CIGNA's deepest commitment is to the people we serve. As a part of that commitment, we reach out to many charitable organizations that share our goals.
Often this takes the form of CIGNA Giving. CIGNA Corporation and its subsidiaries give directly and through the CIGNA Foundation. Giving is directed primarily to the area we know best - health care. We've identified five core concern areas aimed at helping people understand and take control of their health.
Perhaps the most vital force behind our giving is the energy of our people, who organize and participate in fundraising events to benefit our major charitable partners. Together, we're committed to making it better, and delivering on our mission:
To help the people we serve improve their health, well-being, and security.
Corporate Social Responsibility
CIGNA, a global health service company, takes its corporate social responsibility (CSR) very seriously. We embrace it as an opportunity to reflect and extend our mission to improve health, well-being and security for all those we serve.
Through CSR, CIGNA establishes meaningful links between the health of our own employees, individuals and families, and the well-being of communities across the globe. Our commitment to CSR supports our goals to exemplify health care leadership, health advocacy and ethical business conduct, and to sustain responsible growth. CIGNA uses CSR to create a common sense of purpose for our employees by providing a "real world" context for CIGNA's commitment to our customers, shareholders, society and the environment.
Learn more about our CSR program.
Funding a study of health systems worldwide
As the country starts to look at how to make the US health system better, part of the process is to examine how health systems work in other countries around the world. To support that effort, the CIGNA Foundation has announced a grant of $1 million to the Wye River Group on Healthcare (WRGH), a neutral, non-partisan group dedicated to constructive health care change.
The grant helped create the Global Knowledge Exchange Network (GKEN), which examines health care practices internationally, to discover what works well and why. GKEN will address all facets of the health care system including cost, delivery, administration, public health and the workforce.
Amid the ongoing intense debate over health care reform, this grant enables CIGNA to support the kind of work that can help shape the future of health care. Learn more
Helping young people and their parents face the challenge of cancer
CIGNA HealthCare is working with HopeLab, a non-profit organization that combines rigorous research with innovative solutions, to help young people with serious and chronic illness improve their health and quality of life. The first joint initiative offers teens and young adults with cancer a computer video game called Re-Mission, free of charge through our website. Re-Mission is the first video game scientifically proven to improve health-related outcomes for young people with cancer. Read the study in the Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Developed by HopeLab, Re-Mission combines scientific accuracy with an honest depiction of young people's challenges with cancer.
CIGNA HealthCare is working with , a non-profit organization that combines rigorous research with innovative solutions, to help young people with serious and chronic illness improve their health and quality of life. The first joint initiative offers teens and young adults with cancer a computer video game called Re-Mission, free of charge through our website. Re-Mission is the first video game scientifically proven to improve health-related outcomes for young people with cancer. Developed by HopeLab, Re-Mission combines scientific accuracy with an honest depiction of young people's challenges with cancer.
CIGNA is also teaming up with the Childhood Leukemia Foundation (CLF), a non-profit organization that helps parents of children with leukemia and other forms of cancer to manage their child's disease. A CIGNA Foundation grant is allowing the CLF to provide Hope BinderTM free of charge to parents of children with cancer at 160 hospitals nationwide. The CLF Hope Binder is designed to help parents manage the overwhelming amount of information related to their child's care. It includes worksheets and resources to help parents document all the details that come with facing leukemia, including treatments, medicines, appointments, lab reports, physicians, hospitals, and insurance. The binder also includes a free telephone calling card and informational booklets.
Watch this video clip to see how the Hope Binder and Re-Mission are helping families to deal with serious illness.
Harnessing the energies of our people for the health of everyone
CIGNA, the CIGNA Foundation, and the people of CIGNA are working together to make it better. We are national sponsors of both the March of Dimes Prematurity Campaign and the March of Dimes March for Babies fundraising event.
During our 14 year partnership with the March of Dimes, nearly 60,000 CIGNA employees and their friends and family have walked in the annual March. The walkers and corporate fund-raising efforts have raised more than $22 million, all for one purpose – to help mothers have healthy, full–term pregnancies and reduce the number of pre-term births.
This November -- Prematurity Awareness Month -- the March of Dimes is posting an online version of their Petition for Preemies. Their goal is to increase public understanding and support for this important cause. To learn more and get involved, please read the Petition.
Supporting the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation is another focus of CIGNA and its people. In 2007, over 150 CIGNA Hartford-area employees joined half a million people across the country for a walk to benefit JDRF. Collectively, CIGNA and its people contributed over $40,000 during this campaign to help fund research. CIGNA has also been honored by the JDRF Eastern Pennsylvania Chapter for our support of juvenile diabetes research.
Another of our longtime partnerships is with Susan G. Komen for the Cure. The people of CIGNA help Komen in its efforts to eliminate breast cancer in many ways. Every year in October (Breast Cancer Awareness Month), CIGNA offices nationwide hold dozens of fundraising events to benefit Komen for the Cure. In 2007, CIGNA sponsored Komen Race for the Cure events in four cities, including our home community of Philadelphia. Since the inception of this partnership, CIGNA and its people have contributed $1.4 million dollars to Komen... for the Cure.
To learn more about how CIGNA's charitable activities are making it better, visit the CIGNA Foundation "It's Time" page.
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