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Our mission is to help people with autism lead fulfilling and rewarding lives.

The Nancy Lurie Marks Family Foundation is committed to understanding autism from a scientific perspective, increasing opportunities and services available to the autism community and educating the public about autism. In pursuit of its mission, the Foundation develops and provides grants to programs in research, clinical care, policy, advocacy and education.

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Advancing the Scientific Understanding of and Harnessing New Technologies for Autism

Lurie Autism Institute

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS) and the Perelman School of Medicine (Penn Medicine)

 A gift from the NLM Family Foundation, Eagles Autism Foundation, and Lurie Family Foundation to CHOP and Penn Medicine will establish the Lurie Autism Institute whose mission is to drive discoveries having a transformative impact on those living with autism spectrum disorder.

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Lurie Family Fund for the Neuro-Inclusive Oncology Care and Empowerment Program

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA

The Neuro-Inclusive Oncology Care and Empowerment Program was developed to help Dana-Farber’s physicians and other providers treat cancer in people who have intellectual and/or developmental disabilities (IDD).

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Berklee Music Lessons Program for Adults with Autism

Berklee Institute for Accessible Arts Education (BIAAE), Berklee College of Music

The Berklee Music Lessons Program for Adults with Autism provides free, online, weekly individual and group musical instrument lessons to adults on the autism spectrum.

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The Autism Bereavement Project

Hospice Foundation of America

The goal of this project is to foster a healthier experience of grief and loss for autistic adults by helping family, friends, clergy, and other grief professionals better support them in their grief.

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Targeted Education for Autism Management across Medical Specialties (TEAMS) Phase 2

Harvard Medical School

The TEAMS program at Harvard Medical School is an educational initiative that aims to improve health care experiences for individuals with autism and their families across medical specialties and lifespans.

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The Lurie Center for Autism

Massachusetts General Hospital

The Lurie Center for Autism is an integrated and multidisciplinary clinical, research, training and advocacy program of MassGeneral Hospital for Children (MGHfC) dedicated to treating individuals with autism and other developmental disabilities.

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Lurie Autism Institute

The Lurie Autism Institute will drive discoveries having a transformative impact on those living with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Rooted in a collaboration between world-renowned centers in pediatric research and academic medicine, the Institute will become a global hub for autism research connecting scientists, clinicians, and families.

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Lurie Center For Autism

The Lurie Center for Autism is an integrated and multidisciplinary clinical, research, training and advocacy program of MassGeneral Hospital for Children (MGHfC) dedicated to treating individuals with autism spectrum disorder and other developmental disorders.

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Lurie Institute for Disability Policy

The Lurie Institute for Disability Policy at Brandeis University's Heller School for Social Policy and Management is dedicated to improving the lives of people on the autism spectrum, as well as people with other disabilities, across the lifespan through innovative social policies that foster inclusion into the mainstream of society.

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Autism Around the Globe

Autism around the Globe is an interactive web-based project of the NLM Family Foundation which focuses on raising public awareness of how autism affects those in different parts of the world.

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