Foundation Grants Archive
2008
December 2008
Domestic Grants
|
Organization |
Location |
Amount |
Purpose |
|
Barrington Youth & Family Service |
Northern Illinois |
$20,800.00 |
To expand bilingual adult, family youth, and grief counseling to the Hispanic population in Cook, Lake and McHenry counties. |
|
Family Service of South Lake County |
Northern Illinois |
$100,00.00 over 2 years |
To increase outreach and access to health care services for seniors in the Round Lake, IL and surrounding communities. |
|
Health & Medicine Policy Research Group-Schweitzer Fellows |
Northern Illinois |
$65,000.00 |
For the 2009-2010 Chicago Area Schweitzer Fellows Program providing service learning to graduate level health professional students in community-based organizations throughout Metropolitan Chicago, and the Fellows for Life program. |
|
HRET-Foster McGaw Award |
National |
$210,000.00 |
To support the 2009 and 2010 Foster G. McGaw award honoring outstanding commitment to community service by a health care institution. |
|
Teen Living Programs |
Northern Illinois |
$35,000.00 |
For the health and nutrition program for at-risk homeless youth in Metropolitan Chicago. |
|
Thresholds |
Northern Illinois |
$30,000.00 |
To increase outreach and usage of integrated health clinic services in Metropolitan Chicago, through the addition of a Clinical Care Coordinator. |
International Grants
|
Organization |
Location |
Amount |
Purpose |
|
Canadian Mental Health Association |
Simcoe County, Canada |
$80,600.00 over 2 years |
For a youth outreach worker To expand education and understanding of mental health needs and promote self-identification of youth in Alliston and Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada |
|
Caritas Malta-Foundation for the Rehabilitation of Drug Abusers |
Floriana, Malta |
$98,000.00 over 2 years |
To increase counseling for substance abuse and mental health services, prevention of sexually transmitted infections and related professional training in Malta. |
|
Casa Hogar Amor |
Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico |
$19,200.00 |
To increase basic healthcare services and psychological care for homeless and abandoned children in Cuernavaca, Mexico. |
|
CONTACT |
Alliston, Ontario, Canada |
$101,400.00 over 2 years |
For a registered dietician to increase nutrition, manage health conditions, and prevent health problems for at-risk children in Alliston and Simcoe County, Canada. |
|
Projeto Quixote |
Sao Paulo, Brazil |
$65,908.00 |
To increase health and nutrition services to at-risk street children in Sao Paulo, Brazil. |
|
Sauvez Mon Enfant (Save My Child) |
Brussels, Belgium |
$44,540.00 |
To provide psychological support to families and children in intensive care in Brussels, Belgium. |
|
Stockholms Stadsmission |
Stockholm, Sweden |
$70,000.00 |
To expand psychotherapy services to youth in Stockholm, Sweden. |
|
Project Hope |
Millwood, VA |
$175,000.00 over 2 years |
To build long-term capacity in rehabilitation services for victims of the earthquake in Sichuan, China. |
September 2008
|
Organization |
Location |
Amount |
Purpose |
|
California Dental Association Foundation |
Ventura, Los Angeles, Orange Counties, California |
$56,338 |
To train dentists from safety net dental clinics to provide care to infants and young children. |
|
Chicago Urban League |
Northern Illinois |
$117,094 over 2 years |
To expand mental health services to youth and their families participating in the African-American Male Adolescent in Chicago, Illinois |
|
March of Dimes Foundation-Illinois Chapter |
Northern Illinois |
$60,000 |
To provide direct support services and information to families who experience hospitalization of their babies in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at one of the premier Level III hospitals in Chicago. |
|
Pinellas County Urban League |
Pinellas County, Florida |
$112,600 over 2 years |
To increase screening, education, and primary health services for the African-American community in Pinellas County, Florida. |
International Grants
|
Organization |
Location |
Amount |
Purpose |
|
Casa del Peregrino Aguadilla |
Aguadilla, Puerto Rico |
$30,000 over 2 years |
To increase nursing services to provide skin and wound care to high risk individuals in Northwest Puerto Rico. |
|
Centro Educativo El Carmelo |
San Jose, Costa Rica |
$33,600 |
To increase psychological services to at risk children and their families in San Jose, Costa Rica. |
|
Corporacion La Fondita de Jesus |
San Juan, Puerto Rico |
$64,420 |
To increase mental health services to homeless individuals in Puerto Rico. |
June 2008
|
Organization |
Location |
Amount |
Purpose |
|
AUPHA-Association of University Programs in Health Administration (Graham Award) |
Arlington, VA |
