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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.
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