My Nonprofit Reviews

The Oral Cancer Foundation is a truly special non-profit. I came to know about OCF when working for a manufacturer of the VELscope oral cancer screening system. OCF was tremendously helpful in educating us about the nature of the disease, the many challenges faced by oral cancer patients, the needs of the dental practices that use our system on their patients, and what we could do to ensure that our system played as great a role as possible in helping dentists discover oral cancer or pre-cancer in as many patients as possible. OCF never requested or accepted a penny of payment for the valuable services they provided. Moreover, over the years I came to see and appreciate the outstanding impact OCF on oral cancer patients and caregivers around the world. In terms of both effectiveness and ethics, OCF is truly the model that every non-profit should strive to emulate.

I have had the pleasure and honor of writing several website articles, news releases and other communications materials for the Oral Cancer Foundation over the past year or so. I could not be more in awe of the commitment of the Foundation and its founder, Brian Hill, to promoting early detection of the disease and to serving as a vital resource to oral cancer victims and their families and friends. Before Brian created the Foundation, public awareness of this surprisingly common and fatal disease was extremely low, and victims had very little access to desperately-needed information and advice. All one has to do is talk with an oral cancer victim to appreciate what a spectacular job the Foundation has done in filling this void. Particularly impressive to me is how the Foundation's online forums brilliantly allow oral cancer survivors to provide insight, counsel and comfort to more recently-diagnosed patients. The pain and suffering these amazing people have experienced is exceeded only by their compassion for their fellow victims. What many people do not realize is how tirelessly Brian works on behalf of the Foundation. For Brian it is virtually a 24/7 obsession, and his wife Ingrid also volunteers a great deal of her time despite the fact that she works full-time elsewhere. Moreover, the Hills' personal financial commitment to the Foundation has been truly above-and-beyond the call of duty, particularly when you consider that Brian's impressive track record as an entrepreneur would make it easy for him to accept a high-paying offer to run a private or public company. The impact that Brian Hill and the Oral Cancer Foundation have made to date is probably impossible to measure. However, if you speak to Brian, it is clear that this impact pales in comparison to what will be accomplished in the years to come.

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