American Heart Association

AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION

INTRODUCTION

Nonprofit organizations work to contribute a more impartial society by supporting individuals and communities without seeking for any profit.This type of organizationusually keepsfinding the unaware areas of social welfare, and thenitcomes to serve in these areas. Therefore, nonprofit organizations have a crucial role in American society. The American Heart Association (AHA) is one of the nonprofit organizations in the United States. Heart disease is the top cause of death for people in the United States; it also creates a huge economic burden on the nation. The AHA works in an effort to reduce death and disability caused by stroke and heart disease with the motto “Learn and Live.”

This report provides an overview about the AHA platform, its founding and development, as well as itsactions to carry the mission. The purpose of this report is to help readers evaluating the organization’s importance and supporting it in the fight against heart disease.

HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION

The Founding and the Public Debut

In the early years of the twentieth century, there was not muchinformationaboutheart disease. Because of misconception, the treatment for heart disease patients at that time was bed rest. Recognizing the need to discover and spread the correct heart disease information, in 1915, a group of physicians and social workers formed a first group which is focused on heart disease. It wasinitiallycalled the Association for the Prevention and Relief of Heart Disease and was located in New York City. The association then spread to other cities, and there was a need to combine all the groups across the United States to form a national organization. Eventually, in 1924, the American Heart Association was found by six cardiologists representing groups from New York, Boston, Philadelphia,Chicago and St. Louis.

In an effort to receive the public attention, in 1946, the AHA worked for their first...