Piper Trust Awards $4.6 Million in Second Quarter Grants, More Than Half for Community Relief in Arts and Human Services

With nonprofit organizations facing continued pressures to increase services with fewer revenues, the Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust awarded $2.6 million in grants for Community Relief in Maricopa County, Arizona, representing 55 percent of total 2nd quarter 2011 grantmaking of $4.6 million. The undesignated relief grants include:

• $502,500 in Community Relief grants to 22 arts and culture organizations.

• $995,000 in Community Relief grants to eight afterschool food programs and eight community-based healthcare and dental clinics and mobile healthcare vans.
• $750,000 in Community Relief grants to 17 emergency food and shelter agencies.
• $300,000 for the third year of the Homelessness and Hunger Funders Collaborative Project.

“The Piper Trustees continue to assess urgent needs in the county. While a foundation cannot replace public funding it can help with emergency necessities for recently impoverished families. It can respond to the soaring number of children in afterschool programs where snack time represents a major meal for many children,” said Judy Jolley Mohraz, Piper Trust president and CEO.

The Piper Community Relief grants offer help to arts and culture organizations struggling to maintain revenues as income declines. Grants to community clinics and mobile medical vans keep medical and dental services available to uninsured families with children, pregnant mothers and homeless youth, as well as emergency food and shelter.

“We need to dispel the myth that homelessness is a vet on the street,” said Dr. Randy Christensen, medical director of the Crews’n Healthmobile, a mobile clinic for homeless teens receiving a Piper Community Relief grant.

“There is a whole new population of homeless families with children, people who did everything right, lost it all and are now on the streets. It’s as simple as a car breaking down, not being able to get to work and losing a job, or someone gets sick and medical costs mean losing an apartment.”

Other grants awarded in the quarter include $500,000 for a new Phoenix Theatre venue for new theater works and outreach programs, $336,017 for the Reach Out and Read early literacy project at pediatric medical clinics, and $271,000 for the Arizona BUILD Initiative, a collaborative project with Helios Education Foundation and Steele Foundation to create a comprehensive system addressing young children’s needs in health, mental health, nutrition, early care and education, and family support.

Second quarter 2011 grants awarded

Listed by Grantmaking Area

ARTS AND CULTURE

Actors Theatre of Phoenix
A Community Relief Grant for arts and culture organizations to provide general support.
$7,500//12 months

Alliance for Audience
A Community Relief Grant for arts and culture organizations to provide general support.
$10,000//12 months

Arizona Museum for Youth Friends, Inc.
Image for the Future, a comprehensive marketing and communication strategy.
$60,000/12 months

Arizona Musicfest
A Community Relief Grant for arts and culture organizations to provide general support.
$4,500/12 months

Arizona Opera
A Community Relief Grant for arts and culture organizations to provide general support.
$31,000/12 months

Arizona Science Center
A Community Relief Grant for arts and culture organizations to provide general support.
$20,000/12 months

Arizona Theatre Company
A Community Relief Grant for arts and culture organizations to provide general support.
$40,500/12 months

Audubon Arizona
A Community Relief Grant for arts and culture organizations to provide general support.
$6,500/12 months

Ballet Arizona
Integrated electronic donor and marketing system.
$150,000/12 months

Ballet Arizona
A Community Relief Grant for arts and culture organizations to provide general support.
$30,500/12 months

Chandler Cultural Foundation
A Community Relief Grant for arts and culture organizations to provide general support.
$5,500/12 months

Children's Museum of Phoenix
A Community Relief Grant for arts and culture organizations to provide general support.
$10,500/12 months

Childsplay, Inc.
A Community Relief Grant for arts and culture organizations to provide general support.
$16,000/12 months

Desert Botanical Garden
A Community Relief Grant for arts and culture organizations to provide general support.
$20,000/12 months

Heard Museum
A Community Relief Grant for arts and culture organizations to provide general support.
$56,500/12 months

Phoenix Art Museum
One-year extension of the Culture Pass program.
$20,000/12 months

