Grants Awarded
Summary of Grants Awarded 2026
Organization | Program | Amount Funded |
|---|---|---|
305 Pink Pack | Enhancing Access for Underserved Adults in Cancer Treatment - Provides partial salary support for 2 service coordinators, to scale up services to men as well as women in active cancer treatment, including those with metastatic diagnoses, who required on going care coordination. | $30,000 |
Bit-By-Bit Medical Therapeutic Riding Center | Medical Therapy Program for Miami-Dade Children - provides medically prescribed hippotherapy delivered by licensed physical, occupational, and speech therapists to Medicade eligible Miami-Dade children with neurological and developmental conditions. | $20,000 |
Camp Boggy Creek | Partners in Play: Miami-Dade Family Retreats - sponsors 5 first-time camper families with food, accessible housing, adaptive activities and 24/7 on-site medical care ensuring allowing these sick children and their families time to bond with others in their same position. | $10,000 |
Canine Assisted Therapy, Inc. | Pawprints of Comfort - supports the recruitment, training, evaluation, insurance, coordination, deployment and insurance of therapy dog teams to Hospitals, nursing homes, special needs schools and other community partners. | $20,000 |
CARE Elementary School - Legacy Program | CARE Elementary School Nurse - provides salary support for a school nurse and supplies to provide comprehensive health services for students that are often unaffordable for the low-income minority families. | $35,000 |
Caring For Miami
| Mobile Dental Clinic & Mobile Food Market - supports both the Mobile Dental Clinic, providing free preventive and restorative care, extractions and oral health education to uninsured, underserved and cancer patients, as well as the Mobile Food Market, a grocery store on wheels providing fresh, nutritious food at no cost to low-income families across Miami-Dade. | $50,000 |
Casa Familia Inc. | Program Expenses - Resident Enrichment Activities - supports residential enrichment activities chosen through the LifeLoop software, including wellness classes, social gatherings, creative arts, education workshops, volunteer opportunities, and skill building experiences that encourage autonomy and confidence. | $25,000 |
Casa Valentina, Inc. | Mental Health Support for Miami-Dade At-Risk Youth - supports 20 residents or alumni to see a clinician 2x a month. Each trauma informed licensed therapist would have a case load of five (5) youths best meeting the needs of their youth ages 18-25 that have aged out of foster care and are at risk of homelessness. | $15,000 |
Children's Bereavement Center, Inc. | Full-Service Grief Support in Miami-Dade County - supports outreach coordinators, group facilitators & specialists, intake coordinators, an online group coordinator, training coordinators, and a digital marketing advisor, providing no cost intake assessments and multi-lingual peer grief supports groups in person and online, other programing held the Lotus House Children's Village, deliver grief-informed training to community based professionals, host psychoeducational workshops that complement the other grief support services, and will participate in regular outreach programing to strengthen relationships with faith-based organizations, schools, healthcare practitioners and other non-profit organizations. | $30,000 |
Coral Gables Woman's Club Legacy Program | Children's Dental Clinic - Supports dental salaries to provide free dental care including cleaning, x-rays, fillings, root canals, crowns and fluoride treatments to needy school aged children in Miami-Dade County. | $30,000 |
Friendship Circle of Miami | High Quality Support from Therapists - provides salary support for Applied Behavior Analysis, Vocational, Music, and Physical Therapists embedded into their programs to deliver tailored interventions to manage behaviors, creating structured inclusive environments, sensory, speech and occupational strategies to build communication, to equip staff with tools to support and guide families, train volunteer mentors and support meaningful growth. | $25,000 |
Genesis Hopeful Haven | Butterfly Program - ensures participants receive year round life skills programming preparing these 100% foster youth ages 15-17, for independent living through community partner workshops, curriculum materials and hands-on learning experiences as well as help meeting their food and nutritional needs. | $20,000 |
Health in the Hood | Community Wellness & Preventive Health Education - supports a contract wellness educator and wellness program supplies, garden supplies for education programming and nutrition education materials free of charge for low income residents in food desert neighborhoods concentrated in Overtown, Opa-locka and Pinewood with diet related chronic illnesses. | $10,000 |
Hearing Research Institute, Inc. Legacy Program | Hearing Aids for Needy People - provides listening devices, hearing aids and classroom equipment for low-income children and elderly adults with no insurance coverage for this essential care. | $25,000 |
