The Impact of Your Legacy
Thanks to individuals like you, HHF is the nation's nonprofit leader in funding scientific research grants to improve the lives of the millions living daily with hearing and balance conditions. HHF fostered the development of cochlear implant technology, more effective hearing aids, and successful ear surgeries. Today the need for permanent cures remains urgent.
Your legacy gift supports the top-tier scientists in HHF's two primary research programs, the Hearing Restoration Project and Emerging Research Grants, to sustain their groundbreaking investigations. The interconnected nature of hearing and balance research demonstrates that if we fund more basic science, we accelerate the design and deployment of more effective treatments.
Shirley Jean Lane lived to be 101 years old.
A generous $1 million estate gift from Shirley Jean Lane of Los Angeles kicks off phase two of HHF’s planned giving matching challenge. Your estate gift (such as a bequest or beneficiary designation of a retirement fund or life insurance policy) will be matched as follows:
For any planned gift commitment of up to $10,000, HHF receives a $1,000 match.
For any planned gift commitment of $10,000 or more, HHF receives a $10,000 match.
For larger planned gift commitments of $100,000 or more, HHF receives a $100,000 match.
The brochure below (from the first completed matching challenge) details planned giving options and the impact your legacy gift will make. Thank you—your support of science truly matters.
The Collette Ramsey Baker Society
Collette Ramsey Baker created our organization in gratitude for her restored hearing.
The Collette Ramsey Baker Society was named after HHF's founder, who after living with a substantial hearing loss for many years, had her hearing restored by a then-novel surgery. In gratitude, Collette Ramsey Baker created a nonprofit organization to support hearing treatments and science called Deafness Research Foundation (now HHF). The Collette Ramsey Baker Society was established to recognize and thank individuals who generously include HHF in their estate plans. Through these planned gifts, members of the Collette Ramsey Baker Society provide support that enables HHF to remain the country's largest nonprofit funder of life-changing hearing and balance science—like the innovative research that helped Ms. Ramsey Baker regain her hearing.
We Honor Our Generous Members
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Bert B. Farber
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Douglas Lynch
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Stephen Maroon
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Frank F. Martin
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Richard R. Matt
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Robert Cleo Mitchell
Ron Mix
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David M. Morse
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Monroe Nash Jr.
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Stan Neumann
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Kellie Nix
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Arthur Pearson
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Rose Price
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