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Programs: 2005 Worldwide Grant Recipients
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The MDRT Foundation
is pleased to announce the following Worldwide Grant winners for 2005.
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Stepping Stone Foundation
Phoenix, AZ
$5,000 sponsors the funding of two families at the Westwood Primary
School for one year providing children and parents with the skills they
need to succeed in school
Sponsor: Jack E. Bobo, CLU, FLMI
Alzheimer's
Services of the Capital Area
Baton Rouge, LA
$5,000 expands the Safe Return Program, a national registry which helps
to identify and find individuals with Alzheimer’s who wander
Sponsor: Robelynn H. Abadie, RFC, LUTCF
Association
Forum
Chicago, IL
$1,000 continues the Michael D. Ferguson Memorial Scholarship Fund which
provides one tuition scholarship to the Professional Convention Management
Association's (PCMA) annual meeting
Boy Scouts
of America — LaSalle Council
South Bend, IN
$2,500 sponsors a Learning Station with a computer, software, Internet
access and other learning aids for the Scouting Development and Resource
Center
Sponsor: D. Scott Brennan
Boys and
Girls Clubs of San Dieguito
San Diego, CA
$2,200 supports St. Leo's Mission, an outreach and after-school learning
center for Hispanic youth
Sponsor: P. Martin Peters, CLU, RHU
Boys
Hope & Girls Hope of Illinois
Wilmette, IL
$5,000 provides a counseling program for children living in environments
plagued by abuse, poverty, homelessness and gang violence
Sponsor: Anthony P. Ladas, CLU, ChFC
Chairscholars
Foundation
Odessa, FL
$10,000 supports national and local scholarship programs for students
with disabilities
Sponsor: Marc A. Silverman, CLU, ChFC
Children's
Home Society of New Jersey
Trenton, NJ
$2,500 supports the Fun with Books and Music program, a family literacy
program designed to provide young children with early literacy
Sponsor: Roy W. Hudson, CLU
Children's
Home Society of Washington
Seattle, WA
$5,000 supports a residential treatment program for boys who have been
severely abused, neglected or abandoned
Sponsor: Lawrence F. Kolasa, CLU, ChFC
Chilton
County Emergency Assistance Center
Clanton, AL
$5,000 supports continuance of food, shelter and medical services for
those in emergency circumstances
Sponsor: Earl R. Davis, CLU, ChFC
Comfort
Zone Camp
Richmond, VA
$50,000 supports bereavement camp for children
Desire
Street Academy
New Orleans, LA
$5,000 supports educational programs for at-risk youth in inner-city
New Orleans
Sponsor: Dennis C. Crawford, CLU
DeVos Children's
Hospital at Spectrum Health
Grand Rapids, MI
$20,000 provides a state-of-the-art incubator for critically ill premature
infants
Sponsor: Barbara A. Pietrangelo, CLU, ChFC
Family Reach
Foundation
Parsippany, NJ
$5,000 supports the Hospital Network Program which assists families
in need of financial assistance and emotional support in their fight
against pediatric cancer
Sponsor: Brian H. Ashe, CLU
Food Bank
of the Southern Tier
Elmira, NY
$5,000 buys food products and helps fund distribution of the 5.5 million
pounds of food distributed per year
Sponsor: William A. Tryon
Fred Hutchinson
Cancer Research Center Foundation
Seattle, WA
$7,500 supports the 2004 Hutch Holiday Gala fundraising event which
provides seed money for pilot studies with a goal of eliminating cancer
Sponsor: Allan G. Hancock, CLU, ChFC
Free the
Children
Toronto, ON Canada
$5,000 supports youth-driven programs to free children from abuse, exploitation
and provide education and awareness of international child rights
Free Wheelchair
Mission
Santa Ana, CA
$5,000 provides 121 wheelchairs for the disabled poor in Chennai, India
Sponsor: Deborah L. Anderson, ChFC, CLU
Fresno
Survivors of Suicide Loss
Fresno, CA
$2,500 supports “The Beast Within”, a self-help book distributed to
each adolescent admitted to any of the mental health facilities in the
city
Sponsor: Den Stubblefield, CLU, AEP
Friends
of the Orphans
Mesa, AZ
$12,000 supports a local orphanage that provides schooling and meals
for children living in an unsanitary garbage dump in Milpillas, Mexico
Sponsor: Thomas S. Rogers Jr., CLU
Gabriella
Axelrad Education Foundation
Encino, CA
$5,000 supports the Everybody Dance program which teaches 117 weekly
classes in ballet, jazz, tap, hip-hop and modern dance to underserved
children
Sponsor: Roland S. Nebeker, ChFC, MSFS
Genesis
Learning Centers/Rutherford Academy
Nashville, TN
$5,000 provides students with the therapeutic and physical benefits
of recess on safe and secure playground equipment
Sponsor: Patrick E. Moore, CLU, ChFC
Habitat
for Humanity of Jamaica
Kingston, Jamaica
$10,000 provides building material and technical labor for home-building
projects
Sponsor: Lynette Chin-McDaniel, CLU, ChFC
Haitian
Health Foundation
Norwich, CT
$6,000 supports the expenses of skilled nurse-midwives in rural southwestern
Haiti to train local health agents to aid indigent pregnant women
Sponsor: John Marshall Lee, CLU, RHU
Humanities
Council of Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
