2019-01-05 Sat

March of Dimes is a United Nations non-profit organization which works to improve the health of mothers and babies. This organization was founded by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the year 1938 as ‘National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis’ to combat polio. President Franklin D. Roosevelt personal struggle with polio led him to create this organization. The Foundation established patient aid programs and funded research for polio vaccines developed by Drs. Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin.

This organization improves the health of both mother and babies through five programming areas: Medical Research, Education of pregnant women, Community Program, Government Advocacy and Support of Pregnant Women and Mother. This organization also provides useful information to women and her family with educational resources on baby health, pregnancy, preconception, and new motherhood as well as supplying information and support to families in the NICU who are affected by prematurity, birth defects, or other infant health problems.

In the year 1976, this organization was also known as the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation. Later in 2007, the formal name became the March of Dimes Foundation.

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