His Hands and Feet, Inc. | Haven of Hope Pantry Expansion - supports a part-time Haven of Hope Pantry Coordinator, storage bins & organizing materials, nutritious food, snacks, hygiene products, household essentials, pantry inventory and for five existing pantry locations & one new school site, transportation costs and program materials. | $25,000 |
iAM ABLE Legacy Program | ABLE 2 Adapt - provides staff salary support for 9 participants along with some training supplies, liability insurance, travel to Jackson & The Miami Project to serve individuals living with paralysis: spinal cord injuries, strokes, traumatic brain injuries, and neurodegenerative conditions. | $35,000 |
Miami Diaper Bank | Protecting Child Health Through Diaper Access - provides some salary support for Executive Director/Program Support, diaper & distribution supplies, warehouse space, data evaluation platform and some training to expand the Mobile Diaper Pantry services to reach 8,000 children in diaper deserts, where transportation barriers, limited family funds and limited services restrict access to this basic health necessity for underserved families. | $20,000 |
Open Door Health Center | Open Door Health Center Healthcare Access Program - provides salary support for the Medical Director to keep the clinic open and operating for this at-risk community who are below 200% of the poverty level. | $50,000 |
Shake-A-Leg Miami | Weekend Programs for Disabled Youth - supports specialized staffing, adaptive equipment, safety operations, transportation assistance, and program materials for disabled youth to develop communication skills, self-confidence, resilience, and a greater sense of belonging, while older youth gain workforce readiness skills and pathways toward greater independence. | $25,000 |
South Miami Children's Clinic | Autism Diagnosis Services for South Miami - supports a portion of the Medical Director's salary along with the purchase of a subscription plan for the EarliPoint eye-tracking technology which provides measurements of visual attention patterns to complement clinician evaluation and improving SMCC's ability to provide autism diagnosis. These low-income children will then be referred to local partner organizations providing Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) therapy. | $20,000 |
Sweet Dream Makers | A Bed of My Own - Miami-Dade County - funds go directly to the purchase of 100 beds @$250/ea (average). The program works with 40+ local social service agencies in Miami-Dade to identify families who are currently sleeping on the floor or other unsafe, unsanitary or inappropriate conditions to purchase the bed(s) that best suite each families unique needs including, cribs for babies, twin/twinXL for teens, full or queen for caregivers, reinforced beds for larger individuals or a combination of options for families in need. | $25,000 |
Universal Heritage Institute | Serving the Underserved - provides salary support for clinical service providers to continue to expand primary care services, developing program evaluation, social services and chronic disease management, expand Optometry services exploring FREE cataract surgeries, partnering with Caring for Miami to expand Dental services onsite thru their mobile dental bus and explore FREE food distribution with other partners for the underserved communities in Miami-Dade. | $50,000 |
Vet Info Inc. | VI-Outdoor Resilience & Recovery Program - supports essential operational costs and sustaining programs that promote connection, wellness and suicide prevention through activities such as fishing, golf and archery. | $20,000 |
YES Institute | Healthy Futures & Family Support - Funds will provides salary support to partner with medical and mental health providers and students to make significant progress in reducing youth self-harm, suicide, and bullying through a three pronged approach to create safer spaces for at-risk and vulnerable youth who identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual. | $15,000 |
TOTAL FUNDED | Cell | $630,000 |
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Barry University College of Nursing Health & Sciences | Dr. Harold Norman Nursing Scholarship | $20,000 |
Florida International University Nicole Wertheim College of Nursing & Health Sciences | Dr. Frederick Poppe Nursing Scholarship | $20,000 |
Miami Dade College Benjamin Leon School of Nursing | Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation Nursing Scholarship | $20,000 |
Saint Thomas University School of Nursing | Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation Nursing Scholarship | $20,000 |
University of Miami School of Nursing & Health Studies | Edmund Russo Nursing Scholarship | $20,000 |
University of Miami Leonard Miller School of Medicine | Dr. George E. Mekras Medical Scholarship | $20,000 |
Organization: Camp Boggy Creek
Program Description:
"Family Retreat Programs for therapeutic support of Miami-Dade children with serious illnesses" grant provides retreats where the entire family can take advantage of the network of support with other families that share their experience.
