Plant-based Prevention Of Disease Inc

What it reported doing in 2024

As of 2024, the Section 501(c)(3) recognized nonprofit educational organization Plant-based Prevention Of Disease, Inc. (P-POD) has now produced 46 days of fully accredited conferences, and has awarded 284 hours of live professional continuing education credits, in 18 conferences since its 2014 founding. All of this has been accomplished while always accepting ZERO funding, sponsorship or influence from commercial sources.The P-POD Conferences share evidence with healthcare practitioners, educators and students, but also with the general public, regarding best practices to help prevent or reverse chronic disease through nutrition and lifestyle changes, while seeking to reduce inequitable disparities in healthcare access and outcomes. The P-POD motto has long been the future of healthcare begins with nutrition, but accumulating evidence shows that the other pillars of Lifestyle Medicine can also make a substantial contribution to disease reduction: beneficial physical activity; strategies to manage stress; forming and maintaining social relationships; improving sleep; avoiding risky substances. P-POD was the third conference event producer in the world accredited for Lifestyle Medicine credentialing purposes that remains so certified today.P-POD responded to the steady shifting of practitioner demand toward the virtual mode of continuing education, by providing virtual access to all 6 conference days in 2024, while retaining in-person attendance access for 2 of them, which were produced on June 1-2 at the most frequent past site, McKimmon Conference Center of North Carolina State University in Raleigh. In this, the third year that hybrid conferencing was utilized, overall virtual attendance for the year continued to increase substantially. As in the past, all conference days were accredited for providing professional continuing education credits to physicians, family physicians, physician associates, nurse practitioners, registered dietitians, registered nurses and various other practitioners, a very broad range of professional disciplines throughout the entire healthcare team. P-POD assembles a curated speaker roster of distinguished clinicians, researchers and educators who also reflect societys diversity. We believe that any nutrition conference should represent Registered Dietitian Nutritionists well among its speakers, and P-POD has done that: 84 RDNs in 18 conferences since founding. One generic indicator of the professional caliber of the presenters is the fact that 42% of P-PODs speakers over the last ten conferences have been honored as Fellows of prestigious professional organizations, such as: American College of Cardiology; American Society of Nephrology; American Academy of Pediatrics; American College of Physicians; American Academy of Nurse Practitioners; American College of Endocrinology; American College of Osteopathic Internists; American College of Sports Medicine; Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions; American Society of Nuclear Cardiology; Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics; American Heart Association; American Society of Addiction Medicine; American College of Lifestyle Medicine; and others. Additional data about the last ten conferences shows that 47% of the speakers have been certified Lifestyle Medicine Diplomates, 29% have been African Americans and for each one the majority have been women, three facts that further set us apart from most professional conferences.The 2024 speaker roster for our 6 days included 5 individuals chosen as keynote speakers: Qadira M. Ali, MD MPH FAAP DipABLM; Yami Cazorla-Lancaster, DO MPH MS FAAP DipABLM NBC-HWC; Lily Correa, MPH RDN DipACLM; Mahima Gulati, MD FACE MSc FACLM DipABLM ECNU; and Liana Lianov, MD MPH FACPM FACLM DipABLM. They covered a remarkable range of subjects: diabetes remission; PCOS and women's hormonal disorders; employee wellness and nutrition; community action against family food insecurity; plant-based nutrition for children; slee

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
• Program expense ratio: 93.3%; rating input score 93

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -32.5%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.04; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 10.65; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 10.8% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: -18.5% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings