b'NPCRC IMPACT REPORTA SPECIAL THANK YOUTo all those who have believed in our mission:Your trust and financial support have ensureda strong return on your investment, and we are deeply grateful. To the Kornfeld Foundation, our founding partner, we extend special thanks for your loyal friendship.We would particularly like to recognize the great achievements of Ms. Bobye List, the Kornfeld Foundations executive director since 2000.Ms. List is widely celebrated in the funding community as a thought leader, an inspirational collaborator with other funders, an innovative grantmaker, and a fierce advocate for palliative Ms. Bobye List and a fly fishing guide in Canada duringcare. As a palliative care research funder pioneer,the tenth annual Foley Retreat. Both the snapshot and the she co-funded the first training grants for earlyfish were caught by Dr. James Tulsky.palliative care fellowships. Realizing research investigator who crossed paths with Ms. Listwas the fields critical need, in 2004 Ms. Listleft the encounter feeling supported, invigorated,approached Dr. Diane Meier and Dr. Sean Morrisonand encouraged. As Dr. Kathleen Foley herself with the idea of creating a philanthropically-fundednoted, Both Bobye and the Kornfeld Foundation research center that could help lead and developshould be honored as exemplars of how philanthropy the much needed evidence base of palliative care.can help build a field.As Dr. Morrison recalls, Bobye understood the fastest and most effective way to grow a field wasAlong with bestowing upon NPCRC the generous to invest in research leadersboth those at thefinancial support of the Kornfeld Foundation, beginning and those at the midstages of theirBobye List has freely given us new ideas and wise careersand provide them with the support,counsel as to how philanthropy can make a tools, and technical assistance they needed to bedifference. She taught us to leverage investments successful. Her insight seeded the ground fromto further fund NPCRC and helped us achieve our which NPCRC has grown. two most important sustainable outcomes: Over the past decadesand in her quiet,creating and supporting palliative care researchers unassuming wayMs. List has asked all thethroughout the country, and increasing funding right questions of all the right people. An eagerfor palliative care research. Today Ms. Lists participant in the Foley retreats, she reveled inimpact on palliative care extends well beyond meeting and befriending junior researchers andNPCRC; hers is a far-reaching legacy. following up with past grantees. Together theyWe will deeply miss our friend Bobye. We wish hiked, fished, shared meals, and discussed theher an active and well-earned retirement.details of each scientists research. Each 4'