$267,000.00 over three years |
For the 2009-2011 William B. Graham Prize for Health Services Research recognizing unusually significant worldwide contributions to the improved health of the public through innovative research. |
|
Camden Eye Center (New Jersey) |
Camden, NJ |
$35,000.00 over two years |
To establish specialized services for persons with low or impaired vision in a vocational training and employment program and surrounding community in Camden, New Jersey |
|
Glendale Healthy Kids (California) |
Glendale, CA |
$25,000.00 |
For an Orthodontic Treatment Program for uninsured or underinsured low income children in Glendale, CA |
|
The Raise Foundation (California) |
Irvine, CA |
$90,192.00 over two years |
To expand services and deepen collaboration with community partner agencies to reduce child abuse and neglect on Orange County, California. |
|
Tuesday’s Child (Northern Illinois) |
Chicago, IL |
$12,000.00 |
For support of a part time bilingual clinical psychologist and Spanish translator to expand and improve early intervention and child mental health services to Spanish speaking families in Chicago and suburbs. |
International Grants
|
Organization |
Location |
Amount |
Purpose |
|
Associacao Obra do Berco (Brazil) |
Sao Paulo/SP Brazil |
$33,381.00 |
For a specialized nurse to train staff in basic health services, hygiene and emergency care in Sao Paulo, Brazil. |
|
Best Start Health Coalition in Peel (Canada) |
Brampton, Ontario Canada |
$82,944.00 over three years |
To expand group and individual prenatal nutrition counseling to prevent low birth weight at eleven program sites in Mississauga/Peel area of Ontario, Canada |
|
Canbus no Kai (Japan) |
Miyakonojo City, Japan |
$28,000.00 over two years |
Training for staff working with people with disabilities to upgrade rehabilitation services to prepare them to live independently in the Miyazaki area of Japan. |
|
Compania de Danza Mobile Association (Spain) |
Seville, Spain |
$46,792.00 |
To expand psychomotor rehabilitation services for young children with developmental disabilities through dance and music in Spain. |
|
Fundacao Julita (Brazil) |
Sao Paulo, SP Brazil |
$57,402.00 |
To increase the availability of mental health services through a Center for Psychological Care for children, youth, and adults from the low income Jardim Sao Luis community of Sao Paulo, Brazil. |
|
The Irish Hospice Foundation (Ireland) |
Dublin, Ireland |
$109,390.00 over two years |
For a pilot program to train healthcare specialists in palliative care to expand access to non-cancer patients in Dublin, Ireland. |
|
Puerto Rico Down Syndrome Foundation (Puerto Rico) |
San Juan, Puerto Rico |
$57,689.00 over two years |
To bring motor oral therapy training to health professionals working with people with Down Syndrome in Puerto Rico. |
|
Shanghai Angel Charity Foundation |
Pudong, Shanghai, China |
$86,342.00 over two years |
To expand the Medical Program for Disabled Children providing a charity medical card and health services program to children in an additional school for disabled children in Shanghai, China. |
April 2008
Domestic Grants
|
Organization |
Location |
Amount |
Purpose |
|
BJP Youth Ranch
|
Gainesville, MO |
$24,450.00 |
To expand the Therapeutic Equestrian Program with the addition of two certified therapeutic handicapped instructors in the Gainesville/Mountain Home, AR area. |
|
The Bridge Youth & Family Services
|
Northern Illinois |
$25,000.00 |
To expand the early childhood mental health program for children and their families in Palatine Township, Illinois. |
|
ChildServ
|
Northern Illinois |
$20,000.00 |
For the Healthy Fit program supporting the salary for a bilingual coordinator to increase health services to low-income minority populations in Northern Lake County, Illinois. |
|
Community Health |
Northern Illinois |
$65,313 over 2 years |
To expand health services to low-income, uninsured new Polish immigrants in Chicago through the addition of a bilingual Polish Patient Care Coordinator. |
|
Dubnoff Center |
Los Angeles, CA |
$22,282.00 |
To support the expansion of a therapeutic visual and performing arts program for children with serious emotional disturbances and developmental disabilities in Los Angeles, California. |
|
Emergency Shelter Program |
Hayward, CA |
$25,000.00 |
To expand mental health and substance abuse counseling for homeless women in Hayward, California. |
|
Family Alliance |
Woodstock, Illinois |
$20,000.00 |
To expand dementia services program in McHenry County, Illinois by adding a licensed social worker. |
|
Harrisonburg Rockinham Free Clinic |
Harrisonburg, VA |
$35,000.00 |
For start-up of new dental clinic in Harrisonburg-Rockingham, VA for low-income and uninsured patients. |
|
Heartland Alliance |
