Human Growth Foundation
The Human Growth Foundation is a voluntary, non-profit organization whose mission is to help children, and adults with disorders of growth and growth hormone through research, education, support, and advocacy. The Foundation is dedicated to helping medical science to better understand the process of growth. It is composed of concerned parents and friends of children and adults with growth problems, physicians, and other interested health professionals.
The Human Growth Foundation (HGF) was founded in 1965, by five families of children with growth disorders. Their primary purpose was to identify other similarly situation parents and children, and to seek the support of the public for the support of research and treatment, principally for growth hormone deficiency.
The Foundation has a membership of over 1000. It publishes a quarterly newsletter and multiple booklets, and answers questions from the members and the public in support of the above goals. HGF sponsors “starter grants” to encourage research in both physical and psychosocial areas of growth disorders and chrondroplasias. HGF also sponsors Discussion Forums for parents of children, and adults, with growth disorders. From time to time, the Foundation conducts awareness/outreach programs to identify and encourage persons with growth disorders to seek appropriate diagnosis and treatment. The Foundation also maintains contact with pediatric and adult endocrinologists.