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Long-time Funding Partner Freddie Mac Foundation Continues Support for MotherNet Loudoun

Ashburn, Virginia (February 11, 2009) — The Freddie Mac Foundation has once again renewed its ongoing support of the INMED MotherNet/Healthy Families Loudoun program in Loudoun County, Va. with a $100,000 grant.

The new grant brings Freddie Mac’s financial support for INMED and its Loudoun County  programs to well more than $1.75 million, including having provided seed money for MotherNet Loudoun 15 years ago.

Created by Freddie Mac in 1991, the Freddie Mac Foundation is dedicated to making home a place where children and families thrive. As the largest corporate funder in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, Freddie Mac and the Freddie Mac Foundation have invested more than $348 million in organizations serving the community.

“We’re privileged to continue investing in MotherNet to make a measurable, significant difference in the lives of young children and their parents --- at a critical time for these families,” said Freddie Mac Foundation Chairman and CEO Ralph F. Boyd, Jr.

The goals of the MotherNet/Healthy Families program include:

  • Promoting positive parent-child interaction and positive parenting knowledge and behavior,
  • Preventing child abuse and neglect,
  • Promoting optimal child development,
  • Achieving positive pregnancy outcomes and maternal and child health outcomes.

Outcomes and success rates have remained strong throughout the program, including the 2007-08 year, when among families participating in the program, 100 percent of infants were born at healthy weights, 100 percent of children had health coverage and a medical home, 98 percent of children remained up-to-date on their immunizations, no teen mothers had repeat births, and no families had founded cases of abuse or neglect.

“It is this kind of ongoing support for programs that enables us to achieve sustainable change so that more and more families and their children have the knowledge, skills and resources they need to lead healthy, productive lives on their own,” said INMED President and CEO Linda Pfeiffer.

About INMED Partnerships for Children

Since 1986, INMED Partnerships for Children (www.inmed.org), an international non-profit humanitarian development organization, has worked in more than 100 countries to fulfill a wide range of health, nutrition, education, violence prevention and community development projects that create a continuum of care for children from the prenatal period through adulthood by empowering families and communities to support the development of healthy, educated children for increased opportunities for the future.

Contact Info:

INMED Partnerships for Children
Mary-Lynne Lasco, Director of Development
281-465-4693, or contact@inmed.org