The ECFMG/FAIMER Community Involvement Committee is excited to announce a fundraising and volunteer opportunity for employees through the Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF).  ECFMG/FAIMER will set up a lemonade stand on Wednesday, June 5, 2019, from 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM in Innovation Plaza, right outside of our Philadelphia offices.  We will make some thirst-quenching lemonade for colleagues and anyone passing through Innovation Plaza, and accepting donations towards our organizational goal.  We aim to generate $400, which will fund one full day of childhood cancer research!

The ECFMG/FAIMER lemonade stand will coincide with ALSF’s “Lemonade Days,” a multi-day event held every June encouraging individuals from all over the country to lemonade stands in solidarity for finding a cure for all childhood cancers.   During this “Lemonade Days” event, ECFMG/FAIMER will join more than 22,500 participants fundraising with lemonade stands.  The annual event raises more than $1 million for childhood cancer research.

If you are unable to visit the lemonade stand on June 5 or would like to use a credit, debit card, or PayPal to donate to the ECFMG/FAIMER campaign, you can use the "Donate" button on this page. 

This donation portal is open now and will remain open for donations until Friday, June 7, 2019.

We look forward to sharing a refreshing lemonade with all of you while raising funds and awareness for this worthy cause!

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ALSF started in 2004 with a mission to change the lives of children with cancer through funding impactful research, raising awareness, supporting families, and empowering everyone to help cure childhood cancer.   The Community Involvement Committee felt that ALSF’s mission aligned appropriately with our vision statement of “Improving world health through excellence in medical education in the context of ECFMG’s core values of collaboration, professionalism, and accountability.” 

ECFMG is a world leader in promoting quality health care—serving physicians, members of the medical education and regulatory communities, health care consumers, and those researching issues in medical education and health workforce planning. ECFMG evaluates whether international medical graduates (IMGs) are ready to enter U.S. graduate medical education programs and offers a variety of other programs for IMGs and the entities worldwide
that educate, train, register/license, and employ them.

Established in 1956, ECFMG is a private, nonprofit organization based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with more than 800 full- and part-time employees.

ECFMG’s organizational members are the American Board of Medical Specialties;
American Medical Association; Association of American Medical Colleges; Association for Hospital Medical Education; Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States, Inc.; and the National Medical Association.

For more information, visit the ECFMG website at www.ecfmg.org.