Support for CURE From Connie Milstein

Epilepsy research is underfunded when compared to other illnesses receiving funding for research. According to a study conducted in 2008, whereas Parkinson’s disease received between 2,000 and 2,500 dollars per patient in the United States, Epilepsy research received only 500-590 dollars per patient.

One of the mandates of CURE, Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy, is to lobby the government and educate the public to give funds for Epilepsy research which is on par with other health research in the U.S.

The newest board member of CURE, Connie Milstein will be contributing to this effort and help bring the goals of CURE to the forefront of the consciousness of the public in the United States.

Connie Milstein Comes on Board of CURE

Connie Milstein has recently added another organization that she actively supports with her hard work and determination. Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy, known as CURE, has added Ms. Milstein to their board of directors.

Susan Axelrod is the President of CURE, which she co-founded with two other women in 1998 after experiencing years of frustration and disappointment trying to find appropriate medication or a cure for her daughter Lauren’s severe epilepsy.

Connie Milstein has been involved with CURE in the past, helping with fund raising and hosting special events for the supporters of CURE. It was only a natural consequence of Connie’s undaunted and devoted support which led her to becoming an active board member for CURE.

Medical Mission for Children Reaches Out Throughout the Globe

Connie Milstein is a Trustee for the innovative organization Medical Missions for Children. Headquartered in St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital in Paterson, New Jersey, MMC reaches out to over 100 countries globally to make available the most up-to-the-minute treatments, practices and knowledge to wherever that information is needed.

Medical outreach, or distance medicine is facilitated through several of MMC’s programs, including Telemedicine Outreach Program, Medical Broadcasting Channel, Global Video Library of Medicine, and Giggles Children’s Theater. MMC also sponsors four different television programs geared to the general public. The four programs include Plain Talk, Tomorrow’s Medicine Today, Take Care and Encore Lifestyles.

Each of these initiatives and programs are designed to educate viewers, physicians, investigators, and health care workers of all types to stay abreast of the latest information that could help them improve the lives of millions of people, including saving lives across the world.

Connie Milstein Trustee for Medical Missions for Children

Medical Missions for Children is a special organization that has taken on the task of bringing the superior medical resources which are widely available in industrialized and western societies to the places in the world where it may be most needed but least available.

Using the astounding communications technology now available scientific know-how and cutting-edge treatments can readily be transferred almost instantly with the technical issue of location no longer playing a crucial role in health care around the world.

Connie Milstein, as a Trustee on the board of this innovative and life-saving organization, can take pride in her involvement and support of the work MMC is doing. There is no question that increasing knowledge, transferring information from its ‘point of origin’ to the ‘frontlines’ of medicine and improving the lives of millions of children, adults, men and women throughout the world is a goal worth working towards.

HDI Brings Food Security to International Community

Empowerment is the modus operandi with which Connie Milstein practices her philanthropy, and the food security program of HDI is just another example of how this is accomplished. Satisfying their interest in feeding the hungry and helping those who are disenfranchised has always been an important goal of the directors of Humpty Dumpty Institute, including Connie Milstein. HDI’s projects in Africa and Asia combine the clearance of mines with the development of agriculture which increases the local food supply.

As just one example, HDI cleared landmines from important roads and thoroughfares so that over 20,000 individual farmers could bring their farm produce to the marketplace for the first time in more than ten years.

In another case landmine removal was removed from the areas around schools in Laos in exchange for getting a daily, healthy snack for each one of 10,000 students. In Sri Lanka the HDI clearance program is combined with teaching more than 1,200 farmers modern and new techniques for agriculture and bringing a renaissance to the now dormant, but once thriving, dairy industry.

Empowerment, self-sufficiency, human dignity are the goals the HDI, with Connie Milstein at the helm, strive towards.

Arts, Education, Politics Just Some of Connie Milstein’s Many Interests

Connie Milstein is involved in charitable organizations such as Medical Missions for Children and her very special bakery, Connie’s Bakery and General Store, where every purchase goes to charity and the business employees and trains people that otherwise might not have had a real chance at earning a living wage in a dignified manner.

Ms. Milstein is also participates in the democratic process and supports political causes such as The National Democratic Institute and the Democratic Governors Association.

Added to all this, Connie Milstein is a busy patron of the arts and educational institutions, with involvement in such organizations such as the New York City Opera, the New York City Parks Foundation and New York University.

Mine Action Programs of HDI Supported by Connie Milstein

Connie Milstein is a co-founder and board member of the Humpty Dumpty Institute, which is on the forefront of the battle against the international landmine epidemic. In order to remove the mines HDI has created innovative partnerships to raise money and awareness.

One of its more pioneering projects was begun in 2004, which monetized surplus food commodities in the U.S. and using the proceeding monies for reinforcing the symbiotic goals of demining and development of agriculture on the newly cleared lands. In this way the HDI was able to directly contribute almost $10 million towards the landmine clearance programs of Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Laos, Armenia and several others.

HDI, with the support of Connie Milstein has also created a program called “Adopt-A-Minefield.” Begun in 1998, Adopt-A-Minefield has raised more than $20 million for its many projects. The goal of these projects is the same everywhere: to support and help the direct and indirect victims of landmines so that they can either return home, find jobs, support families, be productive members of their societies and in general lead normal, fulfilling lives.

Connie Milstein Promoting UN-US Relations at HDI

As Chairman, Co-Founder and Board Member of the Humpty Dumpty Institute, Connie Milstein promotes improved dialogue between the U.S. government, the U.S. Congress and the United Nations. This improved relationship is accomplished through several means and on a variety of levels.

At the moment HDI is the only U.S. organization that brings congressmen and women and other senior government staff to United Nations Headquarters for private and off-the-record talks on issues of critical importance to the U.S. and U.N.

Based on the belief that sharing information improves policy decisions, the Humpty Dumpty Institute offers several programs for policy makers to get informed.

1. Congressional Delegations are brought to the headquarters of the United Nations in NY: This is the flagship program of HDI, which brings congressmen, senators, and their senior staff members to New York to meet in private and off-the-record with senior Secretariat officials and U.N. diplomats at the U.N. headquarters. More than 300 offices of congressional leaders have participated so far in the HDI sponsored delegations since this programs founding.

2. U.N. Across America: This latest HDI program takes members of the U.N. diplomatic corps to meet the people of America, from all backgrounds and with all their concerns and issues. This program has so far concentrated on reaching out to U.S. citizens outside the Northeastern corridor of the U.S. and has taken 50 U.N. diplomats to 10 different American cities. The U.N. diplomats have also met with city and state level policy makers in Detroit, Boston, and Phoenix, Portland (Maine and Oregon), Houston and more.

3. U.N. to D.C.: HDI also brings the U.N. diplomats down to Washington to meet law-makers in their own headquarters for more closed door, off-the-record policy discussions.