Grant Programs: 2004 Worldwide Grant Recipients

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The MDRT Foundation is pleased to announce the following Worldwide Grant winners for 2004. All told, the MDRT Foundation awarded $468,908 USD in Worldwide Grants to 54 charities serving people in eight countries and 22 states.

Alcohol Drug Care Services
Eureka, CA
$5,000
Move-in assistance loans for low income patients
Sponsored by: Richard K. Whitaker, ChFC

Baptist Memorial Home Care
Memphis, TN
$5,000
Camp Good Grief, a three-day bereavement program for children held in a camp setting
Sponsored by: Thomas E. Cooper, RHU, LUTCF

William Beaumont Hospital — Speech/Language Pathology
Royal Oak, MI
$5,000
Treatment Scholarship Plans, helping families who cannot afford hospital charges for children with communication disorders
Sponsored by: Lawrence F. Kolasa, CLU, ChFC

Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Metro Chicago
Chicago, IL
$2,000
School-based mentoring program matching at risk students with volunteer tutors
Sponsored by: Edward S. Jamieson, CLU

Boy Scouts of America — Potawatomi Area
Council Waukesha, WI
$1,000
Scoutreach Program, bringing minority and low-income youth into scouting program through enhanced recruitment efforts
Sponsored by: Larry J. Winkelhake, CLU, ChFC

Boys and Girls Club of Snohomish County
Everett, WA
$1,000
Kid-Cafe, an after school meal program providing snacks and/or dinner to children who stay evenings
Sponsored by: Rollin G. Radwick, CLU

Boys and Girls Clubs of Metro Spartanburg
Spartanburg, SC
$2,000
Voyager Intervention Series, enabling students to overcome obstacles to learning imposed by public education system
Sponsored by: Lem H. Walker, Jr., CLU

Bridge of Books
Rumson, NJ
$2,500
Expansion of book inventory for at-risk and underprivileged children, especially books on tape and bilingual books
Sponsored by: William Van Winkle, CFP, MSFS

Carelift International, Inc.
Kharkiv, Ukraine+
$2,500
Expansion for the breast cancer screening program for Women's Wellness Center in Kharhiv, Ukraine
Sponsored by: Jack S. Grossman, CLU, ChFC

Center for Enriched Living
Riverwoods, IL
$1,000
Senior Program, providing social enrichment and independent life skills to seniors with developmental disabilities
Sponsored by: Bob Pivar

Chairscholars Foundation
Odessa, FL
$8,000
National and local scholarship programs for children with severe physical challenges
Sponsored by: Marc A. Silverman, CLU, ChFC

Challenge Day
Martinez, CA
$8,000
Youth Leadership Certification Project, recruiting and training youth leaders who provide school workshops on critical issues
Sponsored by: Richard E. Geno, CLU, MSFS

Challenger Films
Atlanta, GA
$25,000
Series III of The Winning Edge, a 30-minute film profiling young achievers who are peer role models
Sponsored by: John W. Cruikshank III, CLU

Cheshire Homes
Florham Park, NJ
$5,000
Technology enhancement for the community resource center, including two pieces of equipment for the people with disabilities
Sponsored by: Lynne S. Crow, CLU, ChFC

Children's Home Society of New Jersey
Trenton, NJ
$2,500
Fun with Books and Music program, designed to provide young children with early literacy
Sponsored by Roy W. Hudson, CLU

Children's Hospital - Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
$25,000
Kids N Fitness, a 12-week intervention program to help children improve eating and exercise habits to combat child obesity
Sponsored by: Walter G. Schnee III

Christmas In April - Aurora
Aurora, IL
$1,000
Replacing roofs of houses for elderly, low-income families, people with disabilities and families with children
Sponsored by: David R. Bellis, CLU, ChFC

City Impact
Oxnard, CA
$5,000
The REAL Life and Boys to Men Comprehensive Mentoring programs, developing character and leadership in at-risk youth
Sponsored by: Gene L. Mahn, CLU, ChFC

Cooperative Feeding Program
Ft. Lauderdale, FL
$1,000
ABC Project, finding new sources for food by seeking sponsors to host a food drive in the month that corresponds to their name
Sponsored by: Martin Herskovits, CLU, ChFC

Discovery Counseling Center
Danville, CA
$2,500
Creating Lasting Family Connections, a drug and alcohol prevention program for middle school students
Sponsored by: Michael L. Weintraub, CLU

For Love of Children (FLOC)
Washington, DC
$5,000
Hope and a Home, a family stabilization program addressing short-term and long-term causes of homelessness
Sponsored by: Allen R. Bruce, CLU, ChFC

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center*
Seattle, WA
$37,500
Pediatric Oncology Fellowship Program, training physicians in latest treatment techniques
Sponsored by: Adelia C. Chung, CLU, ChFC

Free Wheelchairs Mission*
Tianjin, China+
$22,643.50
Wheelchairs for the disabled poor in China
Sponsored by: Deborah L. Anderson, ChFC, CLU

Haitian Health Foundation
Jeremie, Haiti+
$10,000
Combating Iron Deficiency Anemia in Children, providing multivitamins with iron to 3,500 anemic children
Sponsored by: John W. Allen, CLU, ChFC

Helping Hand Adoption Agency, A
Cambodia+
Guatemala City, Guatemala+
Kazakhstan+
$15,000
Guatemala City pharmacy project, Kazakhstan orphanage aid project and Cambodia orphanage building project
Sponsored by: Joseph A. Burt, CLU, RHU

Hephzibah Children's Association
Oak Park, IL
$5,000
Two therapeutic group homes for at-risk children
Sponsored by: Millard J. Grauer, CLU, ChFC

