At its April 2016 meeting, the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation board of trustees approved 189 grants totaling more than $12 million in the Foundation’s program areas of Education, Human & Social Services, Health and Entrepreneurship. 

Grants awarded include:

• Grants totaling nearly $3 million in the Education focus area, directed toward after-school programs and camps; mentoring and tutoring programs; and scholarships. 

• Grants totaling nearly $6 million in the Human & Social Services area, focused on supporting organizations providing family services programming; hunger abatement and temporary housing or shelter; job training; and emergency services assistance, all aimed at helping individuals and families move toward self-sufficiency.

• Grants totaling over $3 million in the Health focus area to organizations providing services to individuals facing serious health crises; quality of life programming; patient support, education and outreach; and support for a pediatric oncology/hematology infusion center.
  
  
•  Grants totaling over $200,000 in the Entrepreneurship focus area.