2025 ANNUAL REPORT / OUR DONORS: MAKING A POSITIVE IMPACT 55
“ I remember – vividly – dancing with members of our first two classes at Tully Gym in 2003, along with our faculty and our then-dean, Ocie Harris,” Dean Alma Littles, M. D., shared at the 2025 closing ceremony in March.“ The moves were a little bit simpler than the ones I just witnessed … but we all had a blast!
Of the $ 1.3 million raised this year, $ 617,177.06 was given to the College of Medicine, bringing the total over the years to more than $ 10.3 million. It was another achievement in a year of multiple milestones.
Among the community partnerships in pediatric health care funded by DM at FSU are FSU PrimaryHealth TM, a clinic in southwest Tallahassee that was labeled both a food and health care desert before its opening six years ago; Big Bend Hospice’ s free grief counseling for children; FSU Institute for Infant and Child Medical Music Therapy, which works in the neo-natal intensive care unit at Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare; FSU Early Head Start and the Gadsden School- Based Rural Health Clinics, a collaboration among the College of Medicine, Gadsden County Department of Health and Gadsden County Schools.
Juliana Olodude, MHA, lead specialist in the Outreach and Enrollment Department at the Bond Community Health Center, said Dance Marathon support enabled Bond to expand its mobile health services and take its dental programs on the road.
“ When you meet people where they are, you often have to show them that the care is real and accessible,” she said.“ Having a mobile unit that is equipped like a doctor’ s or dentist’ s office reinforces that this is serious, quality care. It helps people feel worthy of receiving the health care they may not have had access to before.”
Photo: The DM at FSU Executive Committee joins FSU and College of Medicine administrators to celebrate more than $ 10 million in donations since 2003 from the Children’ s Miracle Network to support pediatric outreach services in the Tallahassee area.