Colorado Trust Awards Health Grants to Rural Philanthropy Days Participants
The Colorado Trust today announced it has made $28,500 in grants to strengthen the work of five nonprofit organizations working to improve the health and well-being of rural Coloradans. The Colorado Trust, a grantmaking foundation dedicated to expanding health coverage and improving health care for all Coloradans, made the grants after meeting with nonprofit organizations at Rural Philanthropy Days in Saguache, Colorado. … Read entire article »
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Teacher Peddles Around the World to Help Foster Care Kids
As a substitute teacher, Christine Farrugia, 56, always rode her bike to her school site. She has decided to peddle just a little farther to raise awareness of the needs of vulnerable children. On December 1 at 1:00 p.m., Farrugia kicked off her one-year ride around the world in front of Hillsides, a foster care children’s charity in Pasadena. … Read entire article »
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Bell Canada Named Year’s Most Outstanding Philanthropic Corporation
The Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) will honor Bell Canada as the year’s most exemplary philanthropic company with the 2012 Freeman Philanthropic Services Award for Outstanding Corporation for its Bell Let’s Talk Initiative in support of mental health. … Read entire article »
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Ms. Foundation For Women Provides Grants to Ensure Access to Women’s Health Care
The Ms. Foundation for Women today announced $220,000 in grants to support state advocates working to ensure that women have access to essential reproductive health services under the new health care reform law. … Read entire article »
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DDI Receives $25,000 to Bring Our Children Home
Developmental Disabilities Institute (DDI), the leading service provider for children and adults with autism on Long Island, was the recipient of a $25,000 donation from the Jack Fanning Memorial Foundation. The money will go towards DDIs Capital Campaign to bring 24 children back to Long Island as well as renovating a school building housing children with Autism and other developmental disabilities. … Read entire article »
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Side-Out Foundation Awards $160K to the FNIH to Support Breast Cancer Trial
The Foundation for the National Institutes of Health announced today that The Side-Out Foundation, a Virginia-based non-profit that supports advances in therapy for cancer patients, has donated $160,000 to the I-SPY 2 breast cancer clinical trial. … Read entire article »
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eVillages Health Initiative Launched
Today marks the official launch of a historic healthcare and human rights advocacy consortium, Health eVillages, which aims to bring mobile medical reference and decision support technology to clinicians fighting to save lives in underserved regions worldwide. … Read entire article »
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EyeSight Foundation of Alabama Surpasses 50 Million in Award Grants in 14-Year History
Providing eyeglasses for countless schoolchildren, helping aging Alabamians deal with the debilitating effects of glaucoma and macular degeneration, educating residents of poverty-stricken areas of the state’s Black Belt region on eye care, making life a little bit easier for military veterans with traumatic combat-related eye injuries. … Read entire article »
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Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University,13 Charities to Receive $125 Million Bequest
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) and Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) today jointly announced the largest-ever cash gifts to both organizations totaling $115 million. The record gifts will help acquire additional works of art and support medical research. Thirteen additional charitable organizations will receive the remaining $10 million. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Arts, Culture & Humanities, Education (K-12, and higher education), General fundraising, Health
Cornell Researchers Win Hartwell Grants to Study Childhood Disease
Two scientists from Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University’s medical school, were recently awarded grants from The Hartwell Foundation in support of innovative, early-stage research into childhood diseases. Since 2007, Cornell has received 11 Hartwell grants and has been named as one of The Hartwell Foundation’s Top 10 Centers of Biomedical Research for five of six years the honor has been bestowed. … Read entire article »
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