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Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust's Recent Grantmaking Supports New Cultural Offerings, Children's Well-Being, Strengthening HealthcarePHOENIX --(Business Wire)-- Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust is pleased to support the community through 19 grants that will enrich arts and culture, promote the well-being of children, and advance quality healthcare and healthy aging. In addition, 292 public elementary schools in Maricopa County received grants to help fund "back-to-school" clothing and uniforms for students. Piper Trust believes that arts and culture play a critical role in a building a healthy urban environment-as such, the Trust awarded grants that will help advance two cultural experiences. The new Scottsdale Museum of the West, a unique cultural destination owned by the City of Scottsdale, will creatively present the "Old West and the New West." The museum is targeting its opening for December 2014. Ballet Arizona is expanding with its new Center for Dance; the venue will offer opportunities for more people to enjoy ballet performances, dance training, and arts education. Piper Trust is honored to join other named spaces in the Center for Dance which will include the Virginia G. Piper Administrative Wing. A $1.5 million grant will support expansion of Northern Arizona University's (NAU) physician assistant program at the Phoenix Biomedical Campus. Physician assistants are a critical part of healthcare teams and help cover the growing demand for primary care. NAU is the only public university in Arizona offering this graduate-level program. "As Virginia Piper so eloquently said, 'we all have an opportunity to do good things on a daily basis for others'-this collection of recent Trust grants exemplifies the breadth and depth of meaningful work and service carried out daily by our nonprofit community," said Susan Pepin, M.D., president and CEO of Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust. Following is the list of grants awarded May through September 2014 by grantmaking area; grants for this period total more than $5.4 million. ARTS AND CULTURE-TOTAL AWARDED: $1,480,000
Ballet
Arizona
Scottsdale
Museum of the West, Inc. CHILDREN-TOTAL AWARDED: $1,011,700
Back-to-School Grants
BUILD
Arizona*
Child
Abuse Prevention License Plate Program**
ICM
Food & Clothing Bank
Mesa
United Way HEALTHCARE AND MEDICAL RESEARCH-TOTAL AWARDED: $1,731,000
Mission
of Mercy
Northern
Arizona University Foundation
Southwest
College of Naturopathic Medicine and Health Sciences OLDER ADULTS-TOTAL AWARDED: $980,750
Benevilla
City
of Phoenix Office of the City Manager-Youth and Education Office
Crossroads,
Inc.
Encore.org
Regional
Community Partners RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS-TOTAL AWARDED: $5,000
The
Salvation Army OTHER-TOTAL AWARDED: $45,000
Friends
of Public Radio Arizona PIPER FELLOWS PROGRAM-TOTAL AWARDED: $150,000 Piper Fellows Organizational Enhancement Awards support a specific project to address a major opportunity or challenge facing a Piper Fellow's organization; Fellows are eligible to apply for up to $50,000. Piper Fellows Organizational Enhancement Awards for this reporting period:
About Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust: Honoring the legacy of Virginia Galvin Piper, Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust supports organizations that enrich health, well-being, and opportunity for the people of Maricopa County, Arizona. Since it began awarding grants in 2000, Piper Trust has invested more than $328 million in local nonprofits and programs. Piper Trust grantmaking areas are healthcare and medical research, children, older adults, arts and culture, education, and religious organizations. For more information, visit www.pipertrust.org. Follow us on Twitter (News - Alert) @PiperTrust; visit us on Facebook.
*Third Sector New England as fiscal agent (www.tsne.org)
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