Northern Illinois |
$120,000.00 over 2 years |
To increase mental health services by adding a clinical social worker to the Families Building Community - a permanent housing program for homeless families in Chicago, Illinois. |
|
Middle Way House |
Bloomington, IN. |
$60,000.00 over 2 years |
To expand the medical advocacy program providing training and assistance to improve the quality of care received by victims of domestic violence and sexual assault from healthcare providers in Bloomington, Indiana. |
International Grants
|
Organization |
Location |
Amount |
Purpose |
|
Beat |
Norwich, Norfolk, UK |
$36,360.00 |
To increase services to migrant families addressing eating disorders in Thetford, UK. |
|
Hope House |
Foxford, County Mayo, Ireland |
$120,000 over 2 years |
To improve and expand substance abuse counseling services by supporting the addition and training of a new addictions counselor in County Mayo, Ireland. |
|
Medicos del Mundo |
Buenos Aires, Argentina |
$31,820.00 |
To train 60 health promoters in 16 neighborhoods in Buenos Aires, Argentina. |
|
YWCA of Vancouver |
Vancouver, Canada |
$28,451.00 |
To increase access to healthcare services by special needs children and their families by supporting a Senior Child Care Supervisor in Vancouver, Canada. |
December 2007
Domestic Grants
| Organization | Location | Amount | Purpose |
| Children's Home & Aid Society of Illinois | Chicago, IL | $30,00.00 | To increase psychiatric consulting available in the residential treatment program for extremely vulnerable children in Northern Illinois. |
| The Children's Home | Tampa, FL | $54,500.00 | To implement new collaborative program offering support services and respite for youth caregivers in Largo/ Pinellas County, Florida. |
| Family Health Partnership Clinic | Woodstock, IL |
$50,000.00 (2 years) |
To fully implement pharmaceutical tracking program and increase medication education and dispensing in McHenry County, Illinois. |
| Family Service of South Lake County | Highland Park, IL | $20,000.00 | To expand Escuela en Casa - a health and wellness prevention project for at-risk Latino families in Lake County, Illinois. |
| Illinois Maternal & Child Health Coalition | Chicago, IL | $50,000.00 | For the new Health Care Outreach Campaign in Northern Illinois to inform and enroll individuals and families in state public health care programs. |
| Korean American Community Services | Glenview, IL | $26,030.00 | To implement a culturally and linguistically-appropriate patient navigator/health literacy program for Korean-Americans in Chicago, Lake and McHenry counties. |
| McHenry County PADS, Inc. | Woodstock, IL | $50,000.00 | To expand services to homeless mentally ill and substance abusers in McHenry County, Illinois. |
| Northeast Valley Health Corporation | San Fernando, CA | $50,000.00 | For partial support of a bi-lingual Registered Nurse for the new health clinic in Sun Valley, California. |
| Peer Health Exchange, Inc. | Chicago, IL | $25,000.00 | To implement a new program to train and place college student volunteers to teach comprehensive health education to low-income Chicago Public High School students. |
International Grants
| Organization | Location | Amount | Purpose |
| Aldeas Infantiles SOS De Espana | Madrid, Spain | $81,802.00 | To expand and deepen the Family Strengthening Program by adding two psychologists to provide family therapy for at-risk children and their families in Madrid, Spain. |
| Con Nosotros, A.C. | Jiutepe, Morelos Mexico |
$50,000.00 (2 years) |
To increase physical rehabilitation services to children with cerebral palsy and other neuromuscular disabilities in Cuernavaca, Mexico. |
| INTERPRET | Switzerland | $11,714.00 | To increase the use by primary care physicians of available interpretation services to improve healthcare services and patient safety in Switzerland. |
| La Tierra Prometida, Inc | Aguadilla, PR | $55,000.00 | For expansion of services to provide medical detoxification to homeless abusers of psychoactive substances in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. |
| ORBIS International | New York, NY |
$60,181.00 (3 years) |
To extend eye care services to rural areas by establishing eye care stations in counties and villages throughout Guangxi Province, China. |
| The Society of Education & Rehabilitation of Puerto Rico | Aibonito, PR |
$55,200.00 (2 years) |
To expand services to provide speech therapy to children with developmental and physical disabilities in Ponce, Puerto Rico. |
October 2007
Domestic Grants
| Organization | Location | Amount | Purpose |
| AIDS Foundation of Chicago | Chicago, IL |
$90,000.00 (2 years) |
For pilot project to improve access to healthcare for homeless individuals who are frequent users of the Cook County hospital and jail systems. |
