The Erin Popovich Endowment
Changing what it means to live with ILD
Patients living with ILD are steadily deprived of their ability to breathe, and with that, they are deprived of everything else, including their hope for the future. The Erin Popovich Endowment ensures they’re not also deprived of the support they need to face their diagnosis with courage and strength.
Seeing Erin live with ILD for ten years taught the Popovich family exactly what other patients need in order to face this devastating diagnosis with dignity and strength. Through their endowment, patients and caregivers will have access to more resources and support than ever before. Their vision is to enable anyone diagnosed with ILD to live a longer, more fulfilling life. In Erin’s memory, your journey towards a more hopeful future starts today.
Principle goals of the endowment
Access
Giving patients, families, and caregivers access to ILD specialists and other experts for information and second opinions while removing barriers that patients face in obtaining oxygen and specialized medication.
Empowerment
Improving patients’ independence by facilitating their travel to appointments, local travel, and air travel. Connecting patients, families, and ILD experts through support groups.
Research
Supporting clinical research grants that enhance understanding of and treatment for ILD. Exploring patient values to ensure treatments and care meet patient and family expectations.
Honoring a life of strength and compassion
Throughout her illness, Erin suffered quietly and without complaint. She cared only about helping others, wanting to use all of her energy to advocate for patients that may have been less fortunate than her. Always concerned with how people were going to afford their medications or get to their therapy sessions, Erin routinely insisted that her daughter reach out to other ILD sufferers and ask if they needed help. In that spirit, her family is now dedicated to carrying on her legacy through the endowment.
Helping you navigate your journey
Even though Erin had access to more resources than most, she still found it difficult to navigate through her illness, often feeling lost and overwhelmed. After her death, the Popovich’s knew they needed to find a way to make the journey more manageable for other ILD patients and their families. That’s when TREAT ILD was created.
The very first thing that any person who receives and ILD diagnosis should be thinking about is treatment. From there, you can use each letter as a stepping stone towards the right path. It’s important to remember that on some days you may get stuck, and that’s okay. Take it one step at a time, and remember that you are not alone.
Founders Gregg and Jill Popovich
We’d like to thank the founders of the Erin Popovich Endowment, Greg and Jill Popovich. Without their commitment to honoring Erin’s legacy, none of this would be possible. Their vision is to provide hope for patients and families that are coping with an ILD diagnosis, and through their philanthropic efforts, they are making that vision a reality. You can support the Popovich’s in their efforts by giving to the Endowment today.
Recognizing our endowment supporters
We’d like to thank our generous donors for supporting the Erin Popovich Endowment and its vision. Their gifts have ensured that the endowment will continue to change lives – helping patients and caregivers navigate their ILD diagnosis and learn to live alongside it.
$100,000 – $249,000
Anonymous Donor
$50,000 – $99,999
$25,000 – $49,999
Mark Cuban and Rick Carlisle
Salhee Jaafar
The Graham and Elizabeth Weston Gift Fund
Mike Fravell
Stephanie M. Levine, MD, FCCP, and Richard T. Shaffer, MD
