Special Interest Grants (2005)

• Association of Relatives and Friends of the Mentally Ill, NSW Inc.

  To enhance its operational capacity, programmes and services to meet community carers’ needs in New South Wales, Australia. The project funding is to extend their range of vital services and programmes, to build support and a viable state-wide structure of branches and support networks. (Over three years)

• Boerne Cancer Fonden – Child Cancer Foundation

  To improve the quality and the quantity of Danish research into treatments for children with cancer. (Over five years)

• The Business Humanitarian Forum

  To fund, upgrade and equip the existing infrastructure of the Mahwalala Clinic in Swaziland. The funds will help cover planning and implementation of upgrading and renovation work.

• CARE USA

  To support the promotion of sustainable livelihoods in Hambantota district of Sri Lanka after the devastating effects of the 2004 tsunami. (Over five years)

• Center for Community Self-Help

  To continue support for the Women's Homebuyer Initiative, a programme in North Carolina that assists female heads of households with down-payments and closing costs, and which also provides foreclosure prevention services. (Over two years)

• Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative, Inc.

  To provide funding for the anti-retroviral medicines for widespread AIDS treatment for children in the developing world.

• International Training Center of Indigenous Peoples

  To support three 15-day training sessions in Greenland, entitled Indigenous Peoples in the International System. The grant will be used to cover travel costs for indigenous peoples from various parts of the world, partially covering the cost of faculty honoraria, and partially covering the costs of accommodation for the participants.

• Modrehjaelpen af 1983

  To continue to further develop and strengthen Modrehjaelpen's efforts to support and provide counselling for young and vulnerable pregnant women, mothers and families with children in Denmark. (Over three years)

  To set up a telephone counselling service in Denmark for single mothers that will deal with social, personal and education-related issues, as well as financial, legal and health-related topics. (Over three years)

• Robin Hood Foundation

  To assist Robin Hood strengthen over 100 of the best poverty-fighting programmes in New York City and to address urgent, unmet needs through special initiatives.

• Royal Opera House Foundation

  To help the Royal Opera House to identify and nurture outstanding young professional singers, conductors, répétiteurs and directors, and to ensure that this young talent is developed to the highest level. (Over five years)

• Tivoli A/S

  To celebrate the memory of the late Queen Ingrid with two concerts in the Tivoli Concert Hall in Copenhagen and at the same time award three prizes to exceptional young ballet dancers, musicians, conductors and composers.

• The Wellspring Trust, Inc.

  To support multinational projects addressing long-standing problems affecting women, children, the homeless, and the mentally ill.

• Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF International)

  To support the establishment and operations of the WWF International Youth Internship Programme. (Over three years)

Active Grants From Previous Years

• Association Partenariat Chirugical

  To build a basic, functional surgical unit in Yopougon, Abidjan (Ivory Coast) and to support a solidarity fund to treat indigent patients. (Second year of three-year grant)

• Colby College

  To help this Maine-based college build three geothermal wells to heat and cool the new Schair-Swenson-Watson Alumni Center and equip a Geographic Information System lab that will enable student and faculty researchers to create physical maps from specific data sets. (Second year of two-year grant)

• Danish Cancer Society

  To support the Mermaid Project, an international ovarian cancer trial in collaboration with The Eve Appeal, to prevent ovarian cancer and increase the survival rate of those women who are already ill by identifying risk factors and finding diagnostic methods that will detect the illness in the early stages. (Second year of five-year grant)

• Frederiksberg Hospital

  To provide core support for the Parker Institute which, in collaboration with the Center for Sensory-Motor Interaction at Aalborg University, will focus research on understanding pain mechanisms and the development of therapies to relieve patients suffering inflammatory and degenerative locomotor diseases. (Second year of four-year grant)

• Fresno Metropolitan Museum of Art, History, and Science

  To support the expansion of the Science Center’s new ASK Center, devoted to the science of agriculture and the environment. (Third year of three-year grant)

• Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust

  To establish a cardiovascular magnetic resonance facility for diagnosis and treatment of children with congenital heart disease. (Second year of three-year grant)

• Gynaecology Cancer Research Fund

  To support The Eve Appeal, establishing a unique sample collection in the United Kingdom suitable for studies of prediction and prevention of ovarian cancer and to work with the Mermaid Project. (Second year of two-year grant)

• Harvard AIDS Institute

  To design, develop, and test HIV vaccines for Southern Africa; to develop chemoprophylaxis for HIV-infected mothers and their infants to permit breast feeding; to investigate new drug combinations for HIV-infected mothers to combat drug resistance; and to train Southern African AIDS experts. (Second year of three-year grant)

• Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health

  To recruit additional faculty members for the Center for Children’s Surgical Research in California. (Third year of five-year grant)

  To support the Pediatric Imaging Programme. (Third year of three-year grant)

• Royal Marsden Cancer Campaign, Royal Marsden Hospital

  To support research by this UK hospital into new drug development and therapies for children and adolescents with cancer. (Second year of five-year grant)

• Royal Opera House Foundation

  To provide general support to this London-based organisation to encourage the creation of new operatic work and its presentation to as wide an audience as possible and to develop new artists and talent. (Second year of three-year grant)

• St George’s Hospital Medical School, University of London

  To establish and support the John Parker Chair in cardiovascular molecular science. (Seventh year of seven-year grant)

• Wheels for Humanity

  To deliver refurbished wheelchairs to the disabled poor in developing countries, including 600 wheelchairs to Zimbabwe. (Second year of two-year grant)

--) About Oak - 2005 Grants