$5,000 supports the Soul of the City summer leadership program for a
group of 40 high school students in underserved communities
Sponsor: James V. Durkin, CFP, CLU
il Girasole
Rome, Italy
$500 supports laughter therapy programs performed by clown “doctors”
for pediatric hospital patients suffering from cancer and other life-threatening
illnesses
Sponsor: Barbara A. Pietrangelo, CLU, ChFC
In
Loving Memory Foundation
San Antonio, TX insert link:
$20,000 supports the Information Outreach Program educating caregivers
on a child’s grieving process
Sponsor: Alison Flaum Souksamlane, CLU, ChFC
Indiana
University School of Medicine
Indianapolis, IN
$10,000 supports clinical training of medical students at the Mother
and Baby Hospital at Moi University Medical Center in Eldoret, Kenya,
to decrease infant mortality rates
Sponsor: Jerry D. Semler, CLU
International
Book Project
Lexington, KY
$5,000 supports administrative and shipping costs to send a sea container
full of educational books to the Assasan region of Ghana
Sponsor: Dennis Pike Jr., CLU, ChFC
International
Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
New York, NY
$6,000 supports relief efforts of the Jamaica, Grenada and Bahamas Red
Cross Societies in response to the Caribbean hurricanes of 2004
International
Village Clinic
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000 supports a new clinic facility which will expand health care
services in the poor province of Uttar Pradesh in eastern India
Sponsor: Charles Garrity, CLU, ChFC
Interplast
Mountain View, CA
$10,000 sponsors a surgical trip to La Paz, Bolivia, to provide 107
free reconstructive surgeries for 70 disadvantaged patients
Sponsor: William John Kalmer, CLU, ChFC
It Happened
to Alexa Foundation
Lewiston, NY
$10,000 supports court-related transportation and translation services
for U.S. citizens victimized by sexual assault outside the U.S.
Sponsor: Thomas W. Branchini, CLU, ChFC
James
Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children
Indianapolis, IN
$5,000 supports families who cannot afford the fees at Camp Riley, a
residential camping facility for physically handicapped children
Sponsor: Brian Christopher Moldt, CLU, LUTCF
Kids
Around the World
Rockford, IL
$50,000 provides playground equipment costs for an MDRT member volunteer
community service project to build
a playground in an underserved neighborhood in New Orleans
Kim
Foundation
Ajax, ON, Canada
$6,800 made in partnership with the MDRT Canadian Foundation to support
the work of international organizations that provide free medical assistance
to children who are victims of war and terrorism
Sponsor: Michael J. Links, FLIA
Make-A-Wish
Foundation — Arizona
Phoenix, AZ
$5,000 supports the wish-granting of northern Arizona children to visit
Disney World and stay at the Give Kids the World Village in Orlando,
Florida
Sponsor: Seymour Petrovsky, CLU
Make-A-Wish
Foundation — New Jersey
Union, NJ
$5,000 supports wish-granting to children facing life threatening illnesses
in memory of fallen New Jersey Police Officer Mary Ann Collura
Sponsor: Stuart A. Cohen
McHenry
County 4-H Youth Fund
Woodstock, IL
$3,000 helps to reinstate the Heartstrings Adoption Support Program,
a community support group for adoptive families
Nashua Children's
Home
Nashua, NH
$5,000 supports the Transitional Living Home which provides continued
support and guidance to young adults as they transition from the orphanage
into independent living
Sponsor: Earl S. Prolman, CLU, ChFC
National
Sports Center for the Disabled
Denver, CO
$10,000 supports AbilityCAMP which provides quality therapeutic recreation
services to people with disabilities
Sponsor: Ray J. May, CLU, ChFC
North Shore
Senior Center
Northfield, IL
$5,000 supports the adult day program for those with Alzheimer's and
other dementia illnesses
Sponsor: John W. Cruikshank III, CLU
Operation
Rainbow
Houston, TX
$5,000 provides surgery for 25 underserved children during a surgical
trip in a non-U.S. MDRT member country
Sponsor: Melvin Lee Gross, CLU, ChFC
Oregon Children's
Foundation
Portland, OR
$10,000 supports Start Making a Reader Today literacy program for K-3
grade students at risk of low literacy
Sponsor: James Douglas Pittman, CLU, CFP
Parent-Child
Home Program
Port Washington, NY
$10,000 provides bilingual outreach materials to National Parent-Child
Home Program supporting low-income, educationally disadvantaged and
immigrant families
Sponsor: Willie J. Goldwasser, CLU, ChFC
Project
Enterprise
New York, NY
$2,500 supports the Peer Lending Program which develops entrepreneurs
and small businesses in under-resourced communities
Sponsor: Debra L. Franklin-Schatzki, CLU, CFP
Protected
Harbor
Naples, FL
$5,000 supports the building fund to purchase a home to care for the
mentally disabled
Sponsor: James D. Kishbaugh II
Rainbow
Center
North Wilkesboro, NC
$2,800 expands the Families at Home program, a crisis intervention program
using a home-based, family centered and community supportive approach
Sponsor: N. Susan Whittington, CLU, CFP
Rainbows
Rolling Meadows, IL
$10,000 supports development of seven new program sites across the U.S.