Julianna Hawn Holt
J. Tullos Wells
$10,000 – $24,999
NAT Basketball Trainers Assoc. Foundation
Tim Duncan
Becky Hammon
Med Center Intensivists of San Antonio PLLC
Sylvan Stephen Lang
Tito’s Handmade Vodka
Visit San Antonio
Wellvana
$5,000 – $9,999
Robin Atkinson
John Brozovich
Chip Engelland
Monica and William Hall
Bart C. Koontz
Amy Lang, MD
Michael E. Nelson, MD, FCCP, and Lore R. Nelson, MD
Nancy Thiessen
Cara Wright
Comet Signs
Mathis Consulting Services, Inc
Methodist Health System
University of Texas at San Antonio
$0 – $4,999
Matthews Family Foundation
A to Z Wineworks
Bruce Jennings
Edward J. Diamond, MD, FCCP, and Patrice Diamond, RN, MS
Robert De Marco, MD, FCCP, and Debbie De Marco
Lura Walden
Moises Bucay
Samantha D’Annunzio, MD
Roozehra Khan, DO, FCCP
Jay I. Peters, MD, FCCP
Rene Quiroz, MD
Ian T. Nathanson, MD, FCCP
Victor J. Test, MD, FCCP
The Bonner Family
Analisa Rodriguez
Anoop M. Nambiar, MD, FCCP
Rick Liberto
Daniel and Cathy Kraft
Deborah Jo Levine, MD, MS, FCCP
Doreen J. Addrizzo-Harris, MD, FCCP, and Loren J. Harris, MD, FCCP
Ed Nelson
James R. Leininger
Jerry Colangelo
Karen J. Hixon
Kelley Frost
Kirsten Smith
Lee Dowdy
Lisa K. Moores, MD, FCCP
Melissa R. Isbell
Minnesota Timberwolves
Patti Tuomey, EdD
Peggy Eighmy
Washington Bullets, LP
Will Hardy
Jeff Wells
Jorge Elizondo
Andrea Marks
Bonnie L. Kwan
Bravein Amalakuhan, MD, BS
David Aldridge
Dr. and Mrs. Larry Fehrenbacher
Fadi Abouzhar
Garren Warren
John A. Howington, MD, FCCP, and Anne C. Howington
Robbie Shepherd
Tracy Ayers
Utah Jazz
Victoria M. Raymond, MS
Vivian Bucay
Fernando Triana
Annette Alonzo
Brandon Gayle
Don and Joy Nelson
George Felton
Kevin Proud, MD, FCCP
Lee Cavender
Paul Saenz
Robert Frolichstein
Barbara Gentry
BNL Consulting, LLC
Chandra Kunavarapu
Country Club Trust
Dodie Bump
George & Ruth German
Jill Berryman
Kevin and Linda O’Connor
Lou Celia Frost
Manica Isiguzo, MBBS
Memphis Grizzlies
Michael Arnett
Paul Hancock
Terri O’Neil-Titch
Andrea Sitterle
Abel Martinez
Ali Abedi, MD
Alice Foultz
Alison Fox
April Hardy-Holley
Arturo Lopez, MD
Barbara Johnson
Becky Kimbro
Bill Pfeiffer
Bobbye Scott
Carlos Maestas
Carol Severyn
Celeste Lira
Cerissa Antill
Charles J. Burch, MD
Claire McNab
Coral Drengler
Denise Pfeiffer
Denise Reetz
Don Hurrell
Erin McReynolds
Evan Ketabchi
Houston Frost
Jeanne Garza
John Moorman
JR Percy
Katie Tottenham
Kevin Crawford
Lisa Gillespie
Megan MacDiarmid
Phil Green
Raul R. Rodriguez
Rob Rodriguez
Sarah Klaper
Susan Pape
Tinsley Smith
Mike and Caryn Kelley
Amy Beckham
Andres Campion
Angie Kocurek
Art Centeno, MD
Betsy Gwin
Bobby Berman
Bobby Pemelton
Candace Owens
Carla Sims
Catherine Cummins
Chandra Bricker
Charles McNab
Chris Gregory
Cindy Berman
Dan Miller
Danny Oliver
David Thomas
Donna Tuttle
Eric Covey
Gerard A. Silvestri, MD, MS, FCCP, and Joanne Silvestri
Greg Stroike
Gregory Colangelo, MD, FCCP
Heather O’Donnell
Jaime Lozano
Jan and Mick Davey
Jim Stead
Joe Loomis
Jorge del Alamo
Julia Reinhart
Julie Bedingfield
Katy Madden
Kenneth Wilson
Kevin Brownin
Laura Goudge
Laury and Mickey Holden
Libby Bentley
Marco Gamboa
Marilyn Rashid
Mary Bartholomew
Melisa Cancino
Michael D’Annunzio
Michelle Johnston
Mitch Johnson
Napoleon Puente
Nicki Augustyn, CAE
Nicole Royal
Nishita Doshi
Onsi Saleh
Pacini Family
Rick Kuper
Stacy O’Brien
Susan Patterson
The Giese Family
William Davis
Sean Oneil
Jim & Debbie Mulford
Brad Tobler
Debbie and Jair Klarfeld
Lawrence Romo
Paul Bassa, Jr.
Ronald M. Moen
Jeff Weinstein
Alan and Mary Louise Dye
Dee and Rick Carduner
Dusty and Ruben Ayala
Rosalie Klepac
Donna Creaser Harwood
Shannon Rodgers
James T. Diehl, MD
Matthew Diehl
Mary Rodriguez