Our Friends Aristotle once compared friendship to a slow ripening fruit. Since NCNM first established its reputation as “the profession’s college” more than a half-century ago, it has nurtured many thousands of friendships in multiple ways. Over the years many of those friendships have grown and deepened.
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ike widening ripples slowly spreading out upon still waters, NCNM’s “Friendship Circle” has gotten ever wider, many interlocking and diverse communities with one thing in common—a love for natural medicine that is at the very core of NCNM’s institutional mandate. NCNM’s friends are helping the college manifest extraordinary changes—for its students, alumni, faculty, staff and patients. This year NCNM received two significant grants by prestigious charitable foundations to assist in the completion of the college’s Helfgott Research Institute and Community Education Center building project. Grants of $198,000 by Meyer Memorial Trust and $220,000 by the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust were the largest non-research grants NCNM has ever received in its 57-year history. In addition to providing the college with much needed funding for capital improvements, this investment in NCNM’s future signifies important public recognition of its growing public stature. In addition to an outright gift of $65,000, the remainder of the Murdock award stipulated that NCNM must raise a 1:1 matching conditional contribution of $155,000 by or
before June 2014 to receive the remainder of the award. The college’s successful Murdock Challenge Campaign was satisfied fully one year ahead of schedule, raising an additional $190,992 in donations from NCNM friends and supporters. The Murdock gift, together with NCNM’s matching funds, yielded a total of $410,992. NCNM’s Partner’s Program has produced nearly $7,400,000 in additional pledged income, a growth of 152% in revenues since it was launched in 2009. NCNM’s company partners are direct participants in the college’s growth and expansion, and participate in student scholarship awards and events, such as the ZRT Cup Scholarship and Bob’s Red Mill Scholarship Competitions. NCNM Partners participate in Product Knowledge Days, the popular Health Biz Expos and continuing education events, among other opportunities to share product knowledge with our students, alumni and the public. In 2012-2013, NCNM’s Continuing Education office has expanded its course offerings with valuable onsite and video courses, and conferences for continuing ed credits for our alumni. The CE office presented a number of popular events, including conferences focused on oncology and cardiovascular medicine, which were well-received and produced sizeable revenue for NCNM. The ECO Project, through the continued collaboration and generous funding support of Bob and Charlee Moore, has helped more than 600 families since it began offering its free community-based nutrition and cooking workshops. The ECO physicians, directed by lead physician Dr. Courtney
Jackson and her colleagues, Dr. Julie Briley and Dr. Andrew Erlandsen, taught five series of workshops per quarter this year. Funding from Jim’s Thriftway grocery store in Banks, Ore., enabled the doctors to expand ECO outside of the Portland metro area for the first time. The interest in the ECO Project is growing steadily, locally and nationally. ECO physicians and their students were featured this year at widely attended events held by Oregon Museum of Science & Industry (OMSI). Dr. Jackson presented train-the-trainer workshops to NCNM alumni in Kansas City this year, and plans are on the drawing board to bring more of these to other states. In addition, the ECO physicians collaborated with the Continuing Education office to produce a new series of fee-based Food as Medicine Everyday community classes held in NCNM’s new Charlee’s Kitchen. NCNM also sponsored other cooking classes, including those by celebrated culinary artists like Chef Ken Gordon, restaurateur and food columnist for The Oregonian newspaper. This year also featured the launch of two new community healthcare education initiatives, the Women in Balance Institute and Traditional Roots Institute. In March 2013, the Women in Balance Institute, led by Dr. Elise Schroeder, held its successful inaugural NCNM Women’s Health Conference featuring a stellar group of noted physician/educators in the field of women’s health. Traditional Roots Institute, which was established in spring of 2013 through a generous grant from Herb Pharm, is led by Dr. Orna Izakson. Dr. Izakson is organizing a conference in botanical medicine next year.
Be true to your word and your work and your friend. —John Boyle O’Reilly 14 NCNM 2012-2013 Annual Report
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