| Broward Partnership for the Homeless, Inc | Ft. Lauderdale, FL | $28,000.00 | To expand dental services at the Central Homeless Assistance Center in Broward County, Florida. |
| Children's Home Society of Florida | Ft. Lauderdale, FL | $38,080.00 | To support the salary of a nurse to provide services to foster children with special medical needs, and basic medical training and support to their foster parents. |
| Family Service Center of Wilmette, Glenview and Northbrook | Wilmette, IL | $15,000.00 | To expand bi-lingual, bi-cultural staff in Latino Family Program to increase the number served that live, work, or attend school in North Cook County suburbs. |
| Health And Medicine Policy Research Group | Chicago, IL | $65,000.00 | To support the 2008-2009 Chicago Area Schweitzer Fellows program, providing service-learning opportunities for graduate level health professionals to work with underserved communities and for continued implementation of the Fellows for Life alumni initiative. |
| National Hospice Foundation | Alexandria, VA | $57,590.00 | To provide expertise and coaching to local hospices in Northern Illinois and Pinellas County, Florida to expand access to end-of-life care for Latino residents. |
| Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine | Athens, OH | $23,617.00 | To increase number of health screening provided and locations visited by the mobile health van serving 21 southeast Ohio communities in the Athens area. |
| OMNI Youth Services | Buffalo Grove, IL | $50,000.00 | To support staff training in, and start-up of, Multisystemic Therapy, an intensive, in-home service for youth involved in the juvenile justice system in North Chicago and Waukegan, Lake County, Illinois. |
| WilPower, Inc. | Northfield, IL | $40,000.00 | To expand nursing and psychiatric services in the Wellness Program to address co-morbid physical illnesses accompanying serious mental illness for participants in Northern Illinois. |
International Grants
| Organization | Location | Amount | Purpose |
| Centro Espirita Nossa Lar-Casas Andre Luiz | San Paulo, Brazil | $60,000.00 (over 2 years) | To increase the professional and technical skills of multidisciplinary staff in this institution that serves people with serious developmental and physical disabilities in Sao Paulo, Brazil. |
| Fundacion Oratorio don Bosco | San José, Costa Rica | $68,040.00 | To support the salaries for two social workers and two psychologists for increased counseling services to high-risk children and adolescents in San Jose, Costa Rico. |
June 2007
Domestic Grants
| Organization | Location | Amount | Purpose |
| Delta State university | Cleveland, MS | $60,000.00 (2 yrs) |
To expand diagnostic and speech treatment services for underserved children with neuropsychological disorders in the Mississippi Delta. |
| Hospice of Northeastern Illinois | Barrington, IL | $60,000.00 | To increase and expand hospice services in Northern Illinois by establishing a full-time medical director position. |
| House of Ruth | Beltsville, MD | $90,700.00 (2 yrs) |
To expand therapy to children in families experiencing domestic violence and outreach services in Beltsville - Prince George's County, MD. |
| Infant Welfare Society | Northern Illinois | $30,000.00 | To expand pediatric dental clinic in Chicago by adding two evenings per week and two Saturdays per month. |
| Lake County Council Against Sexual Assault – LaCasa | Northern Illinois | $25,000.00 | To provide more accessible, culturally-senstive health services to Lesbian, Bi-Sexual, Transgendered and Questioning survivors of sexual assault and abuse in Lake County, Illinois. |
| STOP-GAP | Irvine, CA | $18,000.00 | To expand therapeutic drama programs for children of abused women living at three domestic violence shelters in Orange County, CA. |
International Grants
| Organization | Location | Amount | Purpose |
| Associacao Pro Hope | Brazil | $55,000.00 (1½ yrs) |
To expand psychology and occupational therapy services for underpriviledged children with life-threatening illnesses, transplant patients and their families in Sao Paulo, Brazil. |
| Casa Da Crianca | Brazil | $35,444.00 (2 yrs) |
To support the addition of a highly skilled nurse to improve care and staff retention at this free shelter for children and youth with severe neurological disabilities in Sao Paulo, Brazil. |
| Nuevo Amanecer | Spain | $68,253.00 | To expand and improve health services to women in children in the shelter for abused women in Madrid, Spain. |
April 2007
Domestic Grants
| Organization | Location | Amount | Purpose |
| Emergency Shelter Program Hayward, CA | California | $25,000 | To expand mental health and substance abuse counseling for homeless women in Hayward, California. |
