Donald E. Colburn
| founder of the Colburn-Keenan Foundation, Inc. was raised in Agawam and was a longtime resident of Springfield, Massachusetts and Suffield, Connecticut. Donald’s life was one of outstanding community service. Donald was a past president, volunteer, and supporter of the Kiwanis International Club of Greater Springfield and the Cape. He supported the United Way of the Pioneer Valley, the Jimmy Fund, Special Olympics, many of the first AIDS service organizations, including Project Inform, AIDS Action, Camp Heartland, Camp Hole-in-the-Wall Gang, and the Elizabeth Glasser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. Donald also lived with severe Hemophilia A and many of its complications and, as a consequence, was committed to the creation of a better world for individuals and families living with bleeding disorders. Donald’s volunteer leadership activities, in support of quality hemophilia care, have spanned the last 35 years and have included his years as Executive Director of the New England Hemophilia Association (NEHA). His national volunteer work included participation in the Federal Maternal and Child Health Bureau’s Hemophilia Treatment Center grant review program; the Centers for Disease Control’s Care Standards Committee and its Hemophilia/HIV Treatment Center Compliance Site Visit program; and the National Hemophilia Foundation’s (NHF’s) Blood Products Monitoring Committee, Blood Safety Committee, MANN Committee, Advocacy Committee, Strategic Planning Committee, and It’s Time for a Cure committee. He was a supporter of the Committee of Ten Thousand and Hemophilia Foundation of America. |
