Supporters

​As the founding cornerstone sponsor, The Law Stroud Foundation is supporting the BRANCH initiative’s efforts to form an international consortium of researchers, physicians, educators, and advocates dedicated to improving the experience of clinicians and patients. The goal is to establish sustainable partnerships and long-term collaborations that increase compassion in healthcare. 

 

BRANCH initiative efforts consider positive age beliefs and thriving later in life, in alignment with the Law Stroud mission. The Law Stroud Foundation’s three-year grant enables BRANCH to:

• Follow a proven approach to building sustainable international partnerships that work productively for all involved members.

• Recruit formal consortium members to inform development of a comprehensive strategic plan and mission, as well as vision and values statements. 

• Build a network of researchers and physicians whose knowledge and perspectives inform BRANCH’s efforts to build consensus on how to deliver healthcare with greater empathy. 

• Advance the vision of BRANCH through meetings with consortium members and others at conferences, focused think tank discussions, and other methods of sharing innovations. 

• Develop capacity to ascertain levels of awareness among clinicians and patients of issues in relationship science and healthcare, and assess beliefs about the nature of these issues, their causes, and potential solutions. 

• Aquire resources to produce illustrative stories and cases, qualitative assessments, descriptions of active programs or initiatives devoted to these issues, and recommendations for implementing positive change.

• Create this website and write A Way Forward in Primary Care: Making Healing Work, a book to support clinicians in building trusted close relationships with patients.

 

BRANCH intends to support Law Stroud community engagements, including speaking at screenings of the Persistent Productions' “In Life” series of video portraits and documentary that reveals the vibrant artistic worlds of writer Betsy Cox, painter Goh Beng Kwan, and pianist Leeanne Rees; the documentary showcases how these individuals’ later years are marked by renewed creativity and mastery, highlighting that aging can fuel extraordinary artistic achievement. 

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As the cornerstone funder, the Law Stroud Foundation support enables us to focus on organizational development and to acquire the additional funding commitments needed to launch specific projects, gain institutional support, and develop a financially sustainable organization through a variety of potential strategies.

 

In addition to support for BRANCH development, we’ve received project-based support including the Mirah evaluation project described on the Activities page of this website. We are hopeful that this game-changing project for improving mental healthcare will continue beyond the initial two years of funding.