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Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
March of DimesAmerican nonprofit organization, founded 1938

In 1938, President Franklin D. Roosevelt founded the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis to help the victims of polio throughout the country. To increase awareness of the campaign, radio personality and philanthropist Eddie Cantor took to the air waves and urged Americans to send their loose change to President Roosevelt in “a march of dimes to reach all the way to the White House.”

In 1945, the annual March of Dimes campaign raised 18.9 million dollars for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Ultimately, the March of Dimes (as the National Foundation became known) financially supported the research and development of a polio vaccine by Jonas Salk in 1955, eradicating the disease throughout most of the world by the 1960s.

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Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
Title: March of Dimes Donation Card
Object number: MO 2023.10
Primary Maker: March of Dimes
Date: 1942
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