Established by Congress as an independent, nonprofit organization, the CDC Foundation is the sole entity authorized by Congress to mobilize philanthropic partners and private-sector resources to support CDC’s critical health protection mission.
The CDC Foundation helps the CDC save and improve lives by unleashing the power of collaboration between CDC, philanthropies, corporations, organizations and individuals to protect the health, safety and security of America and the world. Since 1995, the CDC Foundation has launched approximately 1,000 programs and raised over $740 million. The CDC Foundation managed over 300 CDC-led programs in the United States and in more than 130 countries last year.
Because CDC is a federal agency, all scientific findings resulting from CDC research are available to the public and open to the broader scientific community for review. Funding for CDC’s work provided through the CDC Foundation is not contingent on the outcomes of research or other scientific activity being favorable to one or more partners. The CDC Foundation works with CDC to ensure that programs will have a meaningful impact for CDC and public health, and complement CDC’s priorities and ongoing work. The CDC and CDC Foundation each have review procedures in place to safeguard against possible conflicts of interest.
In other words, a cynic would say the CDC Foundation is the funnel for the graft, to grease the skids into the CDC doing what the Deep State wants it to do.
That sounds so sweet and innocent. In Arizona there was once a government-owned museum of great educational value. To support it -- and to enable tax-deductible donations -- there was a 501 (c) (3) organization called Friends of said Museum. This really was sweet and innocent, and primarily supported the educational initiatives of the museum. (Eventually, the Museum and the Friends org were totally effed over by the State -- but that's another story.)
I don't think the CDC arrangement is sweet and innocent.