Caring for Community - Previous Grant Recipients

		Grants and Awards Home Abraham Flexner Award Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award Award for Distinguished Research David E. Rogers Award Herbert W. Nickens Award Herbert W. Nickens Faculty Fellowships Herbert W. Nickens Medical Student Scholarships Humanism in Medicine Award Outstanding Community Service Award Caring for Community - A National Medical Student Service Project

August 2000

Albert Einstein, New York - "ECHO Free Clinic"
The ECHO Free Clinic will expand existing services at the Walton Family Health Center by subsidizing patient transportation, generic pharmaceuticals, and some specialty care services for uninsured immigrants and the poor at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx. (supplemental grant)

Stanford University - "Children's Hospital Garden Project"
Medical students designed, constructed and maintain an interactive and therapeutic garden for medical-psychiatric patients in a children's hospital. (non-continuous grant)

SUNY Downstate - "Caring for Our Brooklyn Community"
This collaborative program between community based programs provides influenza and pneumonia vaccinations to low income citizens of the central Brooklyn neighborhoods. (new project grant)

UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson - "Health Outreach Project"
The Health Outreach Project ("HOP") addresses the need for quality health care in Camden, New Jersey while providing an enriching community health experience, fostering community health advocacy skills, and helping students develop the skills necessary to run a quality primary care clinic. (new project grant)

University of North Carolina - "SHAC - Habitat for Humanity Partnership"
The medical students working in the Student Health Action Coalition (SHAC), a student run free medical clinic, are partnering with the local Habitat for Humanity organization to build one house per year for a family in need from their local Orange County community. Medical students will conduct fund raisers to match Caring for Community funds. (new project grant)

University of South Carolina - "Project H.E.A.R.T."
Project Health Education and Awareness Resources Together (H.E.A.R.T.) is a balanced prevention program for hypertension that involves participation from all students at the School of Medicine and provides both education and preventative services to an underserved minority community in Columbia, South Carolina. (new project grant)