President of Bickerstaff Family Foundation

mothers2mothers International Board Director

Debbie Bickerstaff is president of Bickerstaff Family Foundation, a private 501 (c)3 non-profit which she and her husband founded in 2001.  The foundation grants monies to organizations worldwide that serve chronically ill children, as well as funding for HIV and cancer research and other organizations that promote education and emotional well being for young adults who have experienced childhood abuse.  Mrs. Bickerstaff is a volunteer with several of the organizations which her foundation supports, most notably the Bickerstaff Pediatric Family Center in Long Beach, CA which serves HIV-positive women & children.

The Bickerstaff Family Foundation began a relationship with m2m in October of 2005 with a grant benefiting Site B.  Today the foundation continues to support m2m in South Africa and Malawi.

Raised in San Diego, California, Debbie now lives with her husband Glen, and 2 children, Brian (18) and Katie (16) in Orange County, CA.  She has spent numerous years volunteering at the children’s schools and on various booster clubs for the athletic teams which her children have been a part of.  Today, Debbie spends her time being a wife, mother, volunteering with different outreach programs, and managing the Bickerstaff Family Foundation; which currently helps support 18 different organizations as well as the Bickerstaff scholarship fund for HIV infected youth.

Some of the organizations with which Debbie has is affiliated with are:  Memorial Medical Center Foundation, Starlight Foundation, m2m, Interval House, Pathways to Independence, Vanguard Cancer Foundation, Mattel Children’s Hospital at UCLA, & One Heartland.