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To improve physician training, we work to replace animals in residency training programs. As a result of our work, only eight of 285 surveyed emergency medicine residencies in the U.S. and Canada continue to use animals. In FY 2022, we launched new campaigns by filing federal complaints to challenge the use of live animals for medical training at two schools. We held physician-led demonstrations and posted ads targeting animal use at six schools, including the University of Arizona. We ended animal use for medical or veterinary training at two schools, and in both the paramedic training program and general surgery residency at the University of Washington.Our toxicologists actively promote the development and implementation of nonanimal-based tests for chemical toxicity, including training students and career toxicologists. In FY 2022, we published two peer-reviewed manuscripts making progress on human-based approaches for acute lethal toxicity and occupational allergic asthma. We also led a case study, which was approved and published by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, on a human-based approach for assessing the toxicity of chemicals to the respiratory system. Our training offerings in FY 2022 reached over 6,000 professionals. A monthly webinar series attracted hundreds of scientists, students, and regulators from around the world. We also launched a concurrent discussion series featuring leaders in the field, attracting over 1,000 attendees in the first four sessions. To support students and early career scientists, we held the second North American Summer School for Innovative Approaches in Science, which offered an educational program for toxicology and biomedical research students interested in nonanimal science. 2835848 15000 147184 Nutrition EducationNutrition experts grew a variety of educational programs to promote plant-based diets for health. To educate clinicians, we bookended FY 2022 with two International Conference on Nutrition in Medicine events, reaching 1,500 people. The Nutrition Guide for Clinicians, a diagnostic and treatment mobile application, reached 6,079 new users, with over 57,000 total users to date. NutritionCME.org brought in 1,929 health care professionals through novel and practical educational content, and we provided lectures at 28 medical, nursing, and dental schools, reaching 1,678 students. The clinician referral network brought in 44 new providers, for a total of 402 worldwide. The Lets Beat Breast Cancer Campaign reached 5,000 pledges, appeared over 6 million times on social media, and garnered the support of renowned experts and celebrities who joined together to promote breast cancer risk reduction through four easy nutrition and lifestyle steps. The bilingual 21-Day Vegan Kickstart mobile application has now reached over 400,000 people with menus, recipes, and education and cooking videos to support individuals transitioning to a plant-based diet. Online educational offerings allowed us to reach tens of thousands of people: The Fight Diabetes with Food program reached over 6,500 live participants, and our Fight Diabetes with Food India program reached 2,600 people. Fight Hot Flashes with Food reached 792 live participants. One Healthy World, our new multilingual online program, reached over 100,000 people. In China, we reached more than 11,200 people through a total of 98 lectures across 40 cities. The Native American Food for Life Online course taught by community leaders continues to expand into new communities across the United States. The Food for Life Nutrition and Education Program, via our global network of 300 instructors, reached 7,500 students through more than 1,000 individual classes. 2472885 CommunicationsWorking with physicians, health experts, and celebrities who serve as spokespeople, we inform, persuade, and inspire readers through strategic media relations, social media, digital communications, and advertisements. Our work was featured in traditional news outlets, including The Washington Post, CNN, CBS News, Politico, New York Daily News, Bloomberg, and many others. Each month, we reached a potential audience of 83 million by appearing in an average of 105 news outlets. Our social media content created conversations daily among more than 1.6 million followers on 13 social media accounts. In FY 2022, 4.6 million people engaged with our content, up 25.4% from FY 2021. We reached 230 million accounts, up 37% from FY 2021. Our YouTube channel received 16.4 million views in FY 2022 and gained 148.3 thousand subscribers, bringing our total to 337 thousand. The Exam Room podcast was downloaded more than 4.9 million times in FY 2022 and 10 million from its 2018 launch through FY 2022. 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Endowment funds will be used to support the mission of Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, an organization described in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Part X : FIN48 Footnote At July 31, 2022, and for the year then ended, The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, Inc. has determined that there were no material unrecognized/derecognized tax benefits, tax penalties or interest. No provision for income taxes has been made in the accompanying financial statements. At July 31, 2022, the tax filings that are subject to possible examination by major tax jurisdictions are for the years ended July 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019. east asia and pacific 0 1 program serviceS See Part V 155300 south asia 0 1 program services See Part V 48250 2 2 203550 203550 false false false false false false Part I, Line 3f - Method of Accounting accrual basis of accounting was used. 