Recent Foundation Grants
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April 2013
Domestic Grants
| Organization | Location | Amount | Purpose |
| Korean American Community Services | Prospect Heights, IL | $13,625.00 | To cover the additional portion of the salaries for the part-time Nurse Practitioner and part-time Medical Assistant staff needed to expand hours of Family Clinic in Prospect Heights by an extra half day. |
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Monroe County YMCA |
Bloomington, IN | $100,000.00 over 2 years ($50,000.00/yr) |
Funding for addition of a Wellness Coordinator and Nutritionist at the new Northwest Bloomington YMCA scheduled to open in Fall 2013. |
| Ascencia | Glendale, CA | $52,747.81 | To support the salary and benefits of a dedicated Case Manager, who will work to address the needs of the homeless people and expedite appropriate placements and discharge plans post hospital visits. |
| Illumination Foundation | Irvine, CA | $35,000.00 | To support the hiring of a new nurse practitioner who will provide women's health services at the Buena Park Community. The clinic will provide primary care and triage and wraparound outpatient services for homeless and very low-income persons without health insurance in Orange County. |
International Grants
| Organization | Location | Amount | Purpose |
| Sigma Theta Tau | Global | $15,000.00 | For the 2013 biannual Episteme Award acknowledging a major breakthrough in nursing knowledge development resulting in a significant and recognizable benefit to the public. |
| National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) | London, UK | $63,285.00 | To help expand the FEDUP program into the West London area by hiring of a full-time Child Services Practitioner. The Child Services Practitioner will carry out intensive work with children and their families to help them overcome the impact of substance misuse on their family life. FEDUP is an innovative and comprehensive program that works with children and young people who are affected by parental substance misuse. FEDUP provides a safe environment for children where they can develop self-care skills and coping mechanisms, and helps them reduce feelings of isolation and despair. |
| Samusocial asbl | Brussels, Belgium | $97,166.00 | To support the expansion of the current three psychological mobile teams to include one shared psychologist working from late afternoon to after-midnight on the mobile units in the streets of Brussels to evaluate the social state and medical urgency of homeless clients. |
December 2012
Domestic Grants
| Organization | Location | Amount | Purpose |
| Health and Medicine Policy Reserch Group | Chicago, IL | $75,000.00 | Support for the 2013-2014 Chicago Area Schweitzer Fellows Program. This program has the dual purpose of improving the health of poor and underserved individuals living in and around Chicago and of developing a cadre of public health professionals to make a life-long commitment to serve vulnerable populations |
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HRET-Hospital Research and Educational Trust |
Chicago, IL | $430,000.00 over 2 years ($215,000/yr) | To support the 2013 and 2014 Foster G. McGaw Prize honoring outstanding commitment to community service by healthcare delivery organizations and systems. |
International Grants
| Organization | Location | Amount | Purpose |
| Project Hope | Shanghai, China | $100,000.00 over 2 years ($50,000/yr) | To pilot a care model to improve efficiency and effectiveness of home-based health care for elderly people 65+ who live in the Tang Qiao Community of the Pudong new district of Shanghai. The model includes health screenings, increased training of community health providers, elderly home visits for safe medication administration and environmental risk factors assessments, and music exercise practice. The project also has the capacity to assist in controlling health care costs since currently elders tend to seek care for chronic conditions through hospital channels. |
| ASP Fondatrice | Paris, France | $84,500.00 | To finance the training of voluntary workers as well as the psychologists who spend time in discussion groups with these volunteers so that they may debrief about the end of life support they provide their patient clients. |
| Northcott Society | North Parramatta, Australia | $86,870.000 over 18 months | To support the salary of the Program Office over 18 months for the Building of the Skills for Life Program (an education program to facilitate age appropriate independence and improve outcomes for young people with spinal cord injury transitioning to adult services). |
| Asociacion Manos de Ayuda Social | Madrid, Spain | $52,991.13 | To fund the salaries of a healthcare technician and social worker who will provide services at the newly created Community Kitchen Ventas in the Ciudad Lineal district of Madrid. This project will provide unemployed individuals with nutritional orientation and food handling courses. |
