NAMI National Alliance on Mental Illness, drug co Funding

NAMI: National Alliance on Mental Illness


"" AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP Exemplary Psychiatrist Awards $25,000 ""



"1st Quarter 2009
Donor Purpose Amount
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company NAMI Depression Initiative $18,750
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company NAMI Family to Family Education Program $25,000
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company Campaign for a Better Tomorrow $50,000
Michael T Riordan Family Foundation General Foundation Contribution $30,000
McNeil Pediatrics Beginnings Magazine $75,000
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP Exemplary Psychiatrist Awards $25,000
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP NAMI Peer to Peer Education Program $100,000
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP Convention $35,000
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP NAMI Depression Initiative $50,000
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP Gala $50,000
Syril Lerner Foundation General Foundation Contribution $10,000
The Susan Stein Shiva Foundation General Foundation Contribution $5,000
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company Gala $37,500
OptumHealth NAMI Hearts & Minds Education Program $50,000
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. NAMI MultiCultural Action Center $50,000
Eli Lilly & Company NAMI MultiCultural Action Center $112,500
Delivery Agent, Inc Cause Marketing Partnership $7,089
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company NAMI Depression Initiative $18,750
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company Campaign for a Better Tomorrow $75,000
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company NAMI Family to Family Education Program $37,500
McNeil Pediatrics Beginnings Magazine $75,000
Eli Lilly & Company Campaign for a Better Tomorrow $169,000
The Rodwell Dart Memorial Foundation Teen & Young Adult Online Resource Center $30,000
The Bullen Family Foundation General Foundation Contribution $5,000
Forest Laboratories, Inc. Corporate Membership $50,000
Takeda Pharmaceutical Company, Ltd Corporate Membership $50,000
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation White Paper - Mental Health Insurance Coverage $8,251
-$1,249,340
Major Foundation and Corporate Contributions Registry"
read it here: http://www.nami.org/Content/NavigationM ... 1Q2009.pdf



Goolge NAMI + funding... like insulin for diabetes... as they would put it.

Drug Makers Are Advocacy Group’s Biggest Donors

October 21, 2009 WASHINGTON — A majority of the donations made to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, one of the nation’s most influential disease advocacy groups, have come from drug makers in recent years, according to Congressional investigators.The alliance, known as NAMI, has long been criticized for coordinating some of its lobbying efforts with drug makers and for pushing legislation that also benefits industry.Last spring, Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, sent letters to the alliance and about a dozen other influential disease and patient advocacy organizations asking about their ties to drug and device makers. The request was part of his investigation into the drug industry’s influence on the practice of medicine.

read it all here in the NY TIMES... http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/22/healt ... .html?_r=1