providing community-based grief support programs for children and teens
Sponsor: Curtis L. Matlin, CLU
Sante
Bloomington, MN
$2,500 provides health care and health education clinics for the poor
of communities in the Central Valley of Costa Rica
Sponsor: Cory R. Graves
Seeds of
Peace
New York, NY
$10,000 sponsors summer camps for teenagers from regions of conflict
as part of the Global Peace Partners program
Sponsor: W. Thomas Spencer Jr., CLU, ChFC
Seneca County
Agency Transportation
Tiffin, OH
$2,200 provides transportation equipment approved by the American with
Disabilities Act and passenger assistance for children who need to attend
medical and educational facilities
Sponsor: Deborah Lou Tiell
Shadow Buddies
Foundation
Lenexa, KS
$5,000 supports the Shadow Buddies Heart Program which provides training
tools to pediatric cardiologists throughout the U.S.
Sponsor: Felix R. Baz-Dresch, CLU, ChFC
Shadow
Equestrian
Monroeville, NJ
$5,000 sponsors Therapeutic Riding Scholarships for families who need
economic assistance to pay for lessons
Sponsor: Donald J. Benedetti
Sparrow
Foundation
Lansing, MI
$2,500 supports the Pediatric Program Fund used to attract and retain
pediatric sub-specialty physicians to Sparrow Hospital so area families
do not need to travel great distances for specialized medical care
Sponsor: C. Richard Herrold, CLU, CFP
St. Joseph's
Youth Ministry
Belmont, MA
$1,800 sponsors a Habitat for Humanity homebuilding project, taking
12 youths to Portland, Maine, to help build a home for a homeless family
Sponsor: Peter R. Magni, LUTCF
Taybear
Vista, CA
$10,000 supports activities to send teddy
bears to children in hospitals fighting cancer and other chronic
blood diseases
Temple Parks
Foundation
Temple, TX
$5,000 purchases two automated external defibrillators for public locations
and trains citizens in correct defibrillator use
Sponsor: Jack M. Morris, LUTCF
The Jackson
Laboratory
Bar Harbor, ME
$10,000 supports educational courses, internships and postdoctoral training
programs for science students
Sponsor: Dermot T. Healey, CLU, ChFC
Trinity
Christian Community Center
New Orleans, LA
$7,000 assists in rebuilding efforts of the community center facilities
in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
United
Cerebral Palsy of Southern Maryland
Annapolis, MD
$5,000 supports the Healing Wheels transportation program to purchase
a handicapped accessible van to transport disabled children
Sponsor: Walton W. Rogers, CLU, ChFC
Vietnam
Veterans of America Foundation
Washington, DC http://www.mdrt.org/mail/Foundation/enews042705.html#4
$20,000 buys materials for the production of prosthetics made in Cambodia
to provide mobility to those affected by landmines
Sponsor: Riley J. Kelly, ChFC, MSFS
Wellness
Community-Orange County
Santa Ana, CA
$2,500 underwrites the cost of a support group for one year
Sponsor: Stuart Friedman, CLU, ChFC
WINGS Program
Palatine, IL
$5,000 supports the salaries of staff of the Kids In Need Growing Stronger
program, healing the emotional trauma experienced by homeless children
Sponsor: Terrence H. Kral, CLU, CFP
Youth Alternatives
Portland, ME
$2,000 supports the Dads Make a Difference program, enhancing parenting
education of fathers of newborn and young children
Sponsor: Richard W. Sawyer, CFP, CLU
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