Introduction
Welcome to the Campbell Hoffman Foundation! We are a dynamic private foundation dedicated to increasing access to comprehensive health care for underserved and uninsured populations in the Northern Virginia region. We use our unique resources to catalyze, inspire, facilitate and support initiatives and projects to ensure that all individuals and families living in Northern Virginia will have access to timely, affordable, quality health care.
History of the Foundation
Originally known as the Olive D. Hoffman Memorial, Inc., the organization was established in 1994 to pay tribute to the late Olive D. Hoffman, Ph.D., M.D., who capped a successful career in biochemistry research with an equally successful career in medicine that included pioneer work in endocrinology. Dr. Hoffman was dedicated to humanitarian service and thus, for the first several years, giving concentrated solely on providing scholarships for third and/or fourth year medical students who were similarly motivated. Scholarship recipients, in return, provided an agreed-upon amount of community service in medicine.
The founding board included Jane Becker Campbell, a brilliant computer scientist, compassionate visionary and friend of Dr. Hoffman's. Jane understood the need to increase access to health care and, with the rest of the Board of Trustees, began considering additional ways to accomplish that. When Jane died in 1998, much of her estate was willed to the Hoffman Memorial. In her honor, in March, 2000 the organization was re-named the Campbell Hoffman Foundation. Shortly thereafter the Board of Trustees formally broadened its mission and scope and began funding access to comprehensive health care for the underserved and uninsured in Northern Virginia.
The Foundation is recognized for its uncommon approach to philanthropy because it not only funds programs, it sometimes initiates them. The first of these, in 2001, was the Northern Virginia Mission of Mercy (MOMs) Program, an event providing free dental care for the low income uninsured. MOMs is now an annual program of the Northern Virginia Dental Society. In 2004, the Foundation began investigating ways to improve access to affordable prescriptions. The project grew to become a separate entity known as NoVa Scripts Central, a central-fill pharmacy affiliated with Rx Partnership. NoVa Scripts Central works with local "safety net" clinics and provides low or no-cost prescriptions for eligible patients throughout the Northern Virginia region.
Based on identified community needs, the Foundation's current strategic focus is on mental health and oral health.
We are active members of the communities we serve and are members of the Health Working Group of Washington Area Regional Grantmakers, Grantmakers in Health, the Regional Primary Care Coalition, the Northern Virginia Health Services Coalition, the Northern Virginia Access to Health Care Consortium, the Virginia Consortium of Health Care Philanthropy, and the Association of Small Foundations.