| George Mark Children's House San Leandro, CA | California | $50,000 | For expansion of the Bereavement Program at this children's residential hospice in San Leandro, California. |
| Community Support Services Joplin, MO | Missouri | $52,938 | To support expanded early intervention assessment services for children with delayed development in Jasper County, Missouri. |
| Health Access America National | National | $50,000 | To support the nationwide health coverage campaign to link individuals and families in local communities with existing private and public coverage options. |
| Prevent Child Abuse Illinois | Northern Illinois | $17,355 | To support the child abuse prevention initiative - The Effects of Methamphetamine on Children, in Lake, McHenry, and Cook Counties, Illinois. |
| Sigma Theta Tau Episteme Award Northern Illinois | Northern Illinois | $15,000 | For the 2007 Episteme Award for a major breakthrough in nursing knowledge development resulting in a significant and recognizable benefit to the public. |
International Grants
| Organization | Location | Amount | Purpose |
| The Malta Hospice Movement Malta | Malta | $44,500 (3 yrs) |
To support expanded hours of a doctor and specialized training in palliative care for the only hospice in Malta. |
| Centro Social Nossa Senhora do Bom Parto Brazil | Brazil | $17,500 | To support a registered nurse to supervise, guide, and train health agents in 21 daycare centers and four shelters to improve health services in Sao Paulo, Brazil. |
| Christel House Venezuela | Venezuela | $58,625 | For new and expanded health services for very low-income, at-risk children and adolescents in La Vega, Caracas, Venezuela. |
| Hogar Bambi Venezuela | Venezuela | $46,070 | For pediatric medical services in new, third shelter serving abandoned and abused children in Caracas, Venezuela. |
December 2006
Domestic Grants
| Organization | Location | Amount | Purpose |
| Asian Health Coalition of Illinois | Northern Illinois | $106,200 | To improve mental health of immigrant and refugee families in Waukegan, Illinois through a preventative, school-based pilot project to increase capacity of school staff to provide culturally-appropriate services |
| Public Schools of McDowell County, North Carolina | North Carolina | $67,041 | For collaborative project to increase access of children, their families, and school personnel to healthcare, psychological services, prevention and education related to healthy living |
| Howard Brown Health Center | Chicago | $100,000 (2 yrs) |
To support a new collaborative initiative to increase access to healthcare for aging lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, and non-LGBT seniors in the Chicago area |
| Kindness, Inc. | Arkansas | $16,500 | To increase outreach and fund development for services related to medical care and home accessibility assistance enabling elderly in Mountain Home, Arkansas area to remain in their own homes |
| Northpointe Resources, Inc. | Northern Illinois |
$37,100 | To increase the capacity of Northpointe staff and the organization to fully integrate and implement health and wellness strategies and activities in residential services for developmentally disabled adults in Northern Illinois |
| Teen Living Programs | Northern Illinois | $35,000 | To improve homeless teen’s health through an expanded comprehensive nutrition program in Chicago |
International Grants
| Organization | Location | Amount | Purpose |
| Acceptame Como Soy | Mexico | $50,400 (2 yrs) |
To provide full dental and orthopedic/orthodic services to very low income children with disabilities in Cuernavaca, Mexico |
| Associacao Amigos Dos Queimados (Friends of the Burnt) | Portugal | $20,800 |
To expand and improve health services to burn patients in Portugal by providing one-stop integrated appointments with medical, surgical, rehabilitative, and mental health specialists |
| Caritas Switzerland | Switzerland | $14,110 | For a new center providing information, training, and networking for health care specialists, and referrals for immigrant women and girls living in Switzerland, concerning treatment and care related to female genital mutilation |
September 2006
Domestic Grants
| Organization | Location | Amount | Purpose |
| Barrington Youth and Family Services | Northern Illinois | $13,750 | To increase psychiatric treatment and consultation for mental health services for low to moderate income, at-risk youth in Lake and McHenry Counties, Illinois |
| Building Futures with Women and Children | California | $25,000 | For Children’s Services Coordinator to improve homeless children’s access to health care services in Alameda County, California |
