Dogwood Health Trust (Asheville, NC)

Dogwood Health Trust is partnering with Sanesco International Inc. to launch a new diagnostic testing laboratory, CommunityLab, dedicated to Western North Carolina (WNC) community testing. CommunityLab, a high-end molecular and diagnostic testing laboratory devoted to improving health, wellness, and quality of life for all people and communities in WNC, will allocate most of its resources to support the demand for COVID-19 testing in the region, including 10 percent of testing to serve the uninsured, as well as rural, underserved, and minority populations.

Developing a meaningful response to COVID-19 and its impacts to the regional economy has been front and center for Dogwood. Improving access to jobs and supporting economic development in the region is one of Dogwood’s four key strategic priority areas. The investment in Sanesco helps accomplish both purposes, supporting a laboratory expansion that is dedicated to serving WNC and that will result in the creation of approximately 25 new jobs within the next two years.

To learn more or set up a testing account with CommunityLab, click here.

Contact: 828.585.6443 or connect@communitylabwnc.com.

Kansas Health Foundation (Wichita, KS)

The Kansas Health Foundation (KHF) approved $1.3 million in grant funding to increase food security, assist with COVID-19 antibody testing, and support efforts to improve health by the Kansas Big Brothers Big Sisters, Newman University, and the Greater Wichita YMCA.

The following awards were approved:

  • American Red Cross COVID-19 Antibody Testing—to support the American Red Cross serving Kansas to help cover the costs of testing blood donated all across the state between October 2020 and January 2021 for COVID-19 antibodies. ($265,118)
  • Greater Wichita YMCA Expansion of YMCA 360—in collaboration with the Kansas State Alliance of YMCAs, to expand YMCA 360, an online fitness app that offers health and wellness programs to anyone in Kansas. ($50,000)
  • Harvesters – The Community Food Network—to expand Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program outreach efforts, promoting and providing application assistance statewide. ($750,000 over two years)
  • Kansas Appleseed—to strengthen and expand available benefits to fight food insecurity through supporting an anti-hunger advocate located in southwest Kansas. ($150,000 over two years)
  • Kansas Big Brothers Big Sisters’ Match Support Specialists—to support the stability of its match support specialists, who provide professional monitoring and engagement with the adult volunteer, at-risk youth, and the parent/guardian to ensure the most safe, effective, and long-term match possible. ($50,000)
  • Newman University Nurse Anesthesia Program—to transition its nurse anesthesia program from a master’s level program to a doctoral program, ensuring Kansas will not lose 40 percent of its annual Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists. ($50,000)

Contact: Ashley Booker at 316.491.8414 or abooker@khf.org.

Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust (Phoenix, AZ)

Since January 2020, the Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust has awarded $27,740,432 in total grantmaking—with $24,373,750 of these funds being grants initiated by the Trust to support nonprofits due to the COVID-19 crisis. Typically, the Trust’s annual grantmaking is between $20 million and $22 million.

The Trust designated its COVID-19 emergency response grants as unrestricted funds. Piper Trust made a commitment to being even more intentional and strategic in incorporating diversity, equity, and inclusion in grantmaking decisions. In October and November, Piper Trust awarded $7.3 million in unrestricted COVID-19 emergency response grants to 100 nonprofits in the human services and arts and culture sectors:

