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Re:The Maker of Gore-Tex Is Experimenting With an Artificial... by adolph on Saturday May 11, 2019 @09:11AM (#19885978)
Publisher Gerard Piel credited [Basil] O'Connor with a "unique social invention: a permanently self-sustaining source of funds for the support of research — the voluntary health organization." With a centralized administration, state and local chapters and a large corps of volunteers, the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis became the prototype for dozens of similar foundations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_of_Dimes

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