Phoenix Art Museum
A Community Relief Grant for arts and culture organizations to provide general support.
$65,000/12 months

Phoenix Boys Choir
A Community Relief Grant for arts and culture organizations to provide general support.
$5,000/12 months

Phoenix Theatre
A new flexible, 250-seat venue for theater productions, new works, youth and outreach programs.
$500,000/24 months

Phoenix Theatre
A Community Relief Grant for arts and culture organizations to provide general support.
$20,500/12 months

Phoenix Zoo
A Community Relief Grant for arts and culture organizations to provide general support.
$20,000/12 months

Scottsdale Cultural Council
Business and marketing planning for international programming for new “Discovery” series.
$175,000/24 months

Scottsdale Cultural Council
A Community Relief Grant for arts and culture organizations to provide general support.
$52,500/12 months

The Phoenix Symphony
A Community Relief Grant for arts and culture organizations to provide general support.
$60,500/12 months

Theater Works
A Community Relief Grant for arts and culture organizations to provide general support.
$5,500/12 months

Valley Youth Theatre
A Community Relief Grant for arts and culture organizations to provide general support.
$8,500/12 months

West Valley Arts Council
A Community Relief Grant for arts and culture organizations to provide general support.
$6,000/12 months

Total for Arts and Culture: $1,407,500

CHILDREN

Arizona BUILD Initiative
Funder collaboration to integrate early childhood policies and services.
$271,000/36 months

The Arizona Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Inc.
Reach Out and Read early literacy program targeting medical practices serving low-income children.
$336,017/36 months

Arizona Helping Hands, Inc.
A Community Relief Grant to support afterschool food programs.
$15,000/12 months

Arizona's Children Association
A Community Relief grant to support afterschool food programs at the Golden Gate Community Center.
$10,000/12 months

Association of Arizona Food Banks
A Community Relief Grant to support bulk food purchase and distribution of emergency food boxes.
$245,000/12 months

Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Scottsdale
A Community Relief Grant to support afterschool food programs.
$50,000/12 months

Boys & Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Phoenix
A Community Relief Grant to support afterschool food programs.
$50,000/12 months

Boys & Girls Clubs of the East Valley
A Community Relief Grant to support afterschool food programs.
$50,000/12 months

Child Abuse Prevention License Plate Program
Continued support for the Child Abuse Prevention License Plate Program.
$150,000/36 months

Chicanos Por La Causa, Inc.
A Community Relief Grant to support the agency’s shelter for victims of domestic violence.
$12,000/12 months

Child Crisis Center
A Community Relief Grant to support the agency’s emergency housing for children.
$75,000/12 months

Chrysalis Shelter for Victims of Domestic Violence, Inc.
A Community Relief Grant to support the agency’s shelter for victims of domestic violence.
$15,000/12 months

Crisis Nursery, Inc.
A Community Relief Grant to support the agency’s emergency housing for children.
$75,000/12months

Children's Action Alliance
For exemplary service to nonprofits and all Arizonans.
$25,000/12 months

Improving Chandler Area Neighborhoods
A Community Relief Grant to support afterschool food programs.
$10,000/12 months

Maggie's Place
A Piper Fellows Organizational Enhancement Award to reorganize the administration and strengthen staff to prepare for national expansion.
$49,700/12 months

New Life Center
A Community Relief Grant to support the agency’s shelter for victims of domestic violence.
$12,000/12 months

The Salvation Army
A Community Relief Grant to support the agency’s shelters for families and victims of domestic abuse.
$40,000/12 months

Sojourner Center
A Community Relief Grant to support the agency’s shelters for victims of domestic violence.
$12,000/12 months

Southwest Autism Research & Resource Center
A Piper Academy grant for a business plan for growth and expansion of Beneficial Beans, a social venture.
$10,000/12 months

Tumbleweed Center for Youth Development
A Piper Academy grant for consulting fees to develop a business plan.
$20,000/12 months

Tumbleweed Center for Youth Development
A Community Relief Grant to support emergency housing services for children and youth.
$17,000/12 months