  • About Care, Inc. ($10,000)
  • Act One ($50,000)
  • AGUILA Youth Leadership Institute ($15,000)
  • Andre House of Arizona, Inc. ($50,000)
  • Area Agency on Aging, Region One, Inc. ($100,000)
  • Arizona Community Foundation for the Undocumented Workers Fund ($200,000)
  • Arizona Jewish Historical Society ($25,000)
  • Arizona Musicfest ($75,000)
  • Arizona Opera ($115,000)
  • Arizona Science Center ($200,000)
  • Arizona State University Foundation ($140,000; fiscal agent)
  • Arizona Theatre Company ($115,000)
  • Artlink, Inc. ($15,000)
  • Asian Pacific Community in Action ($10,000)
  • Aster Aging, Inc. ($50,000)
  • AZCEND ($100,000)
  • Be A Leader Foundation ($30,000)
  • Benevilla ($100,000)
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of Arizona ($62,500)
  • Black Family and Child Services ($65,000)
  • Black Theatre Troupe, Inc. ($50,000)
  • CALA Alliance ($30,000)
  • Catholic Charities Community Services ($100,000)
  • Central Arizona Shelter Services ($50,000)
  • Chandler Cultural Foundation ($75,000)
  • Chicanos Por La Causa ($125,000)
  • Children’s Museum of Phoenix ($150,000)
  • Childsplay, Inc. ($200,000)
  • Del E. Webb Center for the Performing Arts ($75,000)
  • Desert Botanical Garden ($150,000)
  • Discovery Triangle ($25,000)
  • Duet: Partners in Health and Aging ($50,000)
  • East Valley Children’s Theatre ($22,500)
  • EMPACT Suicide Prevention Center ($100,000)
  • Esperança, Inc. ($20,000)
  • Foothills Food Bank ($50,000)
  • Foundation for Senior Living ($100,000)
  • Fountain Hills Theater, Inc. ($25,000)
  • Free Arts for Abused Children of Arizona ($150,000)
  • Friendly House, Inc. ($62,500)
  • Greasepaint Youtheatre ($22,500)
  • Girl Scouts-Arizona/Cactus-Pine Council, Inc. ($125,000)
  • Heard Museum ($200,000)
  • Homeless Youth Connection, Inc. ($20,000)
  • Horizon Health and Wellness ($100,000)
  • Human Services Campus, Inc. ($50,000)
  • d.e.a. Museum ($37,500)
  • ICAN ($62,500)
  • ICM Food and Clothing Bank ($100,000)
  • iTheatre Collaborative ($15,000)
  • Jazz in Arizona, Inc. ($25,000)
  • Lutheran Social Services of the Southwest ($100,000)
  • Keogh Health Connection ($100,000)
  • Maricopa Community College District Foundation ($100,000)
  • Mercy Housing Southwest ($20,000)
  • Mesa Arts Center Foundation ($25,000)
  • Musical Instrument Museum ($150,000)
  • Musical Theatre of Anthem ($22,500)
  • Native American Connections, Inc. ($125,000)
  • Native Health ($75,000)
  • Neighborhood Ministries, Inc. ($25,000)
  • Neighborhood Outreach Access to Health ($225,000)
  • Neighbors Who Care, Inc. ($10,000)
  • New Pathways for Youth ($100,000)
  • Northwest Valley Connect ($10,000)
  • Oakwood Creative Care, Inc. ($20,000)
  • one∙n∙ten ($65,000)
  • Paz de Cristo Community Center ($50,000)
  • Phoenix Art Museum ($150,000)
  • Phoenix Boys Choir ($75,000)
  • Phoenix Center for the Arts ($50,000)
  • Phoenix Chamber Music Society ($15,000)
  • Phoenix Chorale ($15,000)
  • Phoenix Conservatory of Music ($50,000)
  • Phoenix Girls Chorus, Inc. ($37,500)
  • Phoenix Rescue Mission ($100,000)
  • The Phoenix Symphony ($150,000)
  • Phoenix Theatre ($115,000)
  • Phoenix Zoo ($150,000)
  • Prevent Child Abuse Arizona ($100,000)
  • Rehoboth Community Development Corp. ($12,500)
  • Rosie’s House: A Music Academy for Children ($50,000)
  • Joseph the Worker ($100,000)
  • The Salvation Army ($200,000)
  • Scottsdale Arts ($150,000)
  • Society of St. Vincent de Paul ($200,000)
  • SOUNDS Academy ($30,000)
  • Southwest Human Development ($100,000)
  • Southwest Shakespeare Company ($25,000)
  • Tanner Community Development Corp. ($30,000)
  • Tempe Community Action Agency ($50,000)
  • TheaterWorks ($50,000)
  • Valley Youth Theatre ($75,000)
  • West Valley Arts Council ($15,000)
  • Western Spirit: Scottsdale’s Museum of the West ($100,000)
  • Xico, Inc. ($30,000)

Earlier this year, prior to the need for COVID-related support, Piper Trust had its ongoing and regular grantmaking in the pipeline, among other Trust-initiated grants:

  • ASU Art Museum, via Arizona State University Foundation ($380,000)
  • Children’s Action Alliance ($202,000)
  • Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation ($216,000)
  • ICM Food & Clothing Bank ($200,000)

Tufts Health Plan Foundation (Watertown, MA)

Tufts Health Plan Foundation announced that 64 community organizations will share $900,000 to help in ongoing COVID-19 response efforts. The nonprofit organizations focus on urgent needs in communities, especially those disproportionately affected by the virus. The grants are in addition to the $1 million in COVID-19-related funding awarded earlier this year.