| LauraLynn - Ireland's Children's Hospice | Dublin, Ireland | $118,906.54 | To provide an on-site Clinical Psychology Bereavement Support Program for family members and carers of children with life-limiting conditions through the hiring of a full time Principal Clinical Psychologist. |
August 2012
Domestic Grants
| Organization | Location | Amount | Purpose |
| Access OC | Laguna Hills, CA | $49,400.00 | To support the hiring of a case manager for a new case management program to work with referred patients in Orange County so they can reduce co-morbidities and obtain needed specialty surgeries at their outpatient surgery center. |
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BraveHearts |
Harvard, IL | $40,000.00 over 2 years ($20,000.00/yr) |
To support the salary of a new Volunteer Coordinator needed for all 3 programs within the organization. |
| Children’s Home + Aid | Chicago, IL | $49,508.00 | Expansion of the School-Based Mental Health program in the Humboldt Park community of Chicago by hiring of a new, full-time Master’s-level Bi-Lingual Therapist serving Cameron Elementary School. |
| East Bay Agency for Children (EBAC) | Oakland, CA | $32,900.00 | To fund expansion of the Child Assault Prevention Training Center (CAPTC) to deliver 30 additional child abuse and assault prevention education parenting, health and safety workshops throughout the region. |
| Face the Future Foundation | Chicago, IL | $23,250.00 | To fund 25% of the salary of a speech therapist responsible for the newly piloted, Digitally –Enabled Speech Therapy Program. |
| Kenosha Community Health Center, Inc. | Kenosha, WI | $100,000.00 over 2 years ($80,000 year one; $20,000 year two) |
Support the hiring of two case managers to be located at the local non-profit agency providing mental health services for the mentally ill (Kenosha Human Development Service) so that this population can access primary medical and dental care services |
| The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship | Los Angeles, CA | $64,500.00 | Support for the 2013 Los Angeles Area Schweitzer Fellows program expansion by 25% and launch a Fellows for Life Program through support of a program coordinator salary. |
| The Night Ministry | Chicago, IL | $9,000.00 | To fund the salary of an additional Case Manager to support the enhancement of the Outreach and Health Ministry Program. |
| Tri-City Health Center | Fremont, CA | $65,000.00 | To fund the salary of a Case Manager position to assist patients with behavioral health needs. |
| University of Chicago- ECHO | Chicago, IL | $94,014.00 | To fund salaries for University of Chicago Urban Health Initiative staff to expand ECHO program which delivers specialty care training advice and counsel via webcam to remote participating health care providers. |
| Youth Organizations Umbrella, Inc. | Evanston, IL | $10,000.00 | To be one of four organizations to fund the salary of a new Youth and Family Counselor to serve a growing number of underserved youth in need of mental health services. |
International Grants
| Organization | Location | Amount | Purpose |
| Aceptame Como Soy | Morales, Mexico | $36,600.00 | To support salaries for two part-time psychologists, one for each shift, a full-time certified nutrition specialist and services of an outsourced audiologist. |
April 2012
Domestic Grants
| Organization | Location | Amount | Purpose |
| Achievable | Culver City, CA | $72,800.00 over 2 years ($36,400.00/yr) |
To expand current clinic services from 24 to 40 hours per week by providing funding for a patient care coordinator (PCC). Services provided by the PCC are absolutely vital to the successful implementation of high quality, comprehensive care for individuals with developmental disabilities who have complex health care needs. |
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American Diabetes Association |
Chicago, IL | $35,000.00 | To support the launch of a coordinated and comprehensive health program called MOVE for the 1500 high school students at North Chicago High School by partially supporting the funding for a project coordinator’s salary. |
| Eisner Pediatric & Family Medical Center | Los Angeles, CA | $75,000.00 | To expand the current Pharmacy program to serve 52% more patients. The funds will support 54% of the total cost if the salary and fringe of the additional pharmacist. |
| Home of the Sparrow | McHenry, IL | $49,478.00 | To cover the salaries of case management and mental health professional staff needed for the expanded services for the new transitional housing units. |
| NorthPointe Resources | Zion, IL | $100,000.00 over 2 years ($50,000.00/yr) | To expand part time RN nursing services to full time (plus benefits) for 65 clients currently enrolled in the Community Integrated Living Arrangement program which provides housing in the form of group homes and independent apartment living. |
