Inspire Announces Five New Nonprofit Partnerships

Will build online Health 2.0 social media communities for Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network, Encephalitis Global, Oley Foundation, Neurofibromatosis, Inc., United Leukodystrophy Foundation.

McLean, Virginia---Inspire, a company known for building online communities for nonprofit health associations, today announced that it will partner with five distinguished national nonprofit health associations in developing and moderating a social networking site for each organization’s constituents.

The organizations include the Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network, Encephalitis Global, Oley Foundation, Neurofibromatosis, Inc. and the United Leukodystrophy Foundation.

Brian Loew, the Inspire CEO, said, “We are excited to be able to provide secure online environments where patients and caregivers can share information, advice and encouragement.”

Inspire has built and currently moderates online communities for more than 25 nonprofit organizations—ordinarily at no charge. The communities allow organizations to expand and become better acquainted with their constituencies-- and to provide community members with needed information and services.

Most communities are currently financed by minimal advertising (with a percentage of the proceeds donated to the partnering nonprofits) and by foundations. Inspire also offers survey research and clinical trial notification services for companies seeking to reach members who opt to take part in those programs.

Inspire recently announced a partnership with United Cerebral Palsy of New York City and UCP national, in Washington, DC—and launched a site for the Discovery Health National Body Challenge.

Inspire has built communities for the ALS Association, Arthritis Foundation, Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network, Association of Gastrointestinal Motility Disorders, Inc., Cancer Consultants, Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation, Cardiac Arrhythmias Research and Education Foundation, National Cervical Cancer/HPV Coalition, Children's Inn at the National Institutes of Health, Discovery Health National Body Challenge, Lung Cancer Alliance,  National Ovarian Cancer Alliance, National Organization of Rare Diseases (NORD), National Osteoporosis Foundation, Nephcure Foundation, Preemie Magazine, Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research, Sudden Cardiac Arrest Association, VHL Family Alliance, US News and World Report, Wilson's Disease Association, International, Women and Cancer and WomenHeart.

Inspire, known until recently as ClinicaHealth, is a privately-held company based in McLean, Virginia.

Testimonials

Families often say to us, especially those with rare or genetic disorders, that they want to be able to talk to other families who walk the walk—they want to share that valuable connection. They can do this with Inspire's online community platform. - Kathy Russell, Executive Director, The Children's Inn at NIH

I am so encouraged by the upbeat fighting attitudes of the members here and with your loving concern for each other. - Member, Lung Cancer Alliance Survivors Support Community

I read the blogs and my heart goes out to each and everyone who has been or going through this as a patient or as a caregiver. I wish this site would have been here while my brother was alive. - Member, ALS Advocacy Support Community

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