Piper Trust Focuses Grantmaking on New Models, Best Practices and Rich Valley Heritage

$3.3 million in grants made to Maricopa County nonprofits

PHOENIX (September 17, 2008)—Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust has awarded 21 grants totaling $3.3 million for innovations in pediatric hospice care, fighting childhood obesity, expanding a popular entrepreneurial training program for youth and creating a new Jewish history center on the site of the first synagogue in Phoenix.