Organizations We Support
Endo Pharmaceuticals "Invests in Hope" by Supporting the Salvation Army's New Community Center in North Philadelphia
One of the key objectives of our Corporate Contributions program is to support organizations that help and empower people in need as well as enhance the health and welfare of individuals who live in the communities in which we work.
In line with that objective, Endo recently invested in hope and new opportunities for a community in need by supporting the Salvation Army of Greater Philadelphia's Ray & Joan Kroc Corps Community Center. Scheduled to open in the fall of 2010 in the heart of North Philadelphia's most troubled neighborhoods, the 104,000 square foot Kroc Center will transform the community and change lives by giving some of the most underserved residents of Philadelphia access to a broad range of life-enriching programs. The Kroc Center will provide after-school and life-skills programs for youth; services for seniors; job skills and employment training; a community health clinic, and early childhood education programs.
Highlights of the Kroc Center will include classrooms and a computer lab; a performing arts center; fitness and aquatic centers; a culinary arts training center with fully-functioning public café, and community gardens.
Endo Helps a Philadelphia Landmark Gets a Facelift, and the Children's Museum Gets a New Home
Through a generous contribution, Endo recently gave a helping hand to the Please Touch Museum, also known as the Children's Museum of Philadelphia, in support of its much-anticipated move to its new, expanded location in Memorial Hall at Fairmount Park.
The Please Touch Museum was founded in 1976 with the mission of enriching the lives of children up to age seven by providing learning opportunities through play. Over its 31-year history, the Please Touch Museum has achieved a national reputation for excellence through its interactive exhibits, activities, and theater performances, and has become a beloved destination for the young and young at heart.
Memorial Hall, one of Philadelphia's most recognizable landmarks, is currently being restored to its original late 1880s grandeur. It will accommodate the Please Touch Museum's growing popularity, enabling children and their parents to enjoy the museum's many educational attractions for generations to come.
Highlights of the new Please Touch Museum include the Great Hall, where guests will be greeted by an incredible 40-foot-tall replica of the Statue of Liberty's Arm and Torch, created out of toys, games and other playful found objects. Visitors will also enjoy the new carousel house -- a 9,000-square-foot glass and steel addition on the east side of Memorial Hall – with its historic carousel that originally operated at nearby Woodside Park. The carousel's 52 animals, along with more than 1,200 lights, are currently being installed.
The Please Touch Museum at Memorial Hall will open its doors on October 18, 2008.
Endo Gives Cancer Patients in Need a "Home Away from Home"
When patients with cancer must travel to another city for extended outpatient care but cannot afford a place to stay, they turn to the American Cancer Society (ASC)'s Hope Lodge. For more than twenty years, the ASC's network of Hope Lodges around the country have provided hospitality and lodging to cancer patients in need and their families during treatment at no cost.
When the ACS recognized a tremendous need to establish a Hope Lodge in Southeastern Pennsylvania for those patients traveling to Philadelphia to receive world-class cancer care, Endo wanted to help. Now the dream of a Hope Lodge in Philadelphia is closer to reality thanks to our recent generous donation for the construction of a guest suite in the lodge.
Scheduled to open in 2009, Philadelphia's 30,000-square-foot Hope Lodge will accommodate guests in a serene, natural setting adjacent to Fox Chase Cancer Center. While at Hope Lodge, patients live with other people going through similar experiences. They are encouraged to share stories with one another and make new friends in a "home away from home” atmosphere supported by caring staff and volunteers. Hope Lodge offers a warm, nurturing environment supportive of the special needs of the patients who stay there, allowing them to focus on what is most important – fighting cancer.
Driving Solutions: Endo Brings Chester County Uninsured Closer to Care
When low-income residents of Pennsylvania's Chester County had difficulty reaching the local clinics serving the working poor due to lack of public transportation, the United Way of Southern Chester County stepped in to help. The community organization's solution was to create the Transportation Initiative, a program providing free transportation for families to appointments at out-of-area clinics. Endo recently helped keep the wheels of this vital service in motion through a generous contribution.
For two years the Transportation Initiative has been a resounding success, making a difference in the lives of those without medical coverage every day where it is needed most. For example, uninsured school children from three Chester County school districts are now transported by bus each week to receive free dental checkups and treatment during the school day – care the children would not receive without the Transportation Initiative. In the town of Oxford, residents in need no longer have to postpone or miss medical appointments because they have no way to get there: volunteer drivers transport the families to and from their scheduled appointments at a clinic. With our support, the United Way is building healthier communities by helping needy families gain access to the vital preventative care they need.
Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce's Read to Me Early Literacy Day
Every year Endo helps promote the importance of regularly reading aloud to young children by sponsoring the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce's annual "Read to Me" Early Literacy Day. The program highlights a wider literacy initiative currently being implemented within the Philadelphia School District.
Through the "Read to Me" Early Literacy Program, children enhance their vocabulary; learn to become fluent readers; develop higher-order thinking; increase their oral language development; and develop a sense of reading for enjoyment.
On the "Read to Me" Early Literacy Day, local executives volunteer to be storytellers. Each volunteer is matched with a classroom in a Philadelphia public school and reads a selected children's book aloud to the students. The book is chosen from the "Read to Me" Early Literacy Program collection.
Endo is participating in the program again this year.