Hunger Plus
Port-au-Prince, Haiti+
$1,500
Roof, windows and doors for orphanage in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Sponsored by: Robert B. Shearer, CLU, ChFC

International Book Project, Inc.
Djibouti+
$1,000
Books for Djibouti, an effort to send 20,000 books to newly formed college in Djibouti
Sponsored by: Dennis Pike Jr., CLU, ChFC

Interplast
Mountain View, CA
$2,500
One mission to provide free reconstructive surgery to 100 children in a developing country
Sponsored by: William J. Kalmer, CLU, ChFC

Israel Cancer Research Fund
Israel+
$3,000
Two-year Project Grant for cancer researcher in Israel
Sponsored by: Leo Thomas, LUTCF

It Happened to Alexa Foundation
Amherst, NY
$10,000
Financial assistance to enable families of rape victims to travel and support their loved ones during legal proceedings
Sponsored by: Thomas W. Branchini, CLU, ChFC

Jackson Laboratory
The Bar Harbor, ME
$2,500
Educational courses, internships and postdoctoral training for science students
Sponsored by: Dermot T. Healey, CLU, ChFC

Madonna Foundation
Lincoln, NE
$2,500
Non-medical transportation for residents of a transitional living facility who are physically disabled
Sponsored by: David C. Sundberg, CLU, ChFC

Make-A-Wish Foundation - Wisconsin
Appleton, WI
$2,250
One wish for a child with life-threatening medical condition
Sponsored by: James L. Bero, CLU

Marshalltown Youth Foundation
Marshalltown, IA
$1,000
Financial assistance for families with children to pay for fee and equipment for sport, music or art programs in the community
Sponsored by: Paul A. Barr

Nashua Pastoral Care Center
Nashua, NH
$5,000
Transitional Housing Program, offering affordable housing and vocational training to single mothers to prevent homelessness
Sponsored by: Earl S. Prolman, CLU, ChFC

National Spasmodic Dysphonia Association
$5,950
14th Annual NSDA Symposium, promoting awareness of the diseases and providing support for those affected
Sponsored by: Mark S. Jones

Newton Community Service Centers
West Newton, MA
$5,000
Parent Child Home Program, a home-visiting, risk prevention program for in-need families
Sponsored by: Willie J. Goldwasser, CLU, ChFC

Nicasa
Round Lake, IL
$5,000
After school program that focuses on developing strengths, talents and interests of middle school students
Sponsored by: James W. Hessenthaler

Noah's Arc*
Locust Grove, GA
$20,000
Virtue Program, providing one-on-one tutoring for abused or neglected children

Oklahoma Lawyers For Children
Oklahoma City, OK
$1,000
Training opportunities for non-attorney volunteers to identify appropriate placement of abused or neglected children
Sponsored by: Steward E. Meyers Jr., CLU

Parkway Partners Program
New Orleans, LA
$5,000
God's Vineyard Community Garden, urban garden where adults mentors work with disadvantaged young boys to grow produce
Sponsored by: Julian H. Good Jr., CLU, ChFC

Playing for Peace
Washington, DC
$10,000
Life skills curriculum to coincide with sports programs that addresses issues to cope with problems of HIV/AIDS
Sponsored by: James V. Durkin, CFP, CLU

Project Enterprise
New York, NY
$2,500
Peer Lending Program, providing business training, technical assistance and business loans to microentrepreneurs
Sponsored by: Debra L. Franklin-Schatzki, CLU, CFP

Rainbows
Rolling Meadows, IL
$1,000
Peer support program for children and teens who are grieving a death, divorce or any other painful transition in their family
Sponsored by: Curtis L. Matlin, CLU

Renewal House
Nashville, TN
$1,000
Adopt-an-Apartment Program offering an apartment in a safe neighborhood for addicted mothers to live during recovery
Sponsored by: William V. Parsons Jr., CLU

Saint Andrew's Lutheran Church - Mission Jamaica
Jamaica+
$5,000
Providing service programs to rehab Jamaican orphanages, schools, medical clinics, rehab centers and housing
Sponsored by: E. Dennis Zahrbock, CLU, CFP

Samuel M. & Helene Soref Jewish Community Center
Plantation, FL
$2,000
WE CARE community outreach program, operating a food pantry and medical equipment loan program
Sponsored by: Lee S. Gorodetsky, LUTCF, CLF

Senior Centers of Spartanburg, Inc.
Spartanburg, SC
$1,000
Medication Usage and Management Project, teaching seniors how to manage a complicated daily regimen of prescription drugs
Sponsored by: Rick M. Higgins, CLU, CFP

Upper Pinellas Association for Retarded Citizens
Clearwater, FL
$1,500
Choices program, providing education opportunities for five men with autism, cognitive disabilities and behavior challenges
Sponsored by: Pat E. Siracusa, LUTCF

Vanguard Services Unlimited
Arlington, VA
$2,500
Phoenix Program Client Room, dormitory-style room for four adults in residential treatment for substance abuse/addiction
Sponsored by: Carol C. Groom, CLU, ChFC

Washington Middle School for Girls
Washington, DC
$2,500
Graduate Support Project, providing middle school graduates via continued tutoring, mentoring and guidance counseling
Sponsored by: Barbara Brazda Dietze, CLU

Western New York Public Broadcasting Association
Buffalo, NY
$25,000
The Longevity Code, a 60-minute program for distribution to public television stations nationwide

Wheelchair Foundation
Danville, CA
Jamaica+
$181,708
International effort to deliver wheelchairs in need, including Jamaica distribution in December 2003

*funding for this grant was provided in whole or in part from additional grant accounts

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