Hearing loss affects more people than cancer or diabetes, yet it receives significantly less funding and research attention. Your support is helping us tackle this often overlooked health issue.
Giving Tuesday: Support What Matters Most
Hearing Health Foundation (HHF) is so grateful that you have been part of our mission to advance cures for hearing loss, tinnitus, and related conditions in 2020. Thanks to you, science did not stop this year, despite a pandemic that threatened otherwise. With your help, HHF-funded scientists adapted to remote work focusing on data analysis, virtual experiments, and manuscript preparation before ultimately returning safely to their labs.
#GivingTuesdayNow: Science Doesn't Stop
“Experimental work in my lab has been paused. However, right before the pandemic struck, my lab and I had finished the final round of imaging experiments and collected enormous datasets for review. We are able to work and maintain daily contact and hold weekly virtual lab meetings to keep each other up-to-date on our progress.” Right now, you can help our scientists, like Dr. Apostolides, ensure that momentum is not lost in the quest to better treat and cure devastating conditions like hearing loss and tinnitus. Our health cannot afford for research to be interrupted.
Your Giving Tuesday Opportunity
HHF’s work to better treat and cure hearing loss helps millions, like Frank, of New Jersey, who has lived with hearing loss since age 2 and is an advocate for hearing health. "I support HHF to help us find our sound," he says.
Hearing Well Matters — All Day, Every Day
When, 20 years ago, Delane started to lose her own hearing, she decided she would not let that happen to her. She wanted to remain vibrant and engaged with life—not invisible or isolated. Her audiologist, the same one she still sees at age 90, instructed her to wear her hearing aids all day, every day.
The Countdown to Giving Tuesday
Giving Tuesday — the biggest day of online giving to support nonprofits like Hearing Health Foundation (HHF) — is only two weeks away on Tuesday, December 3. All gifts received in honor of Giving Tuesday will be generously matched by an anonymous donor.
Believe, Support, Share: #GivingTuesday 2018
By Lauren McGrath
Thank you for supporting Hearing Health Foundation (HHF), the nation’s largest charity funder of hearing and balance research, on this worldwide day of kindness. You can make HHF part of your #GivingTuesday celebration in one or more of the following ways:
Give Directly
We accept donations by phone at 212-257-6146, online, and by mail to:
Hearing Health Foundation
363 Seventh Ave, 10th Floor
New York, NY 10001
We pledge to use your gift wisely. Our responsible and effective donor stewardship practices have been commended by Better Business Bureau Wise Giving Alliance, Consumer Reports, Charity Navigator, CharityWatch, and GuideStar. All donors are recognized and acknowledged in our Annual Report.
Facebook Donations
Consider making a donation through our Facebook page, where your gift will be generously matched through a partnership with PayPal.
Workplace Giving
Many companies offer matching gift benefits to employees, doubling the value of their charitable contributions. Find out if your employer will take your support for HHF twice as far.
Start a Social Fundraiser
Unable to make a personal contribution? No problem. Enlist help from your friends, family, neighbors, colleagues, or classmates to give on your behalf through Facebook or Classy.
Shop Without Remorse
On Amazon, you can make your purchase through AmazonSmile and designate HHF as your charity of choice. If you are shopping on one of many other popular retailers’ sites like CVS, Nike, Etsy, Groupon, Macy’s, or Modell’s, you may allocate a percentage of your purchase to HHF through iGive.
Plan Ahead
Planned giving donors provide essential philanthropic support that enables Hearing Health Foundation (HHF) to remain the country’s largest nonprofit funder of hearing research. The Hearing Health Legacy was established to recognize and thank these extraordinary individuals. Learn more about planned giving options.
Let everyone know you supported HHF on #GivingTuesday by sharing this photo on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram.
Give Your Way on #GivingTuesday
By Lauren McGrath
Hearing Health Foundation (HHF) kindly requests your help this #GivingTuesday, an annual international day of giving back.
While making a direct contribution is an option, it isn’t the only way that you can support our shared mission to enhance the lives of millions through better treatments and permanent cures for hearing loss and tinnitus.
2017 was monumental for HHF in that your support enabled HHF to fund more critical hearing research than ever before. Still, more work must—and can—be done. Our Hearing Restoration Project’s Scientific Director, Peter Barr-Gillespie, Ph.D., is optimistic about the progress you’ve already empowered. “The clues are becoming more clear, and we expect the next year will yield a bounty of exciting results,” he shares.
As people around the world unite today in celebration of giving to causes that matter to them, we hope that you are inspired to act on behalf of HHF. Take your pick from the options below to give your way on #GivingTuesday:
Make a Direct Contribution
HHF accepts donations through our website’s secure donation portal and by mail to 363 Seventh Ave, 10th Floor, New York, NY 10001. We pledge to use your gift wisely. Our responsible and effective donor stewardship practices have been commended by Better Business Bureau Wise Giving Alliance, Consumer Reports, Charity Navigator, CharityWatch, and GuideStar. All donors are recognized and acknowledged in our Annual Report.