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As a result, not all of these costs reported on Schedule G will be reflected as fundraising services on Form 990, Part ix, line 11e, column D. amounts amounts amounts included included included Form 990 Form 990 Form 990 Part IX Part IX Part IX column B column C Column D totalOther services 103,644 -0- 108,871 212,515Advertising and promotion 0 -0- 0 0Printing & Publications 31,281 -0- 62,515 93,796Postage & shipping 7,905 -0- 7,333 15,238Mailing list costs 0 -0- -0- 0Total 142,829 -0- 178,720 321,549 true Community Improvement Assoc 828 Gibbs Road Pike Road AL 36064 352701639 501(c)(3) 10000 0 support plant-based diabetes educat PCRM Clinic DBA Barnard Med 5100 Wisonsin Ave NW 401 Washington DC 20016 464057257 501(c)(3) 20 28906 FMV direct payment of clinic expenses general support The PCRM Foundation 5100 Wisconsin Ave NW 400 Washington DC 20016 731669893 501(C)(3) 1349996 0 General support 3 0 Grantmaker's Description of How Grants are Used The Physicians Committees board of directors approves grants to The PCRM Foundation to fund the Physicians Committee Endowment and grants to PCRM Clinic for direct Physicians Committee payment of PCRM Clinic expenses, as well as for professional and administrative services. Other grants, except as noted, are approved and monitored by a committee made up of the President and scientific, health, or other experts in the relevant field. Grantees are required to sign a comprehensive grant agreement. Sponsorship contributions to scientific and health-related conferences that support the mission of Physicians Committee are exempt from the approval and reporting process. X X X false false false false false false false false false Hana Kahleova MD PhD Dir Clinical Res. 184772 8986 193758 X 47 605574 FMV X Cookware 2 9680 FMV X Cooking equip 2 540 FMV X Google Ads 113633 295588 FMV false true false Form 990, Part III, Line 4d: Other Program Services Description OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 4: PublicationsWe support nutrition and research ethics educational efforts through the design and production of print and electronic materials. In FY 2022, we completed more than 1,200 separately tracked projects, including print and display materials, promotional merchandise, and electronic graphics and e-publications. Good Medicine, the Physicians Committees 24-page magazine, keeps members informed and involved. Four issues of Good Medicine were published in FY 2022. Total print distribution was 335,731. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 5: CommunicationsWorking with physicians, health experts, and celebrities who serve as spokespeople, we inform, persuade, and inspire readers through strategic media relations, social media, digital communications, and advertisements. Our work was featured in traditional news outlets, including The Washington Post, CNN, CBS News, Politico, New York Daily News, Bloomberg, and many others. Each month, we reached a potential audience of 83 million by appearing in an average of 105 news outlets. Our social media content created conversations daily among more than 1.6 million followers on 13 social media accounts. In FY 2022, 4.6 million people engaged with our content, up 25.4% from FY 2021. We reached 230 million accounts, up 37% from FY 2021. Our YouTube channel received 16.4 million views in FY 2022 and gained 148.3 thousand subscribers, bringing our total to 337 thousand. The Exam Room podcast was downloaded more than 4.9 million times in FY 2022 and 10 million from its 2018 launch through FY 2022. Our website received 8,702,880 total page views in FY 2022. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 6: Clinical ResearchWe design and conduct clinical health and nutrition research studies, with the goal of motivating more attention in diet and prevention among healthcare professionals, medical researchers, policymakers, and patients. Research staff and colleagues published 12 papers in peer-reviewed journals and presented their research at the American Diabetes Associations Scientific Sessions and at the International Symposium on Diabetes and Nutrition of the Diabetes and Nutrition Study Group of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes. We finished a 12-week clinical study for postmenopausal women with hot flashes, tracking their body weight and frequency and intensity of hot flashes. This study helped reduce the frequency and intensity of postmenopausal hot flashes. We started a clinical trial, testing the effects of a vegan diet in women with endometriosis and its ability to reduce pain. We are currently comparing a vegan diet with a standard portion-controlled diet in people with type 1 diabetes, tracking insulin requirements. Our goal is to build upon the body of knowledge of the value of plant-based diets and generate wider acceptance, among the medical and scientific communities, policymakers, and the press, of the power of plant-based diets to prevent and treat disease. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 7: Education and PolicyWe partner to conduct advocacy for plant-based diets. At the federal level, we advocated in Congress to end the inequitable statutory barriers that prevent students from accessing nondairy milks at schools participating in the National School Lunch Program. In California, we supported funding to incentivize plant-based meals in public schools, leading to the passage of a state budget that includes historic investments in the states school meal program to expand healthy, plant-based meal options. We advocated and built support in the state legislature for two bills to advance better nutrition in New York: a measure to expand access to plant-based meals in schools and a bill to require physicians to take nutrition education. We supported a bill in the District of Columbia to make plant-based foods available to patients, staff, and visitors in all hospitals.We also conduct activities to encourage the funding, development, and implementation by federal and state legislatures and agencies of human-relevant, nonanimal test methods for chemical, product, and drug safety. In Rhode Island, we advocated for legislation