$10 Million in Grants Awarded to Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America
The Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America (CCFA) announced today that it has been awarded two grants totaling $10 million from The Leona M. & Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust. … Read entire article »
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Nurse-Family Partnership Receives $210,000 Grant from WellPoint Foundation
Nurse-Family Partnership, a leading non-profit organization addressing the needs of low income, first-time parents and their children, has received a $210,000 grant from the WellPoint Foundation. … Read entire article »
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Kaiser Permanente Issues $13 Million in Community Benefit Grants
Kaiser Permanente, one of the country’s largest not-for-profit health care organizations, funded 700 grants nationwide totaling approximately $13 million in the second quarter of 2010. … Read entire article »
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Thirty Million Women to Benefit from Health Reform Law
Thirty million women will benefit from the new health reform law over the next decade, either through new or strengthened insurance coverage, according to a new report from The Commonwealth Fund. … Read entire article »
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$4 Million Grant to Build State-of-the-Art Plastic Surgery Facility
NYU Langone Medical Center announced today a $4 million grant from The National Foundation for Facial Reconstruction to support the design and construction of a new state-of-the-art facility for its Institute of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery, located on East 33rd Street in Manhattan. … Read entire article »
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Inaugural Social Innovation Fund Grants Awarded to Experienced Innovators
In response to the increasing health needs, economic challenges and gaps in youth achievement facing low-income rural and urban communities, the Corporation for National and Community Service announced its inaugural Social Innovation Fund (SIF) grants today. … Read entire article »
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New Report: Adult Obesity Increases in 28 States
Adult obesity rates increased in 28 states in the past year, and declined only in the District of Columbia (D.C.), according to F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America’s Future 2010, a report from the Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). More than two-thirds of states (38) have adult obesity rates above 25 percent. In 1991, no state had an obesity rate above 20 percent. … Read entire article »
Health Disparity in New Report on Tobacco Prevalence in LGBT Community
The American Lung Association’s latest health disparity report, Smoking Out a Deadly Threat: Tobacco Use in the LGBT Community, examines the trend of higher tobacco use among the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community and the need for additional research specific to this community. … Read entire article »
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CitiFinancial Commits $50,000 to Improve the Health of Babies
CitiFinancial today added $50,000 to its more than $28 million of support for the March of Dimes to give babies a healthy start in life. … Read entire article »
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Six New Grants Awarded for Health Impact Assessments
The Health Impact Project, a collaboration of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and The Pew Charitable Trusts, today announced more than $1 million in grants to six projects that will conduct health impact assessments at the state and local levels. … Read entire article »
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