UMOM New Day Centers
A Community Relief Grant to support the agency’s shelters for families and victims of domestic abuse.
$40,000/12 months

Valley of the Sun YMCA
A Community Relief Grant to support afterschool food programs.
$50,000/12 months

Wesley Community Center
A Community Relief Grant to support afterschool food programs.
$10,000/12 months

Total for Children: $1,649,717

EDUCATION

Expect More Arizona Fund
Fourth-year funding for public awareness of the importance of education in Arizona.
$100,000/8 months

Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine
A Piper Fellows Organizational Enhancement Award for staff development in stewardship, patient quality and customer service.
$50,000/12 months

Total for Education: $150,000

HEALTHCARE AND MEDICAL RESEARCH

Adelante Healthcare
A Community Relief Grant to continue community healthcare services.
$125,000/12 months

Central Arizona Shelter Services
A Community Relief Grant for the dental clinic.
$100,000/12 months

Keogh Health Connections
A Community Relief Grant to continue community healthcare services.
$75,000/12 months

Mission of Mercy
A Community Relief Grant for the mobile medical services van.
$75,000/12 months

Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation
A Community Relief Grant for the Crews'n Healthmobile.
$75,000/12 months

St. Joseph's Foundation
A Community Relief Grant for the Maternity Outreach Mobile Clinic.
$75,000/12 months

The Neighborhood Christian Clinic
A Community Relief Grant to continue community healthcare services.
$75,000/12 months

Total for Healthcare: $600,000

OLDER ADULTS

Experience Matters Consortium
Initial fellowship for the Maricopa County Encore Fellowship Program.
$20,000/12 months

Total for Older Adults: $20,000

OTHER

A New Leaf
A Community Relief Grant to support the agency’s shelters for families, single men and victims of domestic violence.
$45,000/12 months

Central Arizona Shelter Services
A Community Relief Grant to support the agency’s shelters for homeless men, women and families.
$45,000/12 months

Community Information & Referral
A Community Relief Grant to support linkage to essential housing and food services.
$10,000/12 months

Lodestar Day Resource Center
A Community Relief Grant to support the agency’s provision of essential services for homeless individuals.
$40,000/12 months

PAFCO Education Fund
For exemplary service to nonprofits and all Arizonans.
$15,000/12 months

Valley of the Sun United Way
A Community Relief grant for continued support of the Homelessness and Hunger Funders Collaborative project.
$300,000/12 months

Total for Other: $445,000

RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS

Catholic Charities Community Services
A Community Relief Grant to support the agency’s shelter for victims of domestic violence.
$12,000/12 months

Catholic Charities USA
Disaster relief efforts for the spring storm and flooding devastation in the Midwest and South.
$25,000/12 months

Phoenix Rescue Mission
Hydration efforts for heat relief.
$5,000/12 months

Phoenix Rescue Mission
A Community Relief Grant to support the men’s shelter.
$15,000/12 months

Society of St. Vincent de Paul
A Community Relief Grant for the medical and dental clinic.
$150,000/12 months

Society of St. Vincent de Paul
A Community Relief Grant to support the agency’s food and meal programs.
$40,000/12 months

Society of St. Vincent de Paul
Hydration efforts for heat relief.
$5,000/12 months

St. Joseph the Worker
A Piper Fellows Organizational Enhancement Award to comprehensively strengthen the client experience. $50,000/12 months

The Salvation Army
Hydration efforts for heat relief.
$15,000/36 months

Total for Religious Organizations: $317,000

Total of Second Quarter Grants Awarded:
$4,599,217

About Piper Trust

Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust is a private, independent foundation committed to honoring Virginia Galvin Piper’s legacy of enhancing the lives of people in Maricopa County, Arizona. Piper Trust focuses grantmaking on arts and culture, children, education, healthcare and medical research, older adults and religious organizations. Since 2001 Piper Trust has awarded $270 million in grants. Grants paid in FY2011 ending March 31 were $21.8 million.