The grants support organizations working to address basic needs like food access, housing assistance, and other fundamental supports to help people stay safe and healthy in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Connecticut.

The foundation also offered a two-for-one match for donations by Tufts Health Plan employees and board members to nonprofits affected by COVID-19  and to those working for racial justice. From March through August, an additional $400,000 went to community organizations through this program.

  • Advocates ($10,000)
  • ALDA-Seacoast NH ($10,000)
  • Arc of Massachusetts ($20,000)
  • Asian Community Development Corporation ($15,000)
  • Autism Sprinter ($10,000)
  • Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, Neighbor-to-Neighbor fund ($25,000)
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of Franklin County ($10,000)
  • Boston Missionary Baptist Community Center ($20,000)
  • Boys Town New England ($10,000)
  • Breaktime ($10,000)
  • Caritas Communities ($10,000)
  • Catholic Charities New Hampshire – New Hampshire Food Bank ($20,000)
  • Catholic Charities New Hampshire – The CareGivers ($15,000)
  • Center for Food Equity and Economic Development – Council of Churches of Greater Bridgeport ($20,000)
  • Center for Medicare Advocacy ($10,000)
  • Center for Southeast Asians ($10,000)
  • Child and Family Rhode Island ($10,000)
  • Clínica Esperanza/Hope Clinic ($20,000)
  • Community Dining Room ($10,000)
  • Community Teamwork, Inc. ($20,000)
  • Concord Regional Visiting Nurse Association ($15,000)
  • DataHaven ($10,000)
  • Fairfield County’s Community Foundation, Fairfield County COVID-19 Resiliency Fund ($10,000)
  • Family Service of Rhode Island ($10,000)
  • Farmsteads of New England ($10,000)
  • Gibson Center for Senior Services ($10,000)
  • Grafton County Senior Citizens Council ($10,000)
  • Granite State Independent Living ($10,000)
  • Greater Sullivan Strong (Fiscal Agent: Public Health Council of the Upper Valley) ($10,000)
  • Health Imperatives ($10,000)
  • Higher Ground International ($10,000)
  • HomeStart ($15,000)
  • Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción, Inc. ($10,000)
  • Interfaith Counseling Center Rhode Island ($10,000)
  • Justice Resource Institute ($20,000)
  • Lawrence Community Works ($10,000)
  • U.K. Crisis Center, Inc. ($15,000)
  • Make the Road Connecticut ($10,000)
  • Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless ($30,000)
  • Meals on Wheels of Rhode Island ($15,000)
  • Mill City Grows ($10,000)
  • Monadnock Family Services ($10,000)
  • Naugatuck Valley Project ($10,000)
  • The New American Dream Foundation ($10,000)
  • New Britain Roots ($20,000)
  • Partnership for Strong Communities ($20,000)
  • Revitalize Community Development Corporation ($20,000)
  • Rhode Island Community Food Bank ($30,000)
  • The Rhode Island Minority Elder Task Force ($10,000)
  • Rian Immigrant Center ($25,000)
  • Seacoast Mental Health Center ($10,000)
  • South Shore Community Action Council ($15,000)
  • Southeast Asian Coalition of Central Massachusetts ($10,000)
  • Spark the Dream ($10,000)
  • Joseph Community Services ($15,000)
  • Martin de Porres Center ($10,000)
  • Telehealth Access for Seniors ($10,000)
  • Thundermist Health Center ($10,000)
  • Trinity Tabernacle Church ($20,000)
  • United Way of Central and Northeastern Connecticut ($50,000)
  • United Way of Western Connecticut ($10,000)
  • Upper Valley Strong (Fiscal Agent: Upper Valley Haven) ($10,000)
  • Westbay Community Action ($10,000)
  • Yoga4Change ($10,000)

Contact: Alrie McNiff Daniels at 617.301.2715 or alrie_daniels@tufts-health.com.

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