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The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (CASA)

501 © (3) nonprofit tax-exempt organization

1992

INFORM Americans of the economic and social costs of substance abuse and its impact on their lives

ASSESS what works in prevention, treatment and law enforcement

ENCOURAGE every individual and institution to take responsibility to combat substance abuse and addiction

PROVIDE those on the front lines with the tools they need to succeed

REMOVE the stigma of substance abuse and replace shame and despair with hope

Joseph A. Califano, Jr.
Chairman and President of CASA
Former U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare

Lee C. Bollinger
President of Columbia University

Columba Bush
First Lady of Florida

Kenneth I. Chenault
President and COO,
American Express Company

Jamie Lee Curtis

James Dimon
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer,
Bank One Corporation

Peter R. Dolan
Chairman and CEO, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company

Mary Fisher
Founder of Family AIDS Network, Inc.

Victor F. Ganzi
President and CEO, The Hearst Corporation

Leo-Arthur Kelmenson
Chairman of the Board FCB Worldwide

Donald R. Keough
Chairman of the Board of Allen and Company, Inc.
Former Chairm of the Board, The Coca-Cola Company

David A. Kessler, M.D.
Dean of Yale University School of Medicine

Manuel T. Pacheco, Ph.D.
President of The University of Missouri

Joseph J. Plumeri II

Shari E. Redstone
President, National Amusements, Inc.

E. John Rosenwald, Jr.
Vice Chairman of The Bear Stearns Companies, Inc.

Michael P. Schulhof

Louis W. Sullivan, M.D.
President of Morehouse School of Medicine

John J. Sweeney
President, AFL-CIO

Michael A. Wiener

Joseph A. Califano, Jr., L.L.B.
Chairman and President

Susan P. Brown
Vice President and Director of Finance and Administration, Secretary-Treasurer

William H. Foster, Ph.D.
Senior Vice President and chief Operating Officer

Susan E. Foster, M.S.W.
Vice President and Director of Policy Research and Analysis

Jon Morgenstern, Ph.D.
Vice President and Director of Health Treatment and Research Division

Richard Mulieri
Director of Communications

Ronald A. Feldman
Dean of the Columbia University School of Social Work

Allan J. Formicola, D.D.S.
Dean of the Columbia University School of Dental Oral Surgery

Tom Goldstein
Dean of the Columbia University School of Journalism

Dr. Holland Lee Hendrix
President of Union Theological Seminary

David W. Leebron, Esq.
Dean of the Columbia University School of Law

Dr. Arthur Levine
President of the Columbia University Teachers College

Gerald W. Lynch
President of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Mary O. Mundinger, Dr. P.H.
Dean of the Columbia University School of Nursing

Herbert Pardes, M.D.
Vice-Chairman, President and CEO of New York Presbyterian Hospital

Allan Rosenfield, M.D.
Dean of the Columbia University School of Public Health

Ismar Schorsch, Ph.D.
Chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America

Judith R. Shapiro, Ph.D.
President of Barnard College

Bernard Tschumi
Dean of the Columbia university School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation

Funders:
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Core
Funding

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Multi-Year
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$50,000
and
Over

The Abercrombie Foundation
The Achelis and Bodman Foundations
American Express Foundation
American Home Products Corporation
Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation, Inc
Red and Bobby Buisson
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Califano, Jr.
Carnegie Corporation of New York
The Annie E. Casey Foundation
Cendant Corporation
The Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A.
Citigroup, Inc.
The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation
DaimlerChrysler Corporation Fund
Dewey Ballantine
Judy and James Dimon
The Ford foundation
The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation
William T. Grant Foundation
The Hearst corporation
William Randolph Hearst Foundation
Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
Gayle and Leo-Arthur Kelmenson
Kmart Corporation
Kmart Family Foundation
Lincy Foundation
Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation
The Mentor Foundation
Mobil Corporation
Mobil Foundation, Inc.
Primerica Financial Services
Pat and John Rosenwald
The Starr Foundation
The Warnaco Foundation
Zane and Michael Wiener

Back to School 1998 - National Survey of American Attitudes on Substance Abuse IV: Teens, Teachers and Principals. 1998

Under the Rug: Substance Abuse and The Mature Woman. 1998

Behind Bars: Substance Abuse and America's Prison Population. 1998

Winning at Any Cost: Doping in Olympic Sports. 2000.

Substance Abuse and Learning Disabilities: Peas in a Pod or Apples and Oranges? 2000.

Missed Opportunity: National Survey of Primary Care Physicians and Patients on Substance Abuse. 2000.

Substance Abuse and The American Adolescent: A Report by the Commission on Substance Abuse Among America's Adolescents. 1997

Click here for an updated list of CASA publications.