Susan G. Komen . In 1978 , Nancy Brinker promised her dying sister , Susan Komen of Peoria , Illinois , to find a means to speed up breast cancer enquiry . In 1982 , Brinker founded the The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation . The understructure became Susan G. Komen for the Cure in 2007 , and is dedicated " to curing bosom Crab at every stage – from the case to the cures , to the pain and anxiety of every minute in between . "
Elizabeth Glaser . The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation was founded in 1988 . Its namesake was marital to actor / director Paul Michael Glaser . She contract HIV in 1981 after receiving an HIV - contaminated descent blood transfusion while founder birth . The virus was passed to her infant daughter , Ariel , through breastfeeding . The Glasers ' son , Jake , born in 1984 , contracted HIV from his female parent in utero . At the 1992 Democratic National Convention , she made a moving and memorable speech(text and audio here ) . Her base strives to preclude paediatric AIDS by , for example , attracting top researchers to the study . She passed aside in 1994 .
Zachary Fisher . The idea for the Fisher House Foundation come from Pauline Trost , wife of the then - Chief of Naval Operations . She worried where military folk would stay while mom or dada was receiving medical care . In other 1990 , Russian - American altruist Zachary Fisher was taken with the concept . " I ’m a builder , I have my own architect , we can do this . " The first Fisher House opened the undermentioned year . Fisher House donates " consolation home , " built on the grounds of major armed services and VA medical heart . These homes enable family appendage to be closelipped to a loved one at the most stressful times - during the hospitalization insurance for an unexpected illness , disease , or wound .
Eric Johnson . Eric " “ the son of Bill and Ann Johnson of Morristown , New Jersey " “ shrink HIV and break down of the disease in 1990 . He was 32 . Eric had the full support of his family line – something that is not always a world for persons inhabit with HIV / AIDS . Thus , The Eric Johnson House was plan for those mass in need of trapping , as well as supportive services , who are stateless as a resultant role of , or adjunct to , their HIV / AIDS condition .
