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If Ear Community has helped you or if you would simply like to support our cause, please consider making a donation to our organization (even small donations are helpful and appreciated and will help support someone in our community). Here are some of our recipients who have received help from Ear Community since 2012.

Press release on Ear Community being named a 2023 Top Rated Nonprofit by GreatNonprofits!

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Ear Community, Inc.
280 E 1st Ave., Unit 704
Broomfield, CO  80038  USA

Ear Community’s Federal tax ID# is 46-0923897
Ear Community is a 501c3 nonprofit organization
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Financials
All Form 990’s since 2014 for Ear Community have been publicly filed per IRS guidelines and can be found here on the GuideStar website by entering Ear Community in the search field.  GuideStar USA, Inc. is an information service specializing in reporting on U.S. nonprofit companies and showing transparency.  It is organization’s like GuideStar that provide information on nonprofits that are in good standing, to companies nationwide allowing nonprofits to participate in corporate giving programs and campaigns.  Here is an article on transparency by GuideStar. Ear Community is proud to be rated a Great Nonprofit each year since 2016!

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How is Ear Community giving back to the Microtia and Atresia Community?
List of Ear Community Programs
Thanks to your contributions and support, Ear Community is making a difference across the world by helping give back in many wonderful ways.  Here are some of the wonderful ways Ear Community is able to help give back thanks to your support:

– Since 2011, Ear Community has brought thousands of people together at our FREE picnic events, helping educate about all options and helping families know that they are not alone with Microtia and Atresia.
– The Ear Community website was the first comprehensive source of information for Microtia and Atresia and has paved the way for families and the medical community since 2011. Our Facebook online support group is one of the longest running support groups.  We actively manage 5 Ear Community support groups for Microtia and Atresia.
– Ear Community has paved the way by supporting education about Microtia and Atresia through presenting multiple accredited educational webinars.
– Ear Community established National Microtia and Atresia Awareness Day that takes place on November 9th of each year to help educate and promote awareness about Microtia and Atresia. Many medical professionals and Microtia and Atresia families embrace our day all around the world.
– Ear Community has advocated for hearing device insurance coverage on Capitol Hill during Advocacy Days and has helped with state petitions to help get Baha/BAHS/BAIs covered by insurance providers. In fact, we have Federal legislation introduced known as Ally’s Act.
– Ear Community’s Founder and Executive Director sits on multiple advisory boards for hearing loss and Microtia and Atresia research, participating in many meetings and conference calls weekly.
– Our organization has presented on Microtia and Atresia at the FDA during a listening session and collaboration with Auregen Biotherapeutics. We are very excited about clinical trials beginning for 3D printed regenerated ears as of Fall of 2023. For more information, visit ClinTrials@Auregen.bio
– Ear Community is helping with genetic research for Microtia and Atresia in collaboration with Harvard University, Vanderbilt, MIT – the Broad Institute and the Gabriella Miller Kids First Foundation in which we have discovered that microtia is genetic with an increased risk for microtia and craniofacial microsomia on chromosome 3.
– Each year, Ear Community attends and presents at state/government meetings, hearing device conferences, medical professional trade shows, and meetings including the ACPA, EAA and EHDI.
– We help new families who feel a little lost with guidance over the phone, in person, and via e-mail, we help with IEPs and 504 Plans for school and attend these meetings with families, and provide information about all options for Microtia and Atresia.
– Ear Community has hosted over 120 family picnics around the world including holiday events such as our annual Secret Santa program.
– Ear Community has donated over 175 new hearing devices to needy children and adults all over the world.
– Ear Community has awarded over 20 college scholarships.
– Ear Community has helped one family with funds toward reconstructive surgery (travel cost reimbursement).
– Ear Community collaborates with other organizations to help fund and host events for Microtia and Atresia and D/HH events.
– Ear Community has collaborated with ASHA to help provide a script during newborn hearing screenings for new Microtia and Atresia families that hospitals now use.
– We work closely with medical professionals, teachers and therapists, hearing device companies, and families to help educate together.

Ear Community has received the following awards:
-The Family Leadership in Excellence Award by the EHDI Organization (3/2018)
-The Ambassador Leadership Award by Oticon Medical (7/2016 and 8/2022)
-Ally Tumblin received the Super HearO Award at the International Congress on Bone Conduction Hearing and Related Technologies in Denver, CO (9/2023)
-The Legacy Award by the Give An Ear Foundation (11/2023)
-The Charlie F. Cronheim Memorial Grant Recipient by ReconstructTogether (2/2024)

Thanks so much for your support.
Melissa Tumblin
Founder – Executive Director
Ear Community
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Financial assistance made possible through donations made to Ear Community: