A One Person Band The Mayday Fund A 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 …