One Mind to Present at Cavendish Global Health Impact Forum

-- The Oxford University hosted Forum uniquely brings together leading family offices and their foundations seeking impact investment, grant-giving, and philanthropy opportunities within health and life sciences

SEATTLE, Oct. 31, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Cavendish Global announced today the selection of One Mind, the leading patient advocacy organization dedicated to benefiting all affected by brain illness and injury, to present at the Cavendish Global Health Impact Forum taking place Monday, November 10^th to Thursday, November 13^th at Oxford University in the United Kingdom. The purpose of the by-invitation Forum is to help family offices and foundations develop and implement their individual impact investing, grant-giving, and philanthropy programs within health and the life sciences. To accomplish this mission the Forum showcases presentations and panel discussions by leading scientists, accomplished healthcare delivery professionals, health-policy experts and private-sector companies engaged in developing innovations with the potential for transformational impact on disease prevention, diagnosis and treatment.

Michael Moffat, Cavendish co-founder and President explains, "With the help of our expert advisors, we conduct a global search of research institutions and private-sector companies in order to identify organizations that meet the required standard of excellence. The quality and originality of One Mind's rapid success in convening collaborative, open science within neuroscience positions them to make a major contribution to the development of and improved diagnostics, treatments, and cures for diseases and injuries of the brain." One Mind was co-founded by the Staglin family of Napa California; Garen Staglin serves as co-chairman of One Mind and is the co-founder, President and trustee of IMHRO/One Mind Institute.

"We are honored to be engaged in partnership with this unique community. We very much look forward to telling our story at Oxford. Our inclusion in the Cavendish community is further recognition of our innovative approach to improving the lives of those suffering from the many brain diseases and injuries afflicting populations around the world today," said Pete Chiarelli, CEO of One Mind. "We welcome the chance to interact with many of world's leading scientific minds, thought-leaders and generous individuals and families who are all dedicated to the common cause of improving the health and lives of people around the world and who have the ability to assist One Mind in making an important contribution to global health."

Cavendish Global consists of over 150 leading family offices and foundations from around the world with combined assets of over $190 billion who share a passion for pro-social endeavors within health and the life sciences. The Cavendish Global Health Impact Forum provides family offices with a discrete, peer-to-peer knowledge expansion and relationship building environment, combined with the information and educational resources required by foundations actively seeking to accelerate technological innovation and health access through sustainable philanthropy, grant-making and impact investing. The Forum is also an opportunity for family offices to champion and share information on projects and organizations, which they are passionate about with other family offices from around the world.

About One Mind One Mind is an independent, 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to benefiting all affected by brain illness and injury through fostering fundamental changes that will radically accelerate the development and implementation of improved diagnostics, treatments, and cures; while eliminating the stigma. One Mind believes in open science principles and creates global public-private partnerships between governmental, corporate, scientific, and philanthropic communities. Visit us at www.onemind.org or follow us via Twitter or Facebook.

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About Cavendish Global
Cavendish Global provides leading family offices and their foundations from around the world with a discrete, peer-to-peer knowledge expansion and relationship building environment, combined with the innovative resources required to help develop and implement their individual pro-social impact investment, grant-giving and philanthropy programs within health and the life sciences. A unique gathering of leading family offices, Cavendish Forums take place three times each year and are hosted by leading institutions around the world. In May of 2014 the Cavendish Global Health Impact Forum was hosted at the United Nations Headquarters, Secretariat Building New York, The Rockefeller University and The New York Academy of Sciences. Following the Oxford University hosted Cavendish Forum in November of this year, the Cavendish community of family offices will next convene in the spring of 2015 in the United States.

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