| OMNI Youth Services | Buffalo Grove, IL | $50,000.00 | To expand the Seven Challenges Program to Mundelein High School by hiring a new part-time counselor and reallocating a staff position (part time) for training. The program is designed for adolescent and young adult substance abusing or substance dependent individuals. |
| The Oak Park River Forest Infant Welfare Society DBA The Children’s Clinic | Oak Park, IL | $34,569.00 | To expand preventive dental care services to reduce the backlog and re-open the Dental Clinic to new patients. |
International Grants
| Organization | Location | Amount | Purpose |
| ChildVision | Dublin, Ireland | $132,177.00 | To support the salaries of two full time equine therapists and a project manager for the first year of the new equine program. |
| Prevenir | Lisbon, Portugal | $36,600.00 | Funding for a new program “Let’s Take Care of Ourselves” by funding salaries of several needed professionals: a part time (psychologist) program coordinator, part-time social worker and part-time sociologist as well as the cost of related resources materials. |
December 2011
Domestic Grants
| Organization | Location | Amount | Purpose |
| Center on Halsted | Chicago, IL | $40,000 | For support of accessible mental services for the young. Funding will support psychologist/mental health manager. |
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Delta State University |
Cleveland, MS |
$70,000 | Funding to support a community counseling center focused on play therapy for children. |
| Health and Medicine Policy Research Group | Chicago, IL | $65,000 | Support for the 2012-2013 Chicago Area Schweitzer Fellows program providing service learning to graduate level health professional students in community based organizations. |
| Little City Foundation | Palatine, IL | $15,000 | To promote positive well being for children and adults with developmental disabilities by developing agency wide program that ensures accessibility to fitness and wellness opportunities. |
| Ride On Therapeutic Equestrian Project | Newbury Park, CA | $85,000 | To establish program that expands the physical and occupational therapy services for the disabled by increasing a current part time physical therapist to full time and 50% of full time instructor salary. |
International Grants
| Organization | Location | Amount | Purpose |
| Asociacion Aldeas SOS de Ninos de Costa Rica | Costa Rica | $46,320 | Funding for two full time psychology professionals (plus social security) to provide mental health services to two SOS Children’s Village (Santa Ana and Tres Rios) locations for orphaned/removed children. |
| Centro de Promocao Social Borore | San Paulo, Brazil | $52,534 | Salaries for 2.5 mental health professionals to begin providing mental health assessments and counseling to nearly 400 children who attend the various programs offered by Centro de Promocao Social Borore |
| Coolmine Therapeutic Community | Ireland | $50,390 | Provide for an additional full time nurse to assess the health needs of clients in both the residential and day programmes ensuring physical, social, and psychological and health education needs of clients are met. |
| Neunerhaus | Austria | $131,591.56 | Expand current medical care for homeless population by addition of a general practitioner and medical assistant for 38 hours per week, plus taxes and social security, and minimal medical supplies in order to serve homeless population. |
August 2011
Domestic Grants
| Organization | Location | Amount | Purpose |
| Housing Opportunities for Women |
Chicago, IL | $20,000.00 | To expand access to direct healthcare services to homeless women through health. |
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Hellenic Foundation |
Chicago, IL | $25,000.00 | To establish a new program that focuses on access to mental health services for victims of domestic violence. |
| Barrington Youth & Family Services |
Barrington, IL | $28,678.00 | To subsidize the Latino Families Initiative project expansion by adding a bilingual counseling program to an additional middle school. |
| Family Health Partnership Clinic |
Woodstock, IL | $40,834.00 | To expand services to meet the needs of the community by adding an interpreter, medication program coordinator and an RN. |
| Irvine Adult Day Health Center |
Irvine, CA | $36,020.00 | To hire one part time certified nursing assistant for Skilled Nursing Care and Health Monitoring Program and partially support the cost of supervision by a registered nurse. |
International Grants
| Organization | Location | Amount | Purpose |
| Enifac | Mexico | $29,532.00 | To fund prevention of child abuse by hiring a psychologist for workshops, conferences and group counseling for the community to be held at public schools. |
