About The Foundation

Background

Jodi Norton and Adina Gravit founded the Lupus Inspiration Foundation for Excellence in 2001 in an effort to promote awareness of lupus and to provide financial and educational support to college students with this disease. This organization awards The L.I.F.E. Scholarship to individuals who demonstrate their ability to overcome the limitations of lupus -- showing incredible courage, strength, and perseverance.

L.I.F.E. is a 501(c)(3) tax exempt, public charity. Our tax ID number is 86-1035692

Press

Our foundation and its founders have been profiled in quite a few articles. To view some of these articles, available as Adobe PDFs, click their associated icon below.

		Visualizing The Dive (938Kb) The Desert Leaf - Volume 18, Number 10, November 2004
		Exceptional People: Jodi Norton (574 Kb) Lupus News - Fall 1998
		Lupus Inspiration Foundation for Excellence (L.I.F.E) (182 Kb) Lupus News - Winter 2002
		Summer L.I.F.E. Scholarships Awarded (1164 Kb) Lupus Now - Fall 2003
		Patient Interview: Jodi Norton (255 Kb) Popular Immunology - Fall 2003

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