Deepening their impact.

From Buffalo to Hendersonville to Toronto, the Cummings Foundation supports organizations that are making strides in medical research and science and post-secondary education, as well as those that provide programming for vulnerable people of all ages—children to older adults. These are their stories.

Jacobs Institute i2R

Jacobs Institute i2R

January 17, 2023 | Buffalo, NY

The Jacobs Institute’s i2R, or Idea to Reality Center, is at the cutting edge of vascular medicine. The i2R is focused on developing novel, smart-engineered endovascular medical devices at a faster pace and in a more cost-effective way, getting them to patients sooner. The i2R creates devices designed by or with the physicians who use them. Physicians are on-site and available to i2R engineers so that our engineering team can quickly prototype and validate potential devices. Our unique medical device development model streamlines the proof-of-concept process. To learn more, visit https://jacobsinstitute.org

Gerard Place Food pantry

Gerard Place Food pantry

May 25, 2021 | Buffalo, NY

Founded 20 years ago by the Women Religious Congregations of Western New York, Gerard Place, in response to the long-term effects of the pandemic, has opened a new permanent food pantry in the Bailey-Delevan neighborhood to meet the nutritional needs of people who reside in what is classified as a food desert.  Gerard Place also partners with FeedMore for a monthly Food Express delivery and with Friends of the Night People to offer this very poor community a meal program  (now take-out due to pandemic) twice per week. The increased need for the take-out meal program highlighted a critical need for food and other basic supplies for the families of this neighborhood.

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Blue Ridge Community Health Center

Blue Ridge Community Health Center

May 25, 2021 | Hendersonville, NC

The Hendersonville Family Medicine Residency Program has a mission to train residents to serve all people. They are supported by a consortium of Blue Ridge Health as the Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) where they care for nearly 50% uninsured patients.   Mountain Area Health Education Center that supports the educational work they do. After medical school, the residents train to be board certified Family Doctors over three years, and they work to place them in rural and underserved communities at graduation. They are always looking for ways to equip their learners in a way that positively impacts their patients.  In the future family doctors will be in utilizing technology to help guide their medical decisions. Point of care ultrasound (POCUS),… GET THE FULL STORY >

Crystallization Center at Hauptman Woodward

May 25, 2021 | Buffalo, NY

What does it take to see the invisible? The answer is the Cummings Foundation and the Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute, a more than 60-year-old Biomedical Research Organization in Buffalo. The Foundation’s support for a new cryo-electron microscope Center was timely and acted as a catalyst to a tapestry of donors to bring the Cryo-EM Center to life. Additional support from the Foundation made it feasible to upgrade to the latest detector for the first cryo-EM system greatly enhancing the capability and commitment of the Center to high-throughput services to the scientific community. While the new center will officially launch in February 2022, according to Edward Snell, PhD, President and CEO, “The Crystallization Center has now supported over 50 COVID -19… GET THE FULL STORY >