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The Gould Family Foundation was founded in 2007 by John & Debra Gould to help support their humanitarian initiatives. In June 2014, the foundation started the Fund for Maternal Newborn Health Clinics to improve health outcomes for poor mothers, infants & children.
Since 1997, John Gould and the Gould family have helped the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur build a school in Enugu, Nigeria, upgrade hospitals and clinics in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and establish Small Family Farm programs in northwest Peru and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The Sisters serve the “poorest of the poor in the most desperate of places” and they do so with great kindness and effectiveness despite limited resources and extremely challenging conditions. We are honored to support their great work (www.sndden.org).
In 2014, the Gould Family Foundation began our work by delivering Maternal Newborn Health PODS to qualified, grassroots health NGOs in sub-Saharan Africa. In 2015, we started a pilot project with the Segal Family Foundation led to a partnership where almost all of our partners are also Segal Family Foundation partners. We added Project CURE and Build Health International as medical equipment procurement partners in 2016 - improving the quality and scope of the equipment that we deliver. Today, we procure all new equipment for our partners. In 2018, the wonderful folks at DAK Australia offered to provide important biomedical products like oxygen concentrators, sterilizers, ultrasounds and patient monitors, free of charge, to many of our partners. DAK Australia is also co-funding our new biomedical team expansion.
We established our biomedical program in March 2017 with the hiring of our biomedical engineer, Ms. Deborah Aloyo, who is now our Manager of Biomedical Programs & Operations. We have since added biomedical engineers, technicians or apprentices in Uganda, Kenya, Burundi, the D.R. Congo, Rwanda, Togo, and Madagascar. Debbie and her team perform facility and staff assessments, determine the appropriate deliverables, install the equipment, train users and establish biomedical programs for each partner.
In 2017, we and our partners identified Clinical Training and Assessment as a critical need. Since 2017, we have provided free training for nurse-midwives in critical skills like neonatal resuscitation, post-partum hemorrhage techniques and the assessment of newborns. Our curriculum is based on the widely accepted Helping Babies Survive and Helping Mothers Survive protocols from the American Academy of Pediatrics. Gould Family Foundation Nurse Mentors train, assess, and importantly, provide on-site, hands-on training and mentoring to our partners. We also provide training to help our partners improve the diagnosis and treatment of diseases and to improve pediatric care. The increase in clinical skills from this program is significant - baseline assessments average 45-55%, post training assessments now average 90% +.
John has over 30 years of successful experience in high technology sales, marketing and management. He served as VP Sales & Marketing for a high technology start-up that went public during his tenure and was owner and President of an international software distribution company. He has also managed international and domestic operations for two large, publicly held software companies and has extensive international business experience. John is currently Executive Director of the Gould Family Foundation and serves on the Board of Directors of KOMO Learning Centres (an NGO focused on improving education and healthcare for the poor in Uganda). He also continues in his role as Founder of the Youth Mountain Adventure Program with the Appalachian Mountain Club.
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Dr. Marx is the Medical Director of Nundu Deaconess Hospital in Nundu, DRC. Dr. Marx was born at the Nundu Hospital and was raised only seven kilometers from the hospital. He returned to be Medical Director at the request of the Bishop of the Nundu region to “rebuild” the hospital. He previously served as Deputy Health Director at the Van Norman Clinic in Bujumbura, Burundi (a GFF partner hospital). Dr. Marx was awarded the 2017 Master’s Award for Professional Excellence from Brown University for his outstanding contribution to the advancement of maternal and neonatal care in developing countries.
Eve previously served as Director of Operations at the Segal Family Foundation, where she oversaw the foundation’s grantmaking activities to over 200 grantee partners across Sub-Saharan Africa. She now advises and supports philanthropic organizations on their Africa grant making strategies. Through this work, she oversees Partners for Equity’s Africa grassroots portfolio as well as managing Segal Family Foundation’s impact investing portfolio. Eve also serves on the advisory boards of Segal Family Foundation, Fundi Bots and Africa Visionary Fund.
Anubha is the Projects Director at the DAK Foundation, a private foundation based in Australia. DAK focuses on sub-Saharan Africa and Asia in three areas – women’s health programs, focused on birth injury repair and family planning, restorative eyesight surgery and the distribution of medical equipment with a special focus on oxygen systems. She serves as a Director for Partners for Equity an Australian foundation serving supporting the disadvantaged in Asia and Africa.
Lars is the Executive Director of the T & J Meyer Family Foundation (TJMFF). They provide grants in the areas of health, education and conservation to alleviate human suffering. The Gould Family Foundation and TJMFF have many common partners including Health Builders Rwanda, Integrate Health, Komo Learning Centres, NamaWellness, LWALA Community Alliance and PIVOT.
Susan is a public health specialist. She is Deputy Director of the Kabubbu Development Project located in Kabubbu, Uganda. She holds a bachelor’s degree in public health, a diploma in nursing and has extensive and successful clinic management experience. She is also one of the leading implementers of Gould Family Foundation GAP Grants in Africa (Delivery Subsidy Program, CRI-Nutrition Program and Community Health Worker Program). Susan is a recipient of the prestigious African Visionary Fellowship Award from the Segal Family foundation.
Naum is the founder and CEO of UGEAFI, an NGO that supports education, health, and WASH in South Kivu, DRC. UGEAFI has implemented a major immunization program in South KIVU, addressing this major health gap. UGEAFI also manages an very effective Women’s Leader (CHW) program providing employment for unemployed women and converting traditional birth attendants to CHWs. He is a recipient of the prestigious African Visionary Fellowship Award from the Segal Family Foundation.
Antoine is Founder and President of Komo Learning Centres a Ugandan NGO that supports youth programs, operates a health clinic (NamaWellness) and a large-scale Community Health Worker (CHW) program. He has lived in Burundi, is married to a Burundian and personally funds many start-up NGOs in Africa. He also serves as a Board member for the Segal Family Foundation and several community-based, African NGOs.
Marnie oversees the DAK Foundation’s medical equipment programs, partnering with health networks across Asia and Africa to help increase their efficiency and quality of service through provision of basic medical equipment and biomedical program support. She serves as a Director for Partners for Equity an Australian foundation serving supporting the disadvantaged in Asia and Africa.
