May 17, 2007 | Read Time: 3 minutes
Alcoa Foundation (Pittsburgh): To study the effects
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of methamphetamine on children from birth through young adulthood: $50,000 to Prevent Child Abuse Illinois (Springfield).
Arcus Foundation (Kalamazoo, Mich.): For a campaign to increase awareness among gay and bisexual men of the dangers of methamphetamine use and provide information about treatment and support services: $29,090 to Midwest AIDS Prevention Project (Ferndale, Mich.).
Bush Foundation (St. Paul) and McKnight Foundation (Minneapolis): To build anti-meth coalitions throughout central Minnesota: $300,000 over two years and $200,000 over two years, respectively, to the Initiative Foundation (Little Falls, Minn.).
California Endowment (Los Angeles): For a public-education campaign to inform adults and youths in northwestern California’s Humboldt County about the effects of methamphetamine use: $27,000 to KEET-TV Redwood Empire Public Television (Eureka, Calif.).
Harold K.L. Castle Foundation (Kailua, Hawaii): To help produce a documentary film, Hawaii’s Ice Epidemic: The Plague of Crystal Meth: $100,000 over two years to Pacific Arts Foundation (Honolulu).
Ben B. Cheney Foundation (Tacoma, Wash.): To expand methamphetamine-treatment services for women: $20,000 to Rogue Valley Addiction Recovery Center (Medford, Ore.).
Daniels Foundation (Denver) and McMurry Foundation (Casper, Wyo.): To help construct a 95-bed facility in Casper that will provide intensive residential treatment services for people with meth and other addictions: $1-million from each to the Central Wyoming Counseling Center (Casper).
El Pomar Foundation (Colorado Springs): To cover the operating expenses of this recently formed statewide coalition: $50,000 over two years to the Colorado Methamphetamine Task Force (Denver).
HCA Foundation (Nashville): To produce a documentary and guidebook on the perils of methamphetamine use: $10,000 to You Have the Power Know How to Use It (Nashville).
Helen K. and Arthur E. Johnson Foundation (Denver): For its treatment program for adolescent methamphetamine abusers: $15,000 to Turning Point Center for Youth and Family Development (Fort Collins, Colo.).
Missouri Foundation for Health (St. Louis): For guidelines to follow when decontaminating items belonging to children who have been in a home where methamphetamine was produced: $57,659 over two years to Children’s Center of Southwest Missouri (Joplin).
New York Community Trust: To study methamphetamine use among young gay black men: $35,000 to New York University.
PPL Montana (Billings) and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Montana (Helena): For the Paint the State contest, in which Montana teenagers created more than 650 public artworks with anti-meth messages: $250,000 and $100,000, respectively, to the Montana Meth Project (Billings).
Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation (Little Rock): To study the impact of methamphetamine use on the child-welfare system of Arkansas and to recommend policy options: $162,810 to Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families (Little Rock).
Thomas and Stacey Siebel Foundation (Palo Alto, Calif.): To establish this organization and begin a multimedia campaign to reduce the prevalence of methamphetamine use in Montana, with an emphasis on young people: $8.8-million to the Montana Meth Project (Billings).
Note: Not all of the grant makers listed here continue to make grants to deal with methamphetamine abuse.
