Notebook #7 
Organizations Making a Difference with Traumatic Head
Injuries and CTE 
By Mackenzie Newman丨May 5th, 2019
Brain Injury Alliance of Utah
Address: 3445 South Main Street,
Salt Lake City, Utah 84115-4418
Phone: ​801-716-4993
Email: info@biau.org
The BIAU promotes
brain injury
awareness and
prevention through
community education. Not only do they bring
awareness, they also raise money to help
individuals and families who have been
affected by brain injuries. They also work
alone with Headsmart in researching to help
those who are affected.
Concussion Legacy Foundation
Address: 361 Newbury Street, 5th Floor
Boston, MA 02115
Phone: 857.244.0810
The CLF was
founded on June
4th, 2007 by Chris
Nowinski. The mission is to support athletes,
veterans, and all affected by CTE and brain
injuries. Their main goal is to work to make
everything smarter and safer when it comes to
protecting your brain. They also work to help
end the fight against CTE. They also work
internationally and have even travelled to
Rwanda to help them in their times of need.
 
Utah Independent Living Center
Address: 3445 South Main Street,
Salt Lake City, Utah 84115-4418
Phone: (801) 466-5565
Email: uilc@uilc.org
Started in April
of 1982, the
UILC was the
first living
center for those with disabilities. This allowed
those with disabilities to become more
independent but also to get the help they need
while living alone. They also work on helping
those with head trauma or brain injuries. They
have locations throughout Utah but mainly in
Summit, Tooele, and Salt Lake counties.
Brain Trauma Foundation
Address: ​1999 S Bascom Ave #1040,
Campbell, CA 95008
Contact: Online survey on website
This non-profit
organization
was founded in
1986. For over
30 years, their
purpose is to improve the outcomes of
patients with traumatic brain injury. They
raise money to fund research and to spread the
message through education and the
community. They are partnered up with
multiple university such as Stanford, the
University of Utah, and Portland State. They
also work along with the NCAA to make
college sports better and safer.
Kessler Foundation Patrick Risha CTE Awareness Foundation
Address: 120 Eagle Rock Avenue Address: 3 Atkinson Drive, Doylestown, PA
East Hanover, NJ 07936-3147 18901
Phone: 973.324.8362 Phone: 1-215-348-8308
The purpose The main purpose of this
of the foundation is to end CTE
Kessler and to find research and
Foundation better ways to prevent it.
is to use the donated money to find a positive This foundation started
change for those with brain injuries and other with the story of Patrick
disabilities. Their goal is to find ways to allow Rish. Playing football
them to live more productive and independent through college he got his head hit a lot.
lives. Later, when we became of father of 2, he died
unexpected two days later. He suffered from
CTE and now this foundation works to find a
cure and how they can prevent it for others in
the future.

Brain Injury Association of America Bob Woodruff Foundation

Address:1608 Spring Hill Road, Suite 110 Address: 1350 Broadway, Suite 905
Vienna, VA 22182 New York, NY 10018
Phone: 1-800-444-6443 Phone: (646) 341-6864
The purpose of the
BIAA is to The Bob Woodruff
provide services foundation is made to
that not all help and assist veterans
non-profit and those who served for
organizations can provide. They provide high our country that now
end services, communication, support, and the have brain trauma
beast research you can find. They provide injuries and other
these services for anyone with a brain injury disabilities. They have raised 57 million
from athletes, veterans, or even just accidents. dollars in trying to help veterans and families
Their goals are to help you get back on your gat back to more normal lives. In this process
feet. They provide not only new research with they have done large amounts of research on
the donations, they help provide caregivers commas and CTE as well as helped 2.5
and other help that may be needed. Millions veterans and families.
Headway Foundation
Address:115 King St, Chappaqua, NY 10514
Phone:(914) 238-8384
The goals of the
Headway
Foundation is
based on 3 things:
awareness, aid, and advocacy. They want to
make the need for sports safety higher sports
safety more apparent. They also want to help
those who are in need after effects of a brain
traumatic injury. They also want to make
everyone more involved on the issues that are
involved in brain injury. They also work
internationally with other foundations to
promote its causes.
Pink Concussions
Phone: 1-203-984-0860
Email: Katherine@PINKconcussions.org
Pink Concussions
is the first
non-profit
organization that
works towards
care for girls and
women who suffer from brain injury and
truama. This orgainzatation works towards
pre-injury education and post-injrury medical
help. They support any women who gain
these diabilites whether it be from sports,
viloence/abuse, or miltary service. They
started because they realized the data that
proves that women are at higher risk for brain
truama then men.