Geoffrey Beene designs are always in sync with the future and in touch with how we live, work and play. Woven into every new garment and accessory is our promise and pledge to support a better future for us all through GBGB Geoffrey Beene Gives Back®. All net profits from Geoffrey Beene, LLC together with the Geoffrey Beene Foundation fund philanthropic causes that support initial-stage, out-of-the-box revolutionary research for treatments and prevention across all cancers as well as awareness and research for Alzheimer's, heart disease, scholarships, programs for veterans, protection of women and children and protection of animals.
The Geoffrey Beene Foundation Alzheimer's Initiative was launched in 2007 as a major charitable beneficiary of the Geoffrey Beene Foundation - to fight Alzheimer's - a fatal, degenerative, neurological disease that has no cure. The Initiative is a philanthropic, not for-profit 501(c)(3), committed to providing catalyst funding to innovative new projects that advance awareness, diagnosis and research in early stages of Alzheimer's disease.
The Geoffrey Beene Foundation Alzheimer's Initiative is underwritten by the Geoffrey Beene Foundation. Contributions in excess of $4.8 million have been made to support groundbreaking awareness programs and next generation research in early diagnostics. "Not unlike cancer, the Geoffrey Beene Foundation's lead philanthropic cause, most researchers agree that the greatest potential to stop Alzheimer's lies in the earliest stages of the disease, which is why we fund translational research. Innovative Challenges help to support that mission," said Tom Hutton, the Trustee and Chief Executive Officer of the Geoffrey Beene Foundation and President and Chief Executive Officer of Geoffrey Beene, LLC. "We must redefine the solutions process and free the greatest minds of our time to do the work and to help save and improve lives."
The Geoffrey Beene Foundation Alzheimer's Initiative's mission is engaging a new generation of innovation. Even though experts now widely agree that early stages of Alzheimer's hold the key to treatment and prevention, individuals with early Alzheimer's have always been difficult to identify and costly to study in traditional clinical trial-based research. As a result, the scientific community has only begun to understand initial, pre-symptomatic disease progression and potential therapeutic options. The Geoffrey Beene Foundation Alzheimer's Initiative focuses on this relatively new field of research.
We promote "big data" analysis and mainstream digital tech applications like mobile brain behavior monitoring and social media-based population databases that can focus and support the growing millions of Americans who are worried about their brain health. The Geoffrey Beene Foundation Alzheimer's Initiative reaches across disciplines and industries through awards-based, open source challenges that engage new leaders with new ideas about our nation's aging population and how to accelerate the development of Alzheimer's therapies.