If you are able to give today, Tuesday, November 28, consider making your donation through our Facebook page, where your donation will be generously matched by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Start a Community Fundraiser
You needn’t support Hearing Health Foundation's critical hearing loss research and awareness programs on your own. Reach out to your community—your friends, family, neighbors, colleagues, or classmates—to give on your behalf as an HHF Community Fundraiser on Facebook or Classy. Please take advantage of our simple toolkits to ensure your fundraiser is a successful one.
Go Shopping
Perhaps the simplest way of all to give is to put your personal shopping to work for HHF—at no additional cost to you! If you are scoping out savings opportunities on Amazon, be sure to make your purchase through AmazonSmile and designate HHF as your charity of choice. If you are shopping on one of many other popular retailers’ sites like CVS, Nike, Etsy, Groupon, Macy’s, or Modell’s, you may allocate a percentage of your purchase to HHF through iGive.
Please email us at info@hhf.org if you are experiencing difficulty or have questions about our ways to give. Thank you for considering HHF on #GivingTuesday.
Give Thanks and Then Give Back
By Pallavi Bharadwaj
Black Friday, the Friday after Thanksgiving, is the official kickoff to the holiday buying season. Cyber Monday has become synonymous with online-only shopping deals on the Monday after the Thanksgiving weekend.
Giving Tuesday is a movement to create a national day of giving during the holiday season that will inspire philanthropy and encourage bigger, better, and smarter charitable giving.
HHF is thrilled to participate in Giving Tuesday this year on November 29th.
This Giving Tuesday, please join HHF and support groundbreaking research to cure hearing loss and tinnitus. You can donate directly, or fundraise for a cure.
If you’re looking for some ideas to contribute to HHF on Giving Tuesday:
Post on Facebook and Twitter (and other social networks that you belong to) encouraging each of your friends to donate $1 to HHF. The average individual has 300 friends on Facebook which means that if each of your friends donates just $1 on Giving Tuesday, you can raise $300 in one day—it’s that easy!
Contribute to an item on our Wish List and give our researchers the tools they need to conduct their studies.
Host a potluck dinner party and invite your family and friends to join you by bringing a dish and making a donation to HHF.
Hold a bake sale at your workplace or your child’s school and advertise that the proceeds will be donated to HHF.
If you play a musical instrument, ask for donations for your music practice that day.
Take some time to burn those excess Thanksgiving calories and go for a run, swim (indoors of course!), or bike ride fundraising for every mile accomplished.
Make a donation to HHF in honor or in memory of someone close to you.
You can make gifts of appreciated stocks too.
Do you have other ideas to fundraise for a cure? Please share with us in the comments!
Give to HHF this #GivingTuesday
By Laura Friedman
#GivingTuesday is an international day of giving that kicks off the holiday giving season, is November 29th!
Hearing Health Foundation (HHF) wants to thank you for your support of our research programs, such as the Hearing Restoration Project (HRP) and Emerging Research Grants (ERG). Your support enhances the lives of millions of Americans. Thank you!
Here are some of our successes, dating back to our founding in 1958:
HHF is the largest non-profit funder of hearing research in the U.S.
HHF-funded research has led to the development of cochlear implants and treatments for otosclerosis (abnormal bone growth in the ear) and ear infections.
n 1987, HHF-funded researchers discovered that chickens regenerate their inner ear hair cells after damage and mammals do not. This led to the development of the HRP in 2011.
In the 1990s HHF advocated for Universal Newborn Hearing Screening legislation, to detect hearing loss at birth. Today, 97% of newborns are tested, up from 4% in 1994!
The question of finding a cure for hearing loss is not if, but when.
You can change the course of hearing and balance science and
helps us find better therapies and cures by giving today.
Here are some ways you can #HearTheHope this holiday season:
Make a donation to HHF in honor or in memory of someone close to you. You can even make gifts of appreciated stocks or a planned gift!
Post that you gave to HHF on social media, such as Facebook or Twitter, and encourage your friends to give as well.
Post that you gave to HHF on social media, such as Facebook or Twitter, and encourage your friends to give as well.
The average person has 300 friends on Facebook which means that if each of your friends donates just $1 on Giving Tuesday, you can raise $300 in one day—it’s that easy!
Let your talents and interests lead you to your own fundraiser for HHF through our website! No event is too large or small. Here are some ideas for inspiration:
Host a potluck and ask your guest bring a dish and make a charitable contribution to HHF.
Organize a bake sale or golf outing with the proceeds will be donated to HHF.
Burn excess Thanksgiving calories and go for a run, swim (indoors of course!), or bike ride, fundraising for every mile accomplished.
Have other ideas or questions for us? E-mail us at Development@hhf.org.