| Pro Integral | Switzerland | $44,350.00 | Expansion of psychological support services with full time staff psychologist for clients and their families. The organizations needs exceed the capacity of the current volunteer parttime psychologist. |
| Kispex | Switzerland | $48,211.21 | To provide palliative and psychological support for family members of seriously ill children. |
April 2011
Domestic Grants
| Organization | Location | Amount | Purpose |
| Sigma Theta Tau Inc. | National | $15,000.00 | For the 2011 biannual Episteme Award acknowledging a major breakthrough in nursing knowledge development resulting in a significant and recognizable benefit to the public. |
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Interfaith House |
Chicago, IL | $48,672.00 | To expand hours and services of medical clinics which serves the Chicago homeless population and specifically Garfield Park neighborhood, by hiring a full time licensed practical nurse. |
| AUPHA | National | $267,000.00 for 3 years ($89,000.00 per year) |
For the 2012-2014 William B. Graham Prize for Health Services Research recognizing significant worldwide contributions to the improved health of the public through innovative research. |
| CommunityHealth | Chicago, IL | $50,000.00 | To expand access to growing number of low-income uninsured individuals in need of a medical home through the addition of a new registered nurse for South Side Health Center in Englewood. |
International Grants
| Organization | Location | Amount | Purpose |
| Auckland City Mission | New Zealand | $41,636.25 | To secure funding for the salary of a mental health professional as part of an extension of the current medical service. |
| Plan International India | New Delhi, India | $52,680.00 | To empower the community and enhance the capacity of 1500 mothers to effectively manage and respond to child health needs through home-based care and also to address the primary healthcare needs of 5,000 children through establishment of primary health post and outreach health services. |
| Hogares Teresa Toda | Canovanas, Puerto Rico | $50,400.00 | To cover costs of salaries for new multidisciplinary team of mental health providers. |
| Gunawirra Limited | NSW, Australia | $50,000.00 | For support of stipend salaries for two managers specifically in Lewisham Center and Miller Center and stipend salaries for parent infant therapist for weekly home-visiting mothers. |
| Save the Children | South West District, India |
$97,138.65.00 | To support and equip one mobile health unit for two years, reaching an estimated 100,000 exceptionally vulnerable people in slum communities within Delhi’s South West District with essential healthcare services. |
December 2010
Domestic Grants
| Organization | Location | Amount | Purpose |
| Kids in Distress | Fort Lauderdale, FL |
$52,000.00 | To support the salary and related payroll expenses for a dental assistant for one year. |
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HRET-Hospital Research and |
Chicago, IL | $420,000.00 over 2 years ($210,000/year) |
To support the 2011 and 2012 Foster G. McGaw award honoring outstanding commitment to community service by a health care institution. |
| Health and Medicine Policy Research Group |
Chicago, IL | $65,000.00 | Support the 2011-2012 Chicago Area Schweitzer Fellows program providing service learning to graduate level health professionals students in community based organizations serving the poor and under served throughout metropolitan Chicago and The Fellows for Life program for fellowship alumni. |
International Grants
| Organization | Location | Amount | Purpose |
| Americares India | India | $58,887.00 Second year $26,666.00 |
To support a two year scalable pilot initiative aimed at reducing health disparities within pre-selected communities across the urban slums of Andheri East in Mumbai, India through the use of mobile medical vans, patient tracking and education programs. |
| David Busby Street Centre (DSBC) | Barrie, Ontario Canada |
$54,000.00 | To hire a full time registered nurse that will assist in the provision of primary health care. |
| Parramatta Mission | Parramatta, Australia |
$90,010.00 | To provide a full time position for a registered health professional to provide assessments onsite at Headspace, a youth friendly health service. |
September 2010
Domestic Grants
| Organization | Location | Amount | Purpose |
| Health Outreach Partners | Oakland, CA. | $67,725.00 | To increase direct service agencies ability to enroll and enable access of low income people in public health insurance in Cherry Hill/Camden, New Jersey and Largo, Florida |
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Serenity, Inc. |
Mountain Home, AR |
$54,836.00 over 2 years ($27,418/ per year) |
To add a children's advocate to ensure children residing in domestic violence shelter receive necessary physical and mental health services. |
