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Recent GrantsThe Baxter International Foundation |
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December 2007
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Organization
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Location
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Amount
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Purpose
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Domestic Grants |
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)
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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 |
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)
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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. |
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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. |
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ORBIS International |
New York, NY |
$60,181.00
(3 years)
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To extend eye care services to rural areas by
establishing eye care stations in counties and villages throughout Guangxi
Province, China. |
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The Society of Education & Rehabilitation of Puerto
Rico |
Aibonito, PR |
$55,200.00
(2 years)
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To expand services to provide speech therapy to
children with developmental and physical disabilities in Ponce, Puerto
Rico. |
October 2007
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Organization |
Location |
Amount |
Purpose |
| Domestic Grants |
| AIDS
Foundation of Chicago |
Chicago,
IL |
$90,000.00
(2 years)
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For pilot
project to improve access to healthcare for homeless individuals who are
frequent users of the Cook County hospital and jail systems. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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.
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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. |
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Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine
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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. |
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OMNI Youth Services |
Buffalo Grove, IL
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$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. |
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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.
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| International Grants |
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Centro Espirita Nossa Lar-Casas Andre Luiz
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San Paulo, Brazil
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$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.
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Fundacion Oratorio don Bosco |
San José, Costa Rica
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$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
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Organization |
Location |
Amount |
Purpose |
| Domestic Grants |
| 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 |
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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
| Organization |
Location |
Amount |
Purpose |
| Domestic Grants |
| 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 |
| 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
Organization |
Location |
Amount |
Purpose |
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International
Grants |
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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 |
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Associacao Amigos Dos Queimados (Friends of the
Burnt) |
Portugal |
$20,800
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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 |
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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 |
Domestic Grants |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Teen Living Programs |
Northern
Illinois |
$35,000 |
To improve homeless teen’s health through an expanded
comprehensive nutrition program in Chicago |
September
2006
Organization |
Location |
Amount |
Purpose |
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International
Grants |
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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 |
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Family Life Services |
Ireland |
$120,000
(2 yrs) |
To expand family counseling services in Castlebar,
County Mayo, Ireland |
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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 |
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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 |
Domestic Grants |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Hospital Research and Educational Trust |
Chicago |
$210,000
(2 yrs) |
Foster McGaw Award Program for 2007 and
2008 |
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Howard Area Community Center |
Chicago |
$20,000 |
Early Childhood Caries Project in Chicago,
Illinois |
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JVQ California |
California |
$17,000 |
To expand provision of vison exams and corrective
eyeglasses for uninsured, economically disadvantaged school children in
Alameda County, California |
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Lake County Haven |
Northern
Illinois |
$10,000 |
For increased clinical services for women who are
homeless or experienced domestic violence in Lake County,
Illinois |
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Youthbuild Lake County |
Northern
Illinois |
$25,000 |
For expanded psychological assessment and counseling
services for low-income youth in Lake County,
Illinois |
June
2006
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Organization |
Location |
Amount |
Purpose |
| Disaster Response Grants |
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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. |
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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. |
| International Grants |
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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. |
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Domestic
Grants |
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Center for Grief and Loss for
Children |
Pasadena, CA |
$57,300 |
Expanded grief counseling services for children in
South Central Los Angeles |
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Chenny Troupe, Inc. |
Chicago, IL |
$40,600
(3 years) |
To expand volunteer base serving patients in Chicago
healthcare institutions |
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Chippewa Valley Technical College |
Eau Claire, WI |
$ 61,166
(3 years) |
Expansion of dental services to the underserved in
Western Wisconsin. |
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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. |
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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. |
April
2006
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Organization |
Location |
Amount |
Purpose |
| International Grants |
|
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 |
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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 |
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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
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| Domestic Grants |
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Delta Health Center |
Mississippi |
$91,976 |
Support of a rural health education outreach
program |
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Share Our Selves |
California |
$40,000 |
Mental health counseling center for uninsured,
homeless and underserved residents of Orange County, CA |
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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 |
December
2005
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Organization |
Location |
Amount |
Purpose |
| Disaster Response Grants |
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American Red Cross |
Washington, DC |
$250,000 |
Hurricane Katrina relief & response
activities |
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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 |
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Fomento Social Banamex & Alfredo Harp Helu AC
Foundation |
Mexico City, Mexico |
$7,630 |
Relief for Hurricanes Stan and Wilma |
| Regular Grants |
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Asilo de Ancianos Luis Elizondo,
AC |
Guadalupe, Mexico |
$35,378 |
Palliative and hospice care services to the elderly in
Guadalupe, Mexico |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Centro Millajen |
Cidra, Puerto Rico |
$54,900 |
Evaluation, physical and speech therapy to children
with disabilities in the Cidra area of Puerto Rico |
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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 |
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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 |
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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
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Organization |
Location |
Amount |
Purpose |
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Casa Hogar Nacidos Para Triunfar |
Mexico |
$37,500 |
Dental care for orphaned and abused
children |
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Centro Assistencial Cruz de Malta |
Sao Paulo, Brazil |
$13,000 |
Family Health and Nutrition Promotion
Project |
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Chicago Children's Advocacy Center |
Chicago, IL |
$15,000 |
Specialized Pregnant and Parenting Teen Counseling
Program for victims of child sexual abuse |
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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
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Organization |
Location |
Amount |
Purpose |
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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 | |
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