2007 Awarded Grants
| 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 |
| Initial Year of Grant: | 2007 |
| Location of Grantee: | San Antonio, Texas |
| 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 |
| Initial Year of Grant: | 2007 |
| Location of Grantee: | San Antonio, Texas |
| 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 |
| Initial Year of Grant: | 2007 |
| Location of Grantee: | San Antonio, Texas |
| 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 |
| Initial Year of Grant: | 2007 |
| Location of Grantee: | San Antonio, Texas |
| 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 |
| Initial Year of Grant: | 2007 |
| Location of Grantee: | San Antonio, Texas |
| 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 |
| Initial Year of Grant: | 2007 |
| Location of Grantee: | San Antonio, Texas |
| 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 |
| Initial Year of Grant: | 2007 |
| Location of Grantee: | San Antonio, Texas |
| Organization: | Boysville, Inc. |
| Description: | A grant to pay for repairs and improvements to cottages on the Boysville campus |
| Amount: | $105,000 |
| Initial Year of Grant: | 2007 |
| Location of Grantee: | San Antonio, Texas |
| Organization: | Boysville, Inc. |
| Description: | A grant to fund the Parent Education Program |
| Amount: | $32,500 |
| Initial Year of Grant: | 2007 |
| Location of Grantee: | San Antonio, Texas |
| 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 |
| Initial Year of Grant: | 2007 |
| Location of Grantee: | San Antonio, Texas |
| Organization: | Retina Foundation of the Southwest |
| Description: | A grant to procure a Topcon Medical Systems OCT |
| Amount: | $32,500 |
| Initial Year of Grant: | 2007 |
| Location of Grantee: | Dallas, Texas |
| 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 |
| Initial Year of Grant: | 2007 |
| Location of Grantee: | San Antonio, Texas |