Michigan Stories | Community Health Funding Report

Case Study: Health Center Shows How to Win Funding

If you're looking for an example of a successful healthcare grant-seeker, Catherine's Health Center of Grand Rapids, MI, has won more than $485,000 over the past three years from the AsteraZeneca Foundation for its Live Heart Smart program.

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Regional funding: IN, MI, OH

Regional funding: Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio

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(DISABILITIES) Carls Foundation Funds in MI

Based in Detroit, the Carls Foundation supports healthcare facilities and programs in Michigan, with special emphasis on the prevention and treatment of hearing impairment.

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(HEALTH CARE) RWJF Offers 18 Health & Society Scholarships

Offered by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), the program provides two years of support to postdoctoral scholars at all stages of their careers to build the nation's capacity for research and leadership.

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(CHILDREN'S HEALTH) MI Works to Amp Up Nutrition Programs

Raising summer participation would bring the state an additional $8.2 million in federal reimbursement funds, and feed 125,618 children.

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Bill Would Expand Mental Health Services for At-Risk Youth

A bipartisan bill would--if signed into law--create two new discretionary grants programs to help states create programs for young adults who are having trouble finding mental health services as they transition from youth to adult health care.

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CDC to Test Hemophilia/HIV/AIDS Messages

The goal of is to determine whether the materials and messages that have been developed are meeting the needs of the audiences they were intended to serve. Participants will be recruited in Detroit, Atlanta, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Milwaukee, Houston, Boston, and San Diego.

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CHILDREN'S HEALTH: Gerber Supports Research Programs

The Gerber Foundation provides funding for national programs having a significant impact on issues facing infants and young children, from pre-birth to age 3. The foundation is particularly interested in fresh approaches to solving problems in its defined program areas.

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HEALTH CARE: Blue Cross Blue Shield Has $1M for Michigan Nonprofits

Matching funds are available through the foundation's Community Health Matching Program: Access to Care for the Uninsured initiative, which encourages community-based nonprofit health care organizations to participate in developing and testing new approaches to increase access to care.

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Healthcare Reform Developments In Michigan & Connecticut

MI Attorney General Says Lawmakers Should Not Pass Health Insurance Legislation in Lame-Duck Session Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox (R) and consumer advocates asked the state Legislature to abandon plans to approve legislation in the upcoming lame-duck session that would allow Blue Cross Blue S...

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