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Operation Smile [Medical\Healthcare] |
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Operation Smile is a private, not-for-profit,volunteer medical services organization providing free reconstructive surgery and related health care to children and young adults in developing countries and the United States. Operation Smile provides education and training to physicians and other health care professionals to achieve long-term self-sufficiency.
Operation Smile brings together health professionals with the public and private sectors to promote voluntary care to improve the quality of life for children, families, and communities that share in the Operation Smile experience. By creating international partnerships, Operation Smile builds trust, bridges cultures and bestows dignity. |
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Opportunities for involvement |
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- Opportunities for Financial Assistance |
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 | Medical Mission Sponsor |
| Since 1991, Operation Smile has been treating children and training medical professionals in China. Operation Smile conducts 6 international medical missions to China each year. During these missions international medical volunteers, including plastic surgeons, anesthesiologists, pediatricians, dentists, speech therapists and nurses, partner with their Chinese colleagues to provide free reconstructive surgery to children. We also provide medical supplies for Operation Smile Chinese medical volunteers to carry out free reconstructive surgery on a year round basis.
Operation Smile's medical missions depend on funding from our sponsors. Employees of our corporate sponsors have the opportunity to participate in our medical missions by assisting with medical records, playing with children while they wait for their surgeries, distributing gifts to patients and their families and serving as translators. Through employee involvement on our medical missions, employees experience giving back to the community and changing the life of a child.
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| Shanghai Second Medical University, Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital & Operation Smile Education & Research Partnership Sponsor |
| Operation Smile, the Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital and the Shanghai Second Medical University entered into an education exchange agreement in the spring of 2002. The successful goals of this partnership will 1) increase the capabilities for the treatment of facial deformity throughout China 2) provide humanitarian opportunities for Chinese physicians 3) promote self-sufficiency for training of clinicians and treatment of children in China suffering from facial deformity and 4) refine and improve the medical practice related to all facets of pediatric reconstructive surgery through outcomes-based research. We seek sponsorship for education and research programs to be implemented through this partnership.
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| Mobile Unit Sponsor |
| Operation Smile seeks sponsors of mobile unit clinics that will enable us to reach and treat more children throughout China. Every clinic vehicle will travel from city to city and village to village for 40 weeks of a year. The clinic will stop once every week at a selected site to provide basic medical education and medical service to the locality. Cleft lip and palate repairs will be performed, along with orthodontic procedures, speech therapy and screening for Operation Smile candidates. Some patients who are unable to be performed in the Mobile Clinics will be referred to the Operation Smile Network Hospitals to get treatment. It is estimated that 2,000 children per mobile unit clinic will be treated each year.
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| Sponsor a Chinese Medical Professional for Fellowship or Education Exchange |
| Operation Smile provides two-year, full-clinical fellowships in craniofacial/micro-surgery for qualified candidates from mission countries. Fellowship programs include extensive training in clinical, leadership and cross-cultural skills. Fellows work on an average of 395 patient surgeries per year.
Operation Smile partners with teaching institutions in the United States to provide team training in mission countries through multiple-exchange education programs. The program, which began in May, 1998, has provided training for six health care professionals from China who have received training at George Washington University Medical Center in Washington, D.C., and the College of Nursing at Villanova University in Pennsylvania.
Operation Smile provides health care professionals with intensive education and training during medical education conferences. The annual Physicians’ Training Program (PTP) brings surgeons and health care professionals from Operation Smile’s mission countries to Norfolk, Va., for two weeks of clinical and leadership training. Since 1987, more than 400 health care professionals from around the world have attended PTP.
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| Sponsor Medical Equipment Updates and Maintenance |
| Operation Smile holds our policies and procedures to the very highest standards and provides the best equipment and safest guidelines. We ensure all of our medical equipment is updated and in top performance to provide high-quality patient care. Routinely it is necessary to purchase new equipment and maintenance packages to provide the best care for our patients. We seek sponsors of medical equipment sets
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- Opportunities for In-Kind Assistance |
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| Provide In-kind Office Space, Supplies & Services |
| With 6 international medical missions per year as well as year round surgeries occuring in the Operation Smile Center in Nanjing we require a substantial amount of medical goods from pharmaceutical and medical suppliers. By obtaining in-country support for medical goods we are able to leverage funds further allowing us to treat more children. We seek medical supply and pharmaceutical companies to donate in-kind medicine and supplies.
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- Opportunities for Volunteering Time |
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| Events Coordinator |
| The events coordinator is responsible for facilitating fundraising events and seeking out new opportunities for events. This requires finding event sponsors, preparation and planning for the event. |
| Minimum Time Commitment: 20.0 hours/week.
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| Fundraising Support |
| Provide assistance in fundraising to support Operation Smile China programs. This provides volunteers with an interest in the business sector an opportunity to interact on a corporate level while seeking support for Operation Smile China programs. |
| Minimum Time Commitment: 20.0 hours/week.
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| Volunteer Recruiter & Coordinator |
| The volunteer recruiter and coordinator is responsible for seeking out new volunteers, managing volunteers and maintaing volunteers. The volunteer coordinator will be responsible for organizing volunteer meetings, assigning duties and maintaining a volunteer database. |
| Minimum Time Commitment: 10.0 hours/week.
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| Public Relations Support |
| Assist in production and printing of informational materials for Operation Smile China. Seek out opportunities for awareness and publicity for Operation Smile China. |
| Minimum Time Commitment: 10.0 hours/week.
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| Student Groups Coordinator |
| The student groups coordinator is responsible for starting and facilitating student associations in local and international schools and universities in Shanghai. Student Associations are being established around the world and are truly creating miracles for children through education, leadership and service. Currently, Operation Smile supports over 250 clubs in middle, high schools, universities and medical schools. These clubs are responsible for raising awareness and funds for the mission of Operation Smile. |
| Minimum Time Commitment: 10.0 hours/week.
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Contact: |
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Name:
James Grotting |
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Phone:
0084 4934 9024 |
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Fax:
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E-mail:
jgrotting@operationsmile.org |
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WebSite(English):
www.operationsmile.org |
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WebSite(Chinese):
www.operationsmilechina.org |
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Documents Submitted: |
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Recent audited financial statement
Proof of registration
List of organization's staff and governing board |
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