns
Memorial High School
Meriter Foundation
Middleton Good Neighbor Festival
Middleton High School
Middleton Youth Hockey Association
Midvale Community Lutheran Church
Monona Grove High School
Moundview Memorial Hospital and Clinics
Mount Horeb High School
Mount Horeb Youth Center
Muscular Dystrophy Association
NAMI Wisconsin
National Amputee Golf Association
National Military Family Association, Inc.
National Multiple Sclerosis Society--Wisconsin Chapter
New Glarus Sports Boosters
Nurses' Alumni Organization
Occupaws
Oregon High School
OutReach
Ovarian Cancer Fund
Palmyra High School
Perinatal Foundation
Pioneer Westfield High School
Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin
Polycystic Kidney Disease Foundation
Portage Area Living Fair
Portage Center for Performing Arts
Portage High School
Portage School of Dance
Poynette High School
Preeclampsia Foundation
Public Health--Madison & Dane County
Rainbow Project, Inc.
Rape Crisis Center
Redline Club
Ronald McDonald House Charities
RSVP of Dane County
Run Fort
Safe Community Coalition
Safe Harbor
Second Harvest Foodbank
Society of St. Vincent de Paul
South Madison Health and Family Center--Harambee
Special Olympics--Wisconsin
Spike Rett Syndrome
Stoughton High School
Student National Medical Association
Sun Prairie High School
Susan G. Komen Foundation
Syttende Mai Committee
TeamSurvivor Madison
Three Gaits, Inc.
Today Not Tomorrow
Toki Middle School
Tomorrow's Hope
Tyler Tracy Foundation
UMOS
UNIDOS
United Cerebral Palsy
United Way of Dane County
University of Wisconsin Foundation
Urban League of Greater Madison
UW Health Occupations Students of America
UW Integrative Medicine
UW Lymphoma Research
UW Paul P. Carbone Comprehensive Cancer Center
UW Running Club
UW School of Medicine & Public Health
UW School of Nursing
UW-Platteville Black Student Union
Verona High School
Verona Home Town Days
Watertown Area Health Services
Waunakee High School
Waunakee School district
West High School
Wisconsin Academy of Family Physicians
Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters
Wisconsin Alliance for Fire Safety
Wisconsin Alumni Association
Wisconsin Autism Society (employee designated)
Wisconsin Chamber of Commerce Foundation
Wisconsin Coalition Against Domestic Violence
Wisconsin Council on Children and Families
Wisconsin Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve, Inc.
Wisconsin EMS Association
Wisconsin Literacy
Wisconsin Medical Society Foundation
Wisconsin Women's Health Foundation
Women in Focus
YMCA of Dane County, Inc.
YWCA of Madison
Zonta Club of Madison
Zor Shrine