Established in 2019 as a 501(c)(3) non-profit, charitable organization, the primary objective of the Pulse Foundation is to address the use of pulse crops for human health and nutrition, food insecurity, and sustainability both nationally and globally through education, charitable efforts, and the advancement of science as detailed in the Articles of Incorporation.
MISSION
The Pulse Foundation is dedicated to fostering healthy people and a healthy planet by addressing nutrition, food insecurity, and sustainability both nationally and globally through pulses. We plan to achieve these purposes through:
(1) the pursuit of education by accumulating and disseminating information to promote awareness about the nutritional value, health benefits, economic feasibility, dietary benefits, ease of widespread crop production, and amenability to preservation and transportation of dry peas, dry beans, lentils, chickpeas, and other pulse crops, in order to address issues of hunger, malnutrition, and chronic disease and obesity among children and adults throughout the U.S. and worldwide.
(2) promoting the charitable objectives of addressing global hunger and food insecurity by engaging in efforts to improve human health and food system sustainability through the increased understanding, availability, and use of pulse crops among individuals who are malnourished or who have unhealthy diets, whether in developing countries, in the U.S., or and elsewhere around the world.
(3) supporting and pursuing the advancement of science, plant genetics and plant breeding, and research by producing and disseminating information to expand the understanding, production, and use of pulse crops to provide an available, affordable, and nutritious global food supply without burdening the environment or the limited water supplies around the world.
(4) helping to shoulder the burdens of government addressing issues of hunger and poor nutrition due to challenges in the type, amount, or the distribution of nutritious food by providing a viable food source that can be provided and produced for children and families affected by hunger.
(5) advancing research, education and promote the charitable objectives of reducing the risk factors for developing chronic diseases such as: obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and increasing nutrient density of diets, and to enable nutritional humanitarian relief, by promoting the awareness, benefits, and availability of nutritious and readily cultivable crops that provide healthy dietary options for children, families, schools, restaurants, and other individual, governmental, and institutional food providers.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
The board of the Pulse Foundation consists of three members, all well-established, and respected within the U.S. pulse industry.
CURRENT PROJECTS
The board of the Pulse Foundation is working with the USA Dry Pea & Lentil Council, and the American Pulse Association to set up a special “DCM Research Fund.” These funds will be used exclusively to fund pet food research to determine if there is a link between grain-free pet food diets and dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) in dogs.
We ask every member of our pulse coalition to contribute to this critical research effort. Find out more information and donate at www.usapulses.org/dcmresearch.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Pulse Foundation
DCM Research Fund
2780 W. Pullman Road
Moscow, Idaho 83843
208-882-3023