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Silent Spring Institute is an approved 501(c)3 public charity, registered with the Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General, Non-Profit Organizations/Public Charities Division. Copies of our financial statement may be obtained through the Office of the Attorney General, One Ashburton Place, Boston, MA 02108, or upon request.
 Established in 1998 by Susan Bailis, a respected leader in Boston's health care community, the Susan S. Bailis Breast Cancer Research Fund provides flexible financial resources for Silent Spring Institute. The Institute needs these unrestricted funds to advance new research to identify possible environmental factors in breast cancer.
Susan Bailis was an eloquent champion of the need to pursue a path to prevention and supported innovative breast cancer research designed to identify possible environmental factors of the disease. When she succumbed to breast cancer after an eight-year struggle, Susan left a legacy of hope for countless women and families. Susan's commitment to ensuring a healthier future for generations to come continues through the research fund that bears her name.
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The Susan Bailis Fund supports Silent Spring Institute's pioneering research, including studies of pollutants from common products like pesticides, detergents, and plastics containing chemicals that mimic estrogen or affect other hormones. The Fund supported research that provided the first measurements of pollutants in indoor air. To gather data, researchers in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, packed an air monitor in a backpack for a day of shopping, left monitors overnight in women's homes, and took monitors to work in a plastics molding shop. Results showed concentrations well above the levels that prompt regulatory concern for many other pollutants. This work provided the impetus for Silent Spring Institute's current Household Exposure Study. To spur discussion of emerging research with other scientific teams, policymakers, and activists, the Bailis Fund supported the Institute's national conference at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. Alliances forged at that meeting have helped to place environmental studies higher on the nation's research agenda, stimulate new directions for breast cancer research, and focus public policy on responding wisely to what we know now. Contributors to the Bailis Fund help to ensure that Silent Spring Institute can continue its work at the vanguard of breast cancer prevention research. Although individuals and organizations may make donations to the Fund throughout the year, the annual Bailis Fund Dinner is the primary source for renewing fund resources. For information on the Bailis Fund, contact Silent Spring Institute at 617.332.4288. |