| Health and Medicine Policy Research Group | Chicago | $65,000 | For the 2007-08 Chicago Area Schweitzer Fellows Program and the Fellows for Life alumni initiative |
| Hospital Research and Educational Trust | Chicago | $210,000 (2 yrs) |
Foster McGaw Award Program for 2007 and 2008 |
| Howard Area Community Center | Chicago | $20,000 | Early Childhood Caries Project in Chicago, Illinois |
| JVQ California | California | $17,000 | To expand provision of vison exams and corrective eyeglasses for uninsured, economically disadvantaged school children in Alameda County, California |
| Lake County Haven | Northern Illinois | $10,000 | For increased clinical services for women who are homeless or experienced domestic violence in Lake County, Illinois |
| Youthbuild Lake County | Northern Illinois | $25,000 | For expanded psychological assessment and counseling services for low-income youth in Lake County, Illinois |
International Grants
| Organization | Location | Amount | Purpose |
| Centro de Servicios para el Desarrollo Local Associacion Civil | Argentina | $38,780 | To increase health, hygiene, disease and accident prevention in Las Tunas, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Family Life Services | Ireland | $120,000 (2 yrs) |
To expand family counseling services in Castlebar, County Mayo, Ireland |
| Instituto de Apoio a Crianca | Portugal | $148,962 (3 yrs) |
To expand the psychological services to victims and those at risk of child abuse and their families in Lisbon, Portugal |
| Rose Cherry’s Home for Kids (The Cedarbrook Society) | Canada | $69,160 (3 yrs) |
To establish a volunteer program to support the provision of pediatric hospice, palliative, and respite care for children and their families in Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
June 2006
Disaster Response Grants
| Organization | Location | Amount | Purpose |
| Project Concern International | San Diego, CA | $117,734 | Final year of support to expand and strengthen healthcare services/mobile health clinic in Nagapattinam District in India for tsunami survivors. |
| Project Hope | Millwood, VA | $97,970 | Final year of implementation to restore and improve health of citizens in Indonesia, particularly mothers and children affected by the tsunami. |
Domestic Grants
| Organization | Location | Amount | Purpose |
| Center for Grief and Loss for Children | Pasadena, CA | $57,300 | Expanded grief counseling services for children in South Central Los Angeles |
| Chenny Troupe, Inc. | Chicago, IL | $40,600 (3 years) |
To expand volunteer base serving patients in Chicago healthcare institutions |
| Chippewa Valley Technical College | Eau Claire, WI | $ 61,166 (3 years) | Expansion of dental services to the underserved in Western Wisconsin. |
| Hospice of the Conejo | Thousand Oaks, CA | $31,700 (2 years) |
To expand the Special Caring program to support terminally ill clients and family members receiving hospice services in Westlake Village and Thousand Oaks, CA. |
| The Women's Treatment Center | Chicago, IL | $22,500 | Support of a pediatric nurse for children residing at the Center while their mothers are in treatment. |
International Grants
| Organization | Location | Amount | Purpose |
| Charities Aid Foundation | New Delhi, India | $260,000 (2 years) |
To establish a chronic care initiative to increase awareness and improve access and availability of treatment options among high-risk populations in India. |
| Eurordis | Paris, France | $121,918 (2 years) |
To improve access to and quality of, healthcare services for patients with rare diseases and their families. |
April 2006
Domestic Grants
| Organization | Location | Amount | Purpose |
| Delta Health Center | Mississippi | $91,976 | Support of a rural health education outreach program |
| Share Our Selves | California | $40,000 | Mental health counseling center for uninsured, homeless and underserved residents of Orange County, CA |
| Access Community Health Network | Chicago | $14,675 | Child immunization program targeting low-income, medically underserved and uninsured children throughout Chicago |
| Pan-African Association | Chicago | $38,700 | Health outreach program for immigrants and refugees from African countries living in Chicago |
International Grants
| Organization | Location | Amount | Purpose |
| Americares | Stamford, CT | $190,000 | Funding to launch a new Americares warehouse and distribution program in India |
| Chameleon Association | Philippines | $30,000 | Health & dental care program for girls in Passi City, Philippines |
| Asociacion Mayaguezana de Personas con Impedimentos | Puerto Rico | $40,524 | Funding to increase the healthcare services to developmentally disabled adults and their family in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico |
