Operation Incubation Blog

Revisiting Jamaica

The idea for Operation Incubation was born in Port Maria, Jamaica, where co-founder Julie Eckert was on a medial mission trip and learned that the medical clinic in Port Maria had no infant incubators.  Last January, Operation Incubation came full circle and fulfilled our original mission of providing a critical piece of life-saving equipment for [...]

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Partnership with Recoup

Hello Operation Incubation Supporters! We would like to announce an awesome partnership we just formed with Recoup. It’s kind of like Groupon and Living Social…but way cooler! For every purchase you make a donation is made to us! Click on the image or link below to join Recoup…and for every purchase you make you will [...]

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Meeting with Kiwanis Club of Baltimore

Co-founder Jeff Kurtzman met with the Kiwanis Club of Baltimore to see the newly re-designed HEBI incubator that they have been working on…and we are very excited! They have taken the original HEBI incubator and updated it. The biggest update is the material they are using to build it…they are using a composite material that [...]

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501(c)(3)

After a long period of anticipation and waiting, we are proud to announce that Operation Incubation is officially a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.  In operating as a 501(c)(3), we will be able to pursue many more fundraising options and new opportunities to advance our mission to reduce infant mortality by facilitating delivery of low-cost, low-maintenance incubators to [...]

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It’s World Prematurity Awareness Day

Today is the first ever World Prematurity Awareness Day and we wanted to honor it with a post on the gravity of the high infant mortality rate epidemic in the developing world. Our friends at Doc2Dock are currently traveling around South Sudan, the newest nation in the world, to assess their public health infrastructure.  What [...]

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The Art of Shipping Medical Supplies

In a two part series in the New York Times, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Tina Rosenberg describes the intricacies of shipping used medical supplies from the first world to the developing world. Check out the articles here and here and let us know what you think! As Operation Incubation continues to work with global [...]

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Trial and Error

As a new charity, we’re looking for different ways to be as effective and helpful as we can while trying to maintain a goal of providing the developing world with the infant incubators that it needs. Starting anything new takes time and practice, diving into uncharted territory will inevitably require trial and error. As Operation [...]

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Mission accomplished! Now looking ahead…

After a long winter full of commitments, hectic travel and an uninhibited desire to hibernate, spring reminds us of new life and new opportunities.  Thanks to many wonderful donors, Operation Incubation is now in a better place than ever to move forward with the energy and dedication that it takes to aid the developing world. [...]

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And We’re Off!

Thanks to many generous donations this holiday season to our online “FundRazr” and by two of the biggest donors we have received thusfar (special thanks to Betz Financial Advisory, LLC, Dr. Elaine Trogdon and St. John’s Episcopal Church Outreach Commission) Operation Incubation is really starting to get off the ground.  This week, a Hemel Baby Incubator (HEBI) will [...]

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Our first online fundraiser

So, we are trying to spread the word about Operation Incubation…hopefully to the whole world!  At least the facebook world, that is. We launched our first online fundraiser using a new service called FundRazr. It’s the first application on facebook that allows you to make a donation via paypal…all within the walls of Facebook. Pretty [...]

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