The regional grants administrator will ask the contact person listed on the application for the missing documentation or information. The documentation we require is based on applicable laws and regulations, and the application will be closed if the contact person does not respond to our request
The regional grants administrator reviews the application for completeness and responds to the requestor. If the application is not complete, it cannot be accepted. For organizations in the Americas or in Asia-Pacific, fully completed applications must be received at least 60 days prior to the project or program start date. For organizations in Europe, Middle East, and Africa, fully completed applications must be received at least 90 days prior to the project or program start date. The timeline for review begins when the application is entirely complete and not missing any documents or information.
Our goal is to make a decision in a timely fashion to allow the requestor to seek support elsewhere, should that be necessary. The amount awarded may not be the full amount requested, so plan accordingly.
The application is then sent to the Charitable Donations & Grants Review Board, which is composed of non-sales-and-marketing employees, to evaluate and make a final decision. The regional grants administrator will notify the applicant of the decision.
The signed letter of agreement MUST be submitted in the online application system before the start of the event. If this does not occur, the payment or product will not be released and the request will be closed.
For the following reasons:
If an event is cancelled, the grant must be returned. Contact your regional grants administrator for instructions on how to return the grant. If you have money left over and would like to use it for something else, this may be permissible if the money will be used for the same purpose that was indicated on the original request. Contact your regional grants administrator with details about the situation to see if this is an option. This will help to ensure transparency.
No, industry standards do not allow this.
Cook Medical is only able to provide product training on Cook Medical products.
Fee-for-service requests are completely different than requests for charitable donations or grants. This type of commercial transaction involves Cook Medical paying fair market value for a service or item(s) it receives in return. These fee-for-service arrangements are outside the scope of the Cook Charitable Donations & Grants Review Board. Please direct inquiries about fee-for-service requests to the Global Cook Events team at Events@CookMedical.com.
For the same reasons we cannot fund unrestricted grants (see below). The request must be for a specific purpose described at the time of application. This information is required for accurate transparency reporting.
A third-party program is a bona fide, independent healthcare-related educational, scientific, business, and/or policymaking conference, meeting, or event put on by a third party other than a company. This term includes programs that are accredited to provide continuing education credits and programs that are not accredited.
A third-party program organizer is an entity that organizes and/or oversees the development of the third-party program, including the selection of presenters, attendees, topics, materials, and methods. A third-party program organizer could include, for example, a medical society, institution, or association; a medical trust fund, a continuing education provider, or a hospital or other healthcare entity.
The controversy is a matter of semantics. When grant requestors use the term “unrestricted,” they typically mean that the industry will not control how grant funds are used. From the industry perspective, any grants awarded must be “restricted” to the use designated by the requestor. In the Cook Medical program, the requestor designates a use and that is the only use that is reviewed and approved for a charitable donation or grant.
Cook is required to review specific requests against industry standards when awarding donations and grants to recipients. The recipients of the donations or grants are then required to use the funds for the purpose that was stated in their application, supported with the documentation they provided that was approved by Cook’s Charitable Donations & Grants Review Board.
Recipients cannot deviate from the purpose of the request. (It is not Cook Medical’s intent to otherwise control the use of the funds.) In other words, there can be no “unrestricted” open funds available for any random use.
For security purposes, your user account for the Cook Medical Charitable Donations & Grants online application system requires that your password be reset every three months.
To reset your password, click “Forget password” on the log in screen, then follow the on-screen instructions to create a new password. Updating your password regularly helps ensure the security of your account and personal information.
AMER and APAC organizations – Fully completed applications must be received at least 60 days prior to the project or program start date.
EMEA organizations – Fully completed applications must be received at least 90 days prior to the project or program start date.