EAR COMMUNITY INC
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Mission Statement
Promote educational and public awareness about Microtia (missing ears) and Atresia (hearing loss due to missing ear canals), in an unbiased manner, while promoting advocacy and connecting individuals in the same situation. We help children and adults who have hearing loss and facial challenges.
About This Cause
Ear Community is a 501(c)(3) charitable nonprofit organization. Ear Community helps children and adults who are born with Microtia and Atresia (when someone is born missing one or both of their ears and has no ear canal(s) resulting in hearing loss). Ear Community began as a global support group on Facebook on May 20th, 2010, called the “Microtia and Atresia Support Group.” Since then, we knew we had to help more and in 2012, the Ear Community Organization was founded as a nonprofit organization. While Ear Community is head quartered in the United States, we try to help as many Microtia and Atresia loved ones as we can around the world. Since inception, we have been able to help thousands of individuals who are born with Microtia and Aural Atresia. Ear Community has a board of directors and also an advisory board made up of individuals who understand Microtia and Atresia. Ear Community has donated over 120 new hearing devices to children and adults in need, awarded 15 college scholarships, has our own National Microtia Awareness day, is on grants working toward genetic research for Microtia and Atresia with Harvard, Vanderbilt, and the MIT Broad Institute, has hosted nearly 70 events all over the world bringing together over 15,000 people, advocates for hearing device insurance legislation (H.R. 5485 and S. 4532 also known as Ally's Act), helps find audiologists to program hearing devices for the needy and helps families through our (5) online support groups with our services. Most importantly, our organization has helped thousands of families all over the world who have children and adults with Microtia and Atresia know their options, become educated more and know they are not alone because they have our community to be a part of.