CT Fertility Announces Expanded Social Responsibility Initiatives

Marking the clinic's 20th anniversary, three family-centered charities will benefit from hundreds of $100 gifts this year honoring each child born with the help of the clinic. Another initiative will provide free fertility services to several families annually.  The new campaigns supplement the clinics traditional annual food and toy drives, and yeras of support of several local and international family centered charities.

Since it was founded in 1991 by Dr. Michael Doyle, Connecticut Fertility Associates (CT Fertility) has remained committed to supporting the dual goals of social entrepreneurship and corporate responsibility in addition to offering a comprehensive range of fertility treatments and programs. As it marks iths 20th anniversary this fall, CT Fertility is expanding the range of its social responsibility initiatives as part of its mission to provide others with effective and compassionate support.

"Because CT Fertility understands that infertility can take a financial toll on prospective parents, many of our programs reflect our dedication to making fertility services more accessible for those who seek to begin their family-building journeys," said Dr. Doyle. "Our financial counselors are always available to discuss treatment costs and insurance benefits." To further help patients who demonstrate extreme financial need, starting this year these families can also apply to the new CT Fertility Lifelines initiative, which will donate a full set of fertility treatment services to as many as three families every year.

CT Fertility and its medical director already have a long history of donating funds, food, and toys to families and children in need. To forge an even stronger bond between the center and the larger community, the CT Fertility GivesBack initiative has been expanded to now pledge $100 to a family-centered charity for every baby conceived as a result of our 2011 fertility services. "Because CT Fertility plays a direct role in the birth of more than 400 babies every year," said Dr. Doyle, "we look forward to contribute over $10,000 to further the work of three of the organizations we have already supported in the past: Right To Play International, Family Equality Council and Mapendo New Horizons."

Dr. Doyle visiting a Rwandan refugee camp on behalf of Mapendo New Horizons, where they are currently establishing a primary care health clinic	A Right To Play worker in a Ugandan camp during a soccer tournament that CT Fertility sponsored.	CT Fertility was a major sponsor of Night at the Pier 2011, Family Equality Council's annual fundraiser.

"I am pleased and excited about establishing Mapendo New Horizons as one of the charities that Dr. Doyle and CT Fertility Associates will be donating to in a formal way," said Dr. Kigabo Mbazumutima, one of Mapendo's co-founders. "We thank Dr. Doyle for his continued support and faith in our mission to give help and hope to vulnerable survivors of physical, psychological, and social trauma in Africa by ensuring them easy access to health care, protection and security."

"We are honored to be supported in such a meaningful way by an organization that helped create so many of the families we represent," said Jennifer Chrisler, Frailly Equality's Council's executive director. "Family Equality Council is America’s foremost advocate for the one million LGBT parents raising two million children in the United States. We are working to ensure their full social and legal equality by building community, providing direct support to families and prospective parents, educating the American public, and securing inclusion in legislation."

For several years the clinic has also been running the CT Fertility Cares annual food and toy drive during its anniversary "Baby Party" reunions, benefiting the Connecticut Food Bank and Save the Children. This year CT Fertility added a dedicated "virtual food drive" website to encourage many of the thousands of program alumni who cannot attend the party to join the CT Fertility Cares initiative by contributing online. "Several of our previous annual food drives resulted in significant contributions in both food and funds, and we hope the 20th anniversary drive will set a new record," said Dr. Doyle.

CT Fertility currently maintains four office locations in Connecticut and New York. To learn more about our fertility treatment services and our social responsibility initiatives, visit CTFertility.com

About CT Fertility

Founded by Dr. Michael Doyle, CT Fertility specializes in Reproductive Medicine, Egg Donation and Surrogacy. Since 1991 CT Fertility has created over 4,500 babies for a diverse group of parents from around the world - including clients from over 30 countries, couples and singles, straight and gay, and spanning a wide range of ages. Based in Bridgeport, CT, and with offices in New York City, the clinic achieves exceptional results by coordinating every aspect of the medical process, all under one roof, including the finding and pre-screening of highly qualified and immediately available local egg donors and surrogates.

CT Fertility services include basic fertility testing and treatments, IVF, ICSI, pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), egg freezing and banking, and embryo adoption. CT Fertility operates one of the oldest and most established IVF laboratories in the USA, with state-of-the-art technology, equipment, protocols, and access to the most currently available genetic
technology. Through the early mastery of the vitrification freezing technology and other protocols, CT Fertility has also established one of the largest and most successful Donor Egg Banks in the world.

CT Fertility personalizes the parenting journey by offering a wide range of treatment and egg donation options, taking into account your long-term family vision, ethical, legal and financial considerations, personal relationships and priorities, and coping preferences.