Grants and Gifts

• Government statistics show that one of every 10 African-American women over the age of 20 and one of every four African-American women over the age of 55 have diabetes. The Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation has made five grants totaling $1.5 million to help these women better manage their disease. Two of the five grants went to universities.

The University of Virginia received a grant to evaluate the effectiveness of a program that uses text messaging and a “buddy” system to support African-American women with diabetes.

East Carolina University received a grant to support a care navigation system for African-American women in four rural communities in eastern North Carolina.

• The Marin County Foundation in California announced more than $6 million in grants to nonprofit organizations and local school districts to help low-income and minority students attend college. The grants include funds for college scholarships and for college readiness programs.

• President William Harvey and his wife Norma have donated $166,000 to Hampton University to support a wage increase to $8 an hour for 118 staff members who earned below that level.

This past spring, the Harveys donated $1 million to the university to raise salaries for about 300 instructional staff members at Hampton.

• The University of California at Los Angeles, historically black Charles R. University of Medicine and Science and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center are sharing a five-year $81.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to improve health care in Los Angeles County.

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