We’re pleased to announce our newest BIF Member, the Joe Andruzzi Foundation. JAF inspires us all by helping to alleviate the financial burden for cancer patients and their families throughout New England.
“As the Joe Andruzzi Foundation enters its tenth year, we are thrilled to become members of the extended BIF community,” said Joe Andruzzi, President and Co-Founder of the Joe Andruzzi Foundation. “Our entire organization is looking forward to tapping into the extensive resources offered within a BIF membership as we strengthen a strategy and business model that will help carry the Foundation’s mission into its next decade of operation.”
As a Member, JAF will gain access to BIF’s innovation experience, community, and unique approach to developing next practices and new business models through BIF’s Design Methodology. With a growing financial burden placed upon patients, JAF and BIF will work together to explore and test new ways of addressing rising and oftentimes unexpected medical costs to alleviate the burden facing patients and their families, building on the organizations 10 years of experience.
“We’re thrilled to partner with the Joe Andruzzi Foundation. JAF shares BIF’s core human-centered values and strategic focus on transforming healthcare” said BIF Founder and Chief Catalyst Saul Kaplan. “The financial toxicity of cancer is increasing and is as important to manage as the toxicity of cancer treatments. BIF is excited to help JAF explore new transformational models that rise to the level of the financial problem that families impacted by cancer face.”
Founded by former New England Patriots offensive guard Joe Andruzzi and his wife Jen in 2008, the Joe Andruzzi Foundation grew from Joe’s own successful battle with cancer and serves as a means to provide financial assistance to cancer patients and their families so they can focus on recovery – not bills. It also funds research at Boston Children’s Hospital, building on the Andruzzis’ longstanding commitment to cutting-edge pediatric brain cancer research.
If you’d like to get involved or lend your support to the organization, please visit: JoeAndruzziFoundation.org
You can hear more on Joe’s story from the #BIF2017 Summit below:
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