Amount Funded: $20,000
Organization: Caring For Miami
Program Description:
"Project Smile Program" grant provides support for a part-time Dental Hygienist and supplies to serve uninsured adults and children.
Amount Funded: $20,000
Organization: Children's Bereavement Center, Inc.
Program Description:
"Children's Grief Support" grant provides partial salary support to create & facilitate web-based groups created in response to the COVID-19 outbreak and/or in person once their physical locations are reopened.
Amount Funded: $10,000
Organization: Coral Gables Woman's Club
Program Description:
"Coral Gables Children's Dental Clinic" supports the operational needs of the dental clinic for school age indigent children whose parents can not afford costly dental care and usually are ineligible for public health programs.
Amount Funded: $25,000
Organization: Epilepsy Foundation of Florida
Program Description:
"Epilepsy Medical Services Program" grant provides testing support to allow neurologists to examine and treat patients using telemedicine safely from their home.
Amount Funded: $25,000
Organization: Good Hope Equestrian Training Center
Program Description:
"Horses Helping Heroes" provides salary support for an equine instructional specialist and riding instructor along with equipment and supplies for their recovery program.
Amount Funded: $25,000
Organization: Hearing Research Institute
Program Description:
"Hearing Aids for Needy People" funds provide approximately 40 hearing aids for needy people.
Amount Funded: $25,000
Organization: Iam ABLE
Program Description:
"Able 2 Adapt" grant provides salary and program support for a mentoring and exercise-based therapy program for participants with paralysis.
Amount Funded: $15,000
Organization: Miami Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Program Description:
"Heiken Children's Vision Program" continues collaboration with the nine targeted JTM schools funding comprehensive diagnostic eye examinations and delivering prescription eyeglasses.
Amount Funded: $25,000
Organization: Nova Southeastern University College of Dental Medicine
Program Description:
"Smiles Across Miles" grant provides salary support and clinical services for JTM's School Oral Health program.
Amount Funded: $25,000
Organization: Open Door Health Center
Program Description:
"Health Access Program" grant provides salary support for clinic to improve access to cost effective preventive healthcare and arrange for hospital services when necessary at no cost to its patients who are at or below 200% of the Federal Poverty Level.
Amount Funded: $50,000
Organization: SSJ Health Foundation - St. John Bosco Clinic, Inc.
Program Description:
"Ensuring Community Access to Healthcare " grant provides salary support for an Advance Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) to provide healthcare to uninsured low-income patients .
Amount Funded: $50,000
Organization: The Sundari Foundation
Program Description:
"Lotus House Women's Shelter" grant provides support for housing costs for the homeless women, youth and children at the shelter.
Amount Funded: $25,000
Organization: United Cerebral Palsy of South Florida Charter Schools
Program Description:
"Speech Physical and Occupational Therapies for Children Ages Birth to 8 Years Old" funds salary support for speech, physical and occupational therapists to children diagnosed with intellectual and other developmental disabilities.
Amount Funded: $25,000
Organization: Whispering Manes Therapeutic Riding School
Program Description:
"Therapeutic Horseback Riding and Horsemanship for Children with Disabilities " grant provides scholarships and new program equipment for children with special needs.
Amount Funded: $15,000
Organization: Wounded Veterans Relief Fund
Program Description:
"Emergency Assistance for Veterans and Families in Miami-Dade" grant provides for emergency situations for veterans who have been referred by the VA and need support to pay rent to avoid eviction, utility payments to keep the lights on and/or pay for transportation to be able to get to work.
Amount Funded: $25,000
Total: $400,000
Scholarships
Organization: Barry University College of Health Sciences, Division of Nursing
Program Description:
Dr. Harold Norman Nursing Scholarship and David Wolfberg Nursing Scholarship
Amount Funded: $20,000
Organization: Florida International University College of Nursing and Health Sciences
Program Description:
Dr. Frederick Poppe Nursing Scholarship
Amount Funded: $10,000
Organization: University of Miami School of Nursing and Health Sciences
Program Description:
Edmund Russo Nursing Scholarship
Amount Funded: $10,000
Organization: University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Program Description:
Dr. George Mekras Medical Scholarship
Amount Funded: $10,000
Total: $50,000