Colleagues, please join us for this important and highly interactive session at the Academy of Management. Sponsored by the PNP and HCM divisions, this session features a LIVE CASE, dealing with a pediatric cancer nonprofit and a private toy company that became an essential tool of healing for little Max Wilford, and consequently for children hospitalized around the world.
Cancer is the #1 disease killer of children in the United States.
A panel of academics and practitioners from different perspectives (healthcare, nonprofits, and social entrepreneurship) offer initial responses to the Live Case presentation, with input from attendees.
A Community of Hope Facing Childhood Cancer:
MaxLove Project as an Organization of Meaning
Academy of Management national meeting
Monday, August 7, 2016
4:45 PM--6:15 PM Hilton Anaheim Santa Monica Room
This symposium presents an interactive "Live Case" of a young nonprofit organization building a community of hope for families dealing with childhood cancer, and features its originating partner, a major toy company. The nonprofit is the MaxLove Project www.maxloveproject.org (MLP), described on their website is a "dynamic, volunteer-driven, grassroots team of parents, doctors, nurses, researchers, chefs, farmers and community activists who are dedicated to helping childhood cancer families beat the odds." The MLP was launched in November 2011 in the wake of four-year old Max Wilford's brain cancer diagnosis, with tumors located in the brain stem, and the resulting difficulties he had gaining restorative sleep after lengthy hospitalization and surgeries. After trying numerous strategies and night lights, relief came for Max in the form of a Cloud b Twilight Turtle, allowing him to see stars on the bedroom ceiling and control the colors.
The major presenters are the co-founder of the MaxLove Project and her initial corporate partner, the CEO of the Cloud b toy company.
Panelists:
Kimberly R. Islett, Georgia Institute of Technology (healthcare policy)
Steve Papamarcos, Norfolk State University (social entrepreneurship)
Don Wise, Park University (nonprofit leadership)
Justin Wilford, UC-Irvine (pediatric cancer research)
Thank you,
Laurie