A One Person Band

The Mayday FundA small family foundation

Mission: alleviate the suffering that results from human physical pain

Make charitable grants • Address pain at the bedside -- clinical interventions• Pain in the context of emergency medicine• Pain in children• Pain in non-verbal populations• Pain in the elderly• Nimble grants• Close the gap between knowledge and

practice• Better to be a ‘rifle than a shotgun’

Foundation Citizenship

• Increase public awareness about the undertreatment of pain and new ways of treating it

• Help to provide new leaders in the field interested in sharing the message that pain may be treated responsibly

• Increase the ranks of researchers/leaders who will work with the media and policy makers

• Working with other foundations to help to address the better treatment of pain

Tasks

• Program• Financial Oversight• Governance• Liaison and Representative• Scout -- identify new projects, consultants, projects• Resource• Advocate for private foundation involvement in the field• Someone who will listen• Translator• And then the political aspects …