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2007 Awarded Grants:
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Organization: |
Prevent Blindness San Antonio |
| Description: |
A
grant to support the Adult Vision Screening Program to
conduct vision screening and related services, including the
purchase of prescription eyeglasses |
| Amount: |
$32,000 |
| Year of
Grant: |
2007 |
| Location of
Grantee: |
San
Antonio, Texas |
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Organization: |
The
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio |
| Description: |
An
Endowment Grant to establish the Max and Minnie Tomerlin
Voelcker Distinguished University Chair in Targeted Cancer
Therapy |
| Amount: |
$2,000,000 over 5 years |
| Year of
Grant: |
2007 |
| Location of
Grantee: |
San
Antonio, Texas |
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Organization: |
Cancer Therapy & Research Center |
| Description: |
An
Endowment Grant to establish the Max and Minnie Tomerlin
Voelcker Endowed Chair in Cancer Healthcare Disparities and
Outreach. Funds distributed from the endowment will be used
to research the causes and solution of health disparities in
order to reduce and ultimately eliminate health care
disparities in San Antonio and South Texas |
| Amount: |
$2,000,000 over 5 years |
| Year of
Grant: |
2007 |
| Location of
Grantee: |
San
Antonio, Texas |
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Organization: |
Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research |
| Description: |
A
grant to support Pilot Studies and New and Innovative
Research. The pilot studies provide initial funding to allow
a researcher to prove his or her research concept and
develop preliminary data in the project to best support
grant requests to the National Institute of Health |
| Amount: |
$1,200,000 over 3 years |
| Year of
Grant: |
2007 |
| Location of
Grantee: |
San
Antonio, Texas |
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|
Organization: |
Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research |
| Description: |
A
grant in support of the pedigreed baboon colony resource.
The Southwest Foundation For Biomedical Research’s unique
pedigreed baboon colony gives scientists a powerful research
tool for finding the genes that underlie natural
susceptibility to heart disease |
| Amount: |
$100,000 |
| Year of
Grant: |
2007 |
| Location of
Grantee: |
San
Antonio, Texas |
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|
Organization: |
University of Texas at San Antonio |
| Description: |
A
matching grant to fund research for the program “Healthy and
Ready to Learn: An Early Approach to Obesity and Diabetes
Prevention” |
| Amount: |
$125,000 |
| Year of
Grant: |
2007 |
| Location of
Grantee: |
San
Antonio, Texas |
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|
Organization: |
CHRISTUS Santa Rosa |
| Description: |
A
grant to equip beds in the new newborn intensive care unit
with necessary monitors and isolettes |
| Amount: |
$140,000 |
| Year of
Grant: |
2007 |
| Location of
Grantee: |
San
Antonio, Texas |
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Organization: |
Boysville, Inc. |
| Description: |
A
grant to pay for repairs and improvements to cottages on the
Boysville campus |
| Amount: |
$105,000 |
| Year of
Grant: |
2007 |
| Location of
Grantee: |
San
Antonio, Texas |
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|
Organization: |
Boysville, Inc. |
| Description: |
A
grant to fund the Parent Education Program |
| Amount: |
$32,500 |
| Year of
Grant: |
2007 |
| Location of
Grantee: |
San
Antonio, Texas |
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|
Organization: |
Christian Assistance Ministry |
| Description: |
A
grant to support the Emergency Financial Assistance
Program’s to conduct vision screening and related services,
including the purchase of prescription eyeglasses |
| Amount: |
$32,500 |
| Year of
Grant: |
2007 |
| Location of
Grantee: |
San
Antonio, Texas |
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|
Organization: |
Retina Foundation of the Southwest |
| Description: |
A
grant to procure a Topcon Medical Systems OCT |
| Amount: |
$32,500 |
| Year of
Grant: |
2007 |
| Location of
Grantee: |
Dallas, Texas |
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|
Organization: |
South Texas Blood and Tissue Center |
| Description: |
A
matching grant to support the construction, development and
implementation of the Texas Cord Blood Bank |
| Amount: |
$300,000 over 3 Years |
| Year of
Grant: |
2007 |
| Location of
Grantee: |
San
Antonio, Texas |
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