| Hogar de Ninos Regazo de Paz | Puerto Rico | $38,079 | Project Absolute Health increases health services to abused, neglected and abandoned children |
| Fundacion Operación Sonrisa Venezuela | Venezuela | $13,312 | Funding free medical & surgical treatment to indigent children & adults born with facial defomities |
| National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children | England | $67,401 | Increasing therapeutic services for abused children in Hampshire, England |
December 2005
Disaster Response Grants
| Organization | Location | Amount | Purpose |
| American Red Cross | Washington, DC | $250,000 | Hurricane Katrina relief & response activities |
| Foundation for the Mid South | Jackson, MS | $750,000 | Recovery and restoration fund for community-based health services affected by Hurricane Katrina |
| CARE | Chicago, IL | $250,000 | Earthquake relief fund for Pakistan and India |
| Fomento Social Banamex & Alfredo Harp Helu AC Foundation | Mexico City, Mexico | $7,630 | Relief for Hurricanes Stan and Wilma |
Regular Grants
| Organization | Location | Amount | Purpose |
| Asilo de Ancianos Luis Elizondo, AC | Guadalupe, Mexico | $35,378 | Palliative and hospice care services to the elderly in Guadalupe, Mexico |
| Christel House de Mexico, AC | Mexico City, Mexico | $47,786 | Specialty and mental health care for low-income children living in Alvaro Obregón Delegation of Mexico City |
| Asociacion Asilo de la Vejez de Cartago | Cartago, Costa Rica | $19,320 (2 years) | Expanded services in physical therapy in nursing home for the elderly in Cartago, Costa Rica |
| The Carter Center | Atlanta, GA | $25,274 (2 years) | Support of an accelerated program to interrupt the transmission of River Blindness (onchoceriasis) in Columbia and Venezuela |
| Centro Millajen | Cidra, Puerto Rico | $54,900 | Evaluation, physical and speech therapy to children with disabilities in the Cidra area of Puerto Rico |
| Hogar Albergue Para Ninos Jesus de Nazaret | Mayaguez, Puerto Rico | $45,500 | Expanding mental health services of a residential shelter for abused children in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico |
| Family Care International | New York, NY | $40,000 | To improve and strengthen adolescent access to health information and train health care personnel providing youth-friendly services in San Cristobel, Dominican Republic |
| RAINBOWS | Rolling Meadows, IL |
$54,960 (2 years) |
Spanish translation and distribution of children's grief support curriculum and materials in Largo, FL, Cherry Hill, NJ, and Northern Cook, Lake and McHenry Counties, IL |
September 2005
| Organization | Location | Amount | Purpose |
| Casa Hogar Nacidos Para Triunfar | Mexico | $37,500 | Dental care for orphaned and abused children |
| Centro Assistencial Cruz de Malta | Sao Paulo, Brazil | $13,000 | Family Health and Nutrition Promotion Project |
| Chicago Children's Advocacy Center | Chicago, IL | $15,000 | Specialized Pregnant and Parenting Teen Counseling Program for victims of child sexual abuse |
| Community Care Health Centers | Huntington Beach, CA | $42,484 | Health Education and Linkages Project |
| Conejo Free Clinic | Thousand Oaks, CA | $49,000 | Expansion of Women's Health Fair, Patient Assistance, and Health Services |
| Family Resource Center for Eau Claire County | Eau Claire, WI |
$60,000 (3 years) |
Home Health Outreach Program for First Time Parents |
| Fundacion Hogar Manos Abiertas | Costa Rica | $78,292 | Expansion of Professional Health Services for severely disabled and ill abandoned people |
| Health & Medicine Policy Research Group (Schweitzer) | Chicago, IL | $55,000 | Schweitzer Fellows and Fellows for Life Initiative |
| Hogar Ayuda El Refugio | Puerto Rico |
$40,000 (2 years) |
Health Education Prevention Program for at-risk children and youth |
| Kinder-und Jugendwerkstatt EIGEN-SINN gGmbH | Freudenstadt, Germany | $10,000 | Counseling groups for children after cancer and other serious illness |
| Ir-Razzett tal-Hbiberija | Malta |
$46,500 (3 years) |
Physical Therapy Clinic for Children and Adults |
| Programa Comunitario da Reconciliacao | Sao Paulo, Brazil | $10,000 | Expanded dental care for children |
| School Health Clinics of Santa Clara County | San Jose, CA | $32,000 | Mental health services for children and adolescents in school health clinics |
June 2005
| Organization | Location | Amount | Purpose |
| Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago | Chicago, IL |
$50,000 |
Latino Health Access Project |
| A Safe Place | Waukegan, IL |
$51,000 (2 years) |
Enhanced Children's Therapy Program at new Transitional Living Facility |
| AUPHA (Assn of University Programs in Health Administration) | Arlington, VA |
$180,000 (3 years) |
Annual Baxter International Foundation Prize for Health Services Research |
