Joan C. Edwards Charitable Foundation
| Founded | 2006 |
|---|---|
| Focus | Medical Education Scholarships and Programs |
| Location | |
| Method | Programming, Funding |
The Joan C. Edwards Charitable Foundation was created in 2006 upon the death of Joan C. Edwards, a well-known West Virginia-based philanthropist.
The Joan C. Edwards Charitable Foundation was created by a bequest from the Joan C. Edwards Trust in 2006 at the time of Mrs. Edwards' death. Mrs. Edwards was a philanthropist and former jazz singer. Her husband, James, who died in 1991, was owner and CEO of National Mattress Company in Huntington, W.Va., where the couple lived most of their lives.
In 2010, Joan C. Edwards Charitable Foundation launched the Health Profession Pipeline Program (H3P) in Cleveland, Ohio, to serve the needs of traditionally underrepresented minorities and low-income backgrounds.
The Health Profession Pipeline Program (H3P) is funded, administered and developed by the Joan C. Edwards Charitable Foundation in collaboration with its partners, Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) and School of Medicine (SOM), University Hospitals Case Medical Center (UHCMC) and the Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) Cleveland School of Science and Medicine (CSSM) at John Hay High School Campus. The H3P has been developed as a set of extra-curricular medical education events designed to more fully integrate the medical education system of the greater Cleveland community. The Foundation recognized the tremendous relationships already in place in the medical education system in Cleveland and sought to further solidify those relationships by funding an eight-year scholarship between CSSM and CWRU.
The H3P involves the following programs:
"X" Inquiry Seminar Series (XISS) – the XISS is a general framework for delivering the medical curriculum of the H3P. It includes broad, long-term mentoring opportunities between all segments of the pipeline, challenging material and research opportunities for all participants, job and networking opportunities, recruiting opportunities and intense communications amongst the medical education system of any participating community.
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