A donation for a good cause is heartwarming to receive, especially if the donation will be able to sustain and save lives of many people who need it the most, but to outstrip the foundation's goal of raising $3 billion is just overwhelming and worth making the headlines.
LIVESTRONG foundation gave a $50 million donation to Dell Medical School, at the University of Texas at Austin. The one-time contribution represents the biggest donation ever given by this organization in the last 17 years since the cyclist Lance Armstrong first founded LIVESTRONG. This collaboration will make the Dell Medical School more advanced in terms educating the students in giving their utmost service to their patients, particularly the Livestrong Cancer Institute, according to a statement from the University of Texas in Austin.
The dean of the university said the organization would make a cancer-survivor program based on the LIVESTRONG Foundation's Patient-Centered Cancer Care model that will serve hundreds of patients, not only in Texas, but also to everyone who will be reached by their services. It will also help them conduct studies and research that is necessary to find treatment, medical support and enhanced procedures given to the cancer patients and survivors.
With this overwhelming donation, the medical center first decided to finance in employing a pioneering staff from around the world and build a faculty who are focused in having the same goal, for the improvement of the any cancer-associated anomalies. They will also become members of the said institution, reported the Daily News.
UT-Austin President Bill Powers thanked LIVESTRONG CEO Doug Ulman and Chairman Jeff Garvey for their thoughtfulness "from the bottom of [their hearts," quoted Houston Chronicle. "Lives will be saved and lives will be made far better because of the LIVESTRONG Foundation and their pioneering vision."