| Barretstown Camp (Hole in the Wall Gang Assn.) | Ireland |
$187,080 (3 years) |
Central and Eastern European Project for children with life-threatening illnesses |
| Camden Eye Center | Camden, NJ |
$25,000 |
Eye Program for homeless diabetics |
| Center for Grief and Loss for Children | Los Angeles, CA |
$10,000 |
Expanded grief counseling services for children in South Central Los Angeles |
| Changing Faces | London, UK |
$74,828 (3 years) |
Establish Changing Faces services in Wales |
| Chicago Housing for Health Partnership | Chicago, IL |
$50,000 |
Expanded healthcare services for formerly homeless |
| HealthReach | Waukegan, IL |
$45,000 (2 years) |
Capacity-building for comprehensive general and rehabilitative free health care service |
| Institute for Women Today | Chicago, IL |
$12,003 |
Expanded Health and Wellness Program |
| Tri-City Health Center | Fremont, CA |
$82,000 |
Childhood Caries Prevention and Treatment Outreach Program in Alameda County, CA |
April 2005
Tsunami grants
| Organization | Location | Amount | Purpose |
| CARE | Chicago, IL |
$570,991 |
Rebuilding of community health clinics, train community health workers, in four areas of Aceh, Indonesia |
| Center for International Rehabilitation | Chicago, IL |
$10,000 |
Support an assessment of the health-related needs of people with disabilities in tsunami-devastated communities in India, Thailand, and Indonesia. |
| Project Concern International | San Diego, CA |
$107,684 |
Deployment of two mobile health vans and related services in Nagapattinam District in India to improve access to healthcare services for tsunami survivors. |
| Project Hope | Millwood, VA |
$100,626 |
Training of health care workers and in-depth assessment and capacity strengthening of the health management systems of local health facilities Tsunami-affected |
Regular grants
| Organization | Location | Amount | Purpose |
| Association for Therapeutical Education and Rehabilitation of Children with Cerebral Palsy | Paris, France |
$87,840 |
Services by multidisciplinary professional teams to increased numbers of children with cerebral palsy in regular school settings. |
| Building Futures with Women & Children | San Leandro, CA |
$25,000 |
For a children's advocate to provide support for the improved health and well being of children in shelters and second-stage affordable housing. |
| Brigadas de Amistad | Toluca, Mexico |
$20,000 |
Salary for one year of a psychologist providing counseling for ex-offenders recovering from substance abuse and their families. |
| Casa del Peregrino Aguadilla | Aguadilla, PR |
$41,032 |
Establish a mental health clinic for mentally ill and elderly homeless in Aguadilla. |
| Community Health | Chicago, IL | $40,000 | Chronic Disease Health Management Program enhancing services to 300 patients with heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and asthma who are without health insurance. |
| Fundacion Prodis | Madrid, Spain | $26,598 | Salaries of additional health professionals working with an increased number of mentally challenged youth attending a special summer camp in Spain. |
| Hillsides | Pasadena, CA | $20,000 | For a part-time bilingual therapist to work in the School-Based Mental Health Program. |
| Hogar Maria del Carmen | Aguada, PR | $54,242 | Health clinics for homeless, low-income elderly and health screenings for homebound elderly in Aguada, PR |
| Instituto Mexicano de Investigacion de Familia y Poblacion, A.C. | Benito Juarez, Mexico | $44,669 | Intensive health education/promotion workshops to low-income women on breast and cervical cancer prevention, reproductive health, and personal hygiene. |
| LaCASA | Gurnee, IL | $24,500 | Prevention education and treatment training program on medical and clinical responses to sexual assault survivors for healthcare service students and providers. |
| McHenry County Youth Service Bureau | Woodstock, IL | $30,000 | For a Case Manager promoting access to healthcare for single parents and their children. |
| Salvation Army of Oxnard/Port Hueneme | Oxnard, CA | $25,000 | For a diabetic educator and dental care for special populations. |
| Sigma Theta Tau, Inc. | Indianapolis, IN | $15,000 | Bi-annual award recognizing outstanding research conducted by a nurse. |
| The Harbour, Inc. | Park Ridge, IL | $15,760 | Registered Nurse consultant services and psychiatric Registered Nurse to serve girls and their children in the Independent Living Program. |
| Valley Family Center | San Fernando, CA | $20,000 | Bilingual therapist to provide mental health services to elementary schools in the San Fernando Valley. |
| YWCA of Vancouver | Vancouver, British Columbia | $22,713 | Senior Childcare worker to assist families to access needed healthcare services for their children. |
