Major League Baseball and McCormick Foundation grants $4 mil to veterans
Cathy O'Brien,
Celebrity Charity Events Examiner
July 1, 2011
Major League Baseball Charities and the Robert R. McCormick Foundation announced yesterday that they have granted $4 million through Welcome Back Veterans to university hospitals which are working hard to develop programs and creating centers which will specialize in treating military veterans and their families who suffer from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Traumatic Brain Injury.
Allen H. (Bud) Selig, baseball Commissioner: “Major League Baseball recognizes that our men and women in the military make significant sacrifices in serving our nation every day. We are honored to show our gratitude by committing resources to organizations that provide veterans and their family members’ services to treat symptoms of PTSD and TBI. I want to thank McCormick Foundation and the Clubs for supporting these four grant recipients.”
There are also individual baseball teams supporting their local university hospitals. The Detroit Tigers are supporting the efforts at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and Emory University in Atlanta is receiving support from the Atlanta Braves. The Boston Red Sox supported their own charity foundation, the Red Sox Foundation and UCLA is receiving support from the Los Angeles Angels in Anaheim. To date, Major League Baseball Charities and the McCormick Foundation have given about $11 million in grant funds to programs which serve veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan.
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McCormick Foundation give 2.6 million to Welcome Back Veterans
McCormick Foundation, Major League Baseball Announce $2.6 Million in Additional Grants for "Welcome Back Veterans"
Twelve recipient organizations will use funds to help returning vets and families stabilize lives and re-integrate into communities
CHICAGO, May 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The McCormick Foundation's Board of Directors has approved $2.6 million in 2009 grants as part of Welcome Back Veterans, a national public awareness and fundraising initiative to address the mental health and employment needs of America's veterans and their families. This brings the total amount awarded through Welcome Back Veterans to more than $5.5 million. A complete record of 2009 grants awarded is provided below.
Welcome Back Veterans has raised more than $4.5 million as of April 2009. An additional $2.2 million in matching funds has been provided by the McCormick Foundation (first $4 million raised matched at 50 cents on the dollar). With all administrative costs paid by Major League Baseball and the McCormick Foundation, more than $5.5 million has been distributed over the past year to 24 nonprofit agencies targeting veterans' greatest needs.
Welcome Back Veterans Grants - Mental Health
1. Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services, Inc.
(New York) $250,000
For Home Again: Reaching Out, a family-focused outreach, community
education and mental health program offered to Operation Iraqi
Freedom (OIF) and Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) veterans and
their families in the Bronx.
2. Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies $135,000
For the Soldiers Project, which offers free, accessible confidential psychological treatment to OIF / OEF military service members and
their families.
3. National Center on Family Homelessness, Inc. (Newton, MA) $250,000
For Community Circles of Support for Veterans' Families, which
provides education, outreach, mental health treatment and
social support.
4. National Veterans Business Development Corporation
(Washington, D.C.) $300,000
For the TROOPS Activator, a Web-based technology that gives
veterans access to mental health treatment via their home computers.
5. North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System Foundation
(Great Neck, NY) $250,000
For PTSD / TBI treatment programs for military families on Long
Island and throughout the New York metro region.
6. Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors, Inc.
(Washington, D.C.) $200,000
For suicide prevention for veterans with PTSD including long-term,
peer-based emotional support, crisis response and intervention.
7. USA Cares (Radcliff, KY) $300,000
For the Warrior Treatment Today program, which provides financial
assistance to veterans who enroll in in-patient PTSD and TBI programs.
Mental Health Total $1,685,000
go here for the rest
McCormick Foundation, Major League Baseball
Twelve recipient organizations will use funds to help returning vets and families stabilize lives and re-integrate into communities
CHICAGO, May 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The McCormick Foundation's Board of Directors has approved $2.6 million in 2009 grants as part of Welcome Back Veterans, a national public awareness and fundraising initiative to address the mental health and employment needs of America's veterans and their families. This brings the total amount awarded through Welcome Back Veterans to more than $5.5 million. A complete record of 2009 grants awarded is provided below.
Welcome Back Veterans has raised more than $4.5 million as of April 2009. An additional $2.2 million in matching funds has been provided by the McCormick Foundation (first $4 million raised matched at 50 cents on the dollar). With all administrative costs paid by Major League Baseball and the McCormick Foundation, more than $5.5 million has been distributed over the past year to 24 nonprofit agencies targeting veterans' greatest needs.
Welcome Back Veterans Grants - Mental Health
1. Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services, Inc.
(New York) $250,000
For Home Again: Reaching Out, a family-focused outreach, community
education and mental health program offered to Operation Iraqi
Freedom (OIF) and Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) veterans and
their families in the Bronx.
2. Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies $135,000
For the Soldiers Project, which offers free, accessible confidential psychological treatment to OIF / OEF military service members and
their families.
3. National Center on Family Homelessness, Inc. (Newton, MA) $250,000
For Community Circles of Support for Veterans' Families, which
provides education, outreach, mental health treatment and
social support.
4. National Veterans Business Development Corporation
(Washington, D.C.) $300,000
For the TROOPS Activator, a Web-based technology that gives
veterans access to mental health treatment via their home computers.
5. North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System Foundation
(Great Neck, NY) $250,000
For PTSD / TBI treatment programs for military families on Long
Island and throughout the New York metro region.
6. Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors, Inc.
(Washington, D.C.) $200,000
For suicide prevention for veterans with PTSD including long-term,
peer-based emotional support, crisis response and intervention.
7. USA Cares (Radcliff, KY) $300,000
For the Warrior Treatment Today program, which provides financial
assistance to veterans who enroll in in-patient PTSD and TBI programs.
Mental Health Total $1,685,000
go here for the rest
McCormick Foundation, Major League Baseball
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