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Dear friends of CGS,


When I was in my 40s, I was in line to receive a substantial inheritance. Instead, I convinced my family to set up a foundation to fund positive change in the world. From its early days, the Appleton Foundation identified the push to genetically modify humanity as an urgent threat and we became a primary donor to the Center for Genetics and Society.


I am very grateful for CGS’s history of essential work pushing against a future of high-tech eugenics and genetically enhanced humans. This includes confronting inequities and discrimination in assisted reproduction, genetic testing, DNA databases, and more – all from a perspective grounded in social justice, human rights, and support for responsible science.


Over the past 20 years, CGS has become the leading US nonprofit confronting the threats to a just and equitable future raised by abuses of human genetics and assisted reproduction. 


Recently, Appleton fulfilled our pledge to distribute all its funds in its first two decades. While I continue to support CGS as an individual – and am as convinced as ever about the urgency of its work – CGS needs your help now


I’m asking you to join me and pitch in so that CGS can continue the fight for genetic justice.

Donate Now

From now until the end of December, I’m offering to match your donations dollar-for-dollar.


This is your chance to boost a small organization that punches way above its weight – and double the impact of your donation. Please contribute what you can to CGS’s 2022 end-of-year campaign.


Thanks for considering joining me in the fight for genetic justice, 

Alexander Gaguine