International Grants
| Organization | Location | Amount | Purpose |
| Asociacion Oscense Pro Salud Mental |
Sabinanigo- Huesca, Spain |
$82,666.00 | Expanded therapy services for mental health patients in the Sabinanigo area of Spain. |
| Associazione Nazionale Subvedenti-Onlus |
Milan, Italy | $94,950.00 | To increase specialized services in assistive devices for people with very low vision and blindness. |
| Instituto Psicopedagogico de Puerto Rico |
San Juan, Puerto Rico |
$122,834.00 | To increase healthcare services by adding an occupational therapist and part time pharmacist to the residential center for adults with developmental disabilities. |
June 2010
Domestic Grants
| Organization | Location | Amount | Purpose |
| Casa Pacifica | Southern California |
$87,500.00 | For a transitional youth clinician to expand mental health services for emancipating residents and emancipated alumni of center in Camarillo, California. |
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Center for Enriched |
Northern Illinois | $10,000.00 |
To improve and expand organization's healthy lifestyles services for individuals with developmental and physical disabilities in Northern Illinois. |
| Conejo Free Clinic | Southern California |
$80,000.00 over 2 years ($40,000/year) |
To expand clinic services through the addition of an Operations Manager in Ventura County, California. |
| McHenry County Cooperative Dental Clinic |
Northern Illinois | $25,000.00 | To expand the dental clinic to evening hours through the addition of a threequarter time dentist to improve access to dental treatment for the working poor in McHenry County, Illinois. |
| University of South Florida Foundation-Bridge Clinic | Largo, Florida | $16,000.00 |
To increase number of patients and expand outreach and patient health education in the Largo - Tampa, Florida area. |
International Grants
| Organization | Location | Amount | Purpose |
| Canadian National Institute for the Blind |
Ontario Canada | $65,795.00 | To expand outreach efforts to diverse communities in Mississauga and greater Toronto, Ontario, Canada by adding a Coordinator of Volunteer and Outreach Services. |
| Safe Passage/Camino Seguro |
Guatemala | $18,200.00 | To increase health education for children and parents and train local women to be health promoters in their community living around the Guatemala City Garbage Dump. |
| VZW Kinderkankerfonds |
Belgium | $70,224.00 | To increase in-home curative and palliative support for children suffering from lifethreatening and serious chronic diseases and their families in Belgium. |
Disaster Grants
| Organization | Location | Amount | Purpose |
| CARE | Haiti | $100,000.00 | To provide transitional assistance and rehabilitation through the establishment of twenty reproductive health posts for services, training, and the re-establishment of health facilities in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake. |
| Project Hope | Haiti | $100,000.00 | To help disabled victims of the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti to optimize their clinical outcomes and quality of life by establishing a comprehensive rehabilitation center. |
April 2010
Domestic Grants
| Organization | Location | Amount | Purpose |
| Broward Partnership for the Homeless | Fort Lauderdale Florida |
$30,000.00 | To add a dental hygienist to improve and expand dental services for the homeless in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. |
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The Children's Dental Center of Greater Los Angeles |
Southern California | $36,000.00 |
To support salary of additional dental professionals to increase services to children in Los Angeles, CA. |
| Ravenswood Family Health Center | Northern California | $60,000.00 | For a dentist in a new safety-net dental clinic in San Mateo, CA. |
| Venice Family Clinic |
Southern California | $55,128.00 |
To expand dental services in newly renovated, larger dental clinic in Los Angeles, California. |
| University of South Florida Foundation-Bridge Clinic | Largo, Florida | $16,000.00 |
To increase number of patients and expand outreach and patient health education in the Largo - Tampa, Florida area. |
International Grants
| Organization | Location | Amount | Purpose |
| Elizabeth Fry Society of Simcoe County | Canada | $40,750.00 | To add a mental health worker to provide crisis and counseling services for residents of a women's shelter in Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada. |
| Protegeles | Madrid, Spain | $50,000.00 | To expand eating disorders prevention and counseling services in schools, through the internet and at a center in Madrid, Spain. |
| Spinal Injuries Ireland | Western Ireland | $25,000.00 | To support a new outreach officer to extend psychological support services to people with spinal cord injuries and their families in western Ireland. |
