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Coca-Cola Supports Women’s Heart Health Delta Airlines Foundation
The Coca-Cola Company sponsored the 2016 MSM Delta Air Lines and its affiliated foundation, the
“Healthy Heart Week”. The event seeks to raise Delta Air Lines Foundation, supported Morehouse
funds to promote scholarship and increase School of Medicine with a $250,000 grant for the
community awareness of risks associated with heart academic expansion. 70%
health and cardiovascular diseases. The company
also spearheaded “Meet the Challenge”, an W.K. Kellogg Foundation
alumni-giving campaign where The Coca-Cola W.K. Kellogg Foundation supported Morehouse increase in
Foundation matches dollar-for-dollar personal School of Medicine with $320,000 grant to support
donations made by MSM alumni up to $1 million. the SHLI to address disparities in health access, overall giving
policy and practice.

$3 Million Gift Bestowed The gift will create a facility that welcomes

by Hank and Billye Aaron and educates the next generation of 520
doctors, health care professionals and
Supports Academic public health leaders, while ensuring that
the environment where students will learn scholarship donors
Expansion is second to none and supports their
preparation in becoming health equity
Hank Aaron and Billye Suber Aaron advocates.
provided a $3 million gift to MSM that will
be used to expand the Hugh Gloster MSM broke ground on the Billye Suber 273
Medical Education building and create the Aaron Student Pavilion in January 2016,
Billye Suber Aaron Student Pavilion. The marking the first phase of a planned
gift was presented during the school’s 31 st four-part academic facilities expansion on scholarships awarded
fall convocation, white coat and pinning MSM’s campus. The Billye Suber Aaron
ceremony. Student Pavilion is scheduled to be
complete by Spring 2017.
The Aarons have had a longstanding
commitment to education and to MSM.