aimed at convincing Brown University to halt the use of pigs for training emergency medicine residents. The Physicians Committee testified in support of this legislation and will continue to advocate for its passage. In Michigan, we supported legislation to outlaw the use of dogs in painful experiments at public institutions. At the federal level, we lobbied Congress to include report language in the Labor HHS Appropriations bill that calls for expanded transparency and accountability for NIHs use of animals in experiments. We also sought appropriations language directing FDA to modify regulations mandating animal testing and establish a pathway for regulatory acceptance of nonanimal approaches. Physicians Committee president Neal Barnard, MD, FACC, oversaw clinical research studies and medical education programs, including the International Conference on Nutrition in Medicine. He presented at medical schools and hospitals and conducted interviews to educate listeners about healthful nutrition and modern ethical research methods. The Physicians Committees ecommerce and fulfillment operation provides educational literature and merchandise to its members, the health care community, and the public at large on topics relating to nutrition, disease prevention, and ethical science. In FY 2022, more than 15,000 pieces of literature were downloaded from our website, and we fulfilled more than 1,000 physical orders of 31,617 pieces of literature and merchandise (books, DVDs, educational posters, etc.) to locations around the globe. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 8: Grant to the PCRM FoundationA TYPE I SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION DESCRIBED IN SECTION 509(A)(3) OF THE INTERNALREVENUE CODE, THE PCRM FOUNDATION WAS ESTABLISHED IN 2003 SOLELY FOR THE BENEFIT OFTHE PHYSICIANS COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIBLE MEDICINE AND IS EXEMPT FROM INCOME TAXESUNDER SECTION 501(C)(3) OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE. Form 990, Part VI, Line 7a: How Members or Shareholders Elect Governing Body The membership (of which there is only one class) has the right to elect or appoint the governing body. Form 990, Part VI, Line 7b: Describe Decisions of Governing Body Approval by Members or Shareholders The membership (of which there is only one class) has the right to approve the board's decision to amend the articles of incorporation and amend the bylaws. Form 990, Part VI, Line 11b: Form 990 Review Process Before it is filed, a Draft copy of Form 990 is sent to each member of the board. The Form 990 is accompanied by a letter illuminating the most important information on Form 990 and addressing any potential difficulties or controversies (if any). The letter asks each board member to respond by a date certain if they have any questions or input regarding Form 990. Also before it is filed, a representative from the preparers audit firm will review Form 990 with the Form 990 Review Committee, which consists of members of the audit committee and the Vice President of Legal Affairs. Upon unanimous approval of the draft 990 by individuals noted above, and after addressing any concerns and/or other input from the full board, Form 990 is filed with the I.R.S. Form 990, Part VI, Line 12c: Explanation of Monitoring and Enforcement of Conflicts Each year board members are required to complete a detailed questionnaire designed to help them determine whether they have a conflict of interest. The board reviews the completed questionnaires, along with the conflict of interest policy, together annually. Form 990, Part VI, Line 15a: Compensation Review & Approval Process - CEO, Top Management Dr. Barnards (President of Physicians Committee) compensation was determined as follows: During a regular meeting the Physicians Committee's board reviewed data, including published salary surveys and compensation data from Form 990s from other charitable organizations, reflecting comparable compensation for similarly qualified persons in functionally comparable positions at similarly situated organizations. Dr. Barnard was then asked to temporarily leave the meeting, at which time the remaining independent board members discussed whether Dr. Barnards compensation is objectively reasonable, and upon finding it to be so, the board officially approved Dr. Barnards compensation. The deliberation and decision were contemporaneously substantiated. Form 990, Part VI, Line 15b: Compensation Review and Approval Process for Officers and Key Employees BETSY WASON'S (PHYSICIANS COMMITTEES SECRETARY AND VICE PRESIDENT FORDEVELOPMENT) COMPENSATION WAS DETERMINED AS FOLLOWS: DURING A REGULAR MEETING THEPHYSICIANS COMMITTEE'S BOARD REVIEWED DATA, INCLUDING PUBLISHED SALARY SURVEYS ANDCOMPENSATION DATA FROM FORM 990S FROM OTHER CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS, REFLECTINGCOMPARABLE COMPENSATION FOR SIMILARLY QUALIFIED PERSONS IN FUNCTIONALLY COMPARABLEPOSITIONS AT SIMILARLY SITUATED ORGANIZATIONS. MS. WASON WAS THEN ASKED TO TEMPORARILY LEAVE THE MEETING, AT WHICH TIME THE REMAINING INDEPENDENT BOARD MEMBERS DISCUSSED WHETHER MS. WASONS COMPENSATION IS OBJECTIVELY REASONABLE, AND UPON FINDING IT TO BE SO, THE BOARD OFFICIALLY APPROVED MS. WASONS COMPENSATION. THE DELIBERATION AND DECISION WERE CONTEMPORANEOUSLY SUBSTANTIATED. Form 990, Part VI, Line 19: Other Organization Documents Publicly Available PHYSICIANS COMMITTEES AUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, FORM 990, FORM 990-T AND FORM 1023 ARE AVAILABLE BY REQUEST. THE AUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND FORM 990 ARE ALSO AVAILABLE ON ITS OWN WEBSITE AT WWW.PCRM.ORG. PHYSICIANS COMMITTEES FORM 990 IS ALSO AVAILABLE ON OTHER SITES SUCH AS WWW.GUIDESTAR.ORG. PHYSICIANS COMMITTEE MAKES ITS CONFLICT OF INTEREST POLICY AND OTHER GOVERNING DOCUMENTS AVAILABLE ON AN AS NEEDED BASIS, SUBJECT TO THE DISCRETION